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Digital History: Stories from Maine Memory Network
Yarmouth: Leader in Soda Pulp
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View of Royal River, Forest Paper Co., Yarmouth, ca. 1900
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This online exhibit, created by the Yarmouth Historical Society, tells the story of the Forest Paper Co., which was known around the world for its high quality soda pulp and the paper it produced. Between 1874 and 1923 Forest Paper Co. was recognized for its technical innovation and employed hundreds of Yarmouth residents. Key to the operation was the power provided by the Royal River. Click here to read more. Special congratulations to Yarmouth Historical Society which will break ground this week on a major project that will convert a former water district building on the Royal River into a new museum facility.
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This Week
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Tuesday, May 15, 7pm
On the Waterfront: Heritage, Re-use, and Economic Development
Moderator:
Michael Brennan, Mayor, City of Portland
Panelists: Anne Pringle, Community Volunteer; Bill Needelman, Senior Planner, City of Portland; Steve DiMillo, business owner
Development and use of the waterfront is an ongoing policy balancing act, and has significant implications for Portland's economic development, harborside landscape, and the city's identity and heritage.
Please join us to learn about the issues that the city, developers, business and property owners, fishermen and lobstermen, preservationists, and others think about when they consider development along the waterfront. In Partnership with Greater Portland Landmarks. This is the fourth of four programs in (Re) Designing the Greater Portland Landscape: Issues in Contemporary Design and Development. Series details.
Next Week
Thursday, May 24, 7pm
The Mysterious Penobscot Belle: Early Photography & A Forgotten Wabanaki Encampment in Portland in the mid-1800s
Speaker: Harald E. L. Prins & Bunny McBride, Kansas State University
The noted anthropologists will explore the story behind a mid-19th century engraving of Mary Louise, a beautiful Penobscot Indian woman, originally published as a "Fashion Plate" in a popular women's magazine. This is the seventh and final program in the Richard D'Abate Lectures: Conversations About History, Art, and Literature. Series details.
To see a full list of upcoming programs, please click here.
Public programs at MHS are sponsored, in part, by the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust.
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