Online Exhibit:
Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
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For nearly 200 years the Preble House has stood watch on its hilltop above Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island. The home was central to the lives of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members--and featured in several books.
Learn more in this new grant-funded exhibit by members of the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society.
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While there are no scheduled programs, we invite you to participate in many great activities at MHS this week:
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Thursday, September 19, 12:00pm
Book Event: The Last of the Doughboys
Speaker: Richard Rubin
2014 marks the beginning of the World War I centennial. Join us for a talk about this sometimes overlooked war and the men who served in it by Richard Rubin, author of the acclaimed The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World. Details online.
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