Upcoming for the 2026 Season
After a successful run in Portland, the exhibition Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History travels to the Good Life Center in Brooksville for the 2026 season. 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. Learn about the riots, activist newspapers, prophecies and back-to-the-landers who have influenced Maine’s vegetarian culture. Among these prominent influencers were Helen and Scott Nearing, who ate their vegetable meals with wooden bowls, chopsticks and spoons, and cooked them on the Glenwood wood-fired cookstove, all of which remain on view at the Good Life Center. Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History was co-curated by Avery Yale Kamila, independent history researcher, and John Babin, author, and the first-of-its-kind exhibition was on view at the Maine Historical Society museum from Sept. 10, 2024 to May 31, 2025.