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SPRING 2020 Reflections on The Nordica Photographing Cinema ANNUAL Pettengill Farm An Opera Star MEETING Jack Montgomery and a Balloon SATURDAY SEE PAGE 3 “Ascentionist” Figure APRIL 4TH in Freeport’s History SEE PAGE 9 SEE PAGE 8 FOR DETAILS First Parish Church of Freeport and its Meetinghouses 1774-2020 BY ERIC C. SMITH FIRE! N THE EARLY MORNING hours of Friday, April 13, 1894, a fire broke out at Freeport Corner, starting at the Brewster Block where it consumed the Post Office Iand the YMCA. The flames, pushed by a raging noreasterly gale, quickly spread to the First Parish Church. The church bell that rang out the initial alarm of the fire continued to ring from the heat of the blaze until the steeple crashed down, destroying the bell and Howard tower clock that had just been installed three years earlier. Soon the building was in ruins. Only the recent snow fall and

modern water system gave firefighters DENNIS LANDIS BY PHOTO The current meetinghouse of First Parish Church was designed by architect W.S. Aldrich and the advantage to keep the village from completed in 1895 at 40 Main Street. It is the third building and third location of the church. further disaster. BEGINNINGS The meetinghouse that had looked community. As this third meetinghouse over the village for 75 years was gone, of the church celebrates its 125th anni- First Parish Church traces its name but within nine months the congrega- versary in 2020 and faces a new transi- and its origin to the very beginnings of tion was gathered in a new meeting- tion in service to the Freeport commu- Freeport. The first meetinghouse erected house, built in uniquely Freeport Vic- nity, we look back at how this building in the Harraseeket District of Ancient torian style with great support from the came to stand at 40 Main Street. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 The Dash LETTER FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Reflections on Photographing First Parish Congregational Church / Your response to our SPRING 2020 Meetinghouse Arts: Annual Fund Drive: The Dash is published In this issue, our FHS president Eric C. Smith has Heartwarming! More donors, larger donors! Thank four times annually by given us the story of how the town’s first meeting you all so much. Our loss of parking revenue is a big PETTENGILL FARM Freeport Historical Society house and home to the First Parish Church has hit and our members responded generously; it was BY JACK MONTGOMERY for its members. served the community since 1774. The church perhaps our best response ever. A special thank you HAVE LONG BEEN drawn Dusk, dead of winter Freeport Historical Society has now found a continuing and expanded role as to the very large donors in the $5,000 - $10,000 a gathering place for the townspeople. range. These donors were Linda Bean, Diana Bean, to the sights and smells of Harrington House After some modest renovations later this year, Edgar and Dot Leighton, John Brewer, Jan and Ed 45 Main Street the tidal reaches of New the space will be hosting artistic performances, Gerry, and Anne and Jim Cram. Big and small, the Freeport, ME 04032 cultural presentations, and continued religious total was over $57,000. We appreciate every single England. Mud flats, salt (207) 865-3170 services which will bring new life to the building gift and are honored by your trust in us to manage www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org through a partnership with ACAF, the Arts & the Freeport Historical Society with integrity in hay, heron, the ebbing Cultural Alliance of Freeport. pursuit of preservation, education, and community. OFFICE & EXHIBIT HOURS and flowing water—I love it all. Tuesday to Friday We are thrilled that this iconic building and venue I is literally on our campus here on Main Street. I am 10 am – 5 pm Four-Hundred Years of Freeport History I also take great pleasure from open honored to serve on the ACAF Board of Trustees at our Annual Meeting on April 4th: Appointments may also and our two organizations are working together to I hope that many of you have been enjoying local fields and traditional architecture. be made for a weekend visit. celebrate Freeport’s past and build our community Freeport author Colin Woodard’s series on Maine’s I am an unabashed romantic We encourage a phone call through collaboration and engaged participation. statehood as published in the Portland Press Herald these past six weeks. Freeport’s history is prior to any visit, to verify that born a century or more too late. Jack Montgomery, a tidy microcosm of Maine’s history and our story the office is open. our Volunteer of the Year: is still being written. From the Native Americans’ My attraction to Pettengill Farm Research and visits involving the Local photographer Jack Montgomery has earned shell heaps on our shores to the earliest settlers, was immediate—a place as pure collections require an appointment the title of our Mel Collins Volunteer of the Year ship builders, sea farers, shoe makers, and shop I grew up with a strong sense that the was vivid. Her family was dirt poor. They in advance. Call 207-865-3170 for 2020. We truly value the quality of his artistry, keepers, it all happened right here. Capturing in its vision of nineteenth-century ghosts of the past share space with our were tenant farmers, moving every year to speak with Holly Hurd or email as his sensitive photography of Pettengill Farm and caring for those stories and the documents, current lives. This notion occurred to as my grandfather burned some bridge or Maine