SPRING 2016 NEWSLETTER FROM THE MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL 2015 ANNUAL REPORT ISSUE

1 Letter from the Executive Director

2 Inspiring Maine Students with The Abolitionists: Civil rights conversations

4 Our Impact Across Maine: A sweep of program activity in 2015

7 Financial Snapshot: Supporters and more

10 14th Amendment: Celebrating the 150th anniversary in 2016

home of the harriet p. henry center for the book Think & Drink prompts big ideas and strong cama- raderie in Bangor. See page 5 for more on this MHC programming from 2015. photo: jodi renshaw The Maine Humanities Council, a statewide non-profit organization,

uses the humanities — literature, history, philosophy,

and culture — as a tool for positive change in Maine communities.

Our programs and grants encourage critical thinking and

conversations across social, economic, and cultural boundaries.

A LETTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS STAFF Chair Greg Fahy Hayden Anderson, PhD Patricia B. Bixel Augusta Executive Director FROM THE Bangor [email protected] Stephen Hayes Vice-chair Falmouth Trudy Hickey Daniel P. Gunn Office and Grants Manager EXECUTIVE Reza Jalali New Sharon [email protected] Portland Treasurer Leah Kuehn Ted Kelleher David Richards Program Assistant Portland DIRECTOR Skowhegan [email protected] Erica Quin-Easter Secretary Diane Magras Woolwich Victoria Grass Bornheimer Director of Development Cumberland Liam Riordan [email protected] Bangor Gina Mitchell Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko Rick Speer Program Officer Mount Desert Lewiston [email protected] Joseph Conforti Iva Sussman Karen Myrick Portland Houlton Administrative Assistant [email protected] Paul Doiron Maryanne C. Ward Nicole Rancourt Camden Pittston Program Officer [email protected] Anne Schlitt Assistant Director [email protected] Lizz Sinclair Director of Programs [email protected] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Julia Walkling Program Officer The Maine Humanities Council [email protected] seeks to expand its list of potential Ian Watkins nominees to fill future openings on its Development and Communications Assistant Board of Directors. The Council looks [email protected] for a wide geographic representation and range of civic and/or academic experience. To notify the Council of your interest, please send a letter and a résumé to:  Governance Committee Chair Maine Humanities Council 674 Brighton Avenue Portland, ME 04102-1012

The Maine Humanities Council is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Editor: Diane Magras Design: Lori Harley The Maine Humanities Council permeating much of our programming. envisions the communities of Maine Designed to provide opportunities transformed by the power and for learning and conversation around pleasure of ideas, and 2015 was a year our nation’s evolving understandings spent in vigorous pursuit of that vision. of equality, inclusion, and freedom, In cities and towns throughout the A Broad and Sure Foundation: The state, the Council worked to promote 14th Amendment in American Life and the humanities — literature and history, Imagination will engage issues both poetry and philosophy — as a means historical and contemporary. We hope for Mainers to think and talk together this initiative will serve as a concrete about matters of importance. example of the kind of transformation This was true for library patrons that can be brought about through across the state who attended MHC- the power and pleasure of ideas. sponsored World in Your Library Thank you for your generous support programs on foreign policy issues. of the Council’s work. As an indepen- It was true for Veterans who gathered dent nonprofit organization, the to read literature together and reflect Council depends upon your support, on their service. It was true for over 200 and we could not do this work participants in the Council’s venerable without you. Winter Weekend program, which in 2015 explored race, culture, and language in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! The Maine Humanities Council believes that we have a role to play in shaping the future of our state — Hayden Anderson that by using the tools of the humanities Executive Director we can help Mainers to engage more deeply with our history and understand more fully the complicated issues we face today. This is no ivory tower pursuit. The Council takes seriously the idea that democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens, and in large part ours is the work of creating conditions where wisdom and vision can flourish. Coming up in 2016, the MHC is presenting a major initiative, one

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BY BRANDON BALDWIN AND NICOLE RANCOURT

