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<h2>UMaine COVID-19 Community Archive</h2>
<h3>Sample items below. For more visit: <a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19/">https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19/</a></h3>
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<p>The University of Maine COVID-19 Community Archive is a collection of items compiled as part of Raymond H. Fogler Library's Special Collections' project to create an archive that preserves the story of the experiences of the University of Maine community during the pandemic. Material was submitted to Special Collections by members of the University community and web content harvested directly by the University Archivist, starting in February 2020.</p>
<p>As well as collecting and preserving the University's administration's response the COVID-19 Community Archive documents the responses of individual University of Maine departments to the pandemic, particularly the transition to online teaching and learning. The Archive also contains items that illustrate the personal experiences of individual students, faculty, researchers, staff, and alumni, whether currently in Maine or not.</p>
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University of Maine
Penobscot County, Maine
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University of Maine
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Black Bear Statue with Mask
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Photograph of Black Bear statue with a face mask on. The statue of the University of Maine mascot is erected outside of the University's Memorial Gym, photograph was taken by Matthew Revitt, University of Maine Archivist on August 9, 2020.
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Revitt, Matthew
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<a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19_images/39/">https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19_images/39/</a>
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<a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19/"></a>University of Maine
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2020-08-09
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<h2>Franco-American COVID-19 Experiences in Maine</h2>
<h3>Sample items below. For more visit: <a href="https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/">https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/</a></h3>
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The Franco-American Collection is focused on gathering materials from people in Maine’s Franco-American community, and accepting submissions in both French and English. Materials can be digital or physical, and will be posted on the Franco-American Collection’s Digital Commons website.
The Franco-American COVID-19 Experiences in Maine Collection is comprised of items donated by Franco-Americans in the state of Maine during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020. If you are interested in donating your reflections, photographs, videos, blog posts or otherwise, please contact Anna Faherty at anna.faherty@maine.edu
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Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine
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Maine
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Jack O' Lantern Stuffed Peppers
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For Halloween 2020, Juliana L'Heureux and her husband Richard got creative with their meal prep, creating Jack-O-Lantern style stuffed peppers. Juliana says:
"In the COVID-19 environment, we are preparing many more creative recipes at home, rather than eating out. These peppers can be "stuffed" with any favorite mixture or vegan combo.
We use lean ground beef (90 percent lean) sautéed with onion, garlic, cooked rice and diced tomatoes- salt and pepper to taste. We blanched the peppers after carving the faces, using a very small carving knife. Bake in pre-heated oven at 350 degrees F for 25-30 minutes. Add just a little water to the bottom of the baking pan to prevent potential sticking. Bon Appetit!"
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L'Heureux, Juliana
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<a href="https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/4/">https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/4/</a>
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2020-10-31
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Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine
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<h2>Franco-American COVID-19 Experiences in Maine</h2>
<h3>Sample items below. For more visit: <a href="https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/">https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/</a></h3>
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The Franco-American Collection is focused on gathering materials from people in Maine’s Franco-American community, and accepting submissions in both French and English. Materials can be digital or physical, and will be posted on the Franco-American Collection’s Digital Commons website.
The Franco-American COVID-19 Experiences in Maine Collection is comprised of items donated by Franco-Americans in the state of Maine during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020. If you are interested in donating your reflections, photographs, videos, blog posts or otherwise, please contact Anna Faherty at anna.faherty@maine.edu
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Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine
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Maine
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Quand l’envie de voir nos proches côtoie la résilience
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Lise Pelletier, the Director of the Acadian Archives at the University of Maine Fort Kent, and her sister, Colette Pelletier Langevin, who lives across the border in New Brunswick, gave this interview to Radio-Canada reporter Janique LeBlanc on August 22, 2020.<br /><br /><a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/michel-le-samedi/segments/entrevue/194255/famille-separee-madawaska-maine-bilan-cinq-mois-fermeture-frontieres">https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/michel-le-samedi/segments/entrevue/194255/famille-separee-madawaska-maine-bilan-cinq-mois-fermeture-frontieres</a>
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Pelletier Langevin, Colette
Pelletier, Lisa
LeBlanc, Janique
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<a href="https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/3/">https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/3/</a>
Date
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2020-08-21
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Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine
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<h2>Franco-American COVID-19 Experiences in Maine</h2>
<h3>Sample items below. For more visit: <a href="https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/">https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/</a></h3>
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The Franco-American Collection is focused on gathering materials from people in Maine’s Franco-American community, and accepting submissions in both French and English. Materials can be digital or physical, and will be posted on the Franco-American Collection’s Digital Commons website.
