Letter: Ask the Big E to cancel partisan exhibit

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 10, 2026

The Eastern States Exposition (The Big E in West Springfield, Massachusetts), is the state fair for all six New England states. One of President Trump’s Freedom 250 trucks — with a partisan exhibit of American history — will be coming from Sept. 18 through Oct. 4. Trump has transferred $10 million taxpayer dollars away from America 250 to fund his Freedom 250 trucks, a history exhibit not sanctioned by non-partisan historians. Trump’s exhibit has been organized by PragerU, an Oklahoma-based conservative educational organization, and by Hillsdale College, a Michigan-based Christian school. ~ David & Eileen Pratt, Springfield, Mass.