Maine commemorating United States’ 250th anniversary through a diversity of perspectives

By: Emma Davis

Outlets: Maine Morning Star

Published: July 3, 2026

Words: 1,147

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 6 days ago

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Planting Wabanaki-cultivated corn, beans and squash on the campus of the Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and Environment in Freeport, historian Tilly Laskey remarked to Jennifer Neptune, director of the Penobscot Nation Museum, that it was likely the first time in 270 years that anyone from the Penobscot Nation had planted those varieties in this soil.

“Longer than the United States has been a country, Penobscot people have been dislocated from their homelands,” Laskey …

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