Listen to the podcast: Listen to the full interview Read the full interview transcript June 8, 2016 South Portland, ME Interviewer: Keith Ludden Recommended citation: Meng, Makara, Oral History Interview, June 8 2017 by Keith Ludden, Page #, Oral History and Folklife Research. Online: … [Read more...]
Immigrant voices: Fowsia Musse Somalia
Fowsia Musse knew war from the time she was a small child. Her family fled violence in Somalia, and she was separated from her mother. Before she came to the U.S., she made her home in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. She lives and does community development work in Lewiston, ME. Read interview transcript. Listen to full interview. May 19, … [Read more...]
Kathy McInnis-Misenor
“And then the roll call was starting to take, and you would see the lights, and once it hit the magic number, which we all know for passage, there was this (gasp). “Is it gonna hit? Make it sure. And suddenly it passes, and you could see some of the congresspeople, the representatives that worked on it just starting to get emotional, but they’re silent and going, “Oh my God!” … [Read more...]
Kim Moody
“There was just so much power and hope and dreams and it was just an incredible time of the real heart of a movement. So we had people from all ends of the spectrum--both ends of the spectrum--people that wanted to work with everyone to make sure that we could get everyone on the same page and find consensus and all that, all the way to the other extreme of people that were … [Read more...]