as can be found in this part [email protected] has enriched our organization for many years. photographs, and artifacts that encompass me as young as age ten if not before. As other within a few months of his arrival Beyond allowing us to use his images of Pettengill, them is what we strive to do. Your memberships, a child, my mother often told me of her on a new job. I was enthralled and carried BOARD OF TRUSTEES of the world. But for all of that, my Jack generously donates his time and talent donations of materials, time and yes, cash are early life in New Hampshire during the those images with me into adulthood. Eric C. Smith, President for family portraits for our annual auctions. We what makes it all possible. We thank you today attraction runs deeper still. Depression. The imagery of her stories And thus, from the first moment I walked Jan Gerry, Vice-President are announcing his award early so that we can on behalf of all the generations to come. Please into the Pettengill House 35 years ago Rebecca Hotelling, Secretary showcase his photographs here, and we invite join us on Saturday, April 4th from 4 – 6:00 pm Late afternoon early spring I sensed I was in the presence of her past. Guy Blanchard you to see more and hear Jack describe his work with honored speaker Colin Woodard. This was a space where she could have Polly Brann at our Annual Meeting on April 4th. — JIM CRAM, Executive Director lived during the hardscrabble years of Scott Burrill her youth. I could envision her standing David Coffin in the pantry sorting corn, tending the Docents Wanted: Pettengill Farm Historians stove, sleeping in a rough bed under the Jim DeGrandpre eaves on a frigid winter night, sitting at Dennis Landis We would like to train a small group of volunteers who are interested in learning a detailed history of Pettengill Farm and the Pettengill family. the foot of the stairs in the kitchen to Jane Grant stay warm as she read a book or knit, or FHS will host classes including a limited amount of reading assignments Vicki Lowe seeking some small private spot in the to familiarize docents with the farm. We use docents three times Brad Snow attic. I felt like I knew the place through regularly during the year, with additional dates needed intermittently. Alan Tracy her, right from the start. ■ Monthly tours during the summer (by reservation) Lonny Winrich And so I began to photograph, both in ■ Pettengill Farm Day tours the house and in the evocative landscape EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ■ Third grade class visits in October that surrounds it. I have taken several Jim Cram These tours are always a lot of fun! thousand photographs there, both on film PROGRAMS & ADMIN MANAGER Please contact call Jim or Jesse at (207) 865-3170 and with digital cameras. I have printed Jesse Esmé Dritz or email [email protected] to learn more! those images on gelatin silver paper and

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2 THE DASH | SPRING 2020 www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org THE DASH | SPRING 2020 www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org 3 Pettengill Farm Audrey knitting First Parish Church CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 by a variety of older, more traditional North Yarmouth was built in 1774 on processes. I have built a catalog of lower Main Street at the top of Concord images of architectural details—peeling Road which led up from Porter’s Landing. wallpaper, rough floors, raw wood This building was used for intermittent shelves, windows, doors, fireplaces— services while church members still which I sometimes incorporate into traveled to the Meeting House under the constructed photographs. Ledge in the parish of North Yarmouth It was a long time before I could for most services. In order for the district articulate what draws me to Pettengill. to be set-off from North Yarmouth, a new But as I turn 70, I am increasingly aware town had to be established by the General Court of Massachusetts. This was done Late afternoon in February in February 1789, and on December 21, 1789 a meeting was gathered of members who had requested to be dismissed from the North Yarmouth church and now

signed their names to a covenant to form DENNIS LANDIS BY PHOTO the First Church of Freeport. The new Each successive pew is a different length. church called Alfred Johnson, a recent and in July sold 3 parcels of 15 acres each down in March 1818 and the frame of the graduate of Harvard College, to be the for between $30.50 and $23.00 per acre. new meetinghouse was raised that May first pastor and he was ordained in the on the new site. On July 28, 1818, when SECOND MEETINGHOUSE church 8 days later on December 29. the building was half finished, it was The congregation of 50 members The following year the church voted to consumed by fire. “Encouraged by public during Rev. Johnson’s ministry continued build a new meetinghouse in what had liberality,” the parish began building to worship in the first meetinghouse. become the established center of town, again on the same foundation, and Most of the earliest church records were on the hill overlooking Main and Bow another frame was raised in September. destroyed in a house fire in 1809 that also Streets. The old meetinghouse was taken The new meetinghouse was completed led to the death of the second minister, and dedicated on February 25, 1819. Rev. Samuel Veazie. The meetinghouse In 1820, the year of Maine’s statehood, was used for both church services and the only record of church action is a vote town meetings. In 1814 the church voted