Lincoln County Historical Association

Summer With The Past
2023-06-27, 2023-06-26 | Chapman-Hall House, 270 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United States
Summer Day Camp at Chapman-Hall House

Jailhouse Rock
2023-06-24 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | ME
CANCELED DUE TO EXPECTED RAIN AND THUNDERSTORM CONDITIONS
Join us for live music, dancing, food, and games for the whole family at the Old Jail in Wiscasset!
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Jailhouse Rock

History From the Sheepscot
2023-06-23 08:00 - 10:00 | Wiscasset, Wiscasset, ME, 04578, United States
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Led by Scot McFarlane, PhD, this unique look at the history of the Sheepscot will be a tour from the water! Participants should be comfortable, competent, and independent in their canoe or kayak.

Docent College Session Two: Site Specific Training
2023-06-17 09:00 - 12:00, 2023-05-27 09:00 - 12:00, 2023-05-20 10:00 - 12:00 | ME
Are you a history buff? Do you love old houses? Have you always wanted to be a tour guide at a historic property but didn’t know how to start? You’re in luck! Join Lincoln County Historical Association for Docent College, a short program of classes designed to teach the basics of being a volunteer docent for any or all of our historic properties: the Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, the Old Jail in Wiscasset, and the Pownalborough Court House in Dresden. Docent College starts with an introductory class at two convenient times: Saturday, April 29th
from 9am-12pm via Zoom, or May 6th from 9am-12pm in person at Maine Tasting Center in Wiscasset. Once you have completed the introductory course, the fun really begins!

Attend additional courses to learn more about the three LCHA properties with our seasoned docents and members of our Collections Committee. With all of this knowledge under your belt you’ll be ready to volunteer at our wonderful properties and share your love of history with summer visitors. Docent College is free to attend. Register below, or visit our webpage www.lincolncountyhistory.org/docent-college for more information

Old Jail & Jailer’s House Museum, Wiscasset – May 20, 10:00am
Pownalborough Court House, Dresden – May 27, 9:00 am
Chapman-Hall House Damariscotta – June 17, 9:00 am

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Shredding at Dresden Town Office
2023-06-03 09:00 - 11:00 | Dresden Town Office, 534 Gardiner Road, Dresden, ME, 04342, United States
Bring your unwanted personal documents to the Dresden Town Office Parking Lot for safe destruction and make a donation to support the ongoing care of the irreplaceable 1761 Pownalborough Court House.

Community Day at the Museums
2023-06-03 | ME
All Lincoln County residents are invited to be our guest at all three museums on Community Day 2023. Admission is waived for tours at the 1754 Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, the 1761 Pownalborough Court House in Dresden, and at the 1811 Old Jail/1839 Jailer’s House Museum in Wiscasset.

Hours:
Chapman-Hall House and the Old Jail
noon to 4:00 pm

Pownalbourough Court House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Calling all Book Groups!
2023-05-30 13:00 - 16:00 | LCHA Museum at the Old Jail, 133 Federal St., Wiscasset, Maine
Calling all Book Groups! A special look at our women writers of Lincoln County Exhibition for members of any book groups. Book group members are invited to view the Women Writers of Lincoln County Exhibit displayed at the Old Jail Museum with exhibit coordinator Alice Smith Duncan.
This tour is sure to inspire new book ideas and future discussions within your book group.
Admission $5 per person.
Two Tours
1:00 pm & 3:00 pm

Amy Truesdell encore!
2023-05-25 17:30 | Online
We hosted Civil War author Amy Truesdell for an in-person lecture that was so good that we are bringing her back for our online audience! Don’t miss this talk! Registration Click here
Local author Amy Truesdell will discuss her new book, From Binghamton to the Battlefield: The Civil War Letters of Rollin B. Truesdell, which traces the Civil War experiences of her great-great-grandfather, an early enlistee in the Union Army. Using the 100+ letters Rollin penned for his family as a guide, Truesdell will share the arc of Rollin’s experience as he transformed from eager raw recruit to war-weary, battle-tested veteran.

Amy is a writer and consultant whose appreciation of family and cultural history led her to fulfill a long-held dream of narrating the Civil War experiences of her great-great-grandfather. Formerly she was a lead foreign affairs officer with the U.S. Department of State specializing in conflict resolution in Central and East Africa.

This talk is free and open to the public. Donations gratefully accepted to support LCHA’s ongoing work.
Register free here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpf-mppzMiHteJMMqehl64Gp9mh3FgLoy7

Shredding Onsite at Chapman-Hall House
2023-05-19 08:30 - 12:00 | Chapman-Hall House, 270 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United States
Come to the Bath Savings Bank parking lot next to Damariscotta’s Chapman-Hall House to clean out old documents like financial papers and bank statements for shredding by professionals. Volunteers will provide assistance. Bags, boxes, or even truck-loads of papers will be shredded quickly.
There is no set charge for this service, but donations to support educational programs and for the maintenance of the Chapman-Hall House are appreciated.

Docent College Session One: Fundamentals of Docenting
2023-05-06 09:00 - 12:00, 2023-04-29 09:00 - 12:00 | ME
Are you a history buff? Do you love old houses? Have you always wanted to be a tour guide at a historic property but didn’t know how to start? You’re in luck! Join Lincoln County Historical Association for Docent College, a short program of classes designed to teach the basics of being a volunteer docent for any or all of our historic properties: the Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, the Old Jail in Wiscasset, and the Pownalborough Court House in Dresden.

Docent College starts with an introductory class at two convenient times: Saturday, April 29th from 9am-12pm via Zoom, or May 6th from 9am-12pm in person at Maine Tasting Center in Wiscasset. Once you have completed the introductory course, the fun really begins!

Attend additional courses (times and dates to be announced) to learn more about the three LCHA properties with our seasoned docents and members of our Collections Committee. With all of this knowledge under your belt you’ll be ready to volunteer at our wonderful properties and share your love of history with summer visitors. Docent College is free to attend. Register below, or visit our webpage www.lincolncountyhistory.org/docent-college for more information

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Enslavement in Maine
2023-03-30 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
Preregistration (below) is required to receive the Zoom link for this program.
Learn some of the lesser told stories of our past with an overview of enslavement in Maine, beginning in the 17th century and describing its expansion in the state over two hundred years. She’ll share stories of individual enslaved people, and bring to light some of the people who experienced slavery in what is now Lincoln County.
Vana Carmona is the founder of The Prince Project, a database of over 2000 people of color who lived in Maine prior to 1800. She began researching enslavement in Maine eight years ago after she discovered that several of her ancestral New England families enslaved people of color and were also complicit in the slave trade itself. Because of her grandmother’s interest in genealogy and history, she had always known that she had descended from a number of early New England settlers. But it was only recently that Vana discovered the role they had played in enslaving kidnapped Africans.
Vana has also given presentations on her work to various local historical societies and schools and is a docent/guide for several historic sites in the Portland area, including Maine Historical Society and Spirits Alive (Eastern Cemetery, the oldest public burial ground in Portland, Maine, it has two sections of African American graves). She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and completed her Masters of Liberal Arts (focusing on Medieval History) at California State University/Sacramento.
This talk is free, but please consider a donation to help our dual goals of offering high quality programs to the public and continuing our mission of stewardship for our three irreplaceable historic buildings.
The Zoom link for this remote talk will be sent one day before the event to the email address included in the form below.

Please register using the form below. After registering, you should see a confirmation page indicating that your registration was successful. You will not receive a confirmation email, so please take note of your confirmation screen.

The link for the talk should arrive in your email the day before the talk. In some cases, you may need to check your spam folder or filter settings to make sure you can accept emails from lchamaine1954@gmail.com.

