The Maine Historical Society will launching an exhibit this month that explores the vegetarian history of Maine.
Riots, activist newspapers, corporations, and the back-to-the-land movement are connected to Maine’s vegetarian history. Reaching back 300 years, Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History features stories of Mainers who changed what vegetarians eat and opened access to plant-based foods. Canned and packaged foods, historic manuscripts, books, menus, maps, and photos illustrate vegetarianism’s deep roots in Maine in this first-of-its-kind exhibition that explores this untold story.
The exhibit has been co-curated by Avery Yale Kamila, the Vegan Kitchen columnist for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram and vegetarian history researcher John Babin.
Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History will open to the public on September 10th and be on exhibit through May 17th. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm.