{"id":5660,"date":"2010-03-05T16:51:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2012-07-02T00:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T00:33:53","slug":"malaga-island-a-story-best-left-untold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5660","title":{"rendered":"Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

WMPG-FM<\/a> (Portland,\u00a0Maine)\u00a0and The Salt Institute<\/a>
\n2009<\/p>\n

Rob Rosenthal<\/strong>, Radio Producer<\/p>\n

Kate Philbrick<\/strong>, Photographer<\/p>\n

WMPG-FM, in collaboration with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, announces the premier of “Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold”, a radio and photo documentary recounting this infamous event and its impact on several generations of descendants. The documentary is produced by Kate Philbrick, photographer, and Rob Rosenthal, radio producer.<\/em><\/p>\n

On July 1st, 1912, George Pease took a short boat ride over to Malaga Island<\/a>, just off the coast of Phippsburg, Maine<\/a>. Pease landed the boat then probably stood on the shell-covered beach at the north end of the island. What he found may have surprised him.<\/p>\n

Pease went to Malaga that day as an agent of the state of Maine<\/a>. It was his job to carry out the final steps of a state-sponsored eviction. Pease was there to clean out the island – to make sure everyone who lived there was gone and to burn down their houses. But there was no one there. Malaga was empty.<\/p>\n

Malaga is a small island, about 40 acres. It’s covered with tall pine and spruce trees, the shores are rocky – it’s really a “textbook” Maine island. No one lives on Malaga today but, in 1912, there was a village of about 45 people. A few of the families had lived on the island for decades raising children and scraping a living from the ocean. Malaga was home.<\/p>\n

The settlement was poor and families struggled – like most fishing communities on the Maine coast one hundred years ago. What made Malaga different was the people. Black, white, and mixed-race families lived on the island. And that set them apart. Far apart…<\/strong><\/p>\n

…And, descendants of the evicted islanders have largely remained silent, too. The local stigma of mixed-blood and “feeblemindedness” attached to the island and descendents is still present – even today. <\/strong>In fact, some say Malaga is a story best left untold…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.
\nView a short video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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