Traveling Cohen Papers Exhibit Now in Bangor

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Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

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The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

December 13, 2006 Archives

Contact: Paige Lilly, (207) 581-2665

ORONO — The new traveling exhibit extracted from the University of Maine’s William S. Cohen Papers collection, featuring facsimiles of photographs, handwritten notes, speeches and campaign memorabilia from the former congressman’s political papers, currently is on display at the Bangor Public Library through Jan. 17.

The exhibit illuminates the way Congress was designed to work and what politicians actually do on a day-to-day basis in Washington, as documented by the Bangor native and former U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Titled “Cohen, Congress and Controversy: Rediscovering Civics in the Archives,” the six-panel exhibit is intended to bring the legislative branch into focus. Topics include Bill Cohen’s successful 1972 bid for Maine’s second congressional district seat, the powers of Congress granted by the Constitution, the busy life of a senator as portrayed in Cohen’s book about his first year there, and the oversight role of Congress, illustrated with documents from the Watergate and Iran-Contra investigations.

The freestanding exhibit includes interactive panels designed to appeal to young children.

“The Cohen Papers are open for research,” says Raymond H. Fogler Library Dean Joyce Rumery. “This traveling exhibit invites people all across Maine to glimpse the richness of the collection.”

In 1996, Cohen donated his political papers and 1,500 boxes of documents and photographs to Fogler Library’s Special Collections. In 2001, he added a selection of Department of Defense material on 16 compact disks. The University of Maine’s College of Business, Public Policy and Health also is home to the William S. Cohen Center for International Policy and Commerce.

The exhibit has traveled to venues along the route of Cohen’s celebrated 1972 campaign walk from the New Hampshire border to Fort Kent. The first stop was the Bethel Historical Society, on July 25. The exhibit moved to the Wilton Free Public Library in early September, and to the Lewiston Public Library in October.

After Jan. 17, the exhibit returns to the Orono campus, where it will be displayed from Jan. 17 through Feb. 7 on the second floor balcony of the D.P. Corbett Business Building. From Feb. 7 through March 1, the exhibit will be displayed in the lobby area of Fogler Library’s mall entrance.

More information about the exhibit and its schedule can be obtained at www.library.umaine.edu/cohen or by calling Paige Lilly at (207) 581-2665, or emailing to paige.lilly@umit.maine.edu.