Midden Bouwsma Julia Paperback
Midden Bouwsma Julia Paperback In 1912 the State of Maine forcibly evicted an interracial community of roughly forty-five people from Malaga Island, a small island off the coast of Phippsburg, Maine.…
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In 1912 the State of Maine forcibly evicted an interracial community of roughly forty-five people from Malaga Island, a small island off the coast of Phippsburg, Maine. The others struggled to find homes on other islands or on the mainland, where they were often unwelcome. Though Malaga had been their home for generations, nine residents (including the entire Marks family) were committed to the Maine School for the Feeble Minded in Pownal, Maine.
Seventeen graves were exhumed from the Malaga cemetery, consolidated into five caskets, and reburied at the Maine School for the Feeble Minded. The Malaga school was dismantled and rebuilt as a chapel on another island. Just one year after the start of the eviction proceedings, the Malaga community was erased.Midden confronts the events and over one hundred years of silence that surround this shameful incident in Maine's
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