The Franco-American COVID-19 Experiences in Maine Collection is comprised of items donated by Franco-Americans in the state of Maine during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020. If you are interested in donating your reflections, photographs, videos, blog posts or otherwise, please contact Anna Faherty at anna.faherty@maine.edu
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Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine
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Maine
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George and Heidi Remy Christmas Letter
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In this letter, from Christmas 2020, George and Heidi Remy reflect on all the changes COVID-19 has brought into the world and into their lives. They discuss the new words and phrases popularized since the onset of COVID, milestone reunions happening via Zoom, and changes to their athletic routine, among other topics.
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<a href="https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/5/">https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-covid-19-experiences/5/</a>
Date
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2020-12
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Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine
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Remy, George
Remy, Heidi
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<h2>Belfast Free Library's COVID-19 Community Archives Project</h2>
<h3>Sample items below. For more visit: <a href="https://belfastfreelibrary.omeka.net/">https://belfastfreelibrary.omeka.net/</a></h3>
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The Belfast Free Library’s COVID-19 Community Archives Project is part of a collaborative effort to document life in Belfast and Waldo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. We invite you to share stories, images, and other items that illustrate your pandemic experiences so that future generations will understand how COVID-19 impacted our community.
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Belfast Free Library
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Belfast, Maine
Waldo County, Maine
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Signs of Pandemic
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March 20, 2020, I ventured out as sunrise was unfolding to look for photo opportunities. The harbor area was too dark to be interesting because of the dense fog, so I walked into the center of town. There I noticed some of the signs on restaurant and business doorways that explained the business closures. After reading a few I was struck with the documentary evidence they presented of the emerging pandemic.
I was also struck with the wide range of messages that were being conveyed. Some were short and business-like. Others were long and detailed. Others were warm and comforting.
It occurred to me that if I could capture these images at this one point in time, at the end of a turbulent week when everyone’s world was tossed upside down, it would show how our city was responding to this tragic crisis. So I walked the downtown area snapping each sign that mentioned a closure due to the pandemic. As I drove home I also stopped at some additional locations. In the end I obtained over 3 dozen images.
I worked on how to present them over the weekend. I ended up designing a photo essay in the form of a slide show.
When you watch it I hope you see the character of our city, a community that responded swiftly and thoroughly, with intelligence and caring.
While we plan for the increasingly difficult circumstances we face, today I am proud of Belfast, my hometown.
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Chamberlin, Doug
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<a href="https://belfastfreelibrary.omeka.net/items/show/2">https://belfastfreelibrary.omeka.net/items/show/2</a>
Date
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2020-03-20
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Belfast Free Library
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<h2>Belfast Free Library's COVID-19 Community Archives Project</h2>
<h3>Sample items below. For more visit: <a href="https://belfastfreelibrary.omeka.net/">https://belfastfreelibrary.omeka.net/</a></h3>
Description
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The Belfast Free Library’s COVID-19 Community Archives Project is part of a collaborative effort to document life in Belfast and Waldo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. We invite you to share stories, images, and other items that illustrate your pandemic experiences so that future generations will understand how COVID-19 impacted our community.
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Belfast Free Library
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Belfast, Maine
Waldo County, Maine
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A Scratch on the Record
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Poem depicting how Covid-19 has interrupted our lives.
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Smith, Brenda E.
Date
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2020-04-04
Contributor
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Belfast Free Library
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<a href="https://belfastfreelibrary.omeka.net/items/show/4">https://belfastfreelibrary.omeka.net/items/show/4</a>
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<h2>Ogunquit Memorial Library’s COVID-19 Archive</h2>
<h3>Sample items below. For more visit: <a href="https://ogunquitlibrary.omeka.net/">https://ogunquitlibrary.omeka.net/</a></h3>
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The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented time in our world and local community. The lives of individuals, businesses, and organizations are being turned upside down.