E knew that a The centerpiece for our nine middle How do we continue on with match lay in our level and high school trainings this year difficult work when people resist us? future. That was was the PBS American Experience docu- • Angelina Grimké wants to make apparent from the drama The Abolitionists (made possible gender equality and women’s rights first time we met. by the National Endowment for the part of the abolitionist movement. WIn the summer of 2014, the Maine Humanities’ Created Equal project). She is basically told that it’s not the Humanities Council was brainstorm- Students and team advisors watched right time and that everyone needs ing the ways in which it could more close to one hour of clips focusing to be united in fighting against effectively bring its work to Maine’s on Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher slavery. What do you think of this students. The Civil Rights Team Project, Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison, and argument? Is unity ever more impor- a school-based anti-bias program from Frederick Douglass, all key figures tant than doing what’s right? the Office of the Maine Attorney within the abolitionist movement • Both Frederick Douglass and Harriet General, was seeking more strategies surrounding the American Civil War. Beecher Stowe tell stories. Why do to support its teams in participating The film looks at how they were drawn you think this storytelling is a good schools. There was clearly a mission to the movement to abolish American idea for the abolitionist movement? match, and match for planned work, slavery, the tactics they employed Why do stories work so well? too. As a team sharing our respective in their work, and their successes and Students also shared their voices in three strengths and resources, the MHC and failures — and those topics provided “working lunch” activities. The first CRTP would increase the impact we a parallel in students’ own thinking. asked students to think about basic both could have on civil rights teams We asked students to focus on guidelines, with a specific focus on and their school communities. how to get people thinking and talking actions, for being good allies and We started thinking big for our about civil rights issues, using the advocates in the world of civil rights; first year of partnership, choosing the abolitionists as examples and inspira- students wrote their ideas on a large Civil Rights Team Project student tion. Students shared their thoughts sheet of paper taped up on the wall. trainings for middle level and high through “community circles,” structured Both the MHC and CRTP are com- schools. Held every fall, these trainings opportunities for students to connect piling all guidelines into one master set. invite all the students who serve with the film and interact with students In the second of the working lunch on civil rights teams throughout the from other schools. With the film as activities, students created a mural state to sessions in Augusta, Brewer, “text,” we guided participants in thinking of things they’d like to see abolished Farmington, Portland, and Presque and talking about their own work in the in our schools. Hundreds of ideas were Isle. The trainings help teams see their Civil Rights Team Project through shared, resulting in an impressive look work in the context of a statewide lens. prompts like these: at students’ concept of social change. They also identify civil rights issues • The abolitionists were a diverse group. Many sticky notes focused on: in their school communities and gain In what ways are your civil rights team • Specific forms of bias (racism or tools to be an active, visible, and vocal or student group diverse? In what ways transphobia and many other -isms presence in addressing these issues. could you be more diverse? and -phobias) In the 2015 school year, more than • The abolitionists’ work is very difficult. • Specific examples of bias-based language 1,200 students from 96 schools across It’s not easy to change people’s minds • Categories of jokes related to people’s the state participated. about something. People resist change. identities

2 MHC Some notes were especially powerful Students considered the ways in which model: it may not be easy, but through because they were so specific (see the the abolitionists got people thinking their commitment, they’ll achieve list of “stickies,” below, right). and talking, and how they might great things Although the wide range of responses accomplish that in today’s world. They could be discouraging, we’re encouraged also recalled the strategies employed to think that our students have identified during the day’s work that got partici- Learn more about the Civil Rights Team these issues as the things that we need pants thinking and talking. In the Project on their website: maine.gov/ag/ to abolish in our schools. Even better, end, students went back to their schools civil_rights they are working to make it happen. with plenty of ideas and inspiration. Our third working lunch activity And what will they accomplish? The asked students to vote for their favorite example of the abolitionists is our of four quotes. They were from our four featured abolitionists, but students didn’t know that; the quotes were STICKIES presented, unattributed: Stop the racism towards Somalis Not recognizing Eid “You’re pretty good for a girl.” • If a law commands me to sin I will Jokes about Asians eating as a school holiday “Ladies and gentlemen” break it. (Angelina Grimké) cats and dogs The assumption that people (there’s a lot in between) • It’s a matter of taking the side of the Jokes about black people with physical and mental Purposely misgendering people weak against the strong, something disabilities are stupid being drug dealers or thugs Calling a guy who wears the best people have always done. ELL in the basement People being called out pink “gay” on their learning disabilities (Harriet Beecher Stowe) We shouldn’t say “under God” “Wanna see the gay way • We may be personally defeated, in the Pledge of Allegiance No insulting language around of doing/saying this/that?” disabilities, not “bound” but our principles never! because not everyone follows Indian mascots to a wheelchair, not “suffering (William Lloyd Garrison) a religion that worships God from” anything Mexican jokes • Without a struggle, there can be no The use of the Arabic phrase (yes they happen a lot) Gender- or sex-determined progress. (Frederick Douglass) “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) to make fun of Islam colors for graduation gowns Students overwhelmingly chose the Frederick Douglass quote as their favorite. This was true at all nine of our middle level and high school training sessions. It’s exciting to think that the words of an escaped slave and leading abolitionist are inspiring the work of our student civil rights teams today. Perhaps some of the students who attended these trainings will go on to write something that will one day be remembered by others who are continuing on with our vision of safe, welcoming, and respectful communities for all our people. We asked students to end the training by identifying some of the many ways we can get students in our schools think- ing and talking about civil rights issues. upper left: Middle level and high school Civil Rights Team Project members are ready for their training. photo: brandon baldwin | above: Small group discussions help students, from Augusta and other central Maine towns, broaden their civil rights conversations. photo: nicole rancourt

SPRING 16 3 VOICE BROADEN DIALOGUE VETERANS PROGRAMMING

Over 50 Veterans gathered across Maine told us. “I learned that I am not alone in all “I got the opportunity to interact last year to read and reflect on writings that of this.” Some of the Veterans Book Groups and network with fellow spanned 3,000 years — ranging from Homer’s ended with potlucks; some participants have Odyssey to contemporary works. Two things gone out for coffee, gone to one another’s veterans, learning from them were prominent in each of those conversations: homes for dinner, introduced their families trust and connection. to one another, and have formed other groups.

GIVE and creating invaluable Connections were also made with civilians. connections and relationships TRUST: this begins with the MHC’s close One group was very moved and surprised that collaboration with Veterans, scholars, VA staff, that I will carry for the rest a civilian-facilitator could care so much about and others working with Veterans. This began them and what they had to say. Some were of my life” -veterans book in 2015 at the program’s inception and continues puzzled — though pleased — that a humanities every year within each book group. True colla- group participant council would think to offer programs for boration results only when there is trust, and Veterans. we have been fortunate in having the trust of our advisors and partners, as well as their generosity And some in the groups talked about feeling and wisdom. We couldn’t hold this program a sense of connection with others across without them. time and culture through the readings. One participant had the revelation that “through- CONNECTION: this is seen during every out history people have been feeling the meeting in the camaraderie among the groups. same things I have during and after they fight Differences in age, rank, branch, year, and in a war.” country of service never affected this. What mattered were the shared experiences of serving In 2015, MHC programming for Veterans in the armed forces and reflecting on that also included public performances (including together through the readings. “I got the a public viewing and discussion of the docu- opportunity to interact and network with fellow mentary “Last Days in Vietnam”), which drew veterans, learning from them and creating a total audience of more than 600 people. invaluable connections and relationships that I will carry for the rest of my life,” one Veteran

Audience members attending a public viewing and discussion of the film “Last Days in Vietnam” had strong differences of opinion about some issues the film raised about the war. But realizing Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, this, they talked about the need from Vietnam to Iraq is just one of the many to listen to one another and writings deeply and thoughtfully discussed did just that, respecting and during a Veterans Book Group gathering truly listening to one another’s in 2015. viewpoints. photo: kevin bennett

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LITERATURE & MEDICINE: HUMANITIES PREVENTION PROGRAM AT THE HEART OF HEALTH CARE®

Domestic violence is prevalent across cultural, educational, and The MHC’s program for health care professionals has always included economic situations, yet remains highly misunderstood by the general literature and discussion about terminal illnesses. Last year, Literature public. This puts additional pressure on those who work with victims & Medicine expanded an initiative to directly work with health care of domestic violence — and also on the victims themselves in getting professionals and volunteers who serve patients with serious illnesses: help. Our Domestic Violence Prevention Program uses a facilitated hospice, which follows the same principles of palliative care, making discussion model to create a safe space that our partners (the state’s terminally-ill patients comfortable and domestic violence prevention agencies) have found valuable, not feel cared for. The program worked with only in opening conversations within their own organization, but also Hospice of Southern Maine in Scarborough with others in their communities. These extended partnerships — for its pilot year. Using the discussion between direct-service advocates, administrators, and volunteers of texts like Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, of the agencies as well as community partners such as health care it explored perspectives of patients and providers, law enforcement professionals, social workers, community families involved with terminal illness, educators, sexual assault respondents, and individuals working grief and loss, the journeys taken during for the judicial system — bridge disciplines in such a way as to broaden the course of an illness, and how caregivers understanding of everyone’s part, helping to improve their service (professional or otherwise) deal with the to victims of domestic violence. This programming reached over experience of working with death. Literature 60 participants in partnership with four domestic violence prevention & Medicine as a whole reached almost agencies across the state. 100 health care professionals, including hospice staff, in six towns last year.

