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Noontime Talk: Glass Sugar Bowls and Portland’s Sugar Economy 

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

Free to members or with admission 

 Join Seth Goldstein, Director of the Cushing’s Point Museum, for a conversation about 19th-century glass sugar bowls and their ties to Portland’s role in the global sugar trade. This spotlight from Passages explores how everyday heirlooms reveal the city’s entanglement with histories of slavery, commerce, and refinement.