Mr. Shay said that, not including the media, about 60 people attended the Tuesday meeting, weathering a mix of heavy freezing rain and snow. Fewer than 1,000 people live in Jackman, according to the 2010 census. The town is overwhelmingly white, according to that census, which listed 15 people of mixed race, nine American Indians or other indigenous people, five Asians and one black person.

Mr. Kawczynski’s views drew widespread condemnation late last week when The Bangor Daily News and The Portland Press Herald quoted him and statements he made online at the website of New Albion, a group he founded whose stated aim is “defending the people and culture of New England.”

Archived versions of the website show that Mr. Kawczynski had argued that voluntary segregation would improve happiness for all; in one now-removed post, he wrote of what he perceived as “resentment against whites” and the need for a movement around white identity.

“You’re the ambassador for the race,” he wrote. “Every person you meet can walk away from seeing you thinking white nationalism is a good thing or a bad thing.”

Mr. Kawczynski had also called Islam “the scourge of Western civilization,” according to The Daily News, though that statement appeared to have been taken down.