4 MHC NOURISH COMMUNITIES NEW BOOKS, NEW READERS LIBRARY PROGRAMMING

Providing humanities programming for an “Hugh Manatee,” the MHC’s plush mascot, This year saw a blossoming of MHC library audience you wouldn’t expect is a hallmark was the star of a 2015 social media game programming throughout the state. With scholar- of New Books, New Readers. For more than where participants statewide (librarians, facilitated book discussions and foreign-speaker 25 years, this program has brought high-level patrons, and the general public) guessed series leading the way, we reached over 1,700 humanities discussions to adult new readers which library he was visiting. Those visits people in 41 towns statewide. We also reached throughout the state, including immigrants to libraries encouraged these crucial MHC new library partners, including the Edmund learning English. Last year, the program partners to showcase aspects of their work Library at Northern Maine Community College reached a new audience: migrant farm workers and resources. Hugh helped the MHC foster in Presque Isle. The majority of participants picking apples near Buckfield. In July and relationships with its library partners in a at this library were college students, but they later in October, these groups read Cynthia whimsical vein, but also represented the were also joined by community members, Rylant’s An Angel for Solomon Singer and tremendous reach of our library programming, faculty, and college staff. The total audience Eve Bunting’s A Day’s Work. Discussions visiting 45 throughout the state. photo: throughout this five-event series, “The Mirror were lively, as both books were near to parti- chase emerson memorial library, deer isle of Maine,” was 154 people — a big number cipants’ lives and prompted strong feelings. for this kind of programming. This site also Once, the conversation ran late and cut into benefited from one of the means that profes- the workers’ valuable sleep time. Another sors have at their disposal to encourage conversation produced multiple and nuanced participation: some teachers offered their positions on what bosses owe workers, what students extra credit for both attending “a fair day’s work” is — and, of course, what and taking part in the discussion. The result: is meant by “fair pay.” Both were dynamic, students who were not in the habit of reading focused, and sophis- much for pleasure joined avid readers as active ticated discussions participants — many having their first exposure that drew on lifetimes to the Maine authors and poets of the series. of hard labor and complex work experiences. The group asked New THINK & DRINK Books, New Readers to return in 2016 — Connection over big ideas is what this MHC “happy-hour” discussion program is all about. a clear testament Last year saw programming in both Portland and Bangor. In the opening session of “Redefining to this initiative’s Organizing,” our first Bangor Think & Drink, one participant remarked on the difficulty of commu- success. In this and nity organizing in more rural areas and said the program made her feel more connected and less other groups state- discouraged. In Bangor, this theme of “redefinition” was a subject we and our audience explored wide last year, New in the context of organizing, environmentalism, and food. Portland took on “disruption” for its Books, New Readers theme and attracted crowds — including one reaching almost 150 people — on topics including reached over 1,300 whiteness, authority, art, and gender. The program saw close to 500 participants from both people in 13 towns. towns enthusiastically exchanging powerful ideas over a drink. HUMANITIES CONSTANCE H. CARLSON PUBLIC HUMANITIES PRIZE DOROTHY SCHWARTZ FORUM ON ART, SCIENCE, In 1998, the Maine Humanities Council created authored books on Passamaquoddy history AND THE HUMANITIES the Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities and culture, and championed the Passama- Prize in honor of the first woman campus quoddy language itself. The MHC was impressed “Communicating Climate Change,” last year’s president in the University of Maine system by Mr. Soctomah’s guided stewardship of people, forum, offered a deep conversation about a (Presque Isle). Since that time, the Council has culture, and the environment, as well as by his crucial contemporary topic. Speakers shared seen six awardees, representing philanthropy, attention to civic engagement and to the role a broad look at climate change, including higher education, historical scholarship, and that plays in improving communities. We were perspectives from Andrew Pershing (Gulf community service. This award has aimed honored on March 30, 2015, to award him the of Maine Research Institute), Susanne Moser to celebrate the public humanities and Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize. (Susanne Moser Research & Consulting), Jan to recognize the people who have brought Piribeck (University of Southern Maine), and it to life in Maine. Michel Droge (Maine College of Art). Thomas Tracy (Phillips Professor of Religious Studies, In 2015, the MHC awarded the Prize to Donald Bates College) covered the humanities aspect Soctomah, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of the event with “Climate Change as a Moral for the Passamaquoddy Tribe. Mr. Soctomah Challenge.” He described the challenge works with U.S. and Canadian governments of engaging in coordinated action against on the protection of culturally significant climate change, since it’s hard to see the sites, artifacts, and knowledge. He travels benefit right now; how egalitarianism would throughout the state talking to Mainers about create huge behavioral displacements, making the Native culture and the environment. He it difficult to manage change; and how moral also has served in the Maine State Legislature, and religious resources can help us to find hope and help us to create change. This was the second annual Dorothy Schwartz Forum

