On November 18, 2022, MWWC Archivist Jefferson Navicky gave a talk called A Day in the Life of Maine Women: Diaries of Everyday Life. From the event description: “The Maine Women Writers Collection has numerous diaries spanning the 19th and 20th century kept by Maine women across the state whose lives were remarkable in their […]
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What Objects Can Teach Us
What Objects Can Teach Us
October 25, 2022
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Ketchum Library Art Gallery
Explore UNE’s Special Collections and Archives The archives hold many stories. While we associate stories with writing, objects evoke narratives that are complex and layered. What happens when we look closely at archival objects for lessons about their purpose? What can we understand without written documentation? Come explore some objects held in the archives at UNE […]
Donna M. Loring Lecture
One Nation, Under Fraud: A Remonstrance
October 12, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zoom
In April of 2022, Maine’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations issued a report, One Nation, Under Fraud: A Remonstrance, outlining the history of tribal relations with the State of Maine and suggesting a framework for remedying those relations—for redressing the centuries of fraud and cultural genocide perpetrated by the state. […]
Your Archival Portrait
Your Archival Portrait
October 11, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ketchum Library Art Gallery
UNE Special Collections wants to take your picture! But we want to capture the contents of your bag or pockets. Just like every face is different, every pocket tells a story. We want to hear yours! We will take a photo of objects you carry, a photo of you, and a recording of some story attached […]
College Stories Project
College Stories Project
October 5, 2022
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Ketchum Library Art Gallery
Help UNE Archivists create History! Your story is important to us! Visit our story booth in the library to record a short audio interview about your experiences of college life at UNE. Intrigued, but don’t know what you might have to say? We will have prompts to help you think about what to share! Your […]
College Stories Project
College Stories Project
October 3, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ketchum Library Art Gallery
Help UNE Archivists create History! Your story is important to us! Visit our story booth in the library to record a short audio interview about your experiences of college life at UNE. Intrigued, but don’t know what you might have to say? We will have prompts to help you think about what to share! Your […]
Found in the Archives
Found in the Archives: Stories of Buried Treasure
May 12, 2022
6:00 pm
Online
Join us for an evening of stories discovered in archives with Dawn Potter (poet), Elizabeth DeWolfe (UNE history professor), and Carol Dana (Penobscot language master). Watch via Zoom, on the web, or on Facebook live. Dawn Potter is the author of nine books, most recently the poetry collection Accidental Hymn, forthcoming this spring. She directs poetry and […]
Libraries & The Poets Who Love Them
Libraries & The Poets Who Love Them
December 1, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Online
A Poetry Reading Sponsored by the Maine Women Writers Collection. Join four Poet/Librarians in celebration of the union between poetry and libraries. Julia Bouwsma — Library Director for Webster Library Margaret Yocom — Founder of the Northern Virginia Folklife Archive Emma Gibbon — Adult Services Librarian, Topsham Public Library Jefferson Navicky – Archivist, Maine Women Writers Collection […]
Maine Women Writers Collection celebrates 60 years
Maine Women Writers Collection celebrates 60 years
June 14, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
MWWC Reading Room
In the same year that Mattell introduced the Barbie Doll and only 35 percent of college students were female, two Westbrook Junior College (WJC) instructors made a pioneering step in the field of women’s literary studies. Grace A. Dow, chair and professor in the Department of English at WJC, and Dorothy M. Healy, a WJC […]
Out of the fog: Retracing the Path to Greenland
Out of the fog: Retracing the Path to Greenland
October 25, 2018
7:00 pm
MWWC Reading Room
Pairing Iceblink, a project by artist Carrie Scanga, with the archival source materials from Marie Peary Stafford’s papers that inspired Scanga’s work, this exhibit explores the personal and societal projections of spiritual aspirations onto the Arctic landscape. Stafford’s return to the land of her birth as an explorer in 1932 is documented in her journals and […]