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The Green Book During the time of “de facto segregation,” African-Americans driving through New England from the 1930s to the 1960s carried the Green Book to guide them to friendly hotels, restaurants and service stations. Rock Rest in Kittery, Maine. One New England destination popular among African-Americans was not listed in the Green Book: Rock Rest in Kittery, Maine. Clayton and Hazel Sinclair once owned the 2-1/2 story wooden Cape, running it as a guest house from 1946 to 1977.…

DID YOU KNOW…? Ona Marie Judge, the slave of Martha Washington who escaped to Portsmouth by ship in 1796, made her home in Greenland? After evading several attempts by George Washington to return her to slavery in Virginia, Judge married and raised a family in a home on what is now Dearborn Road. Her story is told in a bestselling book Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar. In it we…