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Civil War Author Talk
2023-03-02 18:00 | Skidompha Library, 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, 04543, United States
Local author Amy Truesdell will discuss her new book, From Binghamton to the Battlefield: The Civil War Letters of Rollin B. Truesdell, which traces the Civil War experiences of her great-great-grandfather, an early enlistee in the Union Army. Using the 100+ letters Rollin penned for his family as a guide, Truesdell will share the arc of Rollin’s experience as he transformed from eager raw recruit to war-weary, battle-tested veteran. After Q&A, Truesdell will sign copies of her book which will be available for purchase for $30 each.

Amy is a writer and consultant whose appreciation of family and cultural history led her to fulfill a long-held dream of narrating the Civil War experiences of her great-great-grandfather. Formerly she was a lead foreign affairs officer with the U.S. Department of State specializing in conflict resolution in Central and East Africa.

This talk is free and open to the public, with donations at the door gratefully accepted to support Lincoln County Historical Association’s ongoing efforts to preserve and share the objects and stories of our local history with the public.

Silent Witnesses: The Architecture of Justice in Early New England
2023-02-23 17:30 - 18:30 | ME
Registration is now closed for this talk.
Colonial gaols or jails were often small, makeshift spaces, intended as holding places before criminal punishment was executed. But by the mid-nineteenth century huge institutional prison complexes were being built all over the country. Aimée Keithan examines the development of penal and judicial architecture using the Pownalborough Courthouse, Wiscasset Old Jail, and other examples to illustrate that changes in architectural design were intended to deliberately manipulate the behavior of those accused of crime, attempting to shape them into “productive” members of society.

Aimée Keithan, Ph.D. is a buildings archaeologist and architectural historian, currently working as Pejepscot History Center’s Museum Services Manager in Brunswick. She has held research fellowships at
George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Preservation of Newport County in Rhode Island. Her research focuses on using the material culture of architecture to reveal the history of marginalized populations.

Please register using the form below. After registering, you should see a confirmation page indicating that your registration was successful. You will not receive a confirmation email, so please take note of your confirmation screen.

The link for the talk should arrive in your email the day before the talk. In some cases, you may need to check your spam folder or filter settings to make sure you can accept emails from lchamaine1954@gmail.com.

Put In Their Place: Criminalizing the Other In Early New England
2023-02-16 17:30 | ME
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
Preregistration (below) is required to receive the Zoom link for this program.
Lincoln County’s history is full of stories of valour, civic leaders, and enterprising community builders.
But the area’s history was also shaped by thieves, murderers, ladies of the night, and others accused of crimes here. Then, as today, criminalization intersects with social issues like race, gender, and class. In this talk, Aimée Keithan delves into the people behind the crimes. Using Jailer’s Accounts to place the accused within the physical environment of the Wiscasset Old Jail, she shares how social biases impacted prisoners’ lives, and begins to restore the humanity and stories of individuals who history has suppressed.

About our Speaker:

Aimée Keithan, Ph.D. is a buildings archaeologist and architectural historian, currently working as Pejepscot History Center’s Museum Services Manager in Brunswick. She has held research fellowships at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Preservation of Newport County in Rhode Island. Her research focuses on using the material culture of architecture to reveal the history of marginalized populations.

Please register using the form below. After registering, you should see a confirmation page indicating that your registration was successful. You will not receive a confirmation email, so please take note of your confirmation screen now.

The link for the talk should arrive in your email the day before the talk. In some cases, you may need to check your spam folder or filter settings to make sure you can accept emails from lchamaine1954@gmail.com.

Malaga Island with Kate McBrien
2023-02-02 17:30 | Online
Courtesy of Peter K. Roberts
Maine State Archivist Kate McBrien explores the true history of the community who lived on Malaga Island, off the coast of Phippsburg, Maine, in the late 1800s with an engaging presentation and discussion. This program examines the individuals who were part of this community and the State’s actions to evict them from their homes through the complex history of racism and eugenics in Maine.

Kate McBrien currently serves as Maine State Archivist, overseeing Maine State Government’s archives and records management programs. As curator of the award winning exhibition “Malaga Island, Fragmented Lives”, Kate is also an historian for the Malaga Island community. She previously held positions as Chief Curator and Director of Public Engagement at the Maine Historical Society and as the Curator of Historic Collections for The Maine State Museum.

