On May 31, 1926, a bas-relief bronze and granite memorial to the sailors and soldiers from Maine who died in World War I was dedicated in the coastal town of Kittery.
On January 1, 1910, Isabel Hyams, an 1888 MIT graduate and a trustee of the Boston Consumptive Hospital, began an experimental “Penny Lunch” program in a Boston elementary school.
Deborah B. Thompson is an educator and scholar of Jewish Art, Jewish History, and Masorah. She earned her MA in Jewish Art & Visual Culture from The Jewish Theological Seminary, and her BA from Brandeis University in Art History and Near Eastern & Judaic Studies. Deborah is a PhD candidate in Jewish History and Culture at Harvard University, where she is focusing on the history of the book and impact of the printing press on Jewish culture and learning.
