Malaga Island was home to a small community that historians believe was settled by free Black Americans around the time of the Civil War. Posted November 21, 2023 Updated November 21, 2023 ...

Malaga Island, a 42-acre island about a 40-mile drive up the coast from Portland, is these days a public preserve visited by hikers and nature lovers. More than a century ago, ...

Kingfield librarian and current Maine Poet Laureate Julie Bouwmsa published a poetry collection, Midden, in 2012, reimagining the experiences of island residents in verse.Then came the visual and ...

An island along the coast of Maine that was home to a mixed-race fishing community later forcibly removed by the state has been added to the National Register of Historic Places after a years-long… ...

Malaga Island, located off the coast of Maine, once home to a mixed-race community forcibly removed by the state, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Novel based on Maine’s Malaga Island comes up short at National Book Award ceremony Justin Torres' novel 'Blackouts' beats out Paul Harding’s 'This Other Eden' and 3 other novels for the top ...

Oct. 3—A novel based on the real-life atrocity on Maine's Malaga Island in the early 20th century is a finalist for the National Book Award. "This Other Eden" by New York author Paul Harding is ...

Malaga Island, a 42-acre (17-hectare) island about a 40-mile (64.37-kilometer) drive up the coast from Portland, is these days a public preserve visited by hikers and nature lovers.

Nov. 15—"Blackouts" by Justin Torres beat out "This Other Eden," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding's novel inspired by the sad history of Maine's Malaga Island, and three of works of ...

Malaga Island was home to a mixed-race fishing community before the state forcibly removed them. (YouTube screenshot via WMTW-TV) In late 1911, during the administration of Maine Gov. Frederick W ...

Malaga Island, a 42-acre (17-hectare) island about a 40-mile (64.37-kilometer) drive up the coast from Portland, is these days a public preserve visited by hikers and nature lovers.

Malaga Island, a 42-acre (17-hectare) island about a 40-mile (64.37-kilometer) drive up the coast from Portland, is these days a public preserve visited by hikers and nature lovers.