Kate McMahon, Ph.D., is set to be the featured speaker at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11, for the Camden Rockport Historical Society’s renewed winter speaker series at the Camden Public Library’s Picker Room, 55 Main St.
McMahon, an African American historian, will speak on “Freedom’s Woods: Peterborough and African Americans in Midcoast Maine, 1776-1865.”
The historic African American community of Peterborough was founded by Amos and Sarah Peters in Warren. Amos and Sarah built a community based upon kinship and freedom-making in the woods of rural Maine that existed until the early 20th century. This talk will explore the history of Peterborough, and the broader history of African Americans in Maine during the 18th and 19th centuries, according to a news release from Jan Kelsey, historical society president.
The talk will offer an update on the care that the town of Warren is taking of the cemetery of Peterborough. Warren’s Sexton Amanda Shelmerdine will share her work researching and dedicating a war memorial for the veterans of the Peterborough community.
For more information and to find the Zoom link to participate remotely, visit librarycamden.org.
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