Poland Spring Water Co. is the chief sponsor of the Maine Bicentennial Parade on May 16, 2020. The event is expected to bring at least 50,000 people to Lewiston and Auburn.
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Maine Suffrage Centennial: Lewiston journalist was early, bold advocate for the vote among Franco women
Starting in 1910, Camille Lessard Bissonnette took a singular stand when she reached out to immigrant women in Maine and women in French Canada.
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NEH chairman coming to Maine to talk about why the bicentennial matters
Jon Parrish Peede also will tour exhibitions about Wabanaki culture, women’s suffrage and Jewish life in Maine.
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Maulian Dana: Many still silenced after women got the vote
Native Americans in Maine did not achieve full suffrage rights as citizens for many years after the right to vote was extended to women in 1920.