Eagle Island’s Peary house to see major renovations
Renowned Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary Sr.’s home on Eagle Island will remain closed in summer 2023 for a third straight year for major renovations and eradication of mold.
Read Moreby Connie Sage Conner | Jan 4, 2023 | Community, History | 0
Renowned Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary Sr.’s home on Eagle Island will remain closed in summer 2023 for a third straight year for major renovations and eradication of mold.
Read Moreby Doug Warren | Jan 3, 2023 | Education, History | 0
Most days, the cemeteries of Harpswell are places of quiet beauty and solitary reflection where “the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep,” to lift a line from “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” penned by Thomas Gray in England back in 1750.
Read Moreby Sam Lemonick | Jan 3, 2023 | History | 0
Legendary mountaineer Ed Webster died suddenly on Nov. 22 of natural causes at his home on Harpswell Neck. He was 66.
Read Moreby David C. Garcelon | Dec 19, 2022 | History | 0
For those of us who live on the Neck, the word Merriconeag is part of our vocabulary. We see it when we pass the Merriconeag Grange in North Harpswell.
Read Moreby Scott Gile | Oct 20, 2022 | History | 0
My late father, a dedicated builder of wooden model ships, gifted me my favorite model, of the War of 1812 privateer Prince de Neufchatel.
Read Moreby Joann Gardner | Aug 5, 2022 | History | 0
Esther Sayles Root (right) with Marjorie Crocker in the author photo for “Over Periscope...
Read Moreby Doug Warren | Aug 3, 2022 | Community, History | 0
Chuck Cunningham smiles with the winner’s trophy after a stock car race in 1951. (CUNNINGHAM...
Read Moreby Joann Gardner | Jul 4, 2022 | History | 0
Michael Sinnett’s grave is in the cemetery behind the old meetinghouse in Harpswell Center....
Read Moreby Doug Warren | Jul 4, 2022 | History | 0
Jim and Gayle Hays, of Bailey Island, at the mortuary cannon for Jim Hays’...
Read Moreby Rebecca Norden-Bright | Jun 30, 2022 | Government & Politics, History | 0
A bronze plaque will soon mark the site of a historic cattle pound in Harpswell Center, after the...
Read Moreby Joann Gardner | Jun 9, 2022 | History | 0
A view of Will’s Gut from Orr’s Island, looking toward Bailey Island and Water Cove....
Read Moreby Deane Van Dusen | Jun 7, 2022 | History | 0
The 1783 Tarr-Eaton House as it stands today, after a painstaking restoration. (VAN DUSEN FAMILY...
Read Moreby David C. Garcelon | May 18, 2022 | History | 0
Washington and Rosanna Garcelon are buried in the Old Meeting House Cemetery on Harpswell Neck....
Read Moreby J.W. Oliver | May 13, 2022 | Business & Nonprofits, History | 0
The Brunswick Rotary Club hopes to install a bronze plaque to commemorate the 1793 cattle pound at...
Read Moreby J.W. Oliver | Apr 29, 2022 | Community, History | 0
The replacement of a marble monument to the Rich family will cost $27,415. (J.W. OLIVER PHOTO)...
Read Moreby Lynn Kilchenstein | Apr 10, 2022 | Art & Culture, History | 0
A portrait of Robert P. Tristram Coffin by photographer Lotte Jacobi. If I had not tripped over...
Read Moreby David C. Garcelon | Apr 5, 2022 | History | 0
Dr. Samuel Merritt, a native of Harpswell, was mayor of Oakland, California from 1867-1869. One of...
Read Moreby J.W. Oliver | Apr 3, 2022 | Community, History | 0
Bethel Point Church after the fire in November 2019. (TERESA BROCKETT PHOTO) The 19th-century...
Read Moreby Avery Hunt | Jan 9, 2022 | History | 0
Art historian and author Martica Sawin at home in Harpswell. (AVERY HUNT PHOTO) Though she keeps a...
Read MoreKay Whidden, the last surviving member of The Harpswell Sound, holds a copy of the group’s...
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