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Bubba’s Sulky Lounge endures as a beloved Portland institution.
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Bubba’s Sulky Lounge endures as a beloved Portland institution.
Kristy Strout says goodbye to Sen. Angus King as he heads off for a vote after leading the Maine families through the Capitol for their next meeting with Rep. Chellie Pingree on Thursday.
Kristy Strout and Arthur Barnard chat with a congressional employee who asked why they were visiting Washington, D.C., as they rode the subway system of the U.S. Capitol Complex. Barnard and Strout were on their way to a meeting with Rep. Chellie Pingree along with other Lewiston families and a survivor.
From right, Elizabeth Seal, Tracey Walker and Kristy Strout, back left, walk to Sen. Angus Kings office for a meeting Thursday. All three women lost their husbands in the mass shooting at Schemengees Bar & Grille, and all three wear their wedding rings around their necks.
From left, Arthur Barnard, Kristy Strout and Tracey Walker ride the U.S. Capitol subway on their way to meet with Sen. Susan Collins in her office in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
Kristy Strout, center right, and Arthur Barnard look up at the Capitol rotunda on their walk between a meeting at Sen. Angus King’s office and Rep. Chellie Pingree’s office. The Lewiston victims’ families and a survivor spent the day visiting with all members of Maine’s congressional delegation.
Starting third from left, Arthur Barnard, Kristy Strout, Elizabeth Seal, Alan Nickerson, Tracey Walker and Leroy Walker meet with Sen. Angus King alongside their lawyers in King’s office in the Hart Senate Office Building.
The group from Maine attends a news conference in the office of Rep. Chellie Pingree in Washington on Thursday. Front row from left, an American Sign Language interpreter sits next to Elizabeth Seal, the wife of Joshua Seal, and Alan Nickerson, who was shot at Schemengees Bar & Grille. Back row from left, Leroy and Tracey Walker, the father and wife of shooting victim Joe Walker; Travis Brennan and Ben Gideon, attorneys representing the families and victims; and Arthur Barnard and Kristy Strout, the father and wife of Arthur “Artie” Strout.
Sen. Susan Collins prepares to give a statement to members of the media Thursday after meeting with families of victims and a survivor of the Lewiston mass shooting in her office in the Hart Senate Office Building.
Sen. Angus King walks next with Leroy Walker and Elizabeth Seal after meeting with them Thursday in his office in Washington, D.C.
Families and a survivor of the Lewiston mass shooting meet with Rep. Chellie Pingree in her office in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
Sen. Angus King leads the Lewiston shooting visitors through the U.S. Capitol on their way to meet Rep. Chellie Pingree in her office on Thursday.
Kristy Strout takes a photo of the White House on her way for a meeting with the Office of Gun Violence Prevention on Thursday.
Leroy Walker walks outside the Capitol Complex after a morning and early afternoon of meeting all of the Maine congressional delegation alongside other victims’ families and a survivor of the Lewiston mass shooting.