Ogunquit Memorial Library's COVID-19 Archive aims to give our community members a way to share their experiences of this period. How has your life been changed? Are you finding anything particularly difficult? What are some of the positive new aspects of your life during the lockdown? And do you find anything just plain odd?
This online archive is a way for Ogunquit to tell its pandemic story. Whether it is a written account of your experience or a photo of our town, the Ogunquit Memorial Library COVID-19 Archive will collect your submissions for future reflection and historical research.
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Ogunquit Memorial Library
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Ogunquit, Maine
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Art Critique by Zoom
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Painting of a computer screen showing a Zoom meeting. The artist now takes part in an art critique group with Dustan Knight twice a week on Zoom.
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Eimon, Marilyn
Date
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2020-04-27
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Ogunquit Memorial Library
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<a href="https://ogunquitlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/19">https://ogunquitlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/19</a>
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<h2>Ogunquit Memorial Library’s COVID-19 Archive</h2>
<h3>Sample items below. For more visit: <a href="https://ogunquitlibrary.omeka.net/">https://ogunquitlibrary.omeka.net/</a></h3>
Description
An account of the resource
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented time in our world and local community. The lives of individuals, businesses, and organizations are being turned upside down.
Ogunquit Memorial Library's COVID-19 Archive aims to give our community members a way to share their experiences of this period. How has your life been changed? Are you finding anything particularly difficult? What are some of the positive new aspects of your life during the lockdown? And do you find anything just plain odd?
This online archive is a way for Ogunquit to tell its pandemic story. Whether it is a written account of your experience or a photo of our town, the Ogunquit Memorial Library COVID-19 Archive will collect your submissions for future reflection and historical research.
Creator
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Ogunquit Memorial Library
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Ogunquit, Maine
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Busy Ogunquit Street
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People in face masks walking in Ogunquit.
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Peters, Sheryl
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<h2>Ogunquit Memorial Library’s COVID-19 Archive</h2>
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The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented time in our world and local community. The lives of individuals, businesses, and organizations are being turned upside down.
Ogunquit Memorial Library's COVID-19 Archive aims to give our community members a way to share their experiences of this period. How has your life been changed? Are you finding anything particularly difficult? What are some of the positive new aspects of your life during the lockdown? And do you find anything just plain odd?
This online archive is a way for Ogunquit to tell its pandemic story. Whether it is a written account of your experience or a photo of our town, the Ogunquit Memorial Library COVID-19 Archive will collect your submissions for future reflection and historical research.
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Halloween
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Photo of the giant witch decoration outside Meadowmere Resort, this year boasting an appropriate face mask.
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Roan, Kaja
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2020-10-07
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<h2>UMaine COVID-19 Community Archive</h2>
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<p>The University of Maine COVID-19 Community Archive is a collection of items compiled as part of Raymond H. Fogler Library's Special Collections' project to create an archive that preserves the story of the experiences of the University of Maine community during the pandemic. Material was submitted to Special Collections by members of the University community and web content harvested directly by the University Archivist, starting in February 2020.</p>
<p>As well as collecting and preserving the University's administration's response the COVID-19 Community Archive documents the responses of individual University of Maine departments to the pandemic, particularly the transition to online teaching and learning. The Archive also contains items that illustrate the personal experiences of individual students, faculty, researchers, staff, and alumni, whether currently in Maine or not.</p>
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<strong>Corona Chronicles</strong><br />March 2020<br />Orono Public Library Writing Circle<br /><b><br />Friday 20 March 2020--Barbara Wicks</b><br />Inspired by the quote What's The Best That Could Happen? that Sandra found on a dish towel, and following my message to those of you signed up for our canceled Spring 2020 Writing Circle, I'm sharing the following quote that I was going to share when we met.<br /><i><b><br />We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language, That may be the measure of our lives.</b></i><br /><b>--Toni Morrison</b><br /><br />The thought leads to an invitation for those of you who are interested to send the group a draft for online comments, a quote or a paragraph that you've found especially meaningful, or just an email exploring a writing idea or question for which you'd like some comments.<br /><b><br />Wednesday 25 March 2020--Maria Tijan-Wieck</b><br />I love the quote. Will be thinking of something. Very stunned by everything. This afternoon I'll make a couple of masks for my daughter when she goes out to buy food. Thank you, Barbara, for thinking of me. The earthquake in Zagreb has been the cherry on the cake. Family in Zagreb told me that the main cemetery has been damaged. Broken graves everywhere and talk of zombies. (This is a joke, but the broken graves are true). Love to you all.