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THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS. SGLE ALL WEEKEND LONG AMERICAN HISTORY TV IS FEATURING THE HISTORY OF AUGUSTA, MAINE. HOSTED BY OUR TIME WARNER CABLE PARTNERS,...
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THEY WERE BLACK. THEY WERE WHITE. THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, MULATTO. THAT'S WHAT THE FOCUS WAS ON. >> TODAY WE'RE STANDING IN THE GALLERY OF THE EXHIBIT...
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| 00:01:16 |
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LIVE LIVED ON MALAGA ISLAND. MALAGA ISLAND WAS A VERY SMALL ISLAND BUT IN THE EARLY 1860s, A SMALL COMMUNITY, MIXED RACE COMMUNITY LIVED THERE. AFRICAN-AMERICANS...
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| 00:01:59 |
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PURCHASED AN ISLAND, LIVED THERE UNTIL HE DIED. HIS THREE GRANDDAUGHTERS, I BELIEVE STARTED THE IMMIGRATION OUT TO THAT ISLAND. AND THAT IS HOW IT...
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| 00:02:25 |
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T AT ITS HEIGHT IT HAD AROUND 48 PEOPLE LIVING ON THE ISLAND AT ONE TIME. ROUGHLY IT AVERAGED ABOUT 30 TO 40 PEOPLE FOR THE 50 YEARS THAT WE HAVE....
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| 00:05:02 |
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WOULD TAKE THE BACK OF THE SKIRT AND PULL IT FORWARD AND TUCK IT IN THEIR BELT AND DO THE LAUNDRY AT THE SHORE. THEY EXPOSED THEIR LEGS. >> WE SAW...
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| 00:05:35 |
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MALAGA ISLAND FAR FROM MAINE. GOVERNOR WENT AND VISITED THE ISLAND. HE TOOK A TOUR OF THE ISLAND AND SAID WE SHOULD JUST BURN DOWN ALL THE SHACKS AND...
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| 00:06:10 |
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SOME HAD IT EASIER THAN OTHERS. THE McKINNY FAMILY, JAMES McKINNY, HE WAS ABLE TO MOVE HIS HOME AND FIND A PIECE OF LAND TO PUT HIS HOME ON. WHAT HAPPENED...
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| 00:08:07 |
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ANOTHER. AND OF THE SEVEN THEY ALL DIED THERE EXCEPT FOR TWO. AND ABBY MARX, THE MOTHER AND LAUDY MARX, THE OLDEST DAUGHTER. AND THE ONE I FEEL THE...
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| 00:08:57 |
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INSTITUTIONALIZED IN THE SCHOOL. THE OTHER PART OF THE LEGACY IS AFTER THE EVICTION IN NOVEMBER OF 1912 THE STATE OF MAINE WENT BACK TO THE ISLAND,...
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| 00:11:42 |
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SANFORD CAME IN AND SAID ARE YOU A REAL DARLING. I SAID I AM. MY MAIDEN NAME WAS DARLING, TOO. HE SAID WILL YOU COME WITH ME. HE TOOK ME OVER AND HE...
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| 00:12:47 |
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WE CAN PRESERVE IT AND MAKE IT AS ACCESSIBLE AS POSSIBLE. WHAT WE WILL START WITH IS LOOKING AT THE ARTIFACTS THAT WERE GATHERED FROM THE SITES...
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| 00:19:22 |
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MALAGA ISLAND, AND ESSENTIALLY SAYING THAT IT WAS A VERY WRONG THING FOR THE STATE TO HAVE DONE. >> WE'RE HERE. WE LANDED. >> GOVERNOR BALDACCI,...
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| 00:19:35 |
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MALAGA ISLAND
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| 00:19:37 |
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AND IN FRONT OF A GATHERING OF ABOUT 80 DARLING DESCENDANTS HE ISSUED AN APOLOGY ON BEHALF OF THE STATE OF MAINE. >> TO THE DESCENDANTS OF BENJAMIN...
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| 00:19:55 |
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RIGHT. WE'RE RAISED BETTER THAN THAT. WE'RE BETTER PEOPLE THAN THAT. I AM SORRY ABOUT THAT. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. >> WHEN HE SAID THAT, I AM...
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| 00:20:16 |
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CLOUDS PARTED, THE SUN SHOWN DOWN IN SLANTING RAYS ALL OVER US, AND THE ASPENS STARTED QUAKING, AND WE ALL LOOKED, AND IT WAS LIKE SOMETHING WAS BROKEN,...
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| 00:20:47 |
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AND THEIR FAMILIES HAD KEPT IT HIDDEN FOR A COUPLE OF GENERATIONS AND THEY'RE REDISCOVERING THAT NOW AND I THINK WITH THIS EXHIBIT WE'RE ABLEDESCENDANTS,...
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| 00:21:23 |
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TO ME ONE OF THE GREATEST THINGS TO WALK AWAY FROM THIS EXHIBIT. ALSO, ALSO, THE FACT THAT WE CAN DO THIS, YOU KNOW. MAINE IS THE WHITEST STATE IN THE...
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NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.