to pay David Bartol $7.12½ for 13 months that photography is a means of personal to pay Sam Blackstone $4.00 annually for care of the meetinghouse and one brush. exploration and reconciling myself to care of the meetinghouse. (However, if The following year, the church voted to my past. I photograph to access my own the town should clean the meetinghouse change the method of notice for church internal life as well as to understand the after town meetings, then Blackstone meetings. They would no longer be issued world around me. It is not a commercial would receive just $3.00 annually.) At by the constables of the town, and they venture. There is a spiritual aspect in Lauren sorting corn the same meeting, the church voted to would read State of Maine instead of all this. Some of it I understand, but to allow female members to be present at Commonwealth of Massachusetts. a large degree I surrender myself to a My current passion is photogravure, church meetings, if they so chose, but not Following their puritan roots, a council non-verbal, non-lineal side of my being. a nineteenth-century process in which The hideaway to speak unless questioned. of ministers in 1805 had unanimously I realize this may sound odd to many a photograph is embossed on a polymer The General Court of the Common- voted to exclude all musical instruments folks but that is the reality of it, and that coated metal plate that is inked by hand I hope that my best photographs lie wealth of Massachusetts passed a bill in from church services, especially the bass is why Pettengill Farm remains such an and then printed on a variety of papers ahead for me and I suspect they will be June 1816 to authorize the sale of min- viol. But in 1856 the church voted to form a important part of my life. by means of an etching press. I am in love found at the end of Pettengill Road. I am isterial lands that had been granted to committee of William Merrill, Enos Griffin, It has been a great pleasure to give with this slow process that relies upon very grateful to the Freeport Historical several parishes in Cumberland County, The second meetinghouse was located at George E. Soule, and George W. Gray to Freeport corner on Main Street on the site back to FHS through the donation of craft and intuition. And so, as the new Society for this opportunity. including Freeport. The act appointed were the L.L. Bean flagship store now stands. make such arrangements as they saw fit photographs and auction items. I am year is underway, I am now producing — Porter’s Landing (March 2020) Barnabas Bartol, John A. Hyde, Moses The building began in 1818 but was destroyed to have singing on the sabbath, a significant forever grateful for the opportunity to photogravure images from Pettengill, Soule, Jr., Thomas Bishop, Nathan Nye, by fire before completed, rebuilt and departure from puritan tradition. make these images. I walk there often starting with the study of shadows of We will be honoring Jack Montgomery Cornelius Dillingham, and Jacob Johnson completed in 1819, and extensively The congregation gathered for a remodeled in 1867. It was consumed by fire in in all seasons and weather, and like so the trees on the exterior wall of the with our Mel Collins Volunteer of as trustees to sell the land in Freeport on meeting on May 14, 1857 to receive a the Year Award at our Annual Meeting 1884. No images exists of the first many others I feel a sense of stewardship house, taken on a lovely late afternoon which the meetinghouse stood. The trust- meetinghouse, built in 1774 on lower Main letter dated May 1 signed by 16 members on Saturday, April 4th! in overseeing the house and grounds. in February. ees announced an auction within weeks Street and taken down in 1818. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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the outside was ornate inside. Stained glass windows surround not only the sanctuary but the parlor as well, including in the large pocket doors that separate the two rooms. Windows were sponsored by patrons near and far. The largest window, facing Main Street, was given in memory of Rev. Preston B. Wing, pastor from 1879 to 1886. The three win- dows facing south were given by Mrs. C.A. Kohler of San Francisco in memory of her mother, Olive Coffin, and sisters, Roxan- na Coffin and Olive Coffin Randall. The three windows facing east above the altar were each given separately, by E.S. Soule in memory of his mother, by W.A. Davis in memory of his mother, and by the Chris-

PHOTO BY DENNIS LANDIS BY PHOTO tian Endeavor Society, respectively. Stained-glass windows on south wall. Far from colonial box pews or straight- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 formed of William A. Davis, J.E. Davis, backed pews, the new pews were shaped requesting to be dismissed from the E.C. Brown, J.P. Merrill, and E.B. Grant. to create curved auditorium seating congregation in order to form a new E.B. Mallet sold the congregation a plot within a square space, with two aisles church in South Freeport. The letter of land on Main Street between Mill and converging toward a central pulpit. Each described the pain of separation, but Grove Streets for $1.00. What remained and every pew is a unique size and shape the feeling of duty to their families to of the old bell was cut into pieces and to form this arrangement. Tarbox, and contralto Mrs. Nettie M. of the building to host church functions sum of $1.00. Initially a convenience establish a church closer to their homes. sold to raise funds for the new building. Ninety years after the move to exclude Hogan, all