<br /><br /><b>Thursday 26 March 2020--Sandra Dunham</b><br />Harbinger of Spring<br /><b><br />Friday 27 March 2020 – Jack Moose</b><br />I hope everyone is well and safe. I'm in lockdown in our camper in the mountains of Georgia. I couldn't sleep last night (early signs of cabin fever). I hope I'm not out of line in putting into print thoughts I had last night.<br /><br />VIRAL THOUGHTS<br />Germs linger silently in the air,<br />from the dying echo of a cough nearby.<br />From the touch of friends you trust,<br />to a casual brush from a stranger in a rush.<br />Has a viral trace been left,<br />on the handle you just touched,<br />or in the droplets on the restroom sink?<br />There's an invisible killer we've been told,<br />that lies in wait outside our safe abode.<br /><b><br />Saturday 28 March 2020 – Gary Schilmoeller</b><br /><b><br />Several Maine Ideas Volume 31 Issue 2 March 2020</b><br /><br />Is that so?<br /><br />Had anyone told me on Valentine’s day that less than one month later, the National Basketball Association would cancel the rest of its season, that universities and schools would send students home and switch to online teaching for the rest of the spring semester, that most group sports, concerts, plays, and other social gatherings would be cancelled indefinitely, I would have said incredulously, “Is that<br />so?”<br /><br />Had anyone told me that by St. Patrick’s Day, I would hear new phrases – “social distancing,” “self-isolation,” “self-quarantine,” “shelter in place” – and learn how practicing one or more of these constructs would impose serious constrictions on my personal lifestyle, I would have said incredulously, “Is that so?”<br /><br />Had anyone told me that by mid-March, most businesses would be closed and only essential services – groceries, pharmacies, medical services, media, postal delivery – would be operating, I would have said incredulously, “Is that so?”<br /><br />Five decades ago, Kathy gifted me the book <i>Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A collection of Zen and pre-Zen</i><br /><i>Writings</i> that contained the story <i>Is that so?</i> In the story, a young unmarried Japanese girl became pregnant and identified the Zen master Hakuin as the father. The girl’s parents took the baby to Hakuin who responded, “Is that so?” and took care of the baby. Later the girl confessed to her parents that a young man who worked at a fish market was the father. The parents went to Hakuin, apologized, and asked for the child back. Hakuin handed over the child and said, “Is that so”<br /><br />I fear my initial “Is that so?” reaction to the events of the past several weeks, spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, was not so equanimous as was Hakuin’s. At seven and a half decades of age, and with Kathy following closely behind, we are in the high-risk category. We needed to curtail our activities, yet I struggled at loss of control and at self-isolating as I am a very social person. But we are adapting. Kathy calms me. We self-distance in our house. I take walks in our low-density Webster Village on Marsh Island, dancing with the other occasional walkers by crossing the street or going onto a lawn when we meet so we maintain our six-foot or more distance. A neighbor generously offered to get groceries for us when she goes to the grocery store, so we do not have to go out. We give thanks for her assistance.<br /><br />As I take my walks, I ponder the family, friends, acquaintances, and people who support me in my social world. And I give thanks to all of them. You readers constitute an element of that social world.<br />For the past three decades, I have written these “Maine Ideas.” Each time I write one, I think of you.<br />Some of you I meet on a somewhat regular basis. Some I have met only once or twice. Some I have never met in person. Some live nearby. Some live in distant states. Some live in other countries. But I do think of all of you. You collectively constitute the muse that keeps me writing these ideas. So, in this time of events unparalleled in my lifetime, I want to say “Thank you” for being part of my social family. I send my wish that all of you are safe and faring well in these uncertain times.<br /><br />How long will this pandemic disrupt our social, political, economic, and personal lives so massively? I have not the least idea. However, as the turmoil continues to unfold, I look to Hakuin’s example and will try to say “Is that so” with equanimity.<br /><i><b><br />Is That So?</b></i><br /><i>The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as living a pure life.</i><br /><i>A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, </i><i>without warning, her parents discovered she was with child.</i><br /><i>This made her parents very angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after</i><br /><i>much harassment at last named Hakuin.</i><br /><i>In great anger the parents went to the master. “Is that so?” was all he would say.</i><br /><i>After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his </i><i>reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk </i><i>from his neighbors and everything else the little one needed.</i><br /><i>A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth –</i><br /><i>that the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fish market.</i><br /><i>The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask his forgiveness, to </i><i>apologize at length, and to get the child back again.</i><br /><i>Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: “Is that so?”</i><br /><i><u><br />Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (Slipcover edition, 10th Printing)</u></i><br />compiled by Paul Reps | Jan 1, 1968<br /><b><br />Sunday 29 March 2020 – Barbara Wicks</b><br /><br /><strong>Two Tankas</strong><br /><br />My Virtual Life<br /><br />I live behind screens<br />Electric, plastic, cloth<br />Pixelated, cold,<br />But permeable to warm<br />Words, images, emotions.<br /><br />Community Spread<br /><br />Alternative facts,<br />Conspiracy theories<br />Are met with science,<br />Compassion, community<br />Proliferating kindness.
