The Nation - News from Sept. 27, 1987
About 200 demonstrators jeered at half a dozen khaki-clad members of the Ku Klux Klan as the klansmen paraded through a Rumford, Me., high school auditorium and then held a picnic in a barn near the town. Outside the barn, demonstrators chanted “KKK, go home,” and neighbors protesting the klan rally had lined the barnyard with chicken manure. James W. Farrands, imperial wizard of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the KKK, said the klan had hoped to pick up a few new members during its unusual visit to the rural mill town.
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