Keywords: Refugees
Item 102176
Forest fire refugees, Biddeford, 1947
Do you recognize anyone in this photo?
Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: 1947 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 102682
Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2009 Location: Lewiston Media: Digital photograph
Exhibit
Pigeon's Mainer Project: who decides who belongs?
Street artist Pigeon's artwork tackles the multifaceted topic of immigration. He portrays Maine residents, some who are asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants—people who are often marginalized through state and federal policies—to ask questions about the dynamics of power in society, and who gets to call themselves a “Mainer.”
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows
"… and 1942, he assisted in running a school for war refugee boys from Great Britain and Europe. Gridley Barrows served in the Pacific during World…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders
"… causes including suffrage and aid to Armenian refugees and were part of an emerging generation of professional women."
Story
Love is greater than peace, For peace is founded upon love
by Parivash Rohani
My journey from Iran to Maine
Story
Somali Bantu farmers put down roots in Maine
by Muhidin D. Libah
Running the Somali Bantu Community Association and finding food security in Maine