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Personal Reflections: Corona Chronicles
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COVID-19 experiences of members of an Orono Public Library writing circle compiled by Barbara Wicks as the "Corona Chronicles", starting in March 2020. Subsequent issues are included as supplemental content.
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2020-03
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Dunham, Sandra
Herrling, Malcolm
Moose, Jack
Schilmoeller, Gary L.
Tijan-Wieck, Maria
Wicks, Barbara
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<h2>UMaine COVID-19 Community Archive</h2>
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<p>The University of Maine COVID-19 Community Archive is a collection of items compiled as part of Raymond H. Fogler Library's Special Collections' project to create an archive that preserves the story of the experiences of the University of Maine community during the pandemic. Material was submitted to Special Collections by members of the University community and web content harvested directly by the University Archivist, starting in February 2020.</p>
<p>As well as collecting and preserving the University's administration's response the COVID-19 Community Archive documents the responses of individual University of Maine departments to the pandemic, particularly the transition to online teaching and learning. The Archive also contains items that illustrate the personal experiences of individual students, faculty, researchers, staff, and alumni, whether currently in Maine or not.</p>
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Penobscot County, Maine
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“Don’t expect life to be predictable or fair. Don’t try to tame the situation with some feel-good lie or confident prediction. Embrace the uncertainty of this whole life-or-death deal.”<br /><br />“Why did we tolerate so much social division before? Why didn’t we cultivate stronger social bonds when we had the chance?”<br /><br />We are all victims of a robbery, a case in which we come to find that no judicial system can minister justice. Freedom was taken from us, the people of the world, as we were extracted from life as we knew it and locked in the confinement of our homes. The entity responsible for all the pandemonium, a virus invisible to the naked eye.<br /><br />Life teases us with the ploy that it is predictable. I sit in quarantine with my mother who vouches for the unpredictability and unfairness of life. Twice she has been diagnosed with cancer, leaving her immune system at high risk to the virus after the ensuing treatments. Twice, she has been dealt and unfair hand that no one could have foretold.<br /><br />These last months are proof, to all, that life is unpredictable and often unfair. More importantly it emphasizes that life must be embraced the way it is, because the only guaranteed prediction about time, is that it will keep moving. From this, I am able to cope and accept that life is different now - not necessarily worse, just filled with much more hand washing, mask wearing, and a desire for human interaction. Albeit, fear is a dangerous poison; rather than acting with fear, grasp caution tightly and embrace the unknown because the unknown is now all that we have for certain.<br /><br />As an employee of a grocery store, I am given the opportunity to observe all walks of life. In doing so, I am confronted with an unsettling amount of us that are not acting with sufficient caution and in turn, putting our team at a disadvantage.<br /><br />A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a quarantine is only as safe as its most hazardous citizens. We must act with solidarity to strengthen the chain of safety.<br /><br />The virus is not smarter than us, it is not even alive. In fact, it is our guest and we are it’s host; yet even the virus treats all humans the same, why don’t we?<br /><br />Quarantine has left me isolated on a multitude of levels. Longing to say hello to my friends with a handshake, missing out on the activities I love, and desiring intimacy without paranoia. Leaving me to wonder why I took these things for granted when the ability to spread love without repercussion was the normal way of life. With this, through the means of caution and love I believe that anyone who uses any tool of judgement, such as racism, classism, sexism, or any other prejudice way of thinking, is both matching and surpassing the selfishness, ignorance, and idiocy of the people who endanger others through the disregard of safe self-quarantine practices.<br /><br />In the midst of a pandemic, humans are confronted with an inevitable sacrifice of certainty. We sacrifice control of our situation, which we seemingly so naturally strive for. We make this sacrifice for our hypothetical safety, in spite of the fact that this safety is not solidified. We embrace uncertainty to grow. We embrace uncertainty to because it is more sought than the punishment of the virus. We embrace uncertainty on faith alone. The only certainty we have is that if we choose to persevere, we will do so together. We must love each other because love is a common denominator of human success over time, as it seems to always prevail over negativities.