Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 Page 87 Page 88 Page 89 Page 90 Page 91 Page 92 Page 93 Page 94 Page 95 Page 96 Page 97 Page 98 Page 99 Page 10060 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine CloCkwise from top left: alan karChmer/nmaahC; twitter; Courtesy photo; file photo; speCial ColleCtions and university arChives, university of massaChusetts amherst libraries vid Barry and Randolph Dominic. As we ascend level by level, there are tear- ful moments of recognition in this cathar- tic museum, because even as the screens shift with new revelations, the museumgoers themselves are thinking, changing. We learn that people who threw them- selves overboard during the Middle Passage to escape enslavement were said to be “fly- ing home” to the land of their birth. We are moved by a pair of child-sized shackles next to those of an adult. When we see a training aircraft used by the Tuskeegee Airmen (above), we are re- minded of Eugene Jackson, who died in 2015. Born in Portland, Jackson’s family had been Mainers since the late 1700s. He grad- uated from Portland High School in 1941. James Sheppard, 92, a Tuskeegee Air- man, grew up in Harlem. He lives in South Portland now. There are exhibits about W.E.B. Du Bois, who came to Maine many summers to rest and study with fellow members of the Gun and Rod Club (see side- bar). Also up in lights is a copy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Maine’s Harriet Beecher Stowe (see “Lasting Legacies,” opposite page). An eight-year-old is looking at an exhib- it of three figures, from left to right, Book- er T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, and W.E.B. Du Bois. His mother asks him, “Have you ever heard of these names? Do they teach them in school?” “No.” “Well, if you don’t know something, what do you do?” He pulls a cell phone from his pocket. His mother catches us watching, and we all smile. —Colin W. Sargent Recognized as one of the greatest minds of histime,W.E.B Du Bois(1868-1963), themulti-talentedwriter,academic,scientist, activist,andthefirstblackstudentawardeda Ph.D.fromHarvard,soughtsanctuaryinMaine fortwoweekseverysummerfrom1933until hisdeathin1963.Oneof theoriginalfounders of theNAACP,DuBoisbecameamemberThe Cambridge Gun & Rod ClubinWestGar- diner,aprogressiveinterracialorganizationinits ownright.Establishedby1894,theclubserved asakindof retreatforintellectualsof anyraceto relaxandembracenature.ForDuBois,whohadbeendogged byFBIinvestigationsforyearsduetoallegedCommunistties, theclubservedasanannualfoxholeinwhichtoretreatfrom theworldforatime. James L.Brown IV,theclub’shistorian,toldPortland Monthlyin2001,“DuBoismayevenhavecomeupwithhis famousconceptof ‘TheTalentedTenth’”besidetheshoreof LakeCobbosseecontee.“Whereelsecouldagroupof black intellectualscongregateandshareexperiencesduringatime whenshadowsof slaveryitself darkenedthenationalexperi- ence?”[Seeourstory“TheW.E.BDuBoisFiles,”February/ March2014“Bestof theBest”issue.] A Maine Sanctuary perspective