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  • Ahmed Abdirahman, Director, Maine Muslim Community Center, Portland

    April 30, 2020

    “Due to civil war, I fled Somalia in 1991. When I came to the USA...
  • Brother Arnold Hadd, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester

    April 30, 2020

    “The Shakers were founded in England in 1747. A small group immigrated to America in...
  • Sheila Jans, CultureWorth, Madawaska and Don Cyr, Musée culturel du Mont-Carmel, Lille sur-St-Jean

    April 30, 2020

    “There we are—do you see us? We’re in that vast area next to Canada, just...
  • Sarah Workneh, Co-director, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

    April 30, 2020

    “‘Respond to the inner urges of your spirit which is human, which is broader than...
  • Amanda Rector, Maine State Economist, Augusta

    April 30, 2020

    “Jobs in Maine have changed over time—from agricultural to industrial to service-based—and workers have changed...
  • Imti Hassan, former Homer High School Fellow, student at Bates College, Lewiston

    April 30, 2020

    “Imagine it’s 1895. The setting is Millinocket, Maine, and there is a beautiful sunrise on...
  • Myron Beasley, Associate Professor of American Studies, Bates College, Lewiston

    April 30, 2020

    “The Malaga series by Daniel Minter tells a vital and rarely heard narrative of Black...
  • Neill De Paoli, Archeologist and Site Manager, Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site

    April 30, 2020

    “Pemaquid, Maine is one of North America’s earliest English settlements. In 1610, English fishermen established...
  • Reinterpreting The Studio

    April 29, 2020

    This summer kicks off a multiphase project to reinterpret the Winslow Homer Studio and its...
  • The Infiltrators

    April 28, 2020

    When you rent via PMA films, you directly support the museum Co-Presented with the Immigrant Legal...