Join us for a lecture this fall! All programs are free and will take place at the Yarmouth History Center (118 East Elm Street, Yarmouth) at 7:00 pm. The lecture series is generously sponsored by the Leon and Lisa Gorman Fund.
September 10, 7:00 pm
- Speaker: Avery Yale Kamila
- Title: Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History
- Join independent researcher Avery Yale Kamila for a lively discussion of Maine’s 300 years of vegetarian food history. Learn about the earliest known Maine vegetarian from 1722, explore Maine’s 19th century riots, prophecies, and doctors tied to vegetarianism, examine the 1970s vegetarian resurgence in Maine, and discover America’s original milk, made in Maine from nuts and seeds.
October 8, 7:00 pm, Lecture and Annual Meeting
- Speaker: Avery Yale Kamila
- Title: Moral Treason: Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s Early Editorship, the Anti-Matrimonial Society and the Graham Riot
- Little is known about the 1830s editorial work of 19th century author Elizabeth Oakes Smith, who grew up in North Yarmouth. However, independent scholar Avery Yale Kamila of Portland in conjunction with the Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society recently discovered evidence of Oakes Smith’s 1830s editorship of her husband’s newspaper, the Portland Courier. The evidence includes the proto-feminist news she published in its pages, which was reprinted in newspapers across the country and in Great Britain. Kamila recently delivered a paper exploring her discoveries at the 36th annual American Literature Association conference this past May in Boston. She will share her paper, titled “Moral Treason”: Oakes Smith’s Early Editorship, the Anti-Matrimonial Society and the Graham Riot, and discuss how she uncovered the evidence when archival copies of the Portland Courier from this time period have yet to be found.
November 20, 7:00 pm
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- Speakers: Winners of Yarmouth History Center’s Wellcome Prize
- Title: Prizewinning papers and films on Cumberland County history.
- Check out last year’s winning papers and films here!
