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Wabanaki festival of arts and ideas returns to Bar Harbor for U.S.’s 250th

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By Reuben Schafir Verified
| The Portland Press Herald Verified
The Dawnland Festival Arts and Ideas is returning in its illustrative splendor. The festival is a nexus of ideas, a convergence of artistic expression and social revelry, an incubator for scholarship, and an art marketplace, all wrapped up into one. The Abbe Museum will host the event, a festival centering Wabanaki and native thought leadership, July 11 and 12 at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor.
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These Maine sailors bought a tiny boat on Facebook. Then they tried to race it to Alaska.

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By Reuben Schafir Verified
| The Portland Press Herald Verified
Explain to someone aboard a cruise ship why you’re navigating a small sailboat up Johnstone Strait, off the coast of British Columbia, in 25-knot winds at 3 a.m. That’s what Russell Melin did last week. Yes, Melin explained over the radio, he and his two crew members, together known as Team Pelagic Banana Slug, were zigzagging a 20-foot sloop up the narrow channel between Vancouver Island and the Discovery Islands in the wee hours of June 22 to catch the favorable tide.
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Bates librarian finds Indigenous land grant from 1860s, complicating college’s history

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By Reuben Schafir Verified
| The Portland Press Herald Verified
LEWISTON — In the conventional sense, the University of Maine is the state’s only land-grant university: it received Indigenous land from the federal government over 150 years ago as an early endowment. By another definition, Colby and Bowdoin, to which the state gave a combined 234,000 acres, were the first land-grant colleges in Maine. Now, add to that list Bates College. The Legislature granted the Lewiston college 57,000 acres in northwestern Maine in the 1860s.
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