Foreign students enjoy two day stay at Small Point Beach
Thirty four high school seniors from 15 countries spent two days at Small Point Beach under the American Field Service program. Hosts provided meals and lodging, activities included picnics sailing fishing and a barbecue. They will continue to Hartford then Washington for an audience with President Eisenhower before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small Point Beach
Atlantic Seaboard
American Field Service
United States
Lovell F. Sewall
Sumner Sewall
Arthur Williams
Small Point Colony
Small Point
International Group
Raymond Trott
Loyall Sewall
Sewall Jayne
Manley Breck
John Phillips
Melvin Henderson
Douglas Dearborn
Thomas Motley
Walter Edge
Brooke Lee
William Kemp
Chase Mellon
Ursula Bartram
Westphalia
Germany
Areca
America
Reiko Ashio
Tokyo
Japan
Maine
Canada
Torsten Halen
Stockholm
Sweden
Nicholas Copp
Normandy
Antje Selle
Hamburg
Atlantic Ocean
Hartford
Con
Nutmez
Washington, D. C
Eisenhower
New York
Bath Built Schooner Eleanor A Percy Featured in Connecticut Circle
The six masted schooner Eleanor A Percy built in Bath, Maine in 1900 is highlighted in Connecticut Circle magazine. The feature details her size 3401 gross tons 3062 net, length over 323 feet, masts named for their functions, construction at Percy Small yard, and the vast amount of timber and iron used. The article notes the shift away from square riggers and contrasts windward sailing with coastwise routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor A. Percy
Connecticut
Bath
Connecticut Circle
Harry Franklin Morse
Bath Area
Batth
Mehbh
Thomas W. Lawson
Percy & Small Yard
Kennebec River
Oregon
Eleanor Percy
Miss Bath Heads to Portland for Miss Maine Contest
Miss Carole Bartels Miss Bath 1957 will leave Bath Thursday for Portland to enter the Miss Maine pageant to be held Saturday. She was chosen Miss Bath last October in an Odd Fellows sponsored contest and will represent Bath in the statewide competition. Westbrook Junior College serves as headquarters for four days of interviews radio television and press leading to the Miss Maine pageant at Portland High School auditorium Sunday. The Lincoln Lodge Odd Fellows sent a supportive message praising her reign and wishing success in the Miss Maine event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Carole Bartels
Bath
Portland
Miss Bartels
Portland High School
Bartels
Lincoln Ledge
Odd Fellows
Cedric Sukeforth
Noble Grand
Carl T. Meister
Bath to host stamp ceremony for first American ship
The USS Hammerberg will visit Bath on August 15 for a Post Office stamp ceremony honoring the Virginia of Sagadahoc launched at Popham in 1607. Bath Iron Works built Hammerberg, launched 1954, with a Washington note confirming plans and attendees including Maine lawmakers and Postmaster General Summerfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammerberg
Bath
Post Office Department
America
Virginia
Sagadahoc
Popham
Times
Robert Hale
Washington, D.C
Hale
Thomas S. Combs
Naval Operations
Bath Iron Works Corp
Mitscher
Washington
Maine
Maritime and Shipbuilding Industrie
Summerfield
Bath Area
Old Time Fair for Bath Memorial Hospital Spectacular
The Bath Memorial Hospital auxiliary hosts a three day Old Time Fair August 8 to 10 at city park with a Gay Nineties theme. A parade opens the event. booths include skeet shooting, handcrafts, a 12-foot destroyer blueprint, and a Dunk Your Principal booth among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Memorial Hospital
Erling O. Barness
City Park
David Desmond
Barness
Mabel Mathews
Chinton Grindell
Charles Nicholson
Tron Works Corp
Beta Signa Bath Emblem Club
Bath
Garden Club
Ilenry McCabe
Brunswick
Topsham Outboard Racing Association
Club Forty-Two
All Wives Club
Mark Hennessey
Rotary’ Club
St. Mary's Re
Calendar of August celebration events in Bath area
Bath Area Chamber of Commerce lists month long activities for the 350th shipbuilding anniversary. Events include Bath Days sale August 1, Miss Popham events, St Marys Field Days, Popham Day at Fort Popham, lobster bakes, art shows, hospital tours, parades, street dances and racing events, with times and locations across Bath, West Bath, Winnegance, New Meadows river and local churches and parks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Area
St. Mary's Church Yard
Fort Popham
Winnegance
Winter Street
Bowen Torrey
Washington Street
Hospital Fails City Park
City Park