CELEBRATE THE Donald Soctomah (center) chatting with Joseph Conforti (left) and MHC Executive Director and took place at the Portland Museum of Art. Hayden Anderson (right) after the award ceremony.photo: kevin bennett

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MHC Machias, including Burns,Ellie Logan crowd lastcrowd fall in an enthusiastic which drew a large Wood, and Dray. Ava (far left) speaks left) (far during Abigayle Hopkins “The Feminist Project,” GRANTS INSPIRE play a significantrole in expanding services membersto their of communities. The MHC delightedis support to these libraries as they continue grow and to serve their communities. the In 2015, MHC awarded in grant funds througha total $135,702 of 46 grants. These projects already have served an estimated Mainers 173,470 statewide. With budgetWith crunches in manycommunities around the can state, it be hard for libraries findto assistance for basic building needs. But the MHC provided just that its with last round Infrastructure of Grants in the providingfall 2015, of funding nonprofit to organizations statewide, including some libraries. Last October, the MHC awarded three these of grants, each in the amount $8,000,of the to Cornish Library Association for the Bonney Memorial Library, the Town Corrinaof for the Library, Stewart and Free Shaw Memorialthe Dr. Library in Mount Vernon. Their projects, which include will increasing meeting and program space and opening up once-private collections, will program provides juniors rising and seniors in Maine the with opportunity do to real humanities programming. MHC With advice and local mentorship, Student Humanities Ambassadors identify a topic and create, plan, run, and evaluate a humanities-based program or for event their community.

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STUDENT HUMANITIES AMBASSADOR HUMANITIES STUDENT a professional, — Absalom, Absalom! standing ovation. MHC’s StudentMHC’s Humanities Ambassador Goodwill Ambassador. Her words inspired Machias Memorial High School junior Abigayle Hopkins, one the of Student MHC’s Humanities Ambassadors plan to in 2015, “The Feminist Project,” a discussion aimed definingat and discussing feminism with her of 150 over peers. Three panelists came shareto their own experiences the with crowd that gathered the at University Maine of Machiasat for public this last event fall, including Shenna Bellows, former candidate for the U.S. Senate; Rick Doyle, an attorney Theat Next Domestic Step Violence Project; and Cheyenne Robinson, an activist student theat University Maine of Machias. at The “If not me, then then not If who? now, when?” actorBritish Emma asked this Watson question in a speech shemade in September as the2014 United Nations Women Global discussing Faulkner’s stood back-to-back an with audience member physicallyto the that illustrate ways racism can prevent us from seeing each other. The audience’s audible reaction shock of and dawning awareness led the to first-ever Weekend Winter when Cedric Gael Bryant College), (Colby

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AINE Humanities Council donors make a difference for people across ANNUAL2015 FUND Carol & Joe Wishcamper Alice Larrea Daniel P. Gunn Maine. They inspire The Maine Humanities Douglas & Judith Thomas & Leslie Lizotte* & Lisa Stoutz Council is grateful for Woodbury* Bob & Doris McAfee Judy Hakola the exchange of perspectives that M its unrestricted Annual Alan McIlhenny Kathleen C. Hardwick lead Mainers to a better understand- Fund support. These gifts, Insatiable Reader & Elizabeth Ackerson Maxine & Ed Harrow quite simply, make our ($750 – $999) Liam Riordan The Janet Henry ing of themselves, one another, and programming possible, Robert & Katharine Lynn Patricia Sanborn & Vernon Moore Fund at the world. They enrich the state by allowing us to maintain Ted & Sharon Sharp* Schwab Charitable Fund supporting the programs described a statewide mission and Ravenous Reader Rick Speer & Judy Frost William & Mary Jean Holt serve every corner of Maine. ($500 – $749) Ken & Mary Pat Templeton* Stanley R. Howe, PhD in this report. We are grateful for Beth Bohnet Marcia Lunt Howell their generosity. MHC Circle William L. Case III, Focused Reader Cynthia Howland ($5,000+) in memory of Betsey ($100 – $249) James Hunt* If you feel inspired to con­tribute: Victoria & Allen Brewster Case Anonymous (3) Carolyn & Stephen Jenks • fill out the enclosed envelope; Bornheimer of Bangor, Maine Susan Abt Beryl Ann Johnson Josephine H. Detmer Laura & Douglas Henry, Jonathan & Nancy Aldrich Erik C. Jorgensen • go to mainehumanities.org; or Barbara Goodbody in honor of Harriet P. Sally & Ron Bancroft & Tamara M. Risser Henry on what would Danuta M. Barnard Carol F. Kessler • contact Diane Magras, ($2,500 – $4,999) have been her 92nd Paul & Cathleen Bauschatz Mr. Harry W. Konkel Carol M. 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Henry, Fund of the Maine Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Sarah F. McMahon in memory Community Foundation Coughlin Wesley & Diane McNair Asterisks (*) denote Maine Humanities Council of Harriet P. Henry Bob & Judy Tredwell* Marilyn Crowley Patricia Messler Board Alumni. Kenneth Spirer Alice Wellman* Richard & Bonnie D’Abate Miss Zareen Taj Mirza, & Joan Leitzer, Anne Broderick Zill Sally J. Daggett in honor of my parents FEDERAL, STATE, CORPORATE, from a component Elizabeth L. Davis Josephine Detmer & FOUNDATION GRANTS fund of the Maine Devoted Reader Josephine H. Detmer & Humayan Mirza Anonymous Community Foundation ($250 – $499) Diana Dionne-Morang Margaret Morfit Anonymous Fund of the Maine Dr. Robert S. Moyer Susan & Franklin Burroughs Marylee & Charles Dodge Joan Morrison Community Foundation & Catherine Lee Kate Cheney Chappell George K. Dreher Virginia Nees-Hatlen The Betterment Fund Sally & Ted Oldham Eliot R. Cutler Susan Emmet Paul & Sue Newlin Margaret E. 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Pearson One Day at a Time Fund of Peter Webster on his The Helaine & Brock Frank Glazer James & Jo Pendleton of the Maine Community Foundation retirement from the Hornby Fund Marian A. Godfrey Marcy Plavin David Royte Fund Board of Trustees of the David R. Jones Susan & Jerry Goldberg Stephen J. Podgajny The Welch Charitable Fund Maine Humanities Council & Angela J. Connelly Jill M. & Sheldon Goldthwait* & Laura Bean* of the Maine Community Foundation Brooks Family Foundation Audrey Katz Gerard G. Gosselin Jo Radner

