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Making the Most ofw
2020 MAINE BICENTENNIAL
This 1920 centennial parade float was described as the “Pilgrim Trading Post,” established on the Kennebec in 1628. Courtesy of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. STORY ON PAGE 10.
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Maine Archives and MuseumsMAM Newsletter
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OFFICERSPresident: Raney BenchVice President: Heather MoranSecretary: Lorraine DeLaneyTreasurer: Jennifer Pye
BOARD MEMBERSEllen Dyer Howard LowellGretchen Faulkner Tammy MarksLeigh Hallett Jennifer PyeSusan LaGasse David O. SmithSheri Leahan Kimberly Smith
Deborah Staber
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TABLE OF CONTENTSMaking the Most of the 2020 Maine Bicentennial by Tim Garrity ........................................ Cover
MAM NEWS: 2016 Annual Conference ................................................................................ 3
DISPATCHES ......................................................................................................................... 3
SEEN & HEARD ..................................................................................................................... 4
Woodlawn Receives $4 Million Matching Grant for Multi-Purpose Facility........................ 5
Lincoln County Historical Association Hires Executive Director .......................................... 6
Reaching the Homeschooling Community by Raylene M. Hunt ........................................... 7
Experience Maritime Maine Begins 2016 Season with New Coordinator ............................ 8
Uncovering History at the L.C. Bates Museum by Samuel Reed and Makhieba Simon ....... 9
Woodlawn, A Look Within: A New Book on Woodlawn ........................................................ 12
NEXT ISSUE: NOVEMBER 2016Only submissions received by the Editors by September 30, 2016,
will be considered for publication.
Susan Lagasse Erin Rhodes [email protected] [email protected]
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that enables us to continue to offer a world-class experience to visitors from around the world,” said Executive Director Amy Lent.
Maine Maritime Museum is an independent, nonprofit institution dedicated to promot-ing an understanding and appreciation of Maine’s maritime heritage through gallery exhibits, a historic shipyard, educational programs, a research Library, and narrated excursions along area waterways. Found-ed in 1962, the museum is nestled along the Kennebec River in Bath, “The City of Ships,” and provides a unique experience to visitors of all ages. Call 207-443-1316 or visit www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org for more information.
CASTINEMaja Trivia, the game of local history, has completed its fourth year! This game is de-signed to teach middle school students in Brooksville, Castine, and Penobscot their local history. These three towns were once a single township known as Majabigwaduce, which is where the game gets its name. Maja Trivia was developed by Wilson Museum with collaboration from the Brooksville,
MAM NEWS
DISPATCHESOur members report on news, awards and achievements from throughout the state.
BATHIn recent weeks, Maine Maritime Muse-um was awarded three grants totaling more than $85,000, including a $50,000 National Maritime Grant, which will help fund a new, immersive exhibit anticipated to open sum-mer 2017.
Into the Lantern, a full-scale replication of the Cape Elizabeth Two Lights lighthouse tower lantern room, will allow visitors to see the original second-order Fresnel lens from the west tower at Two Lights and experience the environment of the lantern room through time-lapsed video projections featuring a panorama of the Gulf of Maine that will change with the weather and seasons. This exhibit will be the first of its kind anywhere.
The museum also received a $35,000 grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Founda-tion in memory of U.S. Navy Commander Raymond G. Spruce to fund the purchase of new chairs for Long Reach Hall, and a $1,500 grant from the West Marine–Blue-Future Fund to help support the museum’s Discovery Boatbuilding Program.
These grants are critical in advancing the museum’s mission of preserving Maine’s unique maritime culture and educating peo-ple about the significance of Maine’s mari-time heritage. The awards reflect a vote of confidence in the work the museum is doing to preserve and celebrate this unique facet of Maine’s culture.
“Our maritime heritage is deeply important both culturally and economically, and we’re incredibly grateful for the financial support
Castine, and Penobscot Historical Societ-ies and through cooperation with the local schools. Each year Wilson Museum staff and volunteers go in to local classrooms once a month to introduce the students to the mate-rial, and the year-long pursuit culminates in the Tournament of Champions at the Wilson Museum. This year 73 students played Maja Triva, and the Tournament showed the dedi-cation of the students across the three towns with a student from each school placing in the top three.
SKOWHEGANThe Margaret Chase Smith Library has awarded Elizabeth Harrington the first place prize of $1,000 in the twentieth annual Mar-garet Chase Smith Essay Contest. The theme this year was presidential leadership. Eliza-beth was a senior at Dexter Regional High School and will be headed to the University of Maine at Farmington in the fall. •
2016 ANNUAL CONFERENCEMark your calendars now for a truly historic occasion! Maine Archives and Museums will hold its annual con-ference on Friday, October 14, at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine at Orono. This year’s theme is “His Story, Her Story, Our Story: Making Meaning of Your Collections,” featuring Keynote Speaker Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Ulrich, an American historian of early America and the history of women and professor at Harvard University, is a Pulitzer Prize winner for history as author of A Midwife’s Tale (1991). Wikipedia nailed the description by saying “her innovative and widely influential approach to history has been described as a tribute to ‘the silent work of ordinary people,’ which the author herself says aims to ‘show the interconnection between public events and private experience.’” •
The six students who advanced to the final round in the 4th Maja Trivia Tournament of Champions at the Wilson Museum.
Elizabeth Harrington
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Maine Archives & Museums2016 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BOARD MEMBERSPresident: Raney Bench (2012)
Seal Cove Auto Museum1414 Tremont Rd.
Seal Cove, ME 04674 Phone: 207-244-9242
Vice President: Heather Moran (2012)
Walsh History Center, Camden Public Library55 Main Street
Camden, ME 04843Phone: 207-236-3440
Secretary: Lorraine DeLaney (2014)
Colby College Museum of Art5600 Mayflower HillWaterville, ME 04901Phone: [email protected]
Treasurer: Jennifer Pye (2014)
Monhegan Historical & Cultural Museum1 Lighthouse Hill
Monhegan, ME 04852Phone: 207-596-7003
museum.monheganmuseum.org
Ellen Dyer (2013)Museum Consultant81 Bobolink LaneThomaston, ME 04861Phone: [email protected]
Gretchen Faulkner (2013)Hudson Museum 5746 Collins Center for the Arts University of Maine Orono, ME 04469-5746 Phone: [email protected]
Leigh Hallett (2011)Maine Federation ofFarmers’ Markets113 North Lancey StreetPittsfield, ME 04967Phone: [email protected]
Susan LaGasse (2014)Non-Profit Consultant65 Jameson Point RoadRockland, ME 04841Phone: [email protected]
Sheri Leahan (2011)Independent Museum Professional35 Cummings Hill RoadTemple, ME 04984Phone: 207-779-4445 [email protected]
Howard Lowell (2015)Independent Museum [email protected]
Tammy MarksMaine State Archives230 State Street84 State House StationAugusta, ME 04333Phone: [email protected]
David O. Smith (2013)Kennebec Valley Community College Archives 92 Western Avenue Fairfield, ME 04937-1367 Phone: [email protected]
Kimberly Smith (2015)Presque Isle Historical Society16 Third St, Presque Isle, ME [email protected]
Deborah Staber (2012)L C Bates MuseumP.O. Box 159Hinckley, ME 04944Phone: [email protected]
(In parentheses after each name is the year the board member began serving his/her term.
A board member can serve up to three successive two-year terms.)
SEEN & HEARD
Two local bands played acoustic music to a packed house for the April Fools Coffee House at the Wilson Museum in a wonderful performance that introduced new people to the Museum and left the audience asking for more.
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ELLSWORTH: Woodlawn is pleased to announce that it has received a $4 million matching grant from a private foundation and other donors to support its Campaign for Woodlawn, a fundraising effort to fund a multi-purpose facility on the 180 acre estate. The building project will provide spaces for Woodlawn’s educational and recreational programs, visitor services, event, exhibition and organizational support spaces. It will also provide the community with needed space for gatherings, meetings and functions.
The Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, Woodlawn’s governing board, has worked closely over the past two years with Oudens Ello Architecture and ConsultEcon, an economic and management consulting firm, to map out a long-term vision and create a Master Plan for Woodlawn. The Master Plan, funded by a private foundation, has in its first phase three elements: the re-establishment of the estate’s carriage barn, the renovation of the Ell attached to the historic house, and conversion of the Sleigh Barn into a visitor center. These elements combined will solve Woodlawn’s pressing space needs, create new revenue opportunities and satisfy a community need.
The Trustee’s goal in the development of the Master Plan was to create a space that both preserves Woodlawn’s heritage and ensures its future. While the plan and design are not yet finalized, visitors can rest assured that when coming onto the property they will see a carriage barn that is a replica of the existing façade. The old barn will be carefully deconstructed and original materials that are still structurally sound will be reincorporated into the new structure. The added space will replicate the footprint of the original barn, which in early photographs show it extending off the end of the current structure towards where the walking trails begin. According to Woodlawn’s executive director, Joshua Torrance, “The estimated total price for the project is $8.2 million, however that is not to say we are building an $8 million barn.” Torrance explains the total figure includes the cost of building construction, site work and renovations of existing structures as well as soft costs that include design work, permitting, and contingencies. It also includes a significant endowment. “This grant, matching every donation dollar for dollar up to $4 million, is thrilling for us. It
Woodlawn Receives $4 Million Matching Grant for Multi-Purpose Facility
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Lincoln County Historical Association
Hires Executive DirectorLincoln County Historical Association is pleased to announce that Kerry Cushing has been selected to be its new Executive Director. No stranger to Lincoln County or nonprofit operations, the Newcastle
Kerry Cushing, newly appointed executive director of Lincoln County Historical Association
allows us to move forward on this exciting project after several years of strategic planning and assessment. It’s going to be great for Woodlawn and transformative for Ellsworth.” Donations to the Campaign for Woodlawn can be sent to Woodlawn, PO Box 1478, Ellsworth ME, 04605. Gifts are tax deductible as Woodlawn is governed by the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, a 501(c)(3). Woodlawn is an educational, cultural, and recreational treasure for the people of Downeast Maine. The main house is open for tours May 1 - October 31 and December 1 - 23. The public park is open year round, sunrise to sunset. 19 Black House Drive (off of the Surry Road – Rt. 172), Ellsworth, ME. For more information visit www.woodlawnmuseum.org. •
Woodlawn Grant, continued from page 5
resident comes to LCHA from Lincoln Academy, where she has been for many years the Development Coordinator of Giving and Alumni.
At LCHA Kerry’s primary duties will be to strengthen the association’s financial base, develop the membership program, and assist in routine LCHA business. Ed Kavanagh, president of the LCHA Board of Trustees, expressed the enthusiasm of the entire search committee when he stated, “We are confident that Kerry has the experience, the energy, and the temperament to excel at these crucial tasks.”
Kerry holds a B.A. in German, summa cum laude 1989, from Radford University, Va., and she received a certificate in German Language and Philosophy from Kassel University, Germany, in 1988. She has also studied at Bates College. Prior to her employment at Lincoln Academy, she gained valuable experience in the Development Office of the Maine Maritime Museum.
Kerry will spend part of her time during the summer months in the LCHA office at the Old Jail and Museum on Federal Street in Wiscasset. She can be reached at 207-882-6817 or [email protected].
The Lincoln County Historical Association is steward of the 1754 Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, the 1761 Pownalborough Court House in Dresden, and the 1811 Old Jail and Museum in Wiscasset. All three are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For more information, please visit www.lincolncountyhistory.org. •
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As a member of the Board of Trustees at the Camden-Rockport Historical Society, I recently had the privilege of attending two
of the Maine Archives and Museums’ workshops on creating and promoting exhibits. During these workshops, the topic of reaching the homeschooling community came up. It was suggested that this is a difficult group to reach. I was surprised by this, and realized that there is an incredible opportunity for MAM members and for the homeschooling community to help each other. I hope that as you read this article it will inspire you with some ideas to help you draw more homeschooling families to your organization.
Homeschoolers are a unique and diverse group of individuals who are tailoring their educational experience to meet the needs of the stu-dent. They are not bound by learning standards and testing schedules the way public school educators and students are. As a member of MAM, you are in a unique position to reach out to and draw in these students through your archives and exhibits. Homeschoolers must cover social studies, but how they choose to do that is up to them. Textbooks are generally not the first choice for this course of study. Homeschooling families are more often looking for hands-on, inter-
active, real life experiences to fulfill this requirement. Designing a program that offers students an opportunity to interact with artifacts and documents is just one way to appeal to the homeschool audience. Setting aside one day a month, offering a discount on admission, spe-cifically for homeschooling families is another. Pick a mid-week day when there is generally low public attendance. Many homeschoolers like the option of having the space to themselves, as they explore and discover the environment around them. Design a simple unit study that gives them information and activities related to your exhibit or collections. This is a way for families to prepare ahead of time or extend activities beyond their visit to your facilities. There are a lot more creative ways to draw from this audience, but these basic ones can provide a spring board for the coming academic year.
Homeschoolers of Maine (HOME) is the largest homeschooling organization in the State of Maine. Planning field trips to edu-
cational and historical sites is part of the services that they provide. HOME is currently planning quarterly field trips for the 2016-2017 academic year that include sites that are MAM members. Each year in March, HOME has an annual convention. This is an opportunity where MAM members could showcase their organizations as ex-hibitors, and talk not only with individual homeschooling families but with homeschool group leaders who are planning their activities for the year ahead. Interactive booths that spark interest and inspire students inevitably lead to families planning curriculum around and visits to various locations. In 2015, both the Telephone Museum in Ellsworth and the State Aquarium offered exceptional hands-on ex-periences for event goers. Attendees left the event asking if these exhibitors would return in 2016. This kind of promotion is invalu-able to any organization looking to increase their visibility in the local community or the state at large. Additionally, there is a page on HOME’s website where anyone can list upcoming events free of charge, as long as that event would be of interest to the homeschool-ing community.
If you are interested in partnering with Homeschoolers of Maine to plan a program for the homeschooling community in your area or in the state at large, please contact them at [email protected].
ABOUT THE AUTHORRaylene M. Hunt is a member of the Board of Trustees
at the Camden-Rockport Historical Society, a member of Homeschoolers of Maine’s Leadership Team,
and a homeschooling mom of 15 years who teaches classes in natural history and Maine Studies
for homeschoolers. You can contact Raylene at [email protected]. •
Reaching the Homeschooling Communityby Raylene M. Hunt
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SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE —Experience Maritime Maine, a multi-regional partnership of maritime-related organizations, business-es, and coastal communities is pleased to announce that it has contracted with Jessica Skwire Routhier to coordinate project activ-ities through the end of 2016. Routhier will plan and lead meetings, provide fiscal man-agement and oversight, work to grow funding and infrastructure, and act as the public point person for this ongoing initiative to promote and preserve Maine’s unique maritime cul-ture through heritage tourism efforts.
“We are so pleased to have Jessica on board,” said Liz Lodge, director of the Penobscot Ma-rine Museum in Searsport, which acts as the project’s lead organization. “She has a prov-en dedication to promoting and supporting Maine’s incomparable cultural assets, and she
brings significant nonprofit leadership expe-rience to the table.”
Routhier is an independent museum profes-sional, nonprofit consultant, copy editor, and arts writer based in South Portland, Maine. She was the coordinator of the Maine Photo Project in 2015 and has held past positions at Maine Archives and Museums, the Saco Museum, and the Portland Museum of Art. Her contract will run through December 13, 2016, allowing her to coordinate partner leadership meetings throughout the remain-der of the year. She will also help to plan a wider event open to all Experience Maritime Maine participant organizations on a date to be determined this fall.
Experience Maritime Maine (EMM) is a free travel planning resource for visitors to Maine. The EMM website is a collection of the very best of Maine’s maritime and coast-al lifestyle activities organized in an easy-to-use format to help visitors plan their Maine vacation.
Among EMM’s major initiatives are:
• Its participant-driven, interactive website, featuring all Maine has to offer, such as visits to historic sites and museums, fam-ily-fun festivals, celebrations of coastal food, outdoor recreation, art installations, genealogical research, and scenic travel.
• A series of audio story podcasts (produced by longtime documentary radio and story producer Rob Rosenthal), intended to tell the story and deepen the understanding of life along the Coast of Maine.
• Public forums in coastal Maine commu-nities, designed to gather stories and de-
termine how EMM can better serve these vibrant maritime communities.
• Coming in 2016-17: Pre-planned trip itin-eraries, accessible through EMM’s web-site, that will help travel writers find top-ics and plan a Maine experience they can share with their readers.
EMM was developed by a number of part-nering organizations from across the state (who now form the Advisory Group), in-cluding the Maine Coast Fisherman’s As-sociation, Abbe Museum, Maine Office of Tourism, Maine Midcoast Chamber, and more. The project is funded by the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation, the Maine Office of Tourism, and the Maine Community Foun-dation with the additional support of partner funders, including Downeast Acadia Region, Maine Maritime Museum, Maine Sea Grant, Greater Portland Convention and Visitors’ Bureau, Mid-Coast Chamber Council, Maine Windjammer Association, Penobscot Marine Museum, Tides Institute and Museum of Art, and the WoodenBoat School. •
Experience Maritime Maine Begins 2016 Season with New CoordinatorIndependent museum professional Jessica Skwire Routhier will coordinate project activities through the end of the year.
ABOUT Experience Maritime Maine
Developed by organizations from across the state,
Experience Maritime Maine is a multi-regional initiative
created to encourage maritime-related tourism
by enlivening and strengthening the public sense of the
vast and exciting array of maritime experiences available in Maine. Learn more about
Experience Maritime Maine at
www.experiencemaritimemaine.org.
Jessica Skwire Routhier
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This summer, the Colby College Center for the Arts and Humanities has sponsored our internships at the L.C. Bates Museum in Hinckley, Me. Both hailing from out of state (Colby alum Samuel Reed, ’16, from Stamford, Conn., and New York native Makhieba Simon, ’18), we are spending our summer in Maine researching, and cataloging the museum’s extensive collection of Southeast Asian ceramics. Much of our work involves dating artifacts from the collection, many of which are from the 15th–18th centuries and are of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai origins. Among the more interesting pieces we have worked on are a Chinese polychrome jar depicting Taoist symbols and a Vietnamese jarlet that we believe may be from a burial site. Our research also includes deciphering the various graphic and symbolic markings used by Southeast Asian potters.
As humanities majors (Makhieba, a current history major, and Sam, with a B.A. in English), we each contribute a unique perspective to the complex interconnectedness of daily life, art, and the politics of global trade in Southeast Asia during the 15th–18th centuries. Working at an eclectic museum like L.C. Bates allows us to do some serious interdisciplinary learning outside of our comfort zones. Each day it seems impossible to avoid coming across strange and new knowledge about art, natural history, and science from our colleagues, who bring their own wide range of experience to the museum. We are thankful to both L.C. Bates and Colby’s Center for the Arts and Humanities for giving us this opportunity to grow, learn, and discover. •
Uncovering History at the L.C. Bates Museumby Samuel Reed and Makhieba Simon
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First: Centennial celebrations tend to have a short shelf life. 100 years from now, our historical interpretations will seem quaint, like the histories of the centennial era seem to us now. The 1920 centennial was characterized by a boundless pride in Maine and in America. The official centennial history declared: The struggle to subdue the wild, to uproot the forest and plant the farm, to harness the rivers and make them giants of industry, the story of war and the courage displayed by the men of Maine and the women also from the skirmish with the Indian to participation in the world war should be known, understood, and appreciated by every citizen.1 Today we would contest, or at least qualify, every point of pride. Theirs was the crisp narrative of the frontier: a precise line of civilization advancing through the forest. Now the thin line has become a broad zone where contending forces, each with their own interests and agency, worked out their coexistence. Over the next century, our historical interpretations will also require revisions.
The second point is that future historians will expose our nearsighted views of the present. For example, in 1919, while preparations for the centennial were underway, the notorious film, “Birth of a Nation,” played to big crowds throughout Maine and the United States, and led to the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. In a few years hooded Klansmen were marching, holding rallies, and burning crosses from Island Falls to Kittery. The rising of the Klan in Maine is an appalling piece of our history, not because the Klan ran riot, but because so many found its tenets appealing and signed up. We too must have our blind spots. Over the next century, the historical significance of current events will become clearer.
Which brings me to my third and last point. There is one thing we can do that will be appreciated a century from now. We can prevent the loss of Maine’s historical archives. The collections at big repositories like the Maine Historical Society and Maine State Archives are in good shape. But scores of small historical societies do not have the means to catalog and protect their collections. A dwindling number of heroic but aging volunteers will not be able to carry out their work indefinitely and there aren’t enough young people to replace them. In many, building maintenance has been deferred and the structures and contents are vulnerable to fire and climate. Maine’s greatest challenges of archival backlog, collection management, and building preservation are centered in the small historical societies and the loss of their archives would be irreparable. But if those archives were cataloged, preserved, and digitized they would be of immense value to future generations, no matter what they think of our quaint interpretations of history and present-day myopia. To celebrate the bicentennial, we should assess the condition, accessibility, and safety of all Maine’s archives, and determine what actions would most effectively preserve them for the tricentennial. David Lowenthal wrote, “Linking the living, the dead, and those to come as a continuing community, we become responsible for the past in its entirety.”2 Think of Maine as a community characterized by people, place, and stretching across generations. In celebration of the bicentennial, we can act not just for today, but for yesterday and tomorrow. We should put Maine’s historical records into safe places, where the future will find them. •
Making the Most of the 2020 Maine Bicentennialcontinued from page 1
by Tim Garrity
The State of Maine was
created in 1820, and now the
bicentennial is hurtling
towards us. What should
we do to mark the year?
I’d like to make the
case for a celebration
of lasting value, in
three points.
1 Augustus O. Thomas, in Henry E. Dunnack, The Maine Book (Augusta: Maine State Library, 1920). xiii. 2 David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country, Revisited (New York: Cambridge, 2015). 22.
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ELLSWORTH: A frequently asked question by visitors to Woodlawn is if there is a book that tells the story of this historic estate. Af-ter several years in development, Woodlawn is pleased to announce that Woodlawn, A Look Within is now available in the museum gift shop and by mail order.
This colorful, informative book was pro-duced and edited by Woodlawn’s Executive Director, Joshua Torrance. The book opens with a brief Black family history and an in-troduction to George Nixon Black, Jr., who was the last owner of the estate and gave the property to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations to be kept as a public
park. It then takes the reader on a room-to-room tour through the Black House with de-scriptions and interesting historical facts on the many unique objects in the collection.
The story is enhanced with exquisite photo-graphs taken by professional photographer Walter Smalling, Jr., a professional photog-rapher specializing in historic architecture. He has a BA in fine arts, art history, and de-sign and was the photographer for the Na-tional Park Service for nine years. Smalling began painting seriously about two years ago. He enjoys the same subjects in both painting and photography and splits his time between the two mediums. Smalling has
studios in Washington, D.C., and Penobscot, Maine. To learn more about his work, visit waltersmalling.com.
To order a copy of the book, call 207-667-8671 or email [email protected].
Woodlawn is an educational, cultural, and recreational treasure for the people of Downeast Maine. The main house is open for tours May 1 – October 31 and December 1 – 23. The public park is open year round, sunrise to sunset.
19 Black House Drive (off Surry Road – Rt. 172), Ellsworth, ME. For more informa-tion, visit www.woodlawnmuseum.org. •
Woodlawn, A Look WithinA NEW BOOK ON WOODLAWN