Wesley Church
Brunswick Artist To Exhibit At Show Here In Aug
Prizewinning Brunswick artist Mrs Jeana Dale Bearce will exhibit at the Hospital Art Show August 5 6 and 7 on the grounds of the Torrey home 838 Washington St Her piece Wharf and Gulls At Popham Beach among others may be shown Bearce a Bowdoin and University of Maine Extension Service instructor has works shown at Boston Museum of Fine Arts Springfield Art Museum Portland Museum of Art and Sarasota purchase prize winner She studied under noted artists and plans travel to Europe later as she paints birds and religious topics with a modern abstract style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Bowen Torrey
Washington Street
Jeana Dale Bearce
Walker Art Museum
Bowdoin College
Popham Beach
St. Louis
Paul Burlin
Charles Quest
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Springfield, Mass. Art Museum
Portland Museum of Art
Legion Cadets Perform Sunday At Boothbay Hbr
About 700 people watched the Youth On Parade program at Boothbay Harbor High School athletic field. The event showcased Cadets Junior Drum Corps of Bath and Port O Rockland Junior Drum Corps, with color guards and soloists, raising funds for the local unit as they prepare for eastern Massachusetts circuit contests in Cambridge and Warren, facing strong junior corps from St Josephs Fitchburg Braintree St Thomas More and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boothbay Harbor
Charles Esherian
American Legion Post
Cadets
Bath
Port O Rockland
Sylvia Knowes
Arthur Sonia
Rockland Corps
Roland Ames
Pat Achorn
Allen Ames
James Leven
William Milliken
Sam Trott
Peter MacDonald
Jack Preney
Jack MacDonald
Linwood Bennett
Donald McAllister
Robert Billington
Yacht Club Offers Sailing Lessons for Local Youths
The New Meadows Yacht Club will teach sailing to children aged 10 and up and invites interested parents to a Saturday meeting at 1 pm to review a schedule. The club allocated 75 dollars to rent a bow dinghy for the season with Earl Barlow, Brunswick High School art teacher, guiding the instruction after two years living aboard a sailboat and prior teaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Meadows -Yacht Club
Yacht Club
Earl Barlow
Brunwick High School
Barlow
Home Of Former Governor Sewall Family For Generations
The Sewall family home on Washington Street has been in the lineage for over 100 years. Governor Sumner Sewall, World War I ace and aviation and shipping innovator, maintains the property with his wife Felena. The tour highlights Sumner Sewall’s balloon prints collection and the family’s historic role in Maine shipping and aviation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewall
Simmnier Sewell
Maine
William Dunning Sewell
Rachel Trufant
William Dunning Sewall
Clark & Sewell
Washington Street
Alice Sewall
Sumner Sewall
Arthur Sewall
William D. Sewall
Sumner
Fellena Sewall
Sumners
Ripe
Poundfather
Katherine Conley Resigns As English Teacher Here
Four resignations were accepted by the Board of Education at its monthly meeting. Katherine Conley, head of English, resigns after 32 years in the system and will head the high school English department in South Portland. New teachers elected include Priscilla Rowe, Catharine Miller, Ethel Wright, and Maxine Furber, with prior teaching positions and degrees noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Conley
Portland
Board of Education
Prioer
Seston
Vieraouad
Morse
Katherine Conky
Wigh Snood
Miss Conley
South Portland
Jane Spofford
Fisher School
New York State
Nathalie Fowle
Prade
Mitchell School
Miss Fowle
Melrose
Betty Jean Eaton
Catharine Miller
Bathing
Wahooston
Boston Teachers College
Ethel Wright
Bath
Morse High School
Wright Wall
University of Maine
Wright
Camden
Maxine Furber
North Grammar School
Farmington State Teachers College
Atending
Board of Fruncation
Varios Teems
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ry" Pillasmaa
Helsinki
Finland
Cobbosseecontee
Frank S. Carpenter
Augusta
Willis A. Trafton, Jr
Auburn
Miss Bath
W. S. Naval War College
L. F E. Robinson
Jrames
James Henderson
Brunswick and Topsham-Bath Racing Association
New Meadows River
P21
Larrabee’s Grove
West Bath
Sumner Sewalel
Wa Hington Street
Dasin Bath
Legion Cadets
Boothbay
Hbr
Edmete
Anne Kirsball
Bath and Vire
Aten
Alice
Miss Sewall
Clark
Priscilla Rowe
J. Horace McClure
Leeman Highwaath
Days Ferry Road
Woolwich Tel
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