Wilson Center offering interactive ‘Along the Migrant Trails’ exhibit
Items left behind by escaping migrants traveling along the Arizona/Mexico border are on display at The Wilson Center for Spiritual Exploration and Multifaith Dialogue in Orono until mid-November.
The exhibit, titled “Along the Migrant Trails,” features an array of lost objects — wallets (still with their contents), cowboy boots, children’s clothes, backpacks, and even letters, drawings and a Valentine — all carefully preserved, yet coated with remnants of the desert.
The exhibit was made possible by Sara Lowden, a Ph.D. student of anthropology at the University of Maine. The artifacts were made available by Deborah McCullough, an artist and member of the Tucson Samaritans in Arizona, a nonprofit group founded in 2002 whose civil initiative is to “protect the victims of human rights violations when the government is the violator.”
Viewers are encouraged to interact with the items by reading and handling them.
The Wilson Center will host public open houses for the exhibit at 2 p.m. Oct. 15 and 22. The exhibit is free, but a donation to the Tucson Samaritans is welcomed.
The Wilson Center is located at 67 College Ave. More information about the center and exhibit is online.