Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Historical Context Webquest: Challenge Version
1. In what year were the people living on Malaga Island evicted?
2. What made Malaga Island different from the other islands
around Maine?
3. Where were some of the people living on Malaga sent?
4. Why did the people of Phippsburg want to remove the people
living on Malaga? (There may be more than one answer to this
question)
5. Who do historians trace the roots of the Malaga Island
community back to?
6. When was the community on Malaga Island founded?
7. What is eugenics?
8. How were the descendants of the families from Malaga treated?
Why?
9. How were the people who lived on Malaga treated after being
expelled from the island?
10.
When did Maine apologize for what happened on Malaga?
11.
12.
How was the apology publicized?
What reaction did the descendants have to the apology?
What reaction did the public have?
13.
14.
Who attended the Governor’s apology?
What were the two reasons for the September gathering at
Malaga Island this year?
15.
How did people react to the Governor’s apology?