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Beverly & Roger Richmond Gary & Rosie Bensen Win & Vici Robinson Yvonne Goulet* Jeri Pitcher Alison & Horace Hildreth Peter & Trudi Riesenberg Patricia J. Brown Susan & Cliff Russell Wayne Gregersen & David Greenham Cynthia Howland Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Rose Paul Brunelle Jean Sanborn Mark Grover Mary Ann Haas Larry & Carol Kalajainen John J. Farley & Christine Michael D. Burke Howard P. Segal Julina Gylfe Myron D. Hager Theodora J. Kalikow* K. Rosenwasser, Ann Patricia Burnes Peggy & Steve Shapiro Gertrude Hickey Stephen Hayes Laurie Kennedy in memory of Midge & John Burns Liv Rockefeller David B. Humphrey & Carol McCarthy William T. & Elizabeth Deedee Schwartz Professor Steven R. Cerf & Kenneth Shure Sheila Jans* Ann Kibbie Knowles* Frank & Susan Ruch Paulette Chernack Ann Siekman Gerald & Mary McAteer & Kevin Wertheim* Nancy M. MacKnight* Susan S. Saunders* Janice W. Church Kimberly Simmons, Kennedy Benjamin Levine Frank Mauceri Jane & Harrison Sawyer Sarah L. Clark in honor of Donald J. King Margo Lukens John McKee Ann Schonberger Pamela K. Cleghorn Laura Jill Simmons Wendy Knickerbocker Nancy M. MacKnight* Richard J. Moss* Jon & Kim Schwartz, Kathleen Conrad Professor Wickham Suzanne Leibowitz John Maddaus Margaret R. Muir* on behalf of Elizabeth Cooke Skinner Linda Lord Leigh & John McCarthy Peter & Trudi Riesenberg Marjorie Rosenbaum Allan & Linda Currie Benjamin Soule Carol Madsen Joanne & Earl Morse George & Harriet Robinson* Elizabeth Scully Judith & Charles Danielson Gail Stuart Natasha Mayers Joan Nestler Nancy Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Sheldon Linda J. Docherty Joan Sturmthal Karen & Henry McFarland Michael Opitz Sharon L. Rosen* Ursula & William Slavick* Mike Douglass John F. Sutherland Abbott & Nancy Meader Judy & Ross Paradis* Joel & Patricia Rosenthal* Stephen Sokol & Hanna Billington Susan L. Tananbaum Mary Ann Moore Sanford Phippen* Sadinoff Family Foundation & Gerda Neu-Sokol Eva Downs & Joe Frazer Nan & Bob Morrell Erica Quin-Easter Jeanne & Vali Seidler Kahn Alice & Dick Spencer Marilyn Dwyer Linda Tatelbaum Pauline Polstein Jo Radner Lizz Sinclair, in memory Dick & Penny Stevens Harland Eastman & Kalman Winer Dorothy E. Pratt Phyllis Rand of Rosa Sinclair Holmes & Didi Stockly Benson & Patricia Ford Marcia Teichner James D. Redwine, Jr. Liam Riordan Katharine J. Watson Lucy Stroble Ardelle Foss Faith A. Vautour Marta Rieman Lee Sochasky Carol Wishcamper Judith & Peter Sullivan Al & Phyllis Fuchs Susan Wegner Louis Riggs Madonna Soctomah, Douglas & Judith Ted & Iva Lee Sussman Katie M. Greenman & John Fischer Janet Roberts in memory of James B. Woodbury* Alalia & Frederick Thaler Charlie & Sue Grosjean Roberta & Gordon Weil Anne Rosenthal Soctomah & in honor Linden Thigpen Catharine W. Guiles Nathaniel Wing Mr. & Mrs. Charles Scontras of Donald G. Soctomah Dorothy Schwartz Anne & Jack Thompson* Dr. Emily A. Haddad Michael D. Wormser Bonnie Shulman Rick Speer & Judy Frost Forum for Art, Science, Barbara & Richard Trafton Reginald & Pauline Carol Youngs S. & L. F. Sprague Ronald Stegall & the Humanities Julia & Robert Walkling Hannaford Nancy Ziegler Daniel Strauss Ted & Iva Lee Sussman William W. Alcorn Anne P. Woodbury Melinda & Ralph Harder & Kermit Lipez Pamela Taylor John & Maryanne Ward Patricia Bixel Jennifer C. Hayden Karen & Dr. Jonathan Deborah Taylor Peter & Margie Webster* Victoria & Allen Avid Reader Michael & Bridget Healy Zuckerman Yolanda Theunissen Pip & Judy Wick Bornheimer ($75 - $99) Paul & Dorthe Hillquist & Richard C. Veit Rebecca Cole-Will Helen Cafferty Lyn & Peter Ballou Eric Hirshler, PhD Thoughtful Reader David Weiss & Richard Will* & Otto Emersleben* Michael & Laura Chaney Ira & Jessica Hymoff (Up to $49) Rose Wohl Carol Wishcamper Charlotte Cole Jay Davis Margery Y. Irvine Priscilla & William & Scott Budde Kathleen & Rob Flory Susan A. Kaplan Ambrose Dorothy Schwartz Mr. Willard J. Hertz Carolyn Gontoski Molly & Frederic Kellogg Ragnhild Baade SPECIAL FUNDS Opportunity Fund/ Sherry F. Huber Joe & Merna Guttentag Stephen & Polly Larned The Reverend Gifts in Memory John & Polly Kaiser Harry & Berna Kaiserian Pamela Lord & Mrs. Richard Bamforth The Constance H. Carlson of Dorothy Schwartz Nancy M. MacKnight* Laura Lindenfeld* Kathryn Lunney Dr. Anna Bartel Fund: In Honor Timothy McCormick Seal Rossignol David L. Moulton Robert & Marlene Mailloux Marta & Robert Bent of Donald Soctomah & Charles Alexander* Kimberly Simmons Stephen & Joyce Munier Peggy & Roger Marchand Rella Bezanilla Anonymous (2) June & Dan Allen David C. Wiggin* Carol Parks Rabbi Simeon John & Judy Bielecki Hayden & Meredith Elaine & Arthur Boatin Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Prinn III & Judith Maslin Martha Binder, in memory Anderson Naydene Bowder The Fund for Rick Rector Michaelene McCann of Deedee Schwartz Richard E. Barnes Bruce Brown Literature & Medicine Deborah Reed Barbara A. McDade* George H. Bouchard & Suzanne Van Wye* Joseph Donald Cyr* C. T. Bonebakker-Maas David Richards Nicholas & Dina McKelvy Peter Bowman Rev. Catherine G. Borchert Craig & Sherry Dietrich* Joseph A. Conforti Barbara L. McLellan Carole & Douglas Bruns Victoria & Allen Bornheimer Bernard & Sandra Daily Reader Nini McManamy Margaret Cruikshank Sam & Sonja Dana Featherman Fund ($50 - $74) Daphne S. Meyer Carla Dickstein Josephine H. Detmer of the Maine Anonymous Richard W. Moll Richard Dimond Jon R. Doyle, Esq. Community Foundation David & Elise Adams Joanne & Earl Morse Anne Dolbashian & Craig H. Nelson, Esq. Mary C. Gillies Kathryn & Tom Ainsworth Stephen & Joyce Munier John & Marie Dudley of the Law Offices Priscilla Grant & David Wend, Andrew & Mary Allen Hilda & Don Nicoll Lisa Feldman of Doyle & Nelson also in memory Ruth Anderson Edward A. Barrett Brian Fox John & Marie Dudley of Judith Daniels Anne Ball & Dennis Welsh & Nancy H. Orr Geneva M. Frost Holly Hock Faith & Greg Hamlin Martha Barkley Mac Passano & Beth Howe Mary C. Gillies & Christopher Dumaine Merton G. Henry Susan Beegel Rebecca C. Raines Phyllis & Bernard Givertz Emery Goff Mr. Willard J. Hertz

