One was a society woman, the other a prostitute. Together, their stories show what it was like to be an African-American woman in Old Town. A CENTURY AGO, Lena Smith and Lillian Allen were fixtures in Portland’s North End, an area that enveloped what is t ...
11 Jan 2019 - Emily Green
Sex has always sold well, and it’s been business as usual in Portland's Old Town for at least 150 years SEX WORKERS have been making money in Portland’s Old Town for as long as the neighborhood has existed. In the late 1800s, prostitutes filled sto ...
11 Jan 2019 - Emily Green