Art Classes At Prick Museum Spark Youth Creativity
The New Art Center Workshop at Brick Store Museum Kennebunk hosts summer Children’s Art Workshops led by Mrs Edwina Beilman. Twenty boys and girls aged six to ten attend Friday sessions in July and August creating chalk and crayon drawings, colored ink designs, mobiles, sketches, and shadow boxes while learning basic drawing rules.
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New Art Center
Kennebunk
Edwina Beilman
Cape Elizabeth
Prudence
Susan Goodman
Charlotte
Beth Alling
Linda
Earle
Earle Spencer
Pamela
Diana Salling
Anne Brooke
Susanne
Paul Warren
John
Wendy Whittemore
Frank McGuire
Deborah Harrington
Elizabeth
Barbara Kotlewski
Russel Bryant
David Peterson
John S. Harrison
Biddeford-Saco
Janice Deshaies
Mary
Sara Whelan
Linda Warner
Deborah Trecartin
Old Orchard Beach Social News Highlights
Old Orchard Beach residents and visitors appear in a roundup of local social notices. Names include C P Wight, Hollis Durant, C Russell Durant, George Golden, Kathy and Malory, Peter Bals, Geraldine Durant, and others visiting or staying at Ocean Park, Grand Beach, and nearby areas. A Thursday St Johns Parish supper was postponed. C Paul Wight transitions to physics teaching at Cape Elizabeth High School after two years at Stephens High, Rumford. The Kennebunk Sewer District assessed 12195 for land damages not awarded. petition by Leslie Edgecomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollis Durant
Stratham
N.H
C. Russell Durant
George Golden
Kathy
Malory
Auburn
Ocean Park
Peter Bals
Fred
Peter and
Lee
Ferry Beach
Saco
Geraldine Durant
Adelaide Road
O'd Orchard Beach
California
Disneyland
St. Johns
William Smith
Mars Hill
Hilary Stiss
Connecticut
Smith
Arthur McLeod
Grand Beach
McLeod
George Curran
Manchester
Carl Woodard
Scarborough
Floyd Libby
Floyd Jr
North Windham
Robert Randall
Richard
Ruth
Fort Hill Avenue
Mt. Katahdin
Moosehead Lake
C. Paul Wight
Longwood Avenue
Cape Elizabeth High School
Stephens High
Kennebunk Sewer District
Kennebunk
Leslie Edgecomb
Wells To Vote On School Expenditures in Wells
York activities extend into September featuring Indian dancing horse show antique car meet and lobster bake. August ends with Union Congregational church supper, Agamenticus Night revival and bonfires on Long Beach. Wells tax vote on over 5000 for school expenditure follows federal aid rise and driver education talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Union Congregational Church
York Beach
Long Beach
Saco
Short Sands
Maine
Lions Club
Bragdon’s Field
York Corner
New England
Dee Liggett
Jesup
Long Sands Beach
York Chamber of Commerce
New York
George Ernst
Ernst
Wilhelmina Ernst
Kennebunk social visits noted around town
Kennebunk residents hosted and visited relatives in Portland and Kennebunk over the week. Guests included Miss Hazel Ellis, Maj. Leota Langley, Maj. Ethel Theilmann, Mrs. Alice Langley Downing, and Maj. ret Everett Knight, with others calling on families on Fletcher Street and Summer Street. George Crown was transported to Maine Medical Center in Portland by ambulance after a fire department call.
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Herbert Jewett
Rossroad
Portland
Hazel Ellis
David Lewitt
Goose Rocks Beach
Amhurst
Mass
Lewitt
University of Massachusetts
Ethel Theilmann
Kennebunk
Martha Kissawelter
A.N. C
Wyle Kissawelter
Philadelphia
Maj
Leota Langley
Maj. Langley
Alice Langley Downing
Ethel, Theilmann
Fletcher Street
York County
Everett Knight
Limerick
Alice L. Downing
James Wignall
Dorothy Wignall
Harris Garland
Wrentham
Edmund L. Cashen
Summer Street
Lawrence Langley
Edward
Lynne
Wayland
Kennebunk Fire Department
Brick Museum Adds To Civil War Exhibition
The Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk expands its summer Civil War show with items loaned by Rear Admiral George L. Phillips and others. Highlights include minie balls from Richmond battles, a pass to see a sick son, patriotic envelopes, Lincoln era posters, a Currier and Ives print of Lincoln’s death with Hugh McCulloch, and Civil War volumes from Katherine Variell and Edith Barry. The exhibit runs through September on the second floor, drawing visitors from 34 states, Canadian provinces, and six foreign countries, with rising attendance.
