Stories from Maine Memory Network 

   

Community Website: Islesboro    

Blacksmith, Islesboro, ca. 1890

 

 

Tomorrow's book talk at MHS, described below, explores the love story between a young couple from Islesboro during the Civil War. This community website--developed by local partners from the Islesboro Historical Society, Islesboro Central School, and Alice L. Pendleton Library working with MHS staff--surveys the broader history of this special island in Penobscot Bay. Visit the site. 

This Week   

Tuesday, August 9, 12pm

Book Talk:  "It Hasteth Away" An Island Wife and Her Soldier Husband

Speaker: Randy Purinton, Author

Join us to hear the true story behind the marriage of two young Maine coast islanders separated by the Civil War. Sabrina and Wesley Brown only lived together for one month before Wesley enlisted and left his wife and home on Islesboro. This new book, based on letters between the couple (1858-1862), documents their effort to maintain their marriage through the mail. The couple's correspondence is now part of the collections of the Islesboro Historical Society.