What did she know, and when did she know it? Closer look at Miss Burrage’s maps for Kenneth Roberts

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In the first Members Forum of 2026, longtime LCHA member Martha Frink explores the work of LCHA founder Mildred Burrage, focusing on Burrage’s creation of illustrated maps for author Kenneth Roberts. Martha’s long-standing effort to better understand Burrage began with a question sparked by a mural in the Lee Street house where Mildred moved in 1946 and which later became home to Martha and her young family in 1989.

More than a decade of research deepened Martha’s respect for a woman who came to Wiscasset to paint while leaving behind postwar Kennebunkport, and who is now best remembered for helping to establish the organizations that became LCHA and the Maine Art Gallery. Martha’s own roots echo this layered history. Her family includes a descendant who marched with Benedict Arnold to Quebec and another who fought in the battle now known as Bunker Hill. Her wide-ranging interests, from phycology to art history, have carried her from studies in the Caribbean back to the Maine coast, where she now lives in Bremen in Lincoln County.