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SUSAN JOHNS Sun, 05/09/2021 - 8:45am
Wiscasset’s Jan Flowers helps man the bake sale at Garden Club of Wiscasset’s annual plant sale at the town office May 8. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Club members, from left, Sally Howe of Westport Island, Hannah Stewart of Wiscasset and Debbie Lorenson of Westport Island. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Carlyn Adams, left, and Elizabeth Palmer, both of Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Nobleboro’s Charlotte Simmons has shopping success at Garden Club of Wiscasset’s annual plant sale at the town office May 8. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
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Wiscasset municipal building. File photo
Selectmen and other residents debated Tuesday night over a proposed plaque honoring a poet-civil rights advocate who died in a 1938 Wiscasset car-train crash. The board voted 3-2 to have resident Lucia Droby get the board a cost to consider giving voters to decide in an already anticipated special town meeting this summer.
“(James Weldon Johnson) was doing his work during the Jim Crow era (when) it was very dangerous to be a person of color, particularly a black man, and he devoted his life to serving his arts but also to struggling for racial justice, and we’re in a moment that values that effort,” Droby said in the Zoom meeting.