8 MHC FY’15 IN A NUTSHELL: FINANCIALS OUR

PROGRAM- Wallace G. Pinfold Judith Stein, Miriam Kellogg Truslow IN-KIND DONORS She Doesn’t Like RESTRICTED & Richard Moll in memory of Mike Stein Candace & Edward Black Cat Coffee Guthries GIFTS Malcolm & Susan Rogers Nan & Bill Stone Walworth Coffee by Design SPACE Gallery Susan S. Saunders* Carol Strasburger Katharine J. Watson Maine Military and Standard Baking Co. Winter Weekend Susan Schraft Gina Tangney Peter & Margie Webster* Community Network University of Maine Sponsorships, & Richard Berne Christina Teale Bill & Rosie White Maine State Library Augusta designated Elizabeth & John Serrage Suzanne Trazoff Pip & Judy Wick Portland Vet Center to New Books, New Readers Barbara Barrall Carol M. Beaumier Maureen Bien Constance Bloomfield & William McFarlane Jean A. Bott 1 URING Fiscal Year 2015, the Maine 8 ,2 Jim & Sarah Bowie 0 8 Humanities Council had operating 1 Marjorie A. Boyd, MD , 1 $ Mary Alice Brennan Programs, income of $1,563,181 and operating • Charlotte Brown Regrants, % and Technical expenses of $1,583,375. Grants 5 Cedric Bryant* 7 1 Assistance 3

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foundations, the individual contributions 3 John S. & Beverly Emerson 1 Diane Garthwaite highlighted in this report, and program & Matthew Liang E Ilse Haag income. Both the income and X David & Fay Hannon the expense figures reported 17 P Stephen Hayes % in these charts and in the • E $ & Carol McCarthy 6 N 4 2 6 7 Susan Head Council’s audited financial , 3 6 , S 1 2 Alison & Horace Hildreth 8 8 Base Grant E statements include in-kind 4 $

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of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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150 What is the 14th Amendment? EXAMINE 14TH AMENDMENT-RELATED SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES, The constitutional amendments adopted in the immediate aftermath INCLUDING EQUALITY, CITIZENSHIP, of the Civil War have been called the basis of America’s second founding, AND LIBERTY: a “broad and sure foundation” providing equality for all before the law. Think & Drink Through the Reconstruction period and beyond, these amendments have “Citizens and Citizenship” fundamentally shaped our ideas of citizenship, equality, and liberty. Grants In 2016, the 150th anniversary of the passage of the 14th Amendment, “The 14th Amendment in American Life and Imagination” the MHC is presenting statewide programming to explore its history, evolution, and contemporary significance. Our understanding of the Let’s Talk About It “Becoming American: Struggles, 14th Amendment shapes debates around marriage equality, immigration, Successes, and Symbols” and other topics central to our national conversation — and appreciating New Books, New Readers its text — what it actually asserts and how it has operated over time — “Pioneers and Frontiers” challenges us to connect contemporary events to the principles that dictate Portland Seminar how individuals are empowered and protected in our nation. “The Outsiders” In exploring this important amendment, we can all consider the value of democracy in American life and discuss some of the most important and challenging questions facing our country and our communities.

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