from Portland, and tenor Mr. and community bean suppers. Significant for those gathering for church services The church voted to approve the request The church tapped an aspiring young all musical instruments from worship, William H. Stockbridge of Freeport. The gifts toward this effort from Mr. and Mrs. and events, this gift has proved a lasting and grant a letter of dismissal, making architect for the new design and work the church installed a grand pipe organ in church hosted two dedication services Albert Conley led the congregation to legacy providing significant income from way for the new church to be formed, began on site in June 1894. the front of the sanctuary. The steel bell on February 7, the first at 2:30 in the af- parking rental to sustain the church and just as it had been formed by members placed in the steeple was newly cast, but ternoon with greetings from the Baptist, the building over the last two decades. BUILDING dismissed from North Yarmouth church included remaining fragments of the bell Universalist, and South Freeport church- In 2020 the building will undergo 68 years earlier. Over two and a half centuries in New from the previous meetinghouse. es, as well as Bowdoin College. A recep- another transition to make room for In 1866 the congregation voted to England, congregational traditions Just nine months after the fire and sev- tion was held between services and the Meetinghouse Arts under the auspices of renovate and redesign the meetinghouse, shifted significantly from early puritan en months since construction began, the evening dedication commenced at 7:30. the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Freeport. selling shares of $3.00 each for the practice, and the new meetinghouse congregation held its first service in the Mirroring the 1954 changes, the chancel TRANSITIONS repairs. New pews were also auctioned to was vastly changed from early puritan new meetinghouse on January 20, 1895. will once again be expanded to provide subscribers raising an additional $1,100. meetinghouses of plain white walls and An inaugural organ recital and concert In the 1950s the congregation grew and room for a variety of arts performances After closing for 8 months the church was clear glass. This Victorian era building, was held February 1 with organist Mr. so did the choirs. To make space for the and the parlor will be redesigned to rededicated on January 1, 1868. A town while a relatively plain shingle style on Harvey Murray, soprano Miss. Ida K. growing musical offerings in the church, accommodate a visual arts gallery. clock purchased for $450.00 and installed the chancel was altered in 1954, 98 years Freeport’s first church has grown and in the steeple in 1891. All lay in ruins on since a committee was first formed to changed along with Freeport’s downtown the morning after the fire in 1894. Only WILLIAM STEIN ALDRICH, ARCHITECT provide for singing on the sabbath. L.L. for 230 years. It has changed locations as the pulpit bible, pulpit lamp, and a small ILLIAM STEIN ALDRICH was born Portland before returning to Boston to continue Bean donated funds in memory of his modes of transportation and commerce marble-top table were saved. Fortunately, in Chicago in 1865, but after his practice. He was married at First Parish wife, Bertha Porter Bean, and his children, have reshaped the town, and its buildings the building was insured for $5,000. his father died at an early age, Freeport just a few years before the 1894 fire, and Carl, Warren, and Barbara, also donated DENNIS LANDIS BY PHOTO have been built and rebuilt in changing his mother moved with her two he returned to design the new meetinghouse in A meeting was called to discuss a new W funds in memory of their mother. These Hand-hewn trusses supported by knee braces. styles. Both the church and the current children to live with her father, John A. Briggs, the shingle style he surely studied with Stevens. church building the following Wednesday, funds were used to build an expanded and dedicate this function room to Mary E. meetinghouse still stand in devoted in Freeport. He spent many days of his boyhood He also drew upon the shipbuilding tradition of service to God and the community in the and the church began holding services watching the master builders at his grandfather’s the town, using a timber and knee structure to divided chancel, with a new pulpit on one Conley. Sunday School also expanded to in the town hall the following Sunday. shipyard on the Harraseeket. form the large sanctuary with no other support side and lectern on the other, and central the lower level of the building under the heart of Freeport. FHS After two fires on the same site, the After graduating from Freeport High School, columns, like an inverted ship hull. stairs where senior, junior, and children’s direction of Luther M. Pennell. This article draws extensively from the work church voted to sell the land at Freeport he studied architecture at the Massachusetts First Parish Church in Freeport is the only choirs could perform. In April 1964, neighbors Raymond and of Mildred Stowell Coffin and her published corner to finance a new meetinghouse Institute of Technology, graduating in 1888. He known building in Maine designed solely by this Also in the 1950s, a large kitchen and Glenys Tozier gifted the church with the History of First Parish Church Congregational on a new site. A building committee was then apprenticed with John Calvin Stevens in accomplished architect. dining room were built in the lower level parking lot behind the building for the Freeport, Maine 1774-1959.

