President's Message
We welcome the June 21st Solstice and the beginning of summer after a very busy spring 2018! Again this year, we have teamed up with Bonny Eagle Middle School teacher, Kristin Klin, 6th grade Cunningham Clan Leader AND this year’s Educate Maine’s York County Teacher of the Year, to work with students on their local history projects. Students were charged with making a children’s book on a local history topic...
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Pass the Word: Bluebird Benefit Bash
Salmon Falls (West) National Historic District
"Swelling with pride and joy at our present possessions, my sister and I wanted to name the place...The outcome of our discussion was that the home should be called Quillcote, the house of two pen-women...We tried to incite an epidemic of naming the few houses in the community. We had no difficulty in coaxing the Widder Akers to call hers Twin Elms, nor the Widder Dunn hers The Brick House, as it was the only one on the street..."
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Upcoming Events 2018
Gold Fever
Save the date of June 19th and go for the gold! Yes, BHHS’s program features Jan Eakins, who will tell us about an opportunity that was even more promising than the Powerball and Megamillions together! The talk of the town during the mid- Nineteenth Century among the more adventurous folk here in Maine was...
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House & Garden Tour
New Planned 2019 Village Exhibit
Next year we will have a new West Buxton Village Exhibit in our remaining two large rooms upstairs. We are forming a new project committee and are looking for volunteers. The Bar Mills Exhibit will continue to be open this year and next...