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Author and Architectural Conservator
Featured Speaker | A House Restored
Meadow Dibble, Ph.D. is a researcher and antiracist historical recovery advocate. Originally from Cape Cod, she lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula. Meadow received her PhD from Brown University’s Department of French Studies and taught at Colby College from 2005–08. In 2018, following a brutal awakening to her hometown’s deep investment in the business of slavery, she founded Atlantic Black Box, a nonprofit based in Portland, Maine that empowers communities throughout the Northeast to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with the region’s active role in colonization and the global economy of enslavement. In 2022-2023, Meadow served as Co-Lead on the Place Justice initiative, carried out in partnership with the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations. She is currently heading up the Walk for Historical and Ecological Recovery (WHERE2024).
ATLANTIC BLACK BOX (www.atlanticblackbox.com)
Atlantic Black Box (ABB) is leading a grassroots historical recovery movement throughout the place long known as New England. Burying this region’s history of violence and oppression was the work of many hands. At ABB, we believe it will take just as many hands to uncover the truth and to build a culture of repair. Through public programming, research support, community dialogue, place-based education, curricular resources, professional development, and creative expression, ABB empowers communities to research and reckon with the area’s active role in colonization and slavery while recentering the stories of its historically marginalized groups.
WHERE2024 (www.walkwhere.org)
Over the course of 2024, Atlantic Black Box is collaborating with partners committed to surfacing the truths of colonization and oppression in the place known for millennia by the Wabanaki people as the Dawnland on a journey across land, water, and time. Walking in solidarity through seven sites over seven months, WHERE partners engage local communities in shining a light on the ways that Indigenous, Black, and settler-descendant populations are represented in or absent from Maine’s commemorative landscape. Please join this movement to reckon with all that has happened here and to engage in dialogue around ways that our past continues to shape our present-day relationships and our possible futures.
WHERE:YORK
On Saturday, November 16, WHERE will be in York, Maine for The Descendants’ Walk, a program devoted to expanding public memory literacy and building the collective muscles needed to face difficult historical legacies, offered by York History Partners in collaboration with Atlantic Black Box. Learn more and register here.