<br /><br />Uncertainty must be embraced, because uncertainty is what waters the seed of growth. Tara Westover highlights the beneficial attributes of uncertainty when she says this. “To admit uncertainty is to admit weakness, powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind and not in someone else’s.” (Educated). The sacrifice of control and the uptake of uncertainty is coupled with the gain of strength, in the form of responsibility, to think and act for yourself. Westover also adds, “My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice may be as strong as theirs.” (Educated). This is comparable to the current day obstacle faced by any being, in that there is always going to be a voice advising you what to do. When in fact, one’s own voice or actions are just as strong as these instructing voices; it is instead the challenge of understanding the voices message and analyzing what has been heard, in order to use your voice accordingly. Tara Westover battled with the uncertainty of who’s voice to succumb to. One voice wrote in her journal, accounting for the torturous events of her days in a way that belittled the experience that she had endowed. The other voice, her voice, would come to learn that she should not suppress the actual recollections of those days because in them she sought strength and found herself. Westover struggled with the uncertainty of believing one voice over another to show that being submitted to uncertainty will bring out a strength. A strength from which a determination about one’s true voice can be learned. When applied to an experience like that of the human struggles today, one could interpret Westover’s story as a testament to embrace the unknown and seek the strength of one voice, or action.<br /><br />To confide in uncertainty is more wise than to reject it based upon other known certainties. It is right to say that one may know the possible outcomes of uncertainty as good or bad, lest it is the opposite to say that one knows the outcome of uncertainty will be a particular result. As previously highlighted, certain positive qualities can be extracted from uncertainty and used as fuel for growth. Another perspective, one that adheres to Socrates’ philosophy, would suggest that the uncertainty itself is the fuel for knowledge, both the good and bad. This harbors the idea that pretending to know the unknown is just the opposite of wise. Plato cites Socrates to say, “For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For it is to seem to know what one does not know.” (Plato’s Apology). When faced with death, Socrates does not flee. Socrates does not flaunt to know what follows uncertainty, instead he explores the outcome in search of betterment. This is a reassurance of our actions while living through the pandemic, in that, people have been faced with death and are not captivated by fear. Rather, we further explore the issue, explore the uncertainty, in hopes that we can learn some good out of the matter. Humans have measured the situation and acted accordingly, as suggested by Socrates’ philosophy when he says “I do know that it is bad and shameful to do injustice and to disobey one’s better, whether god or human being. So compared to the bad things which I know are bad, I will never fear or flee the things about which I do not know whether they even happen to be good.” (Plato’s Apology). When it is already known what is good and what is bad, the bad action should never be assumed over the action with an unknown outcome. This idea of Socratic thinking is very applicable to dealing with the uncertainty of life and death, health and sickness, and known and unknown, in a pandemic climate because we should pursue the unknown in fighting the virus rather than succumbing to the harm it can bring.<br /><br />When there is nothing else to lead one to embrace uncertainty, finding reassurance in blind faith is a better alternative than facing a known negative. A theme of holding faith through uncertainty is a theme expressed throughout the Torah. For example, in an absence of danger Abraham is called on by the Lord to leave his home with his family in search of the land that the Lord will show him. Abraham leaves behind his home, a place absent of immediate fear or danger, in a blind faith that the Lord will not bestow negativity on him, in an act of uncertainty. “Go from your country and your kindred and your fathers house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families on earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1, The Torah). Said the Lord to Abraham. In a different circumstance, the Israelites were faced with danger and incited with fear, they were called on to trust that the Lord would lead them away from this fear. By trusting the Moses, the Israelites embraced the uncertainty ahead of them. “Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the Lord will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again. The Lord will fight for you, and you only have to keep still.” (Exodus 14:13, The Torah), said Moses to the Israelites while fleeing with pursuit from the Egyptians. The Israelites knew that being captured by the Egyptians was something to be afraid of. In the face of fear the Israelites embraced the word of the Lord and the uncertainty that it entailed. The people of the pandemic struggle with a similar challenge; we know the virus should be feared, but we still pursue a faith in the uncertainty that leads us to believe we should seek perseverance rather than fear. If there is nothing better to direct a belief in, blind faith should be assumed on the position that the embraced uncertainty will lead to a more advantageous outcome.<br /><br />Paying no matter to the situation we find ourselves in, we will always be with each other, so we must love each other because we are all we have. This alone belittles the idea of prejudices and judgments, and makes them seem counter-productive. Unfortunately, it took the absence of human interaction to realize how that same interaction was taken for granted when it was available. It only makes logical sense to cultivate stronger bonds with anyone and everyone from this point on; why wouldn’t we spread love after opening our eyes to how much intimacy is missed when it is obstructed. The theme of love stands the test of time, illustrated by the Bible, for example. In the words of the Lord in the Book of Matthew, “You shall love the Lord our God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second like it ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:37, The Holy Bible). The foundation of Christianity is built upon the commandment to love, with all you can, the Lord and your brothers and sisters in the same fashion. This idea may be growing through the means of quarantine, it will be important to continue to practice love even when the threat of sickness is not looming overhead.<br /><br />The prevalent idea of love through time only reinforces the idea that humans are bestowed with love upon creation. The Qur’an, a religious text often critically acclaimed to be violent, says this about coexisting with each other as people. Mohammed says in reference to the words of Allah, “And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that ye may dwell in tranquility with them, and He has put love and mercy between your hearts.” (Surah 30:21, The Qur’an). Not only does Allah put love between people, he also gives mercy. The roots of social divide stem from disagreement and anger. All people are put in a position to harm others, as we are also put in a position to forgive. By confiding in merciful acts, acts of retaliation are slowly erased and replaced with peace. The times we find ourselves a part of serve to teach this lesson by uniting us as one team against a virus. Once the pandemic has passed, we should continue to uphold the unity that was forced upon us, not because we must, but instead because it will eliminate hate and cultivate peace and love among humans.<br /><br />The favored spread of love and the eradication of fear is more than likely more easily spoken than performed; throughout history it seems that hatred and war is inevitable. As we each lead our own lives it is important to ask ourselves, why we should choose to spread love over hate?<br /><br />Machiavelli writes in his book, The Prince, about the balance between being loved and feared as a leader:<br /><br />Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. Because this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And that prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected other precautions, is ruined; because friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot be relied upon; and men have less scruple in offending one who is beloved than one who is feared, for love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails. (The Prince)<br /><br />In a battle of love and fear, love will triumph. Machiavelli argues that being both feared and loved, as a balance, is optimal; however, if the balance cannot be attained than it is better to be feared than loved. His rationale being that mankind is naturally fickle and more liable to flee in the face of danger from someone who they love rather than from someone who they fear. As Machiavelli proposed, it is optimal to be regarded with a balance of love and fear. Humans should live with a balance of love and fear in each other to best coexist. We should love each other; we should not fear each other, instead we should fear what we are capable of becoming if we do not strengthen our bonds with peace and love by using the fear of hatred as our fuel for love.<br /><br />In any pandemic or quarantine, one is subject to outside voices attempting to direct his or her actions; it is most important to gather and analyze from these voices to determine what happens in succession. Do this while taking into account that one voice is not as quiet as once thought, and in fact, directly effects all of the surrounding people in such an uncertain time. There is strength and knowledge to be acquired from uncertainty. It is always better to seek uncertain gain than to accept certain harm from something else. When there is nothing else to motivate us to do such, there will always be love. Just as the virus kills us now, divide has killed us before. The hate that sprouts divide should be feared more than a virus that takes our lives. The spread of love enforced by the fear of mass division, will cultivate strong enough social bonds to lift us to prevail over any challenge with which we are faced.<br /><br />Works Cited:<br />1. Educated, Tara Westover<br />2. Plato’s Apology (29b-c)<br />3. Brookes, David. “Screw This Virus”.<br />4. The Holy Bible. (Mt.22:37)<br />5. The Qur’an. (Surah30:21)<br />6. Machiavelli, Niccolò. “The Prince”<br />7. The Torah. (Gen.12:1, Ex.41:13)
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Honors College: "Screw this Virus" Essay
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Essay by University of Maine student Patrick Fleming for HON 112, featuring COVID-19.
