LIVERMORE — Norlands Living History Center is accepting applications for the 2021 Gammon History Education Scholarship Awards.

The year-two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to qualifying high school seniors or students with equivalent education credentials.

To be eligible, students must be from Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford or Kennebec counties and have plans to enroll in post-secondary studies with an historical component upon high school graduation. Qualifying students must submit a 500-word essay titled “History Is …” to Norlands by June 30.

A selection committee will begin the review process in July, and award recipients will be notified by Aug. 15. For more information, visit norlands.org/latest-news or call 207-897-4366.

The center is a nonprofit museum, farm and archive. It is Maine’s oldest living history center and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Norlands’ mission is to preserve the heritage and traditions of rural life in Maine’s past, celebrate the achievements of Livermore’s Washburn family and use living history methods to make the values, activities, and issues of the past relevant to present and future generations.