UMaine Humanities Departments Offering Trip to Portland

The University of Maine departments of art, English and history, as well as the Honors College, are offering a daylong student trip to Portland, Maine on Saturday, Nov. 16.

Students will have the opportunity to explore the city on their own, as well as take part in several scheduled tours of the city’s cultural institutions.

Tours will be at the Portland Public Library, Maine Historical Society’s Longfellow House and the Portland Museum of Art, which is currently hosting its biennial of contemporary art and a show about “Winslow Homer’s Civil War.”

The bus is scheduled to leave from the Collins Center for the Arts parking lot at 8:30 a.m. with an approximate arrival in downtown Portland at 10:30 a.m. Participants will then have the opportunity to attend scheduled tours, explore the city on their own, and eat lunch and dinner before heading back to campus at 6:30 p.m. The bus is expected to be in Orono at 8:30 p.m.

To reserve a seat by Nov. 6, students can register with the faculty member in their department and pay a $5 registration fee. The faculty trip leaders are Michael Grillo in the Art Department, Richard Brucher in English, Sarah Harlan-Haughey in Honors and Liam Riordan in History.

Non-reserved seats will be available to any UMaine student and the general public on Nov. 11.

The UMaine Humanities Initiative provided partial funding for the trip.