History students to lead UMaine historical walking tour May 2
Students in the University of Maine’s spring 2025 “Intro to Public History” course will lead two UMaine History Trail walking tours on the last day of classes, Friday, May 2. The tours will last about 45 minutes and begin at 11 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. in the lobby of Fogler Library that faces the Mall.
The walking tour will visit nine temporary historical markers throughout campus that the students have researched and placed. Each marker focuses on UMaine’s past and its legacy, including ones for the Bear’s Den pubs, the Hudson Museum, campus violence and activism, Stevens Hall in 1925, the Oak Hall dormitories, Fernald Hall in 1870, western Indigenous land, the Morrill Act from 1862 and a Virtual Scrapbook project.
In addition, the students are seeking contributions to a Virtual Scrapbook that will record and preserve memories of the 2024-25 school year. If the call for submissions is successful, they may be archived in the DigitalCommons@UMaine, coordinated by Fogler Library.The tour and scrapbook submission is open to the public. Additional information is available on the class walking tour website, or contact professor of history Liam Riordan at riordan@maine.edu with further questions or for instructions on obtaining a visitor parking permit.