Season 3, Episode 2: Maine’s Long Struggle to Statehood
Guest: Professor Liam Riordan
Air Date: March 10, 2022
Host: Tim Garrity
We re-air our April 2020 episode featuring Professor Liam Riordan of University of Maine, Orono, who chats with then MDI Historical Society historian Tim Garrity about Washington and Hancock Counties and their votes to separate from Massachusetts during Maine's long journey to statehood.
Season Three of Chebacco Chats explores the theme of this year's Chebacco, Volume XXIII: Imagining What If...?
What if Hancock County hadn't separated from Massachusetts 200 years ago?
About Our Guest
Liam Riordan is a professor of history at the University of Maine, where he has taught since 1997. He specializes in the American Revolution and has an ongoing project about loyalists. He has focused on the Maine statehood era for several years and has given over 50 talks about it across the state, including at the MDI Historical Society's annual bean supper in January 2020. He is co-editing a volume about statehood and its commemoration with his retired UMaine colleague Richard Judd.
Chebacco articles by Liam Riordan:
Mount Desert Island and the Long Struggle for Maine Statehood, 2020
Previous Chebacco Chat appearances:
No. 2, Maine’s Long Struggle for Statehood (same episode as above without introduction by Jandreau)