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Portland, Oregon
Olympus OM-D E-M10
Olympus OM Zuiko 24mm f2.8 (with OM to Micro Four Thirds adapter)
Portland. This is Maine’s largest city with a metro population of 500,000. The historic port area is of most interest. When Maine became a state in 1820 Portland was the capital until it was moved to Augusta in 1832. Maine never abolished slavery because it never allowed it. Massachusetts, which had included Maine until 1820, abolished slavery in 1781. Because Portland was a major port and involved in the slave trade, taking salted cod to the South and the Caribbean, returning with molasses and transporting slaves across the Atlantic from Africa, it was also a centre for slave stowaways who escaped on ships. Runaway slaves then alighted at Portland and made an overland journey up to Canada and freedom. The city was a major ‘station’ for the Underground Railroad and black businessmen in the city assisted runaways. The city has developed its own ‘freedom trail’ of sites linked to the Underground Railroad. Anti-slavery lectures were popular in Portland and the Quakers and other religious groups supported abolition of slavery. The city has the third oldest African church in America - the Abyssinian Meeting House (1828). The waterfront affords views across Casco Bay and the city centre is known for its charming 19th century buildings. Before arriving in Salem we cross New Hampshire bypassing the city of Portsmouth.
Anonymous people moved from museums paintings to the streets.
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I was shooting the breeze with Noah Gibb when this Orange-crowned Warbler popped up, taken at the Eastern Promenade in Portland, Maine, wasn't sure the photo would come out, enlarged shot
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon (right) and other Oregon National Guard senior leaders greet Army National Guard Soldiers on the flightline at the Portland Air National Guard base, Ore, Aug. 19, 2020. The soldiers returned from a nine-month deployment to Qatar. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Valerie R. Seelye, 142nd Wing Public Affairs)
The Portland Opera scheduled a showing of the Marx Brothers' "A Night At The Opera", in conjunction with the opening of the Tilikum Crossing Bridge, the TriMet MAX Orange Line, and the Portland Streetcar Loop. So here's Groucho, not knowing what to make of that disclaimer sign on the approach to the bridge. September 12, 2015. © 2015 Peter Ehrlich
The grander Regency houses of Leamington had built-out porches supported by columns, or nothing at all apart from a slight overhang above the front door. This house is one of not many in Leamington to have a delightful ironwork tent-canopied porch. Not only pretty, it was (and is) very practical.