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May 2010
Volume 13, Issue #2
Chebeague Island Historical Society 2010 Exhibit
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Tourism Transforms Chebeague
he Chebeague Island Historical Society is
busy preparing its newest exhibit, Tourism Transforms Chebeague, which is scheduled to open on July 1, 2010. This will be the
seventh major exhibit at the society’s Museum
of Chebeague History since it opened in 2003.
The exhibit will examine the impact of tourism
on the island during the early 1900s and will
delve into the tourists’ connection to the island
community that resulted in some of them coming back year after year. Many of Chebeague’s
current year-round and summer residents have
ties to this period in the island’s history. Some
of them, known on Chebeague as summer natives, have roots in the early summer colonies,
while the ancestors of many of today’s islanders
benefited from the tourist dollars as they transformed their homes, vessels, and landscape
to accommodate the middle class vacationers
who summered on the island. The relationship
between the natives and the visitors varied, and
the exhibit will reflect on the impact of cultural
differences during the early days of tourism.
The exhibit will be enhanced by hundreds of
photographs from private collections as well as
postcards and ephemera from the tourist era.
Steamboats, hotels, boarding houses, cottages,
summer families, island businesses, and leisure
activities will be highlighted. Artifacts such as
souvenir china and trophies will be on exhibit,
and a ten-foot diorama that depicts many of
the boarding establishments and steamboat
landings will transport the viewer back to the
golden era of tourism.
To better understand the relationships of today
and to plan for the future, one must understand
the context in which summer people were first
introduced into the island community. What
was the community like when the tourists first
by Donna Miller Damon
Chebeague Field Day
1908
arrived? How did the community respond to
tourism? What did the tourists expect from their
island visit? How have the expectations of the
community and the visitors changed over time?
What role has tourism played in creating the
community that exists today? The answers to
these questions are multifaceted, and they are
essential if the islanders of today hope to grapple with their past as they plan for the future.
At the turn of the twentieth century three hundred of Maine’s islands were inhabited, but
today only fifteen islands support year-round
populations, and nearly half of those fifteen
communities have winter populations of less
than one hundred inhabitants. With numbers
this low, Maine’s islanders could be considered
an endangered species. The numbers of seasonal visitors who vacation on the islands is greater
than the number of year-round residents who
live there, and many of the year-rounders have
deep summer roots. How important are the socalled summer natives to the survival of Maine’s
remaining year-round island communities? The
story of the summer natives is entwined in the
evolution of an island community.
While the Chebeague Historical Society’s exhibit focuses on Chebeague, the story the exhibit tells is representative of what happened up
and down the coast of Maine. By experiencing
Tourism Transforms Chebeague, visitors will
be challenged to reexamine the history and evolution of tourism in their own communities. In
other words, this is more than just Chebeague’s
story, and it is more than just a Maine story.
This is a story of how a community chooses to
respond to the influx of people from away, and
the cultural differences that present themselves
when the two groups interact.
The relationships between Maine’s year-round
islanders and the summer tourists are complex
and in many cases span generations. The modern-day interactions between these two groups
are complicated and are the result of conscious
and unconscious decisions made by islanders
and summer people over the years. Some islanders make a distinction between the daytripper, the renter, and the long-time summer
cottage owner, which is known on Great Chebeague as the summer native. Are there differences between a summer visitor who is new to
the island and one whose family has summered
on the island for years or even for generations?
Visit the Museum of Chebeague History and
find out! •
The Museum of Chebeague History is
open Tuesdays through Saturdays 11-4
and Sundays 1-4; July 1—September 15
or by appointment. Admission is free, but
donations are gratefully appreciated.
Call 846-5237 or email
[email protected]
for more information.
M a d e p o s s i b l e i n p a r t b y a g r a n t f r o m t h e M a i n e H u m a n i t i e s C o u n ci l
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Volume 13 • Number 2 • May 2010
Maine Archives and Museums
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Secretary:
Treasurer:
Jay Adams
George Squibb
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Patricia Henner
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Jane Bianco
Amelia Chamberlain
Carolin Collins
Niles Parker
Candy Russell
Jessica Skwire Routhier
Joanna Torow
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MAINE ARTS COMMISSION (MAC)
(207) 287-2724, www.mainearts.com —
Call for deadlines.
MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL (MHC)
(207) 773-5051, www.mainehumanities.org
Discretionary Grants (up to $500), reviewed on a rolling
basis. Outreach Grants (up to $1,000), reviewed quarterly.
Major Grants (up to $6,000), reviewed twice a year.
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
(617) 492-2914 — Call for deadlines.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS
(202) 289-9118, www.aam-us.org — Call for deadlines.
Museum Assessment Programs I: Operations
Museum Assessment Programs II: Collections
Museum Assessment Programs III: Public Perception
HERITAGE PRESERVATION
Conservation Assessment Program
1625 K St., NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006
Phone (202) 634-1422 • Fax (202) 634-1435
www.heritagepreservation.org
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR
THE HUMANITIES
NEH Consultation Grants for Libraries, Museums, or
Special Projects — Sept. 16.
NEH Preservation & Access Research & Development
Grants — Oct. 1.
NEH Stabilization of Humanities Collections — Oct. 1.
(202) 606-8400, www.neh.gov
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
NEA Artistic Creativity & Preservation and Heritage &
Preservation — Aug. 18.
NEA Challenge America: Access to the Arts — Aug. 18
(202) 682-5400, www.arts.gov
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM &
LIBRARY SERVICES
General Operating Support — Call for deadlines.
(202) 606-8539, www.imls.gov
Conservation Project Support —
110 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20506
(202) 606-8539 — Deadline March 5.
IMLS Conservation Project Support — Oct. 15. NEH
Exemplary Education Projects — Oct. 15.
ODIORNE GRANT PROGRAM
Supports projects combining archives and archaeology.
Maine State Archives, #84 State House Station, Augusta,
ME 04333-0084 — deadline March 1.
NATIONAL HISTORIC PUBLICATIONS AND
RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (NHPRC)
Application guidelines and forms may be requested from
NHPRC, National Archives & Records Administration,
700 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Room 106,
Washington, DC 20408-0001
(202) 501-5610
fax (202) 501-5601
e-mail <[email protected]>
or web site at http:www.nara.gov/nhprc
Deadline is October 1.
Information and advice available from State Archives
— (207) 287-5793.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)
(202) 357-9498
www.nsf.gov
NATIONAL TRUST FOR
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
(617) 523-0885
www.nationaltrust.org
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chebeague Island Historical Society 2010 Exhibit by Donna Miller Damon............. Cover
MAM NEWS: Board Meeting Notes: January 11, 2010............................................. 3
Conversations on the Collaborative Future
of Museums & Archives by Jane Bianco...................................... 3
Regional Rep by Patricia Henner....................................................... 3
GRANTS...................................................................................................................... 4
WORKSHOPS.............................................................................................................. 6
EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS......................................................................................... 7
DISPATCHES............................................................................................................... 11
SEEN & HEARD......................................................................................................... 13
Norlands Rising From the Ashes, Part One of Three Articles
by Kathleen Beauregard.......................................................................................... 14
OPPORTUNITIES:
Maine Civil War Trail Project................................................................................. 16
Ethel “Billie” Gammon History Education Scholarship Fund............................... 16
NEXT ISSUE: AUGUST 2010
Only submissions received by the Editor by June 30, 2010,
will be considered for publication.
Jessica Skwire Routhier
Saco Museum, 371 Main St., Saco, ME 04072
207-283-3861, ext. 114
www.sacomuseum.org
Maine Archives & Museums Newsletter
Vol. 13, No. 2
MAM NEWS
Board Meeting Notes
January 11, 2010, Maine Historical Society, Portland
The first Executive Committee meeting was held 4 January 2010 to begin oversight for MAM
operations, to make recommendations and set agenda for each board meeting. The committee
will meet the first Monday of every month.
The 2010 proposed budget is balanced exactly and is based on projected income/expenses and
long-range planning initiatives.
It was recommended that MAM’s mission statement be revised in order to include living collections, as follows: “The purpose of the organization is to develop and foster a network of citizens
and institutions in Maine who identify, collect, interpret and/or provide access to materials relating to all aspects of our history and culture.”
Regional Representative policy:
Policy document presented by George, the result of several years’ discussion about the regional
rep system. Includes directive that the system be managed by the EC. The vice president
(George) and Edna will be primary contacts for the regional reps. Communication between the
regional reps and all MAM committees will be key to success. Perhaps invite one non-board
regional rep to each board meeting and rotate meeting locations to build rapport. Policy document approved as presented.
On March 1, 2010, MAM’s executive committee voted unanimously to partner with the Maine
Curators’ Forum for Where to Draw the Line: The Maine Drawing Project, a statewide collaboration of arts organizations scheduled throughout the 2011 calendar year. At least twenty
individual organizations will present an exhibition and related programming dedicated to the
drawing medium during that time period. MAM will feature information about Maine Drawing
Project exhibitions and events on its website and in its quarterly newsletter. MAM will also tie
its annual programming, including spring workshops and the annual conference in November,
in to the Maine Drawing Project by offering specialized workshops and presentations on topics
related to drawings and works on paper. Stay tuned to the MAM website and newsletter for more
information.
