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SOUTH BERWICK, Maine The president of Tuskegee University, a representative of the National Park Service and a descendant of Booker T. Washington was among those presenting at an historic online event connecting the communities of South Berwick, Maine, and Tuskegee, Alabama on Friday, Feb. 12.
Tuskegee officially received from the people of South Berwick an original letter written in 1898 from Booker T. Washington to Mrs. George Tyson, who owned the Hamilton House in South Berwick.
The letter, donated by antique collector Rick Becker of South Berwick, was framed and sent with a plaque that said, “With love from the people of South Berwick to the people of Tuskegee, Ala.” ....

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