Poetry as fiction

The best poetry, like the best fiction, lifts us out of ourselves and our lives, while simultaneously connecting us to ourselves and our lives. If it’s really good, we’ll think about it for days, weeks, or years after we’ve read it. We’ll want to read it again, seeing new things each time. Poets embellish, create, and lie, just like our fiction-writing brothers and sisters. We want to give you a good ride—just like they do! We want to drum up emotion and fear; we want to terrify and console you!

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/59014-poetry-as-fiction.html

Images;
https://www.google.com/search?q=poetry+as+fiction&biw=1280&bih=913&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoA2oVChMIspL9lfnQyAIVVutjCh2KBgb3#tbm=isch&q=fiction&imgrc=c8yV9i_QRC2MxM%3A

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Abstraction and fiction

 

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Jerry Saltz

 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/abstraction.html#Xjo7IK1C3oREb377.99

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary   

 

“abstraction, n.

Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary 

“Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

http://www.goodfon.su/wallpaper/abstrakcii-drakon-gory.html

Malaga

Research material

http://www.harpswellhistorical.org/history/johndarling.htm

http://phippsburghistorical.com/records.html

http://www.andreabrand.com/articles/malaga-island-maine-100-years-of-history

In the summer of 1911, then Governor Frederick Plaisted and a group of officials visited the homes and families living on Malaga. These officials decided that eight of the islanders were feeble minded. They were placed in the Pineland Center for the Feeble Minded in Pownal, Maine. It is unlikely they were feeble minded, but may have been sick as one of them died of Bright's Disease (kidney failure) within a year of leaving the island. It has also been written, though unconfirmed, that James McKenney may have told the state workers to take the Marks family as they had something that was wasn't catching but that no one wanted to be around. Seven of those deemed feeble minded were from the Marks family.

http://www.portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2011/03/shudder-island/

Specifically and most horribly, seven members of the Marks family and an elderly woman, Annie Parker, were sent to Pineland, then known as the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded.

http://maineanencyclopedia.com/malaga-island/

http://www.mcht.org/preserves/docs/Malaga%20overview%203-9-09%20final.pdf

http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/s/smcmahon/courses/hist247/service-learning/malaga-island.shtml

http://news.coa.edu/2014/07/17/coa-student-work-selected-by-maine-state-museum/

http://www.mainecf.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=yGI3YzhqPvU%3D&portalid=0

http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/maine/race/blacks/darlin1.txt

http://www.mainestatemuseum.org/resource/d/59404/HistoricImagesforwebsite.pdf

http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/maine/race/blacks/darlin1.txt

https://www.wattpad.com/29165568-malaga-island

Lizzie Marks

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marks&GSiman=1&GScid=2464976&GRid=97010019&

Jacob Marks

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marks&GSiman=1&GScid=2464976&GRid=101025045&

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marks&GSiman=1&GScid=2464976&GRid=101221359&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia-WHVRLQFQ

http://www.c-span.org/video/?308505-1/evictions-malaga-island-maine

 

http://www.mainecoastguide.com/r2/r2.html?http%3A//www.mainecoastguide.com/r2/2.42bMalaga.html

http://www.mainestatemuseum.org/resource/d/59404/HistoricImagesforwebsite.pdf

Eason John

http://www.nhd.org/wp-content/uploads/SourcesforNHD2013-2014.pdf

https://simontoncr0607.wikispaces.com/African+Americans+-+Malaga+Island+%28Casco+Bay%29

http://archive.bangordailynews.com/2001/08/11/justice-for-malaga-black-activist-investigates-1912-relocation-of-island-inhabitants/

http://www.pressherald.com/2014/10/26/only-history-maligns-malaga/

http://vita-brevis.org/2014/06/lane-school-malaga-island/

School house

http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/billtexts/SP068801.asp

http://www.seacoastmission.org/SCMPDF/Centennial_Timeline.pdf

http://www.mainecf.org/Scholarships/Malaga1912ScholarshipFund.aspx

Scholarship

http://www.mainecf.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=yGI3YzhqPvU%3d&portalid=0

List of families

http://www.growsmartmaine.org/2010/09/27/malaga-island-september-2010

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19120701&id=9X4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J2gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1313,2489421&hl=en

Newsletter

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~megen/reunion/ps94/ps94_471.html

http://www.mainecf.org/Scholarships/Malaga1912ScholarshipFund.aspx

Scholarship

http://www.mainestatemuseum.org/resource/d/59404/HistoricImagesforwebsite.pdf

Pics 1908-1911

http://focus.nps.gov/nrhp/AssetDetail?assetID=c6cb4f09-a16d-432f-8e6e-a93dccf97076

Loudville church built 1913Gothic revival

http://www.snipview.com/q/1913_in_religion

http://focus.nps.gov/nrhp/GetAsset?assetID=c6cb4f09-a16d-432f-8e6e-a93dccf97076

Loudville church

http://www.bowdoin.edu/environmental-studies/service-learning/dissemination/malaga.pdf

http://maineanencyclopedia.com/malaga-island/

http://www.seacoastmission.org/annual_reports/1911_Annual_Report.pdf

http://www.mainecoastguide.com/r2/r2.html?http%3A//www.mainecoastguide.com/r2/2.42bMalaga.html

http://vita-brevis.org/2014/06/lane-school-malaga-island/

http://library.nehgs.org/record=b1072290

http://www.geni.com/people/Charlotte-Lottie-Blackwell/6000000034831073292

Charlotte "Lottie" Mary Blackwell

Living Status

Deceased

Listed by name in link within under "The History of the Malaga Island Preserve". Also noted within the link is her family's placement at the School for the Feeble-minded in New Gloucester, Maine and the conditions of their removal from the Island.

Charlotte "Lottie" Mary Blackwell

Last Name

Blackwell

Listed by name in link within under "The History of the Malaga Island Preserve". Also noted within the link is her family's placement at the School for the Feeble-minded in New Gloucester, Maine and the conditions of their removal from the Island.

Charlotte "Lottie" Mary Blackwell

First Name

Charlotte "Lottie"

Listed by name in link within under "The History of the Malaga Island Preserve". Also noted within the link is her family's placement at the School for the Feeble-minded in New Gloucester, Maine and the conditions of their removal from the Island.

http://www.metrolyrics.com/story-of-benjamin-darling-lyrics-state-radio.html#/ixzz3jjJDGMr1

Poem Benjamin Darling

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Benjamin+Darling%2C+the+TRUTH&defid=5958202

The truth

A Century After Malaga Island Explusion, an Apology

09/13/2010   Reported By: Josie Huang

Malaga Island is a tranquil nature preserve in Casco Bay, off the shores of Phippsburg, where local fishermen store their traps. But for those familiar with its history, Malaga Island represents a dark time in Maine's not-so-distant past. In 1912, the state evicted the island's mixed-race fishing community.

Related Media A Century Later, Governor Apologizes for Malaga Is  Duration: 3:43

"Let me just say that, I'm sorry -- I'm sorry for what was done. It wasn't right and we're raised better than that." That was the apology offered by Gov. John Baldacci, nearly a century after the eviction. Baldacci traveled to the island on Sunday afternoon, where he met with nearly 30 of the islanders' descendants. They stood together on a bluff on the northwestern tip of the island -- everyone from toddlers to senior citizens. "It's reprehensible what happened to your families and, you know, the spirit with which you bring to today is a spirit that others can learn from," Baldacci said. At the time of the eviction, Malaga, whose familes were black, white, Native American and of mixed-race, was viewed as a blight on the Midcoast, where out-of-staters were vacationing. A eugenics movement linking race and poverty to intelligence helped fuel news reports describing islanders as ignorant, as well as immoral and lazy. "To have the governor say 'I'm sorry,' three times, 'it was wrong,' -- I think it just broke the curse," says Marney Voter of Windham. Voter is a descendant of Benjamin Darling, a former slave and earliest settler of Malaga. She's 57 and says growing up, her father fiercely denied his heritage. And it was easy to do. Darling's descendants looked white. "Our parents suppressed it, our parents wouldn't talk about it. My father was a bigot," she says. But Voter says she and her siblings are different. "We're the first generation in our family to proudly say that we are descended, that we have a black heritage. It might not show anymore but it's our namesake, Darling, my maiden name is Darling." Today, the thickly-wooded, 42-acre island, shows little trace of the community that once stood there. Houses were removed as part of the eviction. Several islanders were committed to the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded. That's also where bodies exhumed from the island's cemetery were reburied. "I'd just like to read the names of those who were buried here and left the island in boxes," said Rachel Talbot-Ross of the NAACP in Maine. "Ann Parker, Harold Murphy, Elizabeth Darling, George Griffin, Hannah Mark. Elizabeth Darling, three of the Easton children, Calvin and Laura Tripp, Roxanne and Allen Griffin, Lucy Johnson, James Mark, Jake Mark, Jake Mark, Lizzy Mark, Etta Mark and five children from the Griffin family." Talbot-Ross and her family have been working for years toward getting greater recognition about Malaga Island. She credited Baldacci with being only the second governor to visit the island after Plaisted, the governor who authorized the eviction. "Thank God he had the wisdom and really the heart and soul to do it, and so we're pleased that he did it today," she said of Baldacci. The state Legislature also helped to bring more attention to Malaga Island by passing a resolution that recognized the islanders' expulsion. The Malaga Island Freedom Trail has been established by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, which owns the island, and the Maine Freedom Trails, which works to preserve the African American legacy in Maine. And the island will be the subject of a special exhibition at the Maine State Museum in 2012, as part of the state's centennial events.

http://www.malagaislandmaine.org/lepage.htm

Apology

http://www.pressherald.com/2010/09/17/after-98-years-an-apology-long-overdue_2010-09-17/

Apology 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBWXUJDiM9Q

Pineland speech

http://www.wavetrain.net/the-lunacy-report/140-casco-bay-cruise-malaga-island

Cruise

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&PIcrid=2464976&PIpi=66961264&PIMode=cemetery

The sign at pineland cemetery

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSsr=81&GScid=2464976&

Grave list at pineland

http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_McKinney_%2830%29

Eli McKinney

http://www.geni.com/people/James-Eli-McKenney/6000000017564011218

James Eli McKinney

http://www.mainestatemuseum.org/resource/d/92272/Lesson3MediaLiteracyCitizenryandConflictingAccountsofMalagaIsland.pdf

PDF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1PdaVE-2Tc

http://www.centralmaine.com/2013/04/19/bill-aims-to-protect-malagas-descendants_2013-04-19/

kate museum curator

http://malagaislandmaine.org/

Story best left untold

http://malagaislandmaine.org/updates2013/Reports_of_committees_of_the_Council.pdf

Report of the council 1913

http://www.mcht.org/preserves/docs/Malaga%20overview%203-9-09%20final.pdf

Good summary

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2464976

Pineland cemetery

http://archive.bangordailynews.com/2001/08/11/justice-for-malaga-black-activist-investigates-1912-relocation-of-island-inhabitants/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia-WHVRLQFQ

http://www.nhd.org/wp-content/uploads/SourcesforNHD2013-2014.pdf

Annotated bibliography

Remaining buildings, including a once-viable school, were destroyed by the state, and the graves of residents buried on the island were exhumed and reinterred in un-marked graves on the grounds of the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded.

A monument, paid for by an employee of the school,was finally erected on the burial site by local historical societies, but the atrocity survived in the mind of any Mainer with even the suggestion of a conscience.

http://www.portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2011/03/shudder-island/

http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/maine/race/blacks/darlin1.txt

The Darling family

Charlotte "Lottie" Mary Blackwell (Marks)

b: 1894 Malaga Island – d: 1994

 

 

 

Buried in Brunswick Maine

Wrapping -up

In search for the story

-The End-

There is no story without the story-teller

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact it’s the other way around.”—Terry Pratchett

“The tale is often wiser than the teller.”—Susan Fletcher
(as Marjan, in Shadow Spinner)

* * *

“‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten, but ‘Once upon a time’ lasts forever.”—Philip Pullman

(1996 Carnegie Medal acceptance speech)

“Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.”—Baal Shem Tov 

“God made man because he loves stories.”—Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlev 

“The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.”—Harold Goddard

“We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.”—Aaron Shepard

The Keeper of the Memories

 “And I obeyed that voice and so I came.
Silent my steps will raise me to the wall,
Silent as all the steps filled with the dread
Of what will come.
Tall, tall is the wall of Masada.
Deep, deep is the pit at its feet.”

 Massada, Issac Lamdan