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SUSAN JOHNS
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A plaque for poet, author, educator and civil rights advocate James Weldon-Johnson in downtown Wiscasset, where a car-train crash killed him in 1938, will acknowledge “the town’s place in his life” and add to the town’s cultural tourism, resident, Friends of Wiscasset Village member and Wiscasset Art Walk organizer Lucia Droby tells selectmen in documents for the board’s Tuesday night, May 4 meeting.
“However unfortunate the connection, Wiscasset is part of this remarkable man’s life story,” Droby writes. Last October, Friends members and Town Manager Dennis Simmons agreed to look into a way to honor Johnson. A Florida congressman’s representative had told Simmons, Johnson’s birth city of Jacksonville, Florida planned a monument and a park to open in 2022.