Spring Point Museum

The Portland Harbor Museum in South Portland, Maine, and community radio station WMPG-FM will collaborate to document one of World War II's untold stories -- the New England Shipbuilding Corporation, which produced 236 Liberty ships for the U.S. Navy from 1941-1945. The collaboration will produce a radio program that will air in five ten-minute segments in early December 2006, and a traveling kiosk exhibit for use by libraries and other community organizations. The radio program will include interviews of former shipyard workers, many of which will be conducted by high school students, forming the basis for an intergenerational community learning experience. The interviews will be preserved at the museum where they will complement the museum's existing collection of shipyard documents and artifacts.