Daniel Bernard Roumain performed his piece on site in Portland last week and will be back this spring for a series of events.
Abyssinian Meeting House
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Those who perished 125 years ago in sinking of ‘Maine’s Titanic’ remembered at service
On the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 1898, at least 68 crew members and 130 passengers boarded the SS Portland in Boston and headed for Portland. They never reached their destination.
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After 25 years, Abyssinian Meeting House restoration is sprinting toward completion
A recent $1.7 million federal budget allocation should make it possible to complete the decades-long project well before the building’s 200th anniversary.
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Abyssinian Meeting House restoration to get $1.7 million in federal funding
The money will allow the committee that has been restoring one of America’s oldest Black churches to complete its work.
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Abyssinian Meeting House could receive $1.7 million in federal funding
The money would be used to complete the restoration of the historic former church built by some of Portland’s earliest Black residents.
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Abyssinian restoration group raised $375,000 after Black Lives Matter marches
The money will help restore the historic Black meetinghouse in Portland before its 200th anniversary, but more work must be done to make that happen.
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Effort to restore Portland’s historic African American meetinghouse sees surge of support
Many have donated recently to the group restoring the historic former Black church building in Portland, but the project needs $1 million more.
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The Abyssinian and the struggle to save Black history in Maine
Leonard Cummings has led the effort to restore the Abyssinian Meeting House in Portland for 25 years; now he hopes that people show Black Lives Matter by helping to complete the project.