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Friday, January 12, 2018
Volume 14 • Issue No. 2
Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Born January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr., was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. He was born Michael King, but his father changed his name in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the South-
ern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccess-
ful struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, in 1962, and organized nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965,
he and the SCLC helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year, he took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include poverty and speak against the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death
was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. The jury of a 1999 civil trial found Loyd Jowers to be complicit in a conspiracy against King. The ruling has since been discredited and a sister of Jowers admitted that he had fabricated the story so he could make $300,000 from selling the story, and she in turn corroborated his story in order See KING page 2...
Historical Society Hosts “Snow Ball� Cold Enough to Skate on the Beach?
NORTH BERWICK A wintry air surrounds Spring Hill this time of year as the ground glistens with snow and moonlight. What a wonderful time to dance the winter doldrums away and to dine with friends. Held Saturday, January 20, 6-10 p.m. at Spring Hill, 117 Pond Road, South Berwick, the highlight of the evening will be the live auction where one can
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Arts & Entertainment 10-11 Business & Finance 20 Calendar of Events 13 Classifieds 33-34 Computer Lady 15 Health & Fitness 16-19 Home & Business 30-32 Library News 12 Obituaries 27-28 Pets 26 Puzzles 38 Real Estate 28-29,40 Sports 36-37 Where To Dine 21-25
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bid on heating oil, a dream vacation at Cabo San Lucas, Sugarloaf skiing or a horse drawn sleigh ride through the hills of Berwick! All these and more are up for auction! The evening festivities begin with greeting old and new friends over a beverage of choice before selecting from various food stations to taste Spring Hill’s fine cuisine. After the auction dancing and frolic finish the night. For the last three years, the Historical Society has been raising money through various events to build a Post and Beam Barn-Educational Center at the site of Morrell-Sherburne House. The foundation and site work were finished in October by local contractors and the beams were brought to the site in November courtesy of Oakwoods Lumber. The house and barn were moved to the location many years ago from Pratt and Whitney’s location. The barn was used as a practice burn by the North Berwick Fire Department shortly thereafter and the community is trying to replace it with a new structure. The Barn and Education Center will be located to the east of the house with entrances at both ends for easy access. Get dressed up and put on your dancing shoes and join for a
night of fun. Tickets: $35/person or $65/couple in advance; $40/ person or $70/couple at the door. Cash bar. For more information and tickets contact Melissa Johnson Pierce at johnsonfh@maine. rr.com or 207-251-0188.
YORK BEACH A skater was spotted skating at Long Sands Beach in York this past Sunday during the recent wave of frigid weather.
Lecture Series Spotlights Maine WELLS York County Senior College’s Winter 2018 Gary Sullivan Memorial Lecture Series commences in January with a look at Maine experiences on land and sea, with the February lecture looking at Maine through the Franco-American experience and a lens of kindness, winding up in March with an eclectic blend of helping military members transition to Maine and songs of yesteryear. Lectures take place in the
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Health & Fitness A section concerning your health... INSIDE:
The temperatures were so cold that a pooled area of water had frozen solid. Other skaters joined in later, adding to this most unlikely event.
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morning and afternoons of January 17, February 21 and March 21. The January 17 morning lecture features Brad Coupe and George Bruns, both Board members of the Wood Island Lighthouse and tour docents, talking about the Lighthouse. They will share their experiences in trying to restore and preserve the Wood Island Lighthouse and its natural island habitat, to document its historic significance and honor the men and women who served as its caretakers and to foster
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community involvement and appreciation for the the Lighthouse through public access and education. In the afternoon, Steve Spofford, a trustee of the Brick Store Museum, will share his research into the “The Fires of 1947,� giving some of the details of the time when fires burned from Bar Harbor to the Southern Maine beach resorts, spreading over 200,000 acres. He will show See MAINE page 4...
Pets Consider a new fuzzy family member!
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