This lady is the widow of one of the Malagar Island inhabitants.  She has a lollipop stick arrangement around her neck that illistrates all the descendants from her husbands family and herself.

 Artifacts from Malagar Island.

 More artifacts from Malagar Island

 A touch cart.  Children and others could touch the items on this cart. that were artifacts from Malagar Island.

 A picture of one of the inhabitants of Malagar Island.   most of the pictures they had were very poor quality.

Malagar Island Exhibit in the State Museum is a major effort to outline the settlement of people, some of them black and some of them white, who lived there at the beginning of last century.  It seems that they thought that they owned their land and there were legal owners elsewhere and so the settlement on Malagar Island were disrupted and made to go elsewhere to live.  Ownership of just about anything and the responsibility that goes with it has been a problem of the ages.  For Example, Cain thought that after he killed Abel, that he would own all of the property that Abel had.  The Native Americans lived on the land until the white settlers came and bought and sold the land out from underneath them and displaced them to reservations.  Malagar is an island off the coast of Maine and these people went there, lived and died there and had a very difficult time of living on the poor soil of the island.  They thought they owned the land but were removed by the legal owners.   Archeologists have tried to reconstruct the colony from the artifacts found there.

There was a big reception for the exhibit and the governor spoke and announced that he would introduce legislation during the next term which would help make things better for the descendants of the original people of Malagar.  A young girl was introduced as being a direct descendant of the colony and she is now attending U-Conn.  It was also announced that there is a fund established to which only descendants of this colony may apply to help pay for their college expenses.

The exhibit is large and there are many artifacts that have been preserved and put out for people to see.  There are few photos that have been greatly enlarged but they are grainy, due to the condition in which they were found and the limitations of the film and camera used back in those days.