This program is free and open to the public, and donations are gratefully accepted. Suggested donation – $5.
Preregistration is required.
Registration for this program is closed. Thank you for your interest and please check out our upcoming offerings!

Sparks from our Stories: Discussion Project
2022-12-06 17:30 - 19:00, 2022-11-15 17:30 - 19:00, 2022-11-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Zoom
Free and open to the public!

Join us for a series of discussions with compelling readings that invite
reflection on things that really matter. A facilitator grounds and guides
each discussion, all texts are provided, and there is no charge to
participate. The discussion will be richer with you there.
Facilitated by Leigh Anne Keichline
email to register: lakeichline@gmail.com

Postponed - Dr. Heather Leslie Building on Rachel Carson's Legacy through Resilience, Science, and Practice.
2022-11-03 18:00 - 19:30 | ME
This talk will be rescheduled for 2023.
Dr. Heather Leslie Building on Rachel Carson’s Legacy through Resilience, Science, and Practice. With a welcome by Andrea Lani.
About the talk: Dr. Heather Leslie will reflect on Rachel Carson’s legacy and how it has shaped marine conservation science and practice, particularly in the face of climate change impacts on coastal marine ecosystems and human communities.
About the Speaker: Dr. Heather Leslie, Director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center and Professor, UMaine School of Marine Sciences.
Location or Zoom TBA.

Judgment Day: Historical Hauntings at the Pownalborough Court House
2022-10-29 16:30 - 20:00, 2022-10-28 16:30 - 20:00 | Pownalborough Court House, 23 Court House Rd, Dresden, ME, United States
People of all ages who appreciate a creepy Halloween activity can look forward to special haunted tours at the Pownalborough Court House from 4:30 pm – 8:00 pm on October 28th and 29th. Participants will experience a tour of the haunted court house and cemetery with hauntings provided by people portraying the ghosts of Pownalborough’s past. An outdoor fire with seating will allow guests to enjoy the grounds before or after their tour.
Tickets are $5 for children under 16 and $15 per adult.
Tours will be scheduled to begin every 15 minutes and be limited to 8 individuals.
As a reminder, the floors are uneven and there will be stairs to climb in this 18th century building.
Please be prepared to present your paid printed or digital ticket when you arrive.

ORDER TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/judgment-day-2022-tickets-425860950567

Jefferson Navicky. Elizabeth Coatsworth & Kate Barnes: Processing the Literary Archives of Mother & Daughter
2022-10-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Skidompha Library, 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, 04543, United States
Jefferson Navicky. Elizabeth Coatsworth & Kate Barnes: Processing the Literary Archives of Mother & Daughter
Location: Skidompha Library
Jefferson had the rare good fortune of processing the extensive archival papers of Elizabeth Coatsworth, one of the most accomplished children’s book authors and poets of the mid 20th century, as well as the papers of her daughter, Kate Barnes, Maine’s first Poet Laureate. Together, their papers present an intimate glimpse into the makings of a matriarchal line of Maine writers. Jefferson will speak about his experience processing these collections, as well as present illustrative work.

Cider Pressing Day
2022-10-08 10:00 - 14:00 | Pownalborough Court House, 23 Court House Rd, Dresden, ME, United States
Join us at the Court House for Cider Pressing with Children’s story time and a family nature-based activity at the Pownalborough Court House.

Time 10 am – 2 pm.

Preservation Party
2022-09-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Pownalborough Court House, 23 Court House Rd, Dresden, ME, United States
You are cordially invited to our annual fun and fundraiser party! Relax and enjoy the lovely Pownalborough Court House grounds on the bank of the Kennebec River. Tickets required. Click here for more information.

Period Reenactors at the Court House
2022-09-10 09:00 - 16:00, 2022-08-13 09:00 - 16:00 | Pownalborough Court House, 23 Court House Rd, Dresden, ME, United States
Special tours at Pownalborough Court House: First person reenactors portraying real people at the court house in 1777 will be part of tours on these days.
Registration not required.
