Little League going to Fenway
The Gorham Little League 12U baseball all-star team will be right on the Fenway Park field on Sunday, Sept. 28, with Boston Red Sox players during the National Anthem.
It’s Gorham Little League Day when the Bosox will play the Detroit Tigers with game time set for 3:05 p.m. It’s the final game of the Red Sox’s regular season.
The Gorham team was disqualified from the Maine playoffs because of a rules technicality.
For tickets in the Gorham sections, visit the Gorham Little League Facebook page.
Black history tour
The Prince Project is presenting its tour, “Black History in the Old Burial Ground,” at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 30, at Eastern Cemetery, 224 Congress St., in Portland.
“The cemetery is a great place for learning more about our Black community in the 18th century,” Vana Carmona, founder of The Prince Project, said in a press release.
Tickets are $12.51 and available through eventbrite.com. Walk-ins are welcome.
The Prince Project is a nonprofit organization. Its “mission is to uncover the role of enslavement in Maine’s early history and share that research to better educate everyone,” according to its website. It has a database of over 2,000 people of color in Maine prior to 1800.
“Prince” was a slave in Gorham and received a Revolutionary War pension for his service on sea duty.
For more information, visit princeproject.org.
Baxter talk reminder
Author Nick Fuller Googins will be at Baxter Memorial Library, 71 South St., at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 27. Googins, an elementary school teacher in Maine, has written the novels “The Great Transition” and “The Frequency of Living Things” in addition to short fiction and essays.
For more information, call the library at 222-1190.
50 years ago
The American Journal reported on Aug. 20, 1975, that the town was considering a plan that would bring Greater Portland Transit District bus service to Gorham from Portland. The plan being reviewed called for a ride to Portland that would cost 50 cents and Westbrook, 30 cents.
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