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Chebacco Chats: “Imagining Sorrento: The Black Resort That Never Was” with Sam Younger and Karen Sieber

Headline, September 3, 1927

Courtesy of New York Times

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This Chebacco Chats episode focuses on Harlem real estate investor John E. Nail’s vision for a resort for Black vacationers in 1920s Downeast Maine.

Chebacco Chats, our weekly web series, features authors, historians, and others who study and celebrate history, the great place that is Mount Desert Island, and the way the island impacts the wider world.

Chebacco Chats are live on Zoom, and recordings are made available the week after they air.

Visit www.mdihistory.org/chebacco-chats for the full schedule, and links to past episodes.

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