Community Calendar

Join local expert Matthew Jude Barker as he discusses topics from his most recent works, “Becoming American, Portland, Maine’s Irish and the Making of Immigrant America, 1840-1861” and “The Blue and the Green, The Irish of Portland Maine During the Civil War”. He will bring to life an amazingly transformative era in Portland history, discussing events such as the Great Hunger, immigration, Neal Dow and prohibition, bootlegging and crime, the "Rum Riot”, the Know-Nothings and nativists, Irish occupations, abolition, the railroad, the Panic of 1857, the war years, the Fenians, the Great Fire of July 4, 1866, and the dedication of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, among many other topics.

Wondering about your family lineage? Drop in for genealogy help with volunteer Tim Lynch in the library's breezeway. Tim can help you with most things related to genealogy, including: ancestry.com, family tree construction, record keeping, digital resources, local historical societies and more. Tim is at the Falmouth Memorial Library most Tuesday mornings from 9:30-10:30 AM. Feel free to call the library at 207-781-2351 ext. 140 if you would like to check to be sure before you come.

Wondering about your family lineage? Drop in for genealogy help with volunteer Tim Lynch in the library's breezeway. Tim can help you with most things related to genealogy, including: ancestry.com, family tree construction, record keeping, digital resources, local historical societies and more. Tim is at the Falmouth Memorial Library most Tuesday mornings from 9:30-10:30 AM. Feel free to call the library at 207-781-2351 ext. 140 if you would like to check to be sure before you come.

Wondering about your family lineage? Drop in for genealogy help with volunteer Tim Lynch in the library's breezeway. Tim can help you with most things related to genealogy, including: ancestry.com, family tree construction, record keeping, digital resources, local historical societies and more. Tim is at the Falmouth Memorial Library most Tuesday mornings from 9:30-10:30 AM. Feel free to call the library at 207-781-2351 ext. 140 if you would like to check to be sure before you come.

Free and open to the public. There will be a reception at 5 P.M. with good food and drinks. The lecture will begin at 6 P.M. All are welcome.

Topic
What happens when rules around Native identity — many of which were created by a US government intent on wiping out Native people altogether — inhibit Native people from creating successful, sustainable communities? In this lecture, Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz offers a brief history of Native tribal enrollment and identity, and how that history is still shaping Native America today.

Speaker Biography
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She spent seven years working in the Obama Administration on issues of homelessness and Native policy. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She serves as an associate professor of public policy and directs the Native Policy Lab at the University of Iowa. Her lecture at UNE will be based on her first book, The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America.

Suggested Reading
Schuettpelz, Carrie Lowry. The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America. Macmillan, 2024.

Address
UNE Portland Campus
Girard Innovation Hall
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland, ME 04103

Wondering about your family lineage? Drop in for genealogy help with volunteer Tim Lynch in the library's breezeway. Tim can help you with most things related to genealogy, including: ancestry.com, family tree construction, record keeping, digital resources, local historical societies and more. Tim is at the Falmouth Memorial Library most Tuesday mornings from 9:30-10:30 AM. Feel free to call the library at 207-781-2351 ext. 140 if you would like to check to be sure before you come.

Manion discusses the ways in which democracy and punishment defined each other at the moment of the nation’s founding. Whether punishment serves to uphold or contradict core democratic principles is the subject of considerable debate. By focusing on the lives of ordinary women who were detained in Philadelphia’s penal institutions from the 1780s – 1830s, Manion highlights the relationship that emerges between philosophical ideals and material realities.

Jen Manion is a social and cultural historian whose work examines the role of gender and sexuality in American life. Manion is the Winkley Professor of History and Political Economy at Amherst College. Manion is author of Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America which received the Mary Kelley Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and Female Husbands: A Trans History which was a finalist for the OAH Lawrence Levine Award for the best book in U.S. cultural history and recipient of the British Association of Victorian Studies best book prize. Jen is co-editor with Nicholas Syrett of a two volume series, The Cambridge History of Sexuality in the United States (expected 2025), co-editor with Jim Downs of Taking Back the Academy: History of Activism, History as Activism (2004), and has published nearly three dozen essays and reviews in U.S. histories of gender and sexuality, including a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine about historic injustices toward LGBTQ+ people.

This FREE virtual program is presented via Zoom. You will receive an email with the zoom link for the program with your registration confirmation through our online ticketing system.

If you choose to make a donation, please be sure to register for a general admission ticket in order to receive the Zoom link.

Jason Ur, noted Harvard archeologist, will discuss his current research mapping old cemeteries using new drone technology. His work focuses on the reassessment of burying grounds using the approaches and tools of landscape archaeology, with a primary case study of Cambridge, MA. As well as some initial thoughts on what might be gained from applying these methods to other historic cemeteries and sites.

Wondering about your family lineage? Drop in for genealogy help with volunteer Tim Lynch in the library's breezeway. Tim can help you with most things related to genealogy, including: ancestry.com, family tree construction, record keeping, digital resources, local historical societies and more. Tim is at the Falmouth Memorial Library most Tuesday mornings from 9:30-10:30 AM. Feel free to call the library at 207-781-2351 ext. 140 if you would like to check to be sure before you come.

Wondering about your family lineage? Drop in for genealogy help with volunteer Tim Lynch in the library's breezeway. Tim can help you with most things related to genealogy, including: ancestry.com, family tree construction, record keeping, digital resources, local historical societies and more. Tim is at the Falmouth Memorial Library most Tuesday mornings from 9:30-10:30 AM. Feel free to call the library at 207-781-2351 ext. 140 if you would like to check to be sure before you come.