Maine Historical Society - Programs Podcast

Maine Historical Society's "Black Salts" follows Seth Goldstein through Black sailors in Maine and New England, from West African boating traditions to Portland's Munjoy Hill waterfront.

Maine Historical Society's January 23, 2025 virtual book talk centers on Susanna Ashton's A Plausible Man and the life of John Andrew Jackson, an escaped man from Sumter, South Carolina.

["Maine Historical Society's Food of the Future tracks vegetarianism in the United States from the Bible Christians of 1817 to Battle Creek's pro-toast era.", "Kathleen Newman hosts Adam Spritzen, an assistant professor at Marywood University in Scranton and author of The Vegetarian Crusade, on the history of vegetarianism in the United States.", "He contrasts the 1860 'Julia Beef Eater' Vanity Fair letter, which mocked a 'cabbage-headed husband,' with a 1902 Gilman Lowe profile that praised a vegetarian bodybuilder lifting 1.6 million pounds in 35 minutes.", "The episode traces the Bible Christians' 1817 arrival from Liverpool to Philadelphia, Sylvester Graham's cholera-era diet crusade, and the American Vegetarian Society's 1850 definition of vegetarianism as an 'art and science.'"]

["Maine\u2019s vegetarian history reaches back to Father Sebastian Rall\u2019s 1722 letter from Nanran Soak, where he describes cornmeal porridge, maple sugar, roots, and nuts.", "Maine Historical Society\u2019s September 30, 2024 curator talk brings together John Babin and Avery Yale Camilla, who built the exhibit Maine\u2019s Untold Vegetarian History from Brown Library research.", "Avery Yale Camilla traces Dr.

Ann Powers frames Joni Mitchell as an artist shaped by movement, not a fixed persona, and ties that idea to the line 'I am on a lonely road and I am traveling.' At Maine Historical Society's October 7, 2024 program, Kathleen Newman introduces Powers, a music critic of more than 30 years for NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times.

A book talk on 'When the Island Had Fish' by Jaina Smith, exploring Maine history and Wabanaki homelands.

A book talk by author Paul Ledman discussing his book 'Portland, Maine: Connections Across Time' at the Maine Historical Society.

A lecture about a book uncovering a lost rural tradition of winter lyceums in Maine, featuring author Joan Radner.

A curator talk at Maine Historical Society discussing the history of Maine Red, with land acknowledgment of Wabanaki homelands.