If you can get children excited about reading, you can also attract their parents. That was Literacy Volunteers’ adult student recruitment strategy in the 90s when…
The 1990s saw major international and national events. The First Gulf War began the involvement of the U.S. in Iraq and nearby countries. The Soviet…
In 1983, Governor Jock McKernan declared February 18-19 Literacy Volunteers Week. Barbara Bush, then the wife of the Vice-President, came to Bangor. Literacy Volunteers hosted a tea at the Isaac…
Media and celebrities were particularly notable supporters of literacy in the 1980s and 90s. A 1992 Bangor Daily News supplement, “Literacy and You” included articles by students,…
In the early 1980s, the Bangor branch of Literacy Volunteers of America was still a small group of volunteers with minimal funding and low student…
Jane has asked us not to use her real name or photo. Like many basic literacy students, she had a lifetime of shame and fear about revealing…
When she was in school, Carolyn Hart Thompson remembers, she saw a boy in the 6th grade sobbing. He had to sit in the back…
“Knowing how to read is the difference between night and day. It feels nice to get up in the morning and read the paper,” Ed Boucher…
“We met in the basement of the Bangor Library. Joe was self-employed and repaired cars at his home. He bought used cars, took them apart…
Literacy Volunteers celebrated its 10th birthday in 1979. There were still just a handful of volunteers and students meeting in borrowed space. The YMCA paid for…