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Kennebunk
George L. Phillips
Richmond
Phillips
Kenneth Joy
Currier and Ives
Lincoln
Hugh McCulloch
The
Treasury
Katherine Schley Variell
Lord Gallery
Edith C. Barry
United States
Canada
Atttendance
Beach Kiwanis Club Observes Visitors Night
Old Orchard Beach Kiwanis Club held Visitors Night at the American Legion hall on School street. No speaker, but visitors stood to share activities of their home clubs. Guests included George Simons Watertown NY John Brunner Rochester NY Robert Frazier Winchester NH Horace Weatherly New York NY Rev Hartley T Grandin Concord NH Ralph Bogel Boynton Beach FL Lawrence Kraynick Medford MA. President Edward C Jackson presided.
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Old Orchard Beach
Kiwanis Club
American Legion Hall
School Street
George Simons
Watertown
N. Y
John Brunner
Rochester
N.Y
Robert Frazier
Win
Chester
N. H
Horace Weatherly
New York City
Hartley T. Grandin
Concord
Ralph Bogel
Boynton Beach
Fla
Lawrence Kraynick
Medford
Mass
Edward C. Jackson
George Skillin
John Wortman
Kenneth Joy Named To Museum Post
Kenneth F. Joy of Alewive Road Kennebunk was named curator of the photograph collection at Brick Store Museum after a recent trustees meeting. He replaces the previous curator and assumes duties immediately, with the board citing his experience and knowledge of local history.
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Kenneth Joy
Brick Store Museum
Kenneth FE. Joy
Alewive Road
Kennebunk
Joy to aid Museum with Kennebunk history photos
Joy has gathered images and information about Kennebunk’s earlier days and has shared them with the Museum staff. He will continue this work, receiving pictures of houses buildings and activities in the Kennebunk area.
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Joy
Kennebunk
Cape Neddick Man To Receive Degree at Miami Summer Commencement
A Miami University list shows a record 436 candidates for degrees in the summer exercises to be held Saturday August 26 in Withrow Court. Among those listed is William Albert Rogers Jr of Cape Neddick, Maine.
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Oxford
Miami University
Withrow Court
Miami
William Albert Rogers, Jr
Cape Porpoise social notes span visits and travels
Cape Porpoise notices list guests and travels of residents and friends: Providence visitors to Merton Hutchins, celebrations at Dragon Seed in Kittery for Linda Wakefield’s birthday, Bruce Wakefield assigned to Polaris at Great Lakes, Miss Blanche Bradford visiting Maude Richards, Mrs. George Pennelly and children visiting Whitehouse kin before a planned Oregon trip, Susan Jacobs recovering from a Mills Road collision, Sgt and Mrs James Smith visiting with Della Smith, Eleanor Stockbridge staying with Mrs. Patton, Henry Peterson visiting daughter Mrs. Nunan, Dorothy Chickering from Cleveland’s Medical Center visiting Elizabeth Rice, Carol Bilderback in New York for airline interview, Beverly Aloise at Girl Scout Camp in Acton, and three Swaps world-records at John Galbreath’s farm in Lexington, Ky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abram Sykes
Providence
R. I
Merton Hutchins
Linda Wakefield
Marion Wakeffield
Clyde Rand
Rand
Dragonseed
Kittery
Linda
Bruce Wakefield
U.S. Naval Training Camp
Great Lakes
Ill
Polaris Submarine Electronics
Blanche Bradford
Somerville
Mass
Maude Richards
Langsford Road
George Pennelly
Sky Whitehouse
Arnold Whitehouse
Oregon
Susan Jacobs
Shrewsbury
Mills Road
Wesley Taylor
Lloyd Nunan
Dorothy Chickering
Cleveland
Elizabeth Rice
Carol Bilderback
New York
Portland
N.Y
Beverly Aloise
Acton
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Clement P. Wight
Dial
Dean
Wells
Board of Selectmen
Tthe
Russell K. Noyes
Abbott's
Wells—Post Road
Wells Beach
Burnt Mill Road
Landholm Farm Road
Harrisecket Road
Drakes Island Road
Atlantic Avenue
Moody Point
Dredge
Hutchins
Ogunquit
Stevens
Moody Beach
Charles Chase Road
Colby Corner
Stevens School
Moses Segal
Lester Stevens
Capt Thomas Road
Post Road
Ogunquit Village
York Town Line
Shore Road
Bourne's Lane
Wells High School
Robert K. Brown
Wells Branch
Chick and
Bragdon
Sanford Road
Highpine Area
Bragdon Road
Wormwood's Corner
Wormwood'’s Corner
Merriland Ridge Road
Lower Sanford Road
Edmund Cashen
Bettsoff
Beach Kiwanis Club
Cape Neddick
Bette Foe
Butler's
Orion
Orlon
Cape Porpoise
Alice M. Crowell
Swaps
John Galbreath
Lexington
Hollywood Park
Ruth Cheney
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!