Videos

Rovetta Hanna of Tuskegee spoke at the Stage House Inn in South Berwick on the occasion of Lafayette's 200th anniversary tour.

Tuskegee Mayor Tony Haygood greets about 100 residents of South Berwick at a community supper on the weekend of the first annual Tuskegee Day.

Residents of Tuskegee and South Berwick created this three-minute video with snippets from an hour-long conversation about why voting is important.This effort is part of the Common Ground Sister City’s “Together We Vote: Two Communities, One Nation" project. The video was made to use our combined voice - our relationship - to encourage Americans to vote.

In 2022, at the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol break-in, CBS was searching for an upbeat story and decided to write about the Tuskegee-South Berwick Sister City and its spin-off newspaper column, Color Us Connected.

During a visit to South Berwick in 2022, Mayor Haygood tell what the Sister City relationship means to him at a community picnic.

South Berwick's town manager, Tim Pellerin, unveils a special Common Ground Sister City wall to honor the Maine town's relationship with Tuskegee. The unveiling took place in July 2022 during a visit by Mayor Tony Haygood and other residents of Tuskegee to South Berwick.

In a join civic celebration of the bicentennial of both states, folks in the sister cities of South Berwick, Maine, and Tuskegee, Alabama, reached out to voters in each community to talk about the importance of voting an obstacles. The result was a book of 200 interviews; a 9-minute video with highlights and this Zoom celebration drawing the communities together. The project spotlighted our common dedication to voting and our very different experiences as part of the American electorate.

In this virtual ceremony, a letter written by Booker T. Washington in 1898 to a resident of South Berwick was presented from the people of South Berwick to the people of Tuskegee, their sister city. Descendants of Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Univ. founder Lewis Adams were among those who spoke before the National Park Service formally accepted the letter.