Conversations on the Collaborative Future
of Museums and Archives
by Jane Bianco, Farnsworth Art Museum
The Center for the Future of Museums, an initiative of the American Association of Museums,
is hosting a blog discussion about the evolving roles of libraries, archives, and museums, or
LAMs. One contributor to the conversation, David R. Curry, who has held posts as a director and
board member of various arts organizations and libraries, believes that future trends indicating
a convergence of LAMs are driven by external factors. These forces include economic pressures, the entertainment market, ever-evolving business models, digitization technologies, and
increased demand for access to collections, driving “an increasingly common agenda in addressing preservation, access, physical storage, and overall management of primary source content...”
For more on the subject, see <http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com>.
For further insight into trends, you may want to read Checking Out the Future: Perspectives from
the Library Community on Information Technology and 21st-Century Libraries, by Jennifer C.
Hendrix. It is based upon a review on the future of libraries and is applicable to caretakers of
collections in the archival and museum realms as well. Hendrix projects that future collaborations involving costs, shared systems of organization and storage and learning will take place “in
a fluid environment combining schools, libraries, museums and the digital world,” and that this
will help identify and advance technology relevant to this ideology. The most recent in a series
of proposed policy briefs to be published by the American Library Association, this 20-page
document is downloadable in PDF format from the American Library Association homepage at
<http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oitp/index.cfm>.
Take a look at an early application of these ideas within Europeans: Think Culture, a European
digital library, still under development, which provides access to European cultural heritage via
museums, galleries, libraries, print and audio-visual archives. Check out the portal to member
institutions, especially the cross-domains and audio-visual organizations at <http://www.europeana.org/portal/partners.html>.
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• The Hudson Museum, Collins Center for the
Arts, received a Celebrating the Traditional
Arts Grant from the Maine Arts Commission
to support the creation of a birchbark wigwam. Barry Dana, a Penobscot Master
Artist, will work with the Penobscot Nation
Boys and Girls Club to create the wigwam
and pass this tradition on to the next generation. The wigwam will be the centerpiece of
the museum’s new Maine Indian Gallery.
Plans are to film all aspects of this project
and to create a film segment on the wigwam
–continued on page 4
MAM News, continued from page 3
project. The segment will join nineteen other
films on Maine Indian artforms, which are
available for visitors to view in the museum
or on the museum’s website: www.umaine.
edu/hudsonmuseum.
• Cassie Gibbs, chair of the Museum
Committee of the Friends of Edith Marion
Patch organization, reports that the committee has been accumulating material relating
to Patch for some time. At the moment, they
have quite a large collection of her publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings,
photographs, and other archival material, as
well as a few artifacts.
For the past several years, the FDEMP
group has worked to complete a sensitive
rehabilitation of Braeside, the former home
of Dr. Patch, and to establish there the Dr.
Edith Marion Patch Center for Entomology,
the Environment, and Education. The center
will include a resource collection, museum,
wildlife gardens and trails, and housing for
visiting faculty.
• The Page Farm and Home Museum is
the recipient of a Historical Records
Collection Grant, <http://www.maine.gov/
sos/arc/mhrab/grant.html>. The museum
has engaged in rehousing initiatives for its
records collections of five county Extension
Service offices in archivally sound storage
materials and is creating finding aids to
make the collection accessible to researchers. The collection materials include diaries,
daybooks, bound ledgers, scrapbooks, bulletins, and records of meetings and activities of Extension County Agents, Home
Demonstration Agents, and agricultural
clubs. Inclusive dates for the collection are
1918 to 1956.
• Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Communications
Coordinator for the Franco-American Centre
in Crossland Hall, reports that the Centre has a
wonderful website (Francoamericanarchives.
org) that folks may want to take a look at.
Once in, if you go under Archives at the top
of the page, you can access different Oral
History collections.
The mission of the Franco-American Oral
History Archives is two-fold. The mission of
the Franco-American Oral History Archives
is to develop, collect, archive, and make
available to the public oral documentation
pertaining to the personal, regional, ethnic,
and political histories of Franco-Americans.
As a public history, it is to connect the
academy with the community by promoting
family/community studies, historic preservation, heritage tourism, and high-technology media in order to enrich historical
understanding in public memory. •
GRANTS
Historic New England
Awarded the Largest Grant
in Its History
Historic New England has been awarded the
largest grant in its history, a total of $3 million over three years, to address preservation
maintenance needs for our historic properties, including the six Maine properties. This
is truly both an amazing opportunity and an
amazing challenge. An anonymous foundation
approved $1.2 million for 2010, which must
be matched with $600,000 and $1.2 million
for 2011, both of which must be matched by an
equal amount raised. In these tough economic
times, raising these matching funds will be a
major test for us.
The Preservation Maintenance Fund supports
projects that contribute to the long-term sustainability of Historic New England’s properties and finances—such as reducing costs by
installing efficient heating systems, replacing
roofs with materials that will be good for
twenty or more years, or resolving water penetration issues. The Preservation Maintenance
Fund is helping fund three projects thus far
at the 1789 Marrett House, a new roof and
foundation work on the Marrett Barn and a
new roof for the main house. The barn work is
also funded by a grant from the Maine Tourism
Association. At the Nickels Sortwell House,
the new grant has enabled us to repair and
repoint the chimneys on both the main house
and the ell and replace badly deteriorated roof
gutters. At Castle Tucker, this year’s work will
focus on repairing and replacing windows and
crumbling piazza steps. As a key component of
this grant as well as part of our core mission,
Historic New England is committed to sharing
the knowledge and expertise gained through
this work so that other museums in our region
can also benefit from this grant. You will be
hearing more from us as we work to raise
these badly needed matching funds! We look
forward to sharing our progress and discoveries with you as we move forward with these
vital projects.
MacEvoy Foundation
Funds Roof Work at
Nickels Sortwell House
Thanks in part to a generous grant from the
Mildred MacEvoy Foundation as well as funding from our Preservation Maintenance Fund,
Historic New England has been able to repair
the roof over the apartment at the Nickels
Sortwell House.
New Century Community
Program Grant Recipients
Announced
The Maine State Museum recently awarded
New Century Community Program grants
to eighteen nonprofit cultural organizations
from around the state. The grants, totaling
$58,372.07, provide funds to assist Maine’s
nonprofit cultural organizations improve
facilities that house historically, scientifically, or artistically significant collections. New
Century Community Program grand funds
were approved by Maine voters in a 2007
bond issue.
New Century Community Program grants also
require recipients to raise a minimum of oneto-one matching funds. “Although the grant
award itself is worthy of note,” says Maine
State Museum director Joseph R. Phillips,
“recognition of local efforts to generate matching funds is also important.”
Grant recipients include:
• Belfast Historical Society (Belfast) – $5000
to partially fund the exterior wall repair at
the historic Langworthy House
• Boothbay Region Historical Society
(Boothbay) – $5000 to help underwrite the
installation of insulation at the museum
• Freedom Historical Society (Freedom)
– $2096.50 to help restore the Old Town
House
• Gardiner Library Association (Gardiner) –
$5000 toward renovations of the Community
Archives Room
• Historical Society of Litchfield (Litchfield)
– $4040 toward repairs to the Old Town
House Museum
• Jefferson Historical Society (Jefferson)
– $5000 to assist with the restoration of
the main floor of the Old Jefferson Town
House
• Jonathan Fisher Memorial (Blue Hill)
– $909.57 to partially fund improvements to
collections storage
• Maine Maritime Museum (Bath) – $5000
to help complete the reroofing of the Percy &
Small Shipyard’s Paint and Treenail Shop
• Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company
and Museum (Portland) – $5000 to partially fund the restoration of 1890 Phillips &
Rangeley Coach #2
• Matthews Museum (Union) – $3000 to
assist with ventilating the upper level of the
museum
• Otisfield Historical Society (Otisfield) –
$350 to help pay for a consultant to assess
the archival facilities
• Presque Isle Historical Society (Presque
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Maine Archives & Museums
2010 Board of Directors
President
Jay Adams (2008)
Pine Tree Arboretum
153 Hospital Street • Augusta, ME 04330
207-441-7357 (cell) • 207-621-0031
[email protected]
VICE PRESIDENT
George Squibb (2007)
Belfast Historical Society and Museum
42 Grove Street • Belfast, ME 04915
207-338-3340
[email protected]
SECRETARY
Patricia Burdick (2007)
Colby College Special Collections
5150 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
207-859-5151 • Fax: 207-859-5105
[email protected]
TREASURER
Patricia Henner (2009)
Page Farm and Home Museum
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5787
207-581-4100
[email protected]
Isle) – $2125 toward the purchase of archival storage boxes and framing materials for
artifacts
• Rangeley Lakes Historical Society
(Rangeley) – $1775 to assist with the hiring of a consultant to assess environmental
controls
• Saco Museum (Saco) – $5000 to help
underwrite the repairs needed to resolve a
leak in the open storage area for collections
objects
• Searsmont Historical Society (Searsmont)
– $5000 toward a facility to house the artifact collection
• South Bristol Historical Society (South
Bristol) – $763 to help pay for improvements to collections storage
• Vienna Historical Society (Vienna) – $2791
to partially fund restorations to the Waite
House
• Westport History Committee (Westport)
– $522 toward the assessment of current
historical collections storage space
Information about grant guidelines and applications is available online at <http://www.
maine.gov/sos/arc/cric/grants.htm> or by calling 207-287-7591.
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BOARD MEMBERS
Rick Asam (2010)
Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
39 Second Street, Presque Isle, ME 04769
207-764-2571 or 2572, [email protected]
Jane Bianco (2010)
Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street, Rockland, ME 04841
207-596-6457 x104, [email protected]
Amelia Chamberlain (2006)
19th Century Willowbrook Village
PO Box 28, Newfield, ME 04056
207-793-2784, [email protected]
Carolin Collins (2010)
Maine Historical Society
489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
Niles Parker (2010)
Penobscot Marine Museum
PO Box 498, Searsport, ME 04974-0498
Candy Russell (2008)
Moosehead Historical Museum
PO Box 1116, Greenville, ME 04441
Jessica Skwire Routhier (2009) Saco Museum
371 Main Street, Saco, ME 04072
Joanna Torow (2007)
Maine State Museum
83 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0083
Save America’s Treasures Grants
Deadline: May 21, 2010, at 11:59 p.m. EST
SAVE AMERICA’S TREASURES GRANTS
are available for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual
and cultural artifacts and nationally significant
historic structures and sites. Grants are administered by the National Park Service (NPS) in
partnership with the National Endowment for
the Humanities (NEH), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Eligible activities include: Conservation treatment and preservation of nationally significant intellectual and cultural collections. This
includes documents, photographs, books, and
works of art on paper.
AWARD LEVELS: $25,000 to $700,000 on a
1:1 matching basis.
SELECTION CRITERIA: Collections must
be of national significance, i.e., those that are
associated with the broad patterns of United
States history; or are associated with the lives
of persons who have national significance in
U.S. history; or that represent great historic,
cultural, artistic, or scholarly ideas of the
American people.
APPLICATION GUIDELINES are available
at <http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/treasures/
application.htm>.
All applications must be submitted through
GRANTS.GOV. Remember to allow plenty of
time for registration!
Please discuss your collections project idea
with the staff of one of the SAT partner agencies:
National Endowment for the Arts
Michael McLaughlin
National Endowment for the Humanities
Laura Word
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Christine Henry
202-653-4674, [email protected] •
WORKSHOPS
Crucial Conversations:
How to assess the many values of your
collections to maximize support
Teaching and Interpreting the Civil War: Are
You Ready for the Sesquicentennial?
The Workshop Presenters:
Dr. Paula Work, Registrar and Curator of Zoology,
Maine State Museum
Ron Harvey, Conservator, Tuckerbrook Conservation
Are you an elementary or middle school teacher hoping to enrich your
Civil War curriculum as we approach the Sesquicentennial Commemoration (2011-2016)? Are you a museum educator or docent looking to
improve your interpretive skills? Are you interested in learning about
how the Civil War is a Maine story? Then consider this workshop, designed for both teachers and heritage resource volunteers and professionals.
How to effectively evaluate your collections and their many societal
values in order to connect with support communities. Come learn upto-date best practices for planning for and assessing your collection!
Presenters will include:
Monday, June 21, 2010 • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
8:45 a.m.
Registration
9:00 a.m.
Introductions
9:20 – 9:45 a.m.
Dr. Paula Work
Collections: Why should society care?
(PowerPoint presentation)
9:45 – 10:15 a.m.
Ron Harvey
Collections Assessment Methods
10:30 to 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 – 11:15 a.m.
Paula Work / Ron Harvey
Crucial Conversations – How to think about your
collections in new terms in order to foster broadbased support and how to identify potential
support communities
12 noon
Lunch and networking
Door Prize drawn
Participants are strongly encouraged to bring photograph(s) or brief
descriptions of collections holdings at their institutions for the afternoon activities.
1:00 p.m.
Rollout of self-evaluating portion of the values
assessment tool to be used in conjunction with
photographic and descriptive examples from
participants
1:45 – 2:15 p.m.
Brainstorming session with participants on how to
create a culture of care for collections statewide
2:30 p.m.
Wrap-up and evaluation
3:00 p.m.
Tours of the L.C. Bates Museum are available
after the workshop.
This workshop is organized and supported by an Institute of Museum and Library Services CPS Grant and Institute of Museum
and Library Services Connecting to Collections Statewide Planning
Grant. (Maine State Museum, Maine State Archives, Maine Historical
Society, Maine Humanities Council, Maine Archives and Museums, L.C.
Bates Museum, Bangor Public Library, University of Southern Maine,
Osher Map Library, and Smith Center for Cartographic Education)
The date is Saturday, May 22, 2010, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Fifth
Maine Regiment Museum, Peaks Island. Fee $15 per person.
• Brian Collins, Executive Director, Pejepscot Historical Society,
Education
• Jamie Kingman-Rice, Public Services Librarian, Maine Historical
Society, Civil War Resources at the Maine Historical Society
• Kim MacIsaac, Executive Director, Fifth Maine Regiment Museum,
Remembering the Civil War in a Throw-Away Society
• Patricia Erikson, Adjunct Professor of American and New England
Studies and Consultant for Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, HandsOn and Minds-On: Using Primary Sources to Teach the Civil War
• Caitlin LeClair, King Middle School, Expedition into the Past: The
Civil War as Context for Teaching Civil Rights
• Rachel Talbot Ross, President, Maine Chapter NAACP, and Artist
Daniel Minter, The Underground Railroad & the Abyssinian Church
Registration information at <www.fifthmainemuseum.org> or email
<[email protected]> to receive a registration form to make
other inquiries.
Funded in part by the Maine Humanities Council.
Upcoming American Association for State
and Local History Workshop
Collections Management and Practices
June 24-25, 2010
at the Connecticut Humanities Council, Hartford, Conn.
Cost: $250 members / $315 nonmembers
Learn more about your institution’s responsibility toward its collections, the necessary policies and procedures, and best practices. You’ll
become familiar with current issues and trends while you explore other
topics including the role of collections in exhibition and interpretation,
the basic steps of collections management from acquisition to disposal,
professional standards and ethics, conservation on a shoe-string budget,
as well as learning about the multitude of resources available for collections preservation.
New England Museum Association 2010
Spring Workshop Series
Fees for these one-day programs start at $40 for members. For the first
time, online registration is available for your convenience. We would
like to thank all of our Professional Affinity Group (PAG) chairs for their
work on behalf of NEMA and the field in preparing this series.
continued on page 7
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EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
Alfred Shaker Museum
118 Shaker Hill Rd., Alfred, ME 04002
Open Wed. & Sat. 1-4 p.m. beginning May 15
www.alfredshakermuseum.com
Upcoming workshops and events:
May 15
May 29
June 5
June 6
June 19
June 25
June 26
July 24
Aug. 7
Aug. 14
Sept. 11
Oct. 2/3
Dec. 5
Penney Rug Workshop
Pancake Breakfast, 8 a.m.
Rug Braiding Workshop
Book Signing / Talk
Jeannine Lauber, author of newly
published Chosen Faith,
Chosen Land
Continued Rug Braiding
Women’s Drumming Circle
Basket Making Workshop
Punch Needle Workshop
Atting Workshop
Wool Felting Workshop
Shaker Knit Hat Workshop
Apple Fest
Ye Olde Sweet Shoppe
For more information, call Linda, 207-4905709, or Barbara, 207-490-1646.
Alfred Shaker Museum has just received a
$10,000 Davis Grant to help with the comple-
Workshops, continued from page 6
Friday, May 7, 2010
Frame Up! Exhibit Critique and Tour
Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding
Museum, Essex, Mass.
Exhibitions PAG
Monday, May 10, 2010
What Every Curator Should Know for
Preserving and Advancing Collections in the
21st Century
House of Seven Gables, Salem, Mass.
Curators PAG
Friday, May 14, 2010
Introduction to Visitor Studies
Museum of Science, Boston, Mass.
Administration, Facilities & Services PAG
Monday, May 17, 2010
Maximizing Your Resources: Attract More
Members, Raise More Money, and Market
More Efficiently
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Mass.
Membership, Development, PR & Marketing
PAG, in partnership with PRAM
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Disaster Preparedness: Starting From Home
Northeast Document Conservation Center,
Andover, Mass.
Conservators PAG
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tion of the museum. This season’s exhibition
honors Sister Mildred Barker (1897-1990),
raised at the Alfred Shaker Community from
childhood. The Alfred Community closed in
1931, and those who remained moved to Sabbathday Lake (New Gloucester). There, Sister Mildred became a candy-maker, cared for
many young children, and sang a repertoire of
Shaker songs one after another. She was a tiny
but powerful woman.
Alfred Village
Museum Opening
The 2010 opening exhibit for the Alfred Village Museum will be Sunday, May 16, from
2-4, with almost forgotten music from the
twenties and homemade ice cream. The music
will be produced on an early Edison Victrola
donated and repaired this past year. Those who
remember Fatty Arbuckle and his “Thipping
Thider Through a Thraw” will especially enjoy
the music. The ice cream will be produced by
a committee member. This year’s exhibit, The
March of Time in Alfred, will trace the village’s
history from the arrival of the first white settler in the 1700s to the present. Following the
opening, the museum will be open Wednesday
and Saturday 2-4 through October 9. For more
information: 207-324-5823.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tech Workshop for Museum Professionals
Endicott College, Beverly, Mass.
Independent Museum Professionals PAG
Suddenly You’re the Boss: Management
Techniques for New Managers
Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Mass.
HR & Volunteer Management PAG
Monday, June 21, 2010
Adult Learning: Beyond the Lecture
Mystic Seaport
Education PAG
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Back to Basics and Beyond: Art Handling
Workshop
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.
Registrars PAG, in partnership with PACIN
Getting Your Show on the Road
Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Mass.
College & University Museums PAG •
Andrew Jackson Bean and the
Fifth Maine
Sunday, May 23, 2010, 2:00 p.m., free
Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, Peaks Island
Authors Anne Chandonnet and Roberta Pevear
discuss their new book, Write Quick: War and
a Woman’s Life 1836-1867, based on the letters exchanged between Bean, his wife, sister,
and brother-inlaw during the Civil War. Private
Bean served in Company I of the Fifth Maine
Regiment 1861-1864 and because one of the
founding members of the Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Society on Peaks Island.
A book-signing and refreshments follow the
talk.
For more information: [email protected]
or 207-766-3330.
Arts at the Old Jefferson
Town House
Saturday, July 10, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
The Jefferson Historical Society’s Annual Arts
will have its annual Art Show and Sale at the
Old Town House. Two dozen artists and fine
craftspeople will display and sell their work.
Visitors may visit with and enjoy the efforts of
painters in oil, acrylic, pastels, watercolor; fabric artists, photographers, jewelry designers,
sculptors, authors, quilters, metal and wood
workers, and much more. A portion of the artists’ sales will be donated to the continued restoration project by the historical society of the
treasured 1869-built building which serves as a
local history center. No admission. Event will
be held at the Old Jefferson Town House at the
intersection of Bunker Hill Road (Rt. 213) and
Gardiner Road (Rt. 126).
Castlebay Concert
Tuesday, July 27, 7:00 p.m.
The Jefferson Historical Society will sponsor
a concert by Castlebay, the well-known Celtic
duo of Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee. The pair
will take the audience on a musical historic
tour through 250 years of Lincoln County,
featuring some pieces based on Jefferson history in particular. Selections will be hauntingly
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beautiful or rollicking, and all will be enjoyable. The concert will take place in the main
room of the Old Jefferson Town House, currently undergoing restoration work; proceeds
will benefit the continued restoration project
by the historical society. Admission. Event will
be held at the Old Jefferson Town House at the
intersection of Bunker Hill Road (Rt. 213) and
Gardiner Road (Rt. 126).
Friendship Museum Movie Night
http://www.friendshipmuseum.org
In 1953 Carleton Simmons of Friendship began taking home movies of people, places, and
events in the village on the Maine midcoast.
Postmaster of Friendship, a founding member
of the Friendship Sloop Society, and a boatbuilder, Carleton continued his filming in the
1960s and 1970s. The Friendship Museum will
be showing some of these unedited films to the
public. If you live in Friendship or lived in the
town during this time, please join us to watch
the movies for fun and to help us identify some
of the people and places in these films. 7 p.m.
Wednesdays at the Friendship Town Office,
May 19 and June 16.
Historic Bethel Hill: Guided
One-Hour Walking Tours
Bethel Historical Society, Bethel
July 3 to Sept. 4, Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.
Bethel’s first settlers logged, farmed, sawed
timber, and built houses and barns. By the
nineteenth century, though, they wanted more:
the services and amenities of a town. Doctors,
shopkeepers, lawyers, and tradesmen began to
establish themselves on Bethel Hill. Owners of
small mills and factories joined them, and in
1851 the railroad came to town, bringing with
it a boom in manufacturing and tourism. By the
late nineteenth century, Bethel was an economic hub for its region and a major tourist destination offering scenic views of the surrounding White Mountains, health-giving springs,
hunting and fishing, New England hospitality in large summer hotels, and, at the turn of
the twentieth century, world-renowned opera
singers and a clinic for the treatment of those
with nervous disorders. The historic buildings
and landscape of Bethel Hill village can help
us picture all this today. Led by our summer
student intern or a society volunteer, tours will
take place Saturdays at 11 a.m. through Sept. 4.
Meet at the bell tower on the north end of the
village common. For more information, 800824-2910, www.bethelhistorical.org.
Maine Humanities Council
The Maine Humanities Council will be offering two FREE History Camps for high school
students in 2010:
The Cold War, McCarthyism, and Margaret
Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience”
will be at the Margaret Chase Smith Library in
Skowhegan from June 28 to July 2. See <http://
mainehumanities.org/programs/history-camp/
margaretchasesmith.html>.
Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold and the Maine Frontier will be at Colburn
House in Pittston and Old Fort Western in Augusta July 12 to July 16. See <http://mainehumanities.org/programs/history-camp/benedictarnold.html>.
For more information and to register, visit
<http://mainehumanities.org/programs/history-camp/index.html>.
MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM
Heavy Metal: The Revolution Evolution in
Marine Propulsion
On view July 9 - Nov. 8,
John G. Morse, Jr. Galley
243 Washington Street, Bath, ME 04530
207-443-1316
www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org
Nothing transformed the maritime world more
completely than the engine. Within a generation, the churning revolutions of marine engine
shafts had revolutionized not only the shape
of ships, but also communication, commerce,
work patterns, infrastructure, emigration—in
short, the world as our ancestors knew it.
Drawing from the museum’s extensive power
collections, rare and unique marine engines
and related hardware will be on display. The
exhibit will also explore the “motor culture”
and future directions in marine propulsion
systems as they adapt to global environmental
scrutiny.
Big Ship Smack-Down.
Who’s Got the Biggest?
Annual Maritime History Symposium
Maine Maritime Museum
What was the largest wooden ship ever built?
The debate will be informative and lively as
maritime experts from the U.S. and other
countries gather to try to reach consensus. The
challenges of building larger ships will also be
discussed, and attendees will get a behind-thescenes tour of Bath Iron Works. Continental
breakfast, lunch, after-dinner reception, dessert
and coffee are included.
Museum members $60, nonmembers $70, students $35
Visit <www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org> to
register or call 443-1316 for information.
MIDCOAST MAINE PROGRAM
SCHEDULE
For more information, call 207-882-7169 or
visit <www.HistoricNewEngland.org>.
June
Open House Day
Saturday, June 5, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Castle Tucker, 2 Lee Street, and Nickels Sortwell House, 121 Main Street, Wicasset; Marrett House, Route 25, Standish.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the
founding of Historic New England, all of our
historic house museums will be open to the
public FREE on Saturday, June 5.
Hanging Fashion, 200 Years of Period
Wallpaper – Lecture
Sunday, June 13, 3 - 4:30 p.m.
Nickels Sortwell House Barn, Wiscasset
Admission: $5 Historic New England members, $10 nonmembers
Registration recommended.
Pilar Garro, historic wallpaper expert and site
manager of Beauport, the Henry David Sleeper
house, will show highlights from 200 years of
wallpaper in Historic New England’s collection and offer advice on how to use our wallpaper database to find wallpaper for your historic
house.
Strawberries and Standish Days
Marrett House, Standish
Admission: Free
Standish’s annual heritage festival.
July
Mollie Tucker’s Kitchen
Thursday, July 8, 10 - 11:30 a.m.
Castle Tucker, 2 Lee Street, Wiscassett
Admission: 5 Historic New England members,
$10 nonmembers
Reservations required.
From 1858 until 1922, Mollie Tucker prepared
food in her kitchen at Castle Tucker for her
family of eight, visiting friends, family, and
paying guests. How did she manage? What
did they eat? How was the food prepared and
served? Hear the story and take a peek at Mollie’s nineteenth-century kitchen.
Kites at the Castle
Saturday, July 10, 11 - 3 p.m.
Castle Tucker, Wiscasset
Admission: Free. Tours at regular rates.
Fly your kite at the Castle! The field at Castle
Tucker, overlooking the Sheepscot River and
Wiscasset harbor, will be a scene of color and
merriment as families and kite enthusiasts converge in an airy celebration of joy. Professional
kite flyers will be on hand to offer tips and instruction.
Wiscasset Twilight Tours
Thursday, July 15, 5 - 7 p.m.
Castle Tucker and Nickels Sortwell House
Admission: (Includes both houses) $8 Historic
New England members, $15 nonmembers
Pre-registration for a specific tour is required.
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Enjoy a look at these two 1807 mansions at a
very special time of day. See rooms not usually
on the public tour that offer a deeper picture of
how the family, staff, and guests lived.
Colonial Revival Maine – Lecture
Sunday, July 25, 3 - 4:30 p.m.
Nickels Sortwell House Barn, entrance on Federal Street, Wiscasset
Admission: $5 Historic New England members, $10 nonmembers
Registration recommended
Kevin Murphy, author of Colonial Revival
Maine, will talk about this remarkably pervasive and long-lasting style. Now a professor at
the graduate program in Art History at CUNY,
Dr. Murphy will show how movement inspired
and influenced architecture and design along
the coast of Maine.
New Sweden
New Sweden’s Annual Midsommar Celebration will be held June 18-20 in New Sweden,
Maine. The center of the festivities is the New
Sweden Museum at 116 Station Road, New
Sweden, but events are happening at other Swedith Colony towns of Stockholm, Woodland,
Westmanland, and Perham as well. Activities
include traditional music, crafts, dancing, food,
decorating the Maypole, Dala horse-painting,
and much more. Historic buildings such as the
Larsson/Ostlund House, the Lars Noak Blacksmith Shop, and the Lagerstrom House will
be open for tours. A complete schedule can be
found at <www.maineswedishcolony.info>.
Norlands Events
June 12 and 13.
Second Annual Rally for Norlands: Civil War
Reenactment at the Washburn-Norlands Living
History Center, 290 Norlands Road, Livermore.
Open 9 a.m. Fee. Interact with Confederate and
Union military and civilian living historians as
they reenact skirmishes and battles, farm life,
military homecoming, and town ball game.
Field music, oddities from the Civil War era,
a traditional Saturday bean supper and contra
dance, period Sunday church service, fashion
show, and more. For more information, 8974366, www.norlands.org.
June 29 to Sept. 2, Tuesdays and Thursdays
Living History Tours at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, 290 Norlands
Road, Livermore. Open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fee.
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house, try using a quill pen or test your skills
in mental ‘rithmetic or spelling. In the mansion, an interpreter of the youngest Washburn,
daughter Caroline, shows you the family home.
In the historic kitchen, women are busy cooking, spinning, or doing seasonal chores. For
more information: 897-4366, www.norlands.
org.
Norlands Tea Party: A Taste of History
Washburn-Norlands Living History Center,
290 Norlands Road, Livermore.
Enjoy a hot cup of tea and homemade cookies
served up with an entertaining history talk of
your choice and a guided tour of the Washburn
mansion. $12.50 per person, by appointment.
Sample group programs include:
The Proper Sphere of Woman
The proper place of a nineteenth-century farm
woman.
Health, Sanitation, and Deadly Diseases
Home remedies, customs, and beliefs related to
nineteenth-century health care.
Strange Happenings in Livermore
Stories having to do with coffins.
For more information: 897-4366, www.norlands.org.
PORTER
[email protected]
A new exhibition, First Person Rural – a Portrait of a Maine Town, features original photographs of the people of Porter, Maine, from
a new book by photographer Patricia Turner.
This one-day event, Saturday, June 5, 1 - 4
p.m., will include a book-signing by the author
at Parsonsfiield-Porter Historical Society’s
“History House,” located at 92 Main Street,
Porter (Kezar Falls).
Another Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society
exhibit at History House this season is called
Collections. This show will display some of
our seldom seen hobby collections as well as
a few private collections. All of History House
will be open for tours with demonstrations by
local craftsmen on Sunday, June 27, 6 - 8 p.m.,
and Sunday, July 25, 1 - 3 p.m.
Presque Isle Historical Society
The Presque Isle Historical Society will be exhibiting in the Historical Pavilion in the Forum
at the Northern Maine Fair August 3-5 from 4
to 8 p.m. The Historical Pavilion is a gathering of historical societies, museums, and living
history displays. Admission is free with paid
Fair admission. See <www.pihistory.org>,
207-762-1151.
Program and Book Signing at
Bethel
May 22, 2010, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Co-authors of Write Quick: War and a Woman’s Life in Letters, 1836-1867, a book based
on Civil War-era documents and artifacts in the
collections of the Bethel Historical Society, are
Roberta (“Bobbi”) Gibson Pevear of Exeter,
New Hampshire, who is descended from Eliza
Bean Foster, the main character of the book,
and poet and author Ann Chandonnet of Vale,
North Carolina. The book is based on nearly
200 letters written by Roberta’s and Ann’s
Bethel area ancestors and their extended kinship network in New England. During the talk
and book-signing, a sampling of the letters,
photos, and artifacts used in creating the books
will be on display. Mason House Exhibit Hall,
14 Broad Street. For more information, 800824-2910, www.bethelhistorical.org.
RUG HOOKING IN MAINE & BEYOND
Farnsworth Art Museum
May 1 - Dec. 31, 2010, Crosman Gallery
Approximately 40 splendid examples of
hooked rugs that include Waldoboro, Arts
and Crafts, cottage industry, and other types
are displayed, organized by guest curator, rug
historian, and author Mildred Cole Péladeau.
The exhibition is supported by a grant from the
Maine Humanities Council and by additional
donors, with rugs lent from private and public
collections.
Sabbathday Lake
Shaker Museum
Route 26, New Gloucester
The museum will open for the 2010 season on
May 28. A full calendar of events and tours are
listed at <www.shaker.lib.me.us>. Particular
attention should be noted of the Maine Native
American Summer Market and Demo, Maine
Festival of American Music, Shape Note Singing Concert, Maine Farm Day, Apple Saturdays, and the Shaker Christmas Fair.
SACO
Making History: Art and Industry in the
Saco River Valley
Opening May 29, 2010
Through fine art, historical artifacts, words and
pictures, and interactive, hands-on activities,
this new permanent exhibition will explore the
rich tradition of making things in this region.
The project is funded by a Preserve America
grant administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, by the Maine
Humanities Council, and by additional donors.
In a Place by Himself:
The Graphic World of Winslow Homer
Saco Museum, June 26 - Nov. 14, 2010
The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of
Winslow Homer’s death. In recognition of the
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fact that this iconic American artist spent the
second half of his career here on Saco Bay, the
Saco Museum presents this celebration of his
work as a graphic artist.
SOUTH BERWICK
Historic New England Calendar of Events for
Southern Maine Houses, May - July 2010
Sunday, May 23, 1 - 3 p.m.
A Sailor’s Life for Me! Family Festival
Hamilton House, South Berwick
$4 for Historic New England members, $6
nonmembers.
Open House Day
All Historic New England Houses
Celebrate the beginning of the organization’s
centennial year. Free admission.
Teddy Bear and Doll Clinic During South
Berwick Kids’ Day Festival
Sarah Orne Jewett House, South Berwick
Free admission
South Berwick Strawberry Festival
Sarah Orne Jewett House, South Berwick
Free admission.
July 4, 11, 18, and 25, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Sundays in the Garden Concert Series
Call for performer information: 384-2454.
Free for Historic New England members, $8
nonmembers.
Saturday, July 17, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
The Way They Were
nonmembers. Registration required. Call 207384-2454 to reserve your place now.
Thursday, July 8, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Landscape and Garden Tour
nonmembers. Registration required. Call 207384-2454 to reserve your place now.
Summer 2010 at
Colonial Pemaquid
Living History, Lectures, and Archaeology
www.friendsofcolonialpemaquid.org
In 2010 Colonial Pemaquid once again will
host a series of living history events, lectures,
and an archaeology workshop to showcase various aspects of life in Pemaquid and midcoast
Maine during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Sponsored by the Friends of Colonial Pemaquid, these events draw expertise
from historians, authors, and archaeologists
to help build an accurate picture of Pemaquid.
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Most living history events take place outdoors
on the weekends, and while there is no charge,
donations are gratefully accepted. History lectures are held on Monday evenings in the museum at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site,
where a modest fee of $5 is charged for nonmembers. The popular archaeology discovery
workshop is a hands-on, family-friendly event
that offers participating youths and adults the
chance to try out a simulated dig, reassemble
broken ceramics, and learn the basics of historic archaeology. Summer 2010 will also see
the initial construction of authentic replicas of
two seventeenth-century dwellings.
Colonial Pemaquid is open daily 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Memorial Day through Labor Day. Park personnel and interpreters are available to answer
questions and to direct visitors to the site’s historic structures, archaeological remains, museum, burial ground, and gift shop. A permanent
exhibit, Guns, Politics, and Furs, is housed in
the partially reconstructed Fort William Henry
on site. For reservations for school or group
tours, call 207-677-2423.
Saturday, May 29, 2 p.m.
St. Andrew’s Pipes & Drums
Traditional tunes of the British Isles performed
by a kilted band from Corinth, Me. Donations
welcome.
Saturday, June 5, 8:30 p.m.
Evening Lantern Walk
Tour a seventeenth-century village and meet
an eighteen-century soldier on duty at Fort
William Henry. Rain date: June 6. Donations
welcome.
Saturday, June 12, 1 & 3 p.m.
For King and Country
Join the militia garrison of eighteenth-century
Fort Fredrick, learn to march and drill, defend
the fort, and earn a day’s pay. Rain date: June
13. Donations welcome.
Saturday, June 19, 2 p.m.
A Colonial Concert: Tunes of Early America
& the British Isles
Traditional folk songs by musical duo Three
Cups. Rain date: June 20.
Sunday, July 4, 2 p.m.
234th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
Public reading and commentary by a living
history interpreter. Donations welcome
Saturday, July 10, 1 - 5 p.m.
Archaeology Discovery Workshop
Featuring historical activities for youths and
adults by archaeologist Dr. Neill DePaoli. Rain
date: July 18. Donations welcome.
Monday, July 12, 7:30 p.m.
Lessons from the Underground
Lecture by Tom Desjardin, historian with the
Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands. $5 donation
or free to members.
Saturday, July 17, 8:30 p.m.
William Henry. Rain date: July 18. Donations
welcome.
Monday, July 19, 7:30 p.m.
Straw, Sticks & Mud: Homebuilding in Early Colonial Maine
Lecture by local author and historian James
Nelson. $5 donation or free to members.
Saturday/Sunday, July 31 - Aug. 4, 1-4 p.m.
Uneasy Alliance
Trade and conflict in seventeenth-century
Coastal Maine, featuring living history interpreter Ken Hamilton. Donations welcome.
Monday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.
Ambivalent Allegiances in Revolutionary
Maine
Lecture by University of Maine history professor Liam Riordan. $5 donation or free to members.
Martha Ballard, 18th-Century Midwife
Lecture by Old Fort Western educator Patti
Violette. $5 donation or free to members.
Wednesday, August 11, 8 p.m.
William Henry. Rain date: Aug. 12. Donations
welcome.
Saturday/Sunday, Aug. 14 - 15, 1 & 3 p.m.
The Age of Pirates
Recreation of the infamous Dixie Bull by living history presenter and local author James
Nelson. Old Bristol Days Event. Donations
welcome.
12,000 Years in Maine: Pemaquid’s Place in
Maine’s History
Lecture by Bates College anthropologist Dr.
Bruce Bourque. $5 donation or free to members.
Monday, August 23, 7:30 pm.
They Came to Fish: Exploring Early Pemaquid’s Transformation from Seasonal Fishing Station to Permanent Settlement
Lecture by historical archaeologist Dr. Neill
DePaoli. $5 donation or free to members.
Vol. 13, No. 2
DISPATCHES
Howe Lecture Endowment
Established
William D. Andrews, BHS president and chair
of the Board of Trustees, announced recently
that the Board had approved a resolution establishing an endowed lecture fund in honor
Stanley Russell Howe, Ph.D., longtime executive director of the society, who stepped down
on January 1 to become the society’s associate
director and director of education and research.
In making the announcement, Andrews cited
Howe’s diligent work over the past 35 years in
bringing important scholars and speakers to the
community.
Howe is a Bethel native whose ancestors settled
in the area in the 1780s. He holds an M.A. in
American History from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Canadian History from
the University of Maine. He is currently book
review educator for Maine History and is frequently consulted as a humanities scholar for
the Maine, New Hampshire, and New England
commissions. He has taught history at numerous college and university campuses, served on
university graduate committees, and his second
book, Bethel, Maine: A Brief History, was published in 2009
The goal for funding the Howe Lecture Endowment has been set at $10,000. Half has
already been raised or pledged from friends
and former or current trustees, and $5000 is
needed to complete the endowment by the end
of June, 2010. Those wishing to donate to this
special fund should mail their check or money
order (with “Howe Lecture Fund” written in
the memo line) to the society at P.O. Box 12,
Bethel, ME 04217. All contributions are tax
deductible as allowable by law.
Maine Humanities Council Funds
2010 Vignettes of the Maine Past
Lecture Series
On March 20, the Bethel Historical Society
received a $500 grant from the Maine Humanities Council to support their 2010 Annual
Lecture Series. Entitled Vignettes of the Maine
Past, the series will consist of five talks presented by knowledgeable speakers on a variety
of topics. All lecture programs will take place
at the Dr. Moses Mason House exhibit hall
(14 Broad Street) and are free and open to the
public. For a list of lectures and all other 2010
BHS programs, please visit our website (www.
bethelhistorical.org).
and membership and the opportunities present in mid-coast Maine, Historic New England
is proud to announce that we have expanded
our Wiscasset Site Manager position to a fulltime, year-round position. Site manager Peggy
Konitzky is responsible for Castle Tucker and
the Nickels Sortwell House in Wiscasset and
Marrett House in Standish. She can be reached
at <[email protected]> or
207-882-7169.
We are also very proud to announce the return
of our seasonal guide staff, headed by architectural historian and historic interior design
consultant Rose Marie Ballard as Lead Guide.
Jennie Weeks will continue welcoming visitors
for her 51st year at the Nickels Sortwell House.
Our team includes historic preservation consultant Cathy Messmer from Southport; Lincoln
Academy Social Studies instructor Dr. Robert
Breckenridge from Newcastle; well-known
and highly regarded local historians Dan Stevens from Augusta, Charles Ruby and Elaine
Bradbury from Standish; artist and printmaking instructor Elizabeth Pardoe; and history
enthusiast Mary Ellen Stabach from Wiscasset.
This year, we also welcome Douglas Parcher
from Alna, Social Studies and American History teacher at Nobleboro Central School.
Saco Museum
The Saco Museum is the recipient of a $5000
Historical Collections Facilities grant from the
Maine New Century Community Program,
administered by the Maine State Museum in
cooperation with the Cultural Affairs Council.
This grant award supports crucial improvements that will repair and present roof leakage
over built-in display cases used for publicly
accessible, “open” storage of the permanent
collection.
The New Hudson Museum
Collins Center for the Arts,
University of Maine, Orono
Transformation is a central cultural theme in
many of the objects featured in the Hudson Museum’s collections. We invite you to see how
the Hudson Museum has been transformed!
Maine Maritime Museum
On Saturday, March 20, Maine Maritime Museum conducted its second Annual Crossing
the Line ceremony to commemorate the passage from winter to spring by educating the
public about the time-honored maritime tradition of initiating sailors during their first Equatorial crossing.
Music, laughter, and merriment filled Sewall
Hall at the museum, as more than 220 museum
visitors enjoyed the fun and spirit of the event.
More than a dozen Navy League Sea Cadets,
several U.S. Navy sailors from the commissioning crew of the USS Jason Dunham, which
is under construction at Bath Iron Works, and a
couple of brave young museum visitors volunteered to participate as “pollywogs” seeking to
become “shellbacks.”
Preserve America
Maine Maritime Museum was honored recently
when First Lady Michelle Obama designated it
as one of the nation’s newest Preserve America
Stewards. Designation as a Preserve America
Steward provides national recognition for programs that successfully use volunteers to help
care for our historic and cultural heritage.
Since the program’s inception in 2008, only
21 organizations nationwide have received the
designation. Maine Maritime Museum is one
of only two organizations in New England to
be named a Preserve America Steward. The
program is a federal effort to encourage and
support community efforts to preserve and
enjoy America’s priceless cultural and natural
heritage.
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
(ACHP) administers Preserve America programs with the Department of the Interior, in
cooperation with ten other federal agencies.
Historic New England
Wiscasset Site Staff News
In recognition of both the progress made in
the past three years in increasing visitation
Vol. 13, No. 2
The new facility is located on the second level of
the Collins Center and encompasses over 9500
sq. ft. of exhibition space. The old patchwork
quilt of galleries scattered over three levels
has evolved into a museum space with identity
and integrity. It consists of three exhibit galleries: the Merritt Gallery, which is designed for
temporary exhibits; a World Cultures Gallery,
which showcases the museum’s collections thematically rather than by culture area; and a new
Maine Indian Gallery, designed in collaboration with Maine Indian peoples and University
of Maine researchers. Objects are displayed in
floor-to-ceiling casework with climate control,
LED lighting systems, and improved security,
allowing us to exhibit holdings that have never
been viewed by the public.
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DISPATCHES
Maine Maritime Museum has a pool of more
than 200 active volunteers who perform a variety of activities, such as tour guide, curatorial and research work, boat-building instruction, grounds maintenance, guest relations, and
much more.
Limerick Historical Society
The Limerick Historical Society continues to
make progress toward opening the third Limerick Academy to the public. Built in 1881 and
the second to be built on the site at the head
of Main Street, it was purchased in 2003 by
the Limerick Historical Society for one-dollar from the Highland Lodge No. 48, IOOF, in
spite of the poor condition of the building.
at Oxford Hills High School. This production
was well received, selling out four of the six
February show dates. Plans are currently in the
works to travel the play around the state.
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
An extraordinary gift of 130 Canadian Inuit
carvings and 67 prints was donated to the
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum by Robert
and Judith Toll. The Tolls intend it to be the
first of a series of gifts of Inuit art they give
the Arctic Museum for exhibition and use in
Bowdoin College education and outreach programs.
Since then, the foundation has been stabilized
by replacing missing stones and rotten sills, and
providing proper drainage around the building.
Support for the lower floor has been reinforced.
Portions of the roof have been reshingled, and
the bell tower secured. The bell was rehung, allowing it to be rung on occasion—e.g., a class
trip where each child was given the chance to
pull the rope! The windows have been reglazed
using the old glass and frames. Projects on the
horizon include exterior painting and upgrading the electrical service.
A Library/Museum-Theater
Collaboration
The Margaret Chase Smith Library was pleased
to provide an exhibit in conjunction with the
recent production of “Mrs. Smith Goes to
Washington” by the Out of the Box Theater
in Lewiston. The playwright is Linda Britt, a
Spanish professor at the University of Maine
at Farmington. The lead and lone character
was portrayed by Sally Jones, a drama teacher
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This museum has been featured on National
Public Radio, BBC Radio, in the New York
Times, The Boston Globe, USA Today, and The
International Herald Tribune. Most recently,
the Umbrella Cover Museum has flooded the
airwaves with spots on Sirius Satellite Radio.
You can see it on the show “Cantore Stories”
on The Weather Channel—a perfect place for
the Umbrella Cover Museum!
LEDS at the Farnsworth
Umbrella Cover Museum
This is an exciting and challenging project
for a small society. Please visit our website to
see the building and to check on the progress:
www.limerickhistorical.org.
The umbrella covers are donated by patrons or
anyone who happens to have one lying around.
A story that describes the history of the cover
is requested with submission. Some of the exhibits include The Basic Black Sheath, International Covers, Controversial Covers, Covers
from Trustees and Their Families, and an interactive exhibit entitled See Me, Touch Me, Feel
Me (aka the Petting Zoo).
The Umbrella Cover Museum is the only collection in the world of umbrella sleeves. There
are close to 700 covers from 36 countries in
the museum’s coffers. The Umbrella Cover
Museum was founded in 1996 on Peaks Island, Maine, by director and curator Nancy 3.
Hoffman. Having discovered that she had five
or six umbrella covers she didn’t know what
to do with, and eventually stealing one from
a local department store, she decided to start a
museum. People flocked by the tens to see the
museum, people were thrilled to donate their
old umbrella sheaths, and the international
press went bonkers.
The museum’s mission is “appreciation of the
mundane in everyday life, finding wonder and
beauty in the simplest of things, and knowing
that there is always a story behind the cover.”
This small and quirky museum is open summers only, from around June 15 to Labor Day.
Call for viewing, 207-939-0301, or email
([email protected]>, website <www.umbrellacovermuseum.org>. The theme song and
a virtual tour of the museum can be experienced
on YouTube by searching for “Umbrella Cover
Museum.” Other websites, including <www.
eccentricamerica.com>, feature this slightly
eccentric collection.
by Jane Bianco
In an effort to better serve the Farnsworth’s
mission to celebrate Maine’s role in American
art, the museum has been involved in a threeyear re-lamping project to replace all incandescent and halogen bulbs throughout its galleries
with energy-efficient LED lamps. By the end
of this summer all galleries in the main building will have LED lighting installed for exhibitions, thanks to support from Efficiency Maine
and the Maine Arts Commission. Most noticeable is the incredible depth and range of color
that artworks display under LED lighting;
there is an observable difference from viewing under traditional lighting when intensity of
color, surfaces, and tones are acutely sensed in
the gallery spaces. Not only does LED lighting
appear to enhance presentation but at this time
provides the best option for color temperature
without harmful light rays that over time adversely affect artwork. Nine-watt LED bulbs
with a life expectancy of 17 years have been
manufactured by LEDtronics to be retrofitted
to existing track lighting fixtures throughout
the galleries. Appropriate foot candles are regulated by use of filters devised by Farnsworth
assistant superintendent Aedan Jordan. The
new lighting system will provide budget relief
and will promote a healthier environment by
reducing energy use by the Farnsworth as a result of this project. Cost savings due to a reduction in man-hours for bulb replacement, electrical bills, cooling of heat load generated by
conventional bulbs, and landfill waste are significant. By Jordan’s estimates, the museum’s
reduction in kilowatt usage of 104,392 hours
annually eliminates 115,562 pounds of Co2
production, and may be likened to the equivalent of planting 2408 trees every year the LED
lamps are in use. •
Vol. 13, No. 2
SEEN & HEARD
Presque Historical Society
Staff Recognition
Kimberly Smith, Treasurer/Corresponding Secretary, and Billie Brodsky, volunteer, of the Presque Isle Historical Society were recently
recognized for their volunteer efforts by the Presque Isle Area Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Brodsky was named Chamber Director of the
Year, while Ms. Smith was named Citizen of the Year for her enthusiastic leadership of Presque Isle’s 2009 Sesquicentennial and her untiring participation in the historical society.
LEFT: From left to right: Billie Brodsky, Chamber director Theresa
Fowler, and Kimberly Smith.
Events & Exhibits
continued from page 10
Early Shipwrights Along the Damariscotta
Lecture by historical archaeologist Tim Dinsmore. $5 donation or free to members.
Sunday, September 5, 1 & 3 p.m.
Castlebay in Concert: Season’s End
Celtic music performed outdoors by popular
local duo Fred Gosbee and Julia Lane. Rain
date: Sept. 6. Donations welcome.
Tour of the 1910 Hall House and
Historic New England Program
June 26, 2010, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Join us as we celebrate the 100th anniversaries
of Bethel’s Hall House—a Craftsman-style residence in Bethel recently added to the National
Register of Historic places—and Historic New
England (formerly the Society for the Preser-
November 2009 Lincoln
Bicentennial
Exhibits in Castine
Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made in
America, a traveling exhibit from the
Presidential Library and Museum in
Springfield, Illinois, featured reproduction artifacts in seven kiosks. Initiated by the Wilson Museum, hosted
at the Castine Historical Society, and
made possible by many individuals and organizations in and around
Castine, the one-month collaboration included five additional exhibits
highlighting the local context of the
Lincoln era. Artifacts and books were
loaned by the Bangor Museum and
History Center, Deer Isle/Stonington
Historical Society, Wilson Museum,
Penobscot Marine Museum, and
Brooksville Historical Society, along
with 50 other organizations and individuals. Over 1400 people visited, and
the local exhibits are being extended
for 2010-2011 seasons.
RIGHT (top): Castine Historical Society exhibit hall.
vation of New England Antiquities). From 1 to
3 p.m., enjoy a tour of the 1910 Hall House on
Kilborn Street (off Chapman Street; watch for
signs). Following the tour, there will be a presentation in the Mason House exhibit hall by
Peggy Konitzky, Maine Site administrator for
Historic New England, entitled Society for the
Preservation of New England Antiquities/Historic New England, 1910-2010: A Centenary
Perspective. Free, but donations accepted. For
more information, 800-824-2910, www.bethelhistorical.org. •
Vol. 13, No. 2
RIGHT (bottom): Detail of desk in Noah Brooks library exhibit.
Photographs © 2009 Nancy Robinson Watson.
Women’s History Month
On March 27, 2010, the Bethel Historical Society celebrated Women’s History Month by inviting several local women who served in various branches of the military services to discuss their
careers, some extending back to World War II. The role of women in the military has changed
dramatically since the 1940s, and this forum was designed to capture first-hand accounts of the
challenges women have faced since that time.
Collections storage at the Robinson House has been greatly improved by the purchase of metal
shelving with funds recently provided by a Davis Family Foundation grant. •
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Norlands Rising From the Ashes
O
Part One of Three Articles
by Kathleen Beauregard, Executive Director, Washburn-Norlands Living History Center
ne never knows where he or she will
be when disaster strikes. When an accidental fire destroyed two buildings
at the Washburn-Norlands Living History
Center (Norlands), we found that it was the
people around us who made all the difference
in the success of the museum’s recovery. With
a small staff team, we joined forces with the
community to implement restoration and reconstruction activities and, in the process, improved our management systems and expanded
our programmatic vision. It’s difficult, in the
aftermath of a tragic loss, to see the opportunities, but that frame of mind has been our rudder
over the past two years.
In this first of a three-part series of articles
about the lessons we learned, I will describe
how the community stepped forward during a
time of transition and stayed to become a part
of Norlands’ bright future.
In late April, 2008, an 80-foot barn at the oldest
living history farm in Maine caught fire near a
pen holding a sow and her piglets. Their lives
and that of several chickens were lost in the fire,
which was believed to have started at a heat
lamp in the pen. Fire departments from eleven communities responded to the alarm, and
through their heroic efforts the attached 1867
Washburn mansion and kitchen were saved.
The barn, which was not the original structure,
and the attached “farmers cottage,” which had
been renovated numerous times over its lifetime, were completely gone, save one oil lamp,
a bean pot, a period dress, an anvil, one bridle,
and a drawer full of china and linens. The next
morning, hundreds of barn swallows circled
the aftermath looking for home. And then, the
phone started ringing. And people started coming by.
They came with work gloves on. They came
to a rural museum in Livermore, Maine, which
was in the process of developing a volunteerbased organizational structure. The came to
help a living history center that had touched
the lives of a hundred thousand Maine school
children since the mid-1970s through its innovative history education programs and preservation of local nineteenth-century lore. They
came with their talents, resources, memories,
and hope.
Norlands is a small museum, organizationally, though it contains numerous historic
nineteenth-century buildings. Staff and vol14
museum doesn’t have a disaster plan, this
would be one great reason to do it now.
Photo by Ryan Burnham
unteer turnover and scattered documentation
over the organization’s 35-plus years had left it
with incomplete knowledge of the collections
and buildings. So in the first days after the fire
when damage and loss had to be assessed, the
many people who “came back” to Norlands
and generously shared their memories and
evidence of inventories and architecture were
invaluable. We were not prepared to manage
the recovery. Without a disaster plan in place,
we simply went to work, established a team of
two part-time staff, and created a flow chart for
duties and decision-making related to assessment, conservation, restoration, rebuilding,
and management of volunteers.
Going forward in my life, whenever I might
feel the angst of “juggling priorities,” I can always look back with pride for surviving those
first months of the recovery—a whirlwind of
priority-setting and quick decisions. If your
Washburn-Norlands Living History Center is a nonprofit museum dedicated to
preserving the heritage and traditions of
rural life in Maine’s past, to celebrate the
achievements of Livermore’s Washburn
family, and to use living history methods
to make values, issues, and activities of
the past relevant to present and future
generations.
The 445-acre property is comprised of
working land and buildings relating to
the site’s role as the nineteenth-century
homestead of the Washburn family. It
includes a preserved 1828 Universalist
meeting house, the Washburn’s mansion,
an 1885 granite library built by the Washburn brothers, eighteenth-century cape,
sap house, carriage house, and restored
one-room school house.
We were fortunate. People came to our aid. Local volunteers cleaned and sorted through the
rubble. Local contractors worked on water and
mold mitigation, extensive roof repairs, and interior damage to the frame and plaster walls.
Professional conservators quickly helped us design a recovery plan and a team of conservators
assessed and conserved damaged collections.
Norlands had reconnected with professional
museum networks. Conservators of textiles,
oil paintings, furniture, and stenciled ceilings
coached us and inspired us to expand our practices and knowledge, and now, two years later,
we are implementing a newly designed collections management system and supporting software.
Volunteers stepped forward on the night of the
fire, carrying the collections out of the mansion into the Universalist Meeting House on
the museum grounds for safe-keeping. Over
the past two years, we have witnessed a steady
stream of generosity in the form of fundraisers organized by children, quilters, musicians,
and living historians and work groups who
have painted, renewed the gardens and trails,
restored the collections, and hunted for replacement artifacts or materials for the renovation
and rebuilding.
People came to help Norlands rise from the
ashes and stayed to rebuilt its future. We have
recently expanded our staff with a historic
farmer. Our volunteer team has grown to 47
people, clocking 3800 hours in 2009. That team
includes the living historians/interpreters who
have continued to implement Norlands’ history education programs for Maine schoolchildren and offered guided tours of the museum
throughout the recovery period.
Now, as the spring of 2010 unfolds, the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center Board of
Trustees is poised to reconstruct a replica of
the historic “farmers cottage” and to pour the
foundation for a barn, which has been designed
based on the evidence of the original barn built
circa 1867, when the Washburn mansion was
constructed. Volunteer and community involvement in the construction and barn-raising is in
the beginning stages or coordination. Please
watch our website for updates on the reconstruction and related fundraising goals: www.
norlands.org. •
Vol. 13, No. 2
MAINE ARCHIVES & MUSEUMS
PURPOSE
Maine Archives and Museums is a membership organization whose purpose
is to develop and foster a network of citizens and institutions in Maine who
identify, collect, interpret and/or provide access to materials relating to history and culture.
MEMBERSHIP
Students, trustees, volunteers, entry-level or experienced paid and unpaid
professionals, museum and historical society members, the interested public
and service providers — all are welcome as members of MAM.
BENEFITS
Quarterly Newsletter
Provides information on funding opportunities; books and publications;
statewide museum, historical society, archives news and activities; shared
resources; all-volunteer organizations; ideas that work in Maine; computers;
conservation; technical questions; ethical matters.
Listings
On the Department of Tourism’s Internet/World Wide Web
Home Page (free!).
Annual Conference
Opportunities to gather with fellow professionals, volunteers and other colleagues in the state to share ideas, network and review and acquire the skills
to manage our state’s cultural resources.
Regional Workshops
Conference topics listed above are also available as local and regional
workshops to make attendance easier and to tailor needs to local issues and
groups of societies, museums and archives.
Vol. 13, No. 2
Discounts on Museum and Archival Supplies
Offered to all MAM members by Brodart, Gaylord, and University Products.
JOIN/RENEW TODAY!
Your support and participation enable MAM to provide ever-improved
services to Maine’s cultural community of historical societies, archives,
museums and galleries. We have very important work to do. By working
together, we can realize our vital dreams and visions.
★ JOIN MAINE’S CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS E-MAIL LIST!
This is a great opportunity to share with others what we are all doing and to
get information about problems, resources, grant opportunities, and more.
Maine’s cultural community has an e-mail based discussion forum available through the Internet. Intended for archives, museum, historical society,
preservation, arts, library, etc., organizations, their professional staff and
active volunteers, the Maine Cultural Organization List Serve is a way of
keeping in touch. If you’re not familiar with this type of thing, it’s a way of
sending an e-mail message to everyone who has joined “the list.” When you
join, you also receive any message posted to the list by others. You can read,
ignore, or respond as you please. You need to subscribe before you can send
and receive list messages.
To subscribe, point your web browser to <http://lists.maine.edu/archives/
mcultr-l.html>. Click on “Join or leave the list,” and follow the directions.
Then, whenever you send mail to the list at <[email protected].
edu>, all subscribers will see your message and will be able to respond to
the list in general or to your own address. If you have problems subscribing,
e-mail <[email protected]>.
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OPPORTUNITIES
Maine Civil War Trail Project
Project Description
As a component of the state’s Civil War Sesquicentennial commemoration, 2011-2015, this proposed project will create a guide to museums
having exhibits in 2013 related to the Civil War, 1861-1865. These sites
may include, but will not be limited to, museums, historical societies,
muster fields, homes of important individuals, underground railroad,
Confederate incursions (yes, they invaded Maine twice), cemeteries,
mills, shipyards, G.A.R. and regimental halls, and churches.
The project will be comprised of the following activities:
•Museums/historical societies throughout the state will be asked if
they will mount Civil War related exhibits in 2013. Each institution
that participates will be responsible for funding its exhibit and any
corresponding programs. Each will be included in the trail materials that will be produced.
•A stand-alone website (not attached to another organization’s website) will be created. All participating sites will be included on the
website. Each may link their own organization’s website to the trail
website. The website will provide links to each site’s website. The
website will be user-friendly and easy to maintain.
•A brochure, including a map, will be created that will contain images and descriptions of each site, contact information, and directions to the site. The brochure and/or map should contain a brief
introduction to Maine’s role in the Civil War and acknowledge
project sponsors and funding sources.
•The Project Director will oversee fundraising and publicity.
•The possibility of a publication and a Maine Civil War symposium
will be discussed with participating museums.
Project Timeline
•Spring 2010—contact museums/historical societies to determine
who is interested.
•Spring 2010—locate professional fundraiser.
•Summer 2010—develop budget and full proposal; determine marketing and distribution strategy; engage fundraiser.
•Fall 2010—begin fundraising; begin gathering needed images and
information.
•2011—create text; hire graphic designer; hire website designer
(could be same person).
•2011—finalize designs.
•2012—launch website; print brochure and/or map; implement marketing plan; distribute printed materials in time for 2012 summer
season.
For more information, contact:
Kimberly A. MacIsaac, Executive Director
Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, Peaks Island, Maine
207-766-3330 •
Ethel “Billie” Gammon
History Education Scholarship Fund
Offered
The life and work of Ethel “Billie” Gammon, founder of the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center (Norlands), is being honored
with the establishment of a scholarship fund in her name.
In 2010, on the first anniversary of Billie’s passing, the Norlands
Board of Trustees established the Ethel “Billie” Gammon History
Education Scholarship Fund to honor her bottomless enthusiasm
for history education by providing support in her name for “learning
through fun.”
One $1000 scholarship will be awarded each year to a Maine High
School Senior who has been to Norlands and is planning to pursue
a field that can be related to the mission of the Norlands, which includes history (but could also include American studies), education,
museum studies, sustainable agriculture, and so on. No later than
May 1, applicants for the statewide $1000 scholarship must complete a simple application and submit an essay of 300-500 words
about how the Norlands relates to and/or has impacted their interests and their life plans. Applications are available on our website
(www.norlands.org) or by phoning 897-4366. •
Send news directly to MAM Newsletter Editor, PO Box 5024, Augusta, ME 04332-024 • [email protected] • 207-441-1410

May 2010 - Maine Archives and Museums

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