Who knew Portland, Maine is popular stop for cruise ships heading north to Nova Scotia from their Baltimore port.. I hopped an Amtrak from Boston and headed to downtown Portland, ME. The number of African immigrants living there was noticeable. I walked on 300 year old cobble stone streets. Downtlwn Maine retail stores put Black Lives Matter signs in their display windows. There was more presence of the there than there was in Boston at the time.
Portand, Maine has a walkable Black Heritage Trail. There was preservation rehab work going on at the largest Black church there. Town government had bought the church. It is located where the Black community once thrived. Their neighborhood was located on a hill facing the harbor and waterfront. It had beautiful views. The main road through historically Black Portand once had houses on the right and left halves of the road. Today a commercial development for beer manufacturers replaced homes Blacks had been living
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