· September 23, 2008 at 7 P.M. * *Speaker: Mr. Kerck Kelsey * Topic: The Washburns
· October 28, 2008 at 7 P.M.* Speaker: Prof. Douglas I. Hodgkin * Topic: Settlers' Resistance on the Androscoggin Frontier* (Called off)
· November 18, 2008 at 7 P.M. * (NB: Third Tuesday in Nov, not the fourth.) * Speaker: Dr. Scott Andrews * Topic: The Ski Museum of Maine *
· February 24, 2009 at 7 P.M. * Speaker: Mr. Roger Allen * Topic: Mary's Candies * See video Mary's Candies part 1 Mary's Candies part 2
· March 24, 2009 at 7 P.M.* Speaker: Mr. John E. Henderson * Topic: Androscoggin Irish - A Walking Tour of Lewiston and Auburn *
Mr. Henderson will present the topