BETHEL — On November 15th, Executive Director Tara Kelly, Preservation Manager Brad Miller and Jonathan Hall, field services manager at Maine Preservation in Yarmouth, met Will Chapman, Bethel Historical Society executive director for a tour around downtown Bethel and the Broad Street historic district. The Maine Preservation staff spent the day in Bethel visiting with […]
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Ceremony held to recognize two Jay men who participated in the Boston Tea Party
Commemorative markers were placed on the gravesites of Jonathan Parker and James Starr.
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Oxford’s schoolhouse makes Most Endangered Historic Places list
The 1857 building on Pigeon Hill closed in 1940.
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Overseers of the poor: Ending the ‘town farm’ experiment
The Great Depression changed the face of poverty. The Social Security Act changed the quality of life for many poor. Twentieth-century improvements to institutional welfare programs put an end to the almshouse for good.
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Kennebunkport’s ‘Renaissance man’ honored at age 105
Frank Handlen has been a prolific artist, shipwright, sculptor and rock of the community for decades.
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Chapman promoted to BHS executive director
BETHEL — William Chapman is the new executive director of the Bethel Historical Society. Chapman started his career by entering a library program at the University of Maine at Augusta, online. Simultaneously, he took a job at the Auburn Public library as a Reference Assistant. As a Reference Assistant, he helped anyone with questions, or […]
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Bates College professor among featured guests for ‘Stories from the Stage’ season premiere
9/11 rememberance
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Deeds and research lead to discovery of lost historic Augusta cemetery
An abandoned city-owned cemetery found in the woods between Riverside Drive and the Kennebec River in Augusta contains graves of Civil and Revolutionary war soldiers.
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How four teenagers drowned at Lake Auburn in 1869
A day of frolic turned into one of area’s worst tragedies on a sunny July Saturday.