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Fleming, Patrick
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<a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19_honors/4/">https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19_honors/4/</a>
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2020-05-06
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<a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19/"></a>University of Maine
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<h2>UMaine COVID-19 Community Archive</h2>
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<p>The University of Maine COVID-19 Community Archive is a collection of items compiled as part of Raymond H. Fogler Library's Special Collections' project to create an archive that preserves the story of the experiences of the University of Maine community during the pandemic. Material was submitted to Special Collections by members of the University community and web content harvested directly by the University Archivist, starting in February 2020.</p>
<p>As well as collecting and preserving the University's administration's response the COVID-19 Community Archive documents the responses of individual University of Maine departments to the pandemic, particularly the transition to online teaching and learning. The Archive also contains items that illustrate the personal experiences of individual students, faculty, researchers, staff, and alumni, whether currently in Maine or not.</p>
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University of Maine
Penobscot County, Maine
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University of Maine
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Chancellor Messages: Transition to Online Instruction
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Message to the University of Maine System community from Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy regarding plans to transition to online instruction for the remainder of the Spring semester as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Malloy, Daniel P.
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<a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19_chancellor/2/">https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19_chancellor/2/</a>
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2020-03-11
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University of Maine
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<h2>UMaine COVID-19 Community Archive</h2>
<h3>Sample items below. For more visit: <a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19/">https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19/</a></h3>
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<p>The University of Maine COVID-19 Community Archive is a collection of items compiled as part of Raymond H. Fogler Library's Special Collections' project to create an archive that preserves the story of the experiences of the University of Maine community during the pandemic. Material was submitted to Special Collections by members of the University community and web content harvested directly by the University Archivist, starting in February 2020.</p>
<p>As well as collecting and preserving the University's administration's response the COVID-19 Community Archive documents the responses of individual University of Maine departments to the pandemic, particularly the transition to online teaching and learning. The Archive also contains items that illustrate the personal experiences of individual students, faculty, researchers, staff, and alumni, whether currently in Maine or not.</p>
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University of Maine
Penobscot County, Maine
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University of Maine
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COVID-19 : UMS COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Board Library Presentation
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Slides from Melissa Maginnis' workshop at the 2021 Raymond H. Fogler Professional Development Day regarding the work of the Advisory Board.
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Maginnis, Melissa
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<a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19_teach_doc/61/">https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19_teach_doc/61/</a>
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2021-01-19
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<a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/c19/"></a>University of Maine
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<h2>Bangor Area Community Archives Project</h2>
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The Bangor Public Library's Community Archives Project is part of a state-wide effort to collect stories and document life in Maine communities.
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Bangor Public Library
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Bangor, Maine
Piscataquis County, Maine
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First Case of Coronavirus Confirmed in Maine
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Poem of an elderly couple preparing for quarantine. Part of Bangor Public Library's <a href="https://bangorpubliclibrary.omeka.net/exhibits/show/pandemicpostcardproject">Pandemic Postcard Project</a>.
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Ranzoni, Patricia
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<a href="https://bangorpubliclibrary.omeka.net/items/show/43">https://bangorpubliclibrary.omeka.net/items/show/43</a>
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2020-08-10
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Bangor Public Library
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<h2>Bangor Area Community Archives Project</h2>
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The Bangor Public Library's Community Archives Project is part of a state-wide effort to collect stories and document life in Maine communities.
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Bangor Public Library
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Bangor, Maine
Piscataquis County, Maine
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Pandemic
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Artist interpretation of the early months of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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Taylor, Esther
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<a href="https://bangorpubliclibrary.omeka.net/items/show/54">https://bangorpubliclibrary.omeka.net/items/show/54</a>
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Bangor Public Library
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2020