6 THE DASH | SPRING 2020 www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org THE DASH | SPRING 2020 www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org 7 THE NORDICA CINEMA: An Opera Star and a Balloon “Ascentionist” Figure in Freeport’s History Annual Meeting BY ERIKA J. WATERS OST PEOPLE KNOW that today’s She was also an advocate for women’s suffrage, Saturday, April 4th at 4:00 pm Nordica Theatre honors the very an early Coca Cola model, and the marketing first theatre in Freeport—but genius behind “Madame Nordica’s Bath Powder Freeport Community Services, 53 Depot Street M there’s a lot more to this story. for the Reduction of Weight.” The first Nordica theatre was owned and You can visit Madame Nordica’s homestead and operated by Frederick C. Mortimer. Born in hear more about her extraordinary life at the Lillian Honored Speaker: Colin Woodard Biddeford around 1860 (his exact dates are Nordica Homestead and Museum in Farmington, unknown), he was performing in Maine as Master Maine (liliannordica.com). Or listen to the Lillian Please join us for a brief business Frederick the Boy Wonder by age 12. Nordica episode of the podcast series, Cool But he had greater ambitions and set off to Dead Women, available on Spotify, iTunes, and at meeting to celebrate FHS, elect explore America. He was a vaudeville comedian www.cooldeadwomen.com. trustees, and present annual awards. in New York and managed the notorious Gem (Thanks to an undated article on the Photoplay Theatre in Deadwood, South Dakota—featured in Garden written anonymously for the Freeport The meeting will be followed by the HBO series, Deadwood. He also barnstormed Historical Society; Sebastian Meade, Harraseeket the country as an “ascentionist,” a daredevil Grange; Peter Moulton; Dana Peck, Biddeford “200 Years as a State, 170 as a who floated in a swing under a hot air balloon— Historical Society; Crystal Williams, the Lillian Colony: The forces that shaped although he nearly died when his balloon caught Lillian Nordica as Brünnhilde, 1898 Nordica Homestead and Museum; and Hannah fire. Luckily, his parachute opened just 50 feet of 150. (We know this from a rare interior photo Marshall at the Gem Theatre, South Dakota.) FHS Maine’s Past, Present and Future,” from the ground. owned by collector Peter Moulton.) Admission was Maybe because of that harrowing experience, generally 10 cents, but for special nights, such Erika J. Waters, Ph.D., is professor emeritus from a talk from Maine author and he gave up the rough and tumble life and came as when a one-man band and an operetta were the University of the Virgin Islands. She taught journalist Colin Woodard. home to Maine in 1882. He soon was managing featured, the price went up to 25 cents. part-time at the University of Southern Maine and was a Fulbright Scholar to Finland. She’s the author theaters on Peaks Island, in South Portland, and Not too many years later, Mortimer changed the Woodard tells the backstory of Maine, a harrowing of Kittery to Bar Harbor: Touring Coastal Maine, Yarmouth, and helped construct the waiting name of his theatre to The Nordica, after Maine’s among other books, and, with her daughter Blair, and little understood saga of war and betrayal, of room for the trolley to Casco Castle. In 1911, he first great operatic diva, Madame Lillian Nordica, hosts the podcast, Cool Dead Women. clashing empires and ethnic cleansing, of an intra- opened Freeport’s very first theatre, named the a Farmington native. She died in 1914, “Photoplay Garden.” so it’s possible the name was a tribute English civil war and a 170 year colonial occupation Colin Woodard Located on Bow Street, halfway between Main to her or that Mortimer, impresario that is a New York Times bestselling by Massachusetts of what had been a separate author, historian, and journalist who has reported and Depot Streets, the theatre showed silent he was, calculated that an association province. These events films and staged vaudeville acts to an audience with an opera star would enhance his from more than fifty countries and seven theatre’s status. continents. A longtime foreign correspondent shaped Mainers as a Lillian Nordica, born Lillian Norton in for The Christian Science Monitor and The San people and explain some 1857, became one of America’s first Francisco Chronicle, he is State and National of the culture’s most opera stars. She sang over 41 different Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald, where roles in a number of languages—her impressive virtues and he received a 2012 George Polk Award and was Brunhild from Wagner’s The Ring most frustrating faults, a finalist a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. Colin’s work has Cycle was particularly famous—and as well as the still she performed all over the world, appeared in The New York Times, The Washington before royalty, prime ministers, and Post, The Economist, Smithsonian, Politico and fraught relationship presidents. Always the diva, she was dozens of other publications. He is the author between this land’s famous for her extravagant costumes of American Nations, American Character, The real natives and the and jewels; at the time of her death, she Lobster Coast, The Republic of Pirates, Ocean’s rest of us whose had a million dollars in jewels (about 12 End and the forthcoming Union: The Struggle to million dollars today). families came “from Forge the Story of United States Nationhood. Despite her immense wealth— Colin lives in Maine. away” at some point she had 10 homes—she was a in the past four Ad from Freeport’s first theatre, the sympathetic, kind woman and often Renamed the Nordica in 1916, the theatre relocated to Photoplay Garden. wrote checks to those in need. this location on Bow Street in 1920. hundred years.

8 THE DASH | SPRING 2020 www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org THE DASH | SPRING 2020 www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org 9 Our Generous Donors 2019 Corporate Sponsors Your support is the sole reason the Freeport Historical Society exists today. The people, the programs, our ancient collections, and the protection and maintenance of The Freeport Historical Society relies on the generous support of The Harrington House and Pettengill Farm is provided by these generous people. these local businesses. Please support them whenever possible. GOLD AND SILVER MEMBERS $10,000 or more David & Barbara Caldwell Karen Marsh Betty & Bob Furtney Maureen & Larry Cullen Diana L. Bean George & Joan Connick Doug & Mary Martin Elizabeth Rogers Gillette John D. & Eleanor Davis Linda L. Bean Robert Criswell Laura McDill Sarah Haggerty & Sean Hale Lucille Dennison Edgar & Dot Leighton Thomas & Eleanor Duffus John McKee Ralph & Katherine Harding Jeanne Douglas Anthony & Kimberly Eames Susan & H. Alan Mooney Dale & Carol Hudson Judith Elfring $5,000 -$9,999 Lisa Gorman Elizabeth & Robert Moore David & Mary Hurd Karen Fadden John Brewer Stephen & Cinda Joyce Jenny Moore & Ken Guimond Justin Kelley Heidi Gallo Anne & Jim Cram Sandra & Dennis King Joan & Jeffrey Naab Kerck & Susan Kelsey William Gibson Jan & Ed Gerry Bob & Nan Knecht Michael Naab Gerald & Mary Kennedy David Goldrup Richard & Lois Lippincott Kristin Nam Robert & Caroline Knott William Good, Jr. Christopher & Marybeth Lorenz Mark Nordenson & Moira Nelson Larkins & Karin Van Shaina Graff $1,000-$2,000 Elisabeth & John Montgomery Simonds Nostrand Ruth Gruninger, Anonymous Elizabeth Moore Diane & David Pauletto Julianne & William Lawlor Elizabeth Guffey Tom Armstrong, Sr. Bill & Beth Muldoon Michael Perry & Chris Wolfe Chris Leighton & Jacki Alpert Dick Housley Linda Bail & George Casey Roger & Beverly Richmond Stephanie Pier & John Paine Laura Levi Pauline Hunneman Ed & Jane Bradley Carla Rigby Julia Pratt Linda & Jan Litchfield Steve & Linda James David & Connie Coffin Curtis & Nina Scribner Rodney Regier Lincoln & Kim Merrill Doug & Tara Johnson Jim DeGrandpre Eric C. Smith Scott Reischmann & Michelle Mary Jane & Thomas Merritt Brian Kaczor Mabel Gerquest Sam & Kathy Smith Thresher Susan Metters & Mark Segar Keith & Melissa Kennedy James & Maureen Gorman Brad Snow Nancy & Richard Reynolds Brooke Miller & Jeremy Duda Art Kerber Ford & Karen Reiche Julia Tebbets Dave & Joan Roberts Marc Miller & Julia Lockwood Alicia Klick Henry & Ingrid Thomas Sarah Walsh Joan Benoit & Scott Anders Anne Morrison & John Sheskey Anne LeClair Mary-Eliza & Ted Wengren Joseph Yilmaz Samuelson Mary J. & Randall Mraz Franklin Limbocker Lonny & Sandra Winrich Robert & Cornelia Santomenna Morton & Evelyn Panish Henry & Carol Lukas SUPPORTING AND LEADERSHIP MEMBERS

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Bo & Kristina Hewey Candy Dennison-Holden James Chute & Sara Hayes Jay Enterprises Inc. Wilbur’s of Maine Central Provisions The Gelato Fiasco Steve Brann Building $200-$299 Tony & Hillary Jessen Lorna & Donald Dorsey Kevin Chute & Virginia Boyles In honor of John Mann by John M. James McConnell Sandy Allen Marilyn & Atwood Dunham Helen Clarkson and Deborah Weare Slavin Kevin O’Brien Design Wolfe’s Neck Farm Casco Bay Cutlery The Tackle Shop Mary & Andre LeMaistre Builders Edward M. Bonney Sally & John Lincoln David Emery Donna Coffin Casco Bay Ford Traditional Construction Polly & Steve Brann Vicki M. & John H. Lowe Christine Farrell & Bob Elwell Sally & David Conrad In honor of Morton (Woody) Wood The Lobster Cooker by Martha Wood Charlie Burnham Energy & Design Carrine Burns & Peter Bouman Mike Rollins Plumbing & & Heating Service Wildflower Floral Design Heating The Wyeth Gallery We sincerely apologize for any errors in this listing. Please contact us to report an error.

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Historical Join Us! Members receive a copy of the book Tides of Change: A Guide to the Harraseeket Historic District, A Win- dow Through Time (Pettengill photo book), a trail Society map of Pettengill Farm, and our quarterly newslet- NEWSLETTER DESIGN: KEVIN O’BRIEN ter, The Dash.

Family Members and higher receive one hour of re- CONTINUAL search time in our archives (a $50.00 value) and invi- Jointations to eventsUs! and exhibits at free or reduced BLOOM IN THE rates. EMBERS RECEIVE a copy of PERENNIAL Name______the book Tides of Change: GARDEN M A Guide to the Harraseeket Historic Address______District, A Window Through Time (Pettengill photo book), a trail map of PettengillTown______Farm, and our quarterly State_____ newsletter, The Dash. Family MembersZip______and higher Phone______receive one hour of research time in our archives (a $50 value)Email______and invitations to events and exhibits at free or reduced rates. ■ $20 Senior/Student* $20 Senior/Student * $100 Contributing ■ $35 Individual

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■ $50 Family * $250 Supporting Tuesday, April 7th ■ $100 Contributing ■ $250 Supporting from 4:00 – 5:00 PM * $35 Individual * $500 Sustaining Harrington House, ■ $500 Sustaining 45 Main St., Freeport ■ $1000* Leadership $50 Family * $1000 Leadership Suggested donation: $5 CORPORATE SPONSORS: * $250 Supporting Business Join the FHS Garden Committee in ■ $100 Contributing Business welcoming Bill Kennie, Nursery Manager ■ $250* Supporting $100 Contributing Business Business at Allen, Sterling & Lothrup. Come and ■ Special corporate sponsorship hear Bill explain how to have “Continual opportunitiesPlease exist make from checks $500-$5000 payable to Freeport Historical Bloom in the Perennial Garden.” Bill Please visitSociety our website and mail for details. to 45 Main Street, Freeport, ME has many years of experience as a Please make checks payable to Freeport Historical Society and mail to04032, 45 Main or Street, pay by debit or credit card online at landscaper and designer. Join Us! Freeport, ME 04032, or pay by debit or credit card online at www.freeporthistoricalasociety.orgwww.freeporthistoricalsociety.org

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