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Virtual Presentation: “This Same Sad, Sad Tale of Love: Placelore and Lovers Leaps”
The McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine and the Bangor Historical Society present a virtual presentation of "This Same Sad, Sad Tale of Love: Placelore and Lovers Leaps" on Tuesday, March 23rd at 2pm. Paul Wegner, the Assistant Director of the Institute for American Indian Studies, will be discussing how place names (toponyms) do more than give a name to a place. Like monuments, they act as markers of the past, intrinsically linked to how we identify with the…