Join Maine Archives and Museums members and UMaine students, who will be leading a local history discussion at Bangor Public Library on Sat., Nov 7 from noon to 1:30pm, followed by a guided tour of the updated interpretive signs on the Kenduskeag Stream Heritage Trail.
Undergraduates in an Intro to Public History course at UMaine will share their research about how Maine commerated the national Centennial in 1876 and the Bicentennial in 1976. Can this help us better understand out contemporary commemorative moment in in 2026? This will be a one-on-one posters session program. We hope that attendees will consider sharing personal memories of the bicentennial during the event.
The 1876/1976 program will end at 1:30pm. Those who wish can join a walking tour of the reinstalled interpretative signs on the Kenduskeag Stream Heritage Trail which where research and written by UMaine history students. The tour will leave from the library, carpooling to the start of the walking tour at the former dam site at the bottom of Bruce Road. From there, the group will walk the trail downstream and end near the confluence of the Kenduskeag and Penobscot River.
The walk is about 1.9mi and the tour will last approximately 95 minutes. The poster session and walk are open to the public & RSVP is not required.
Address questions to Liam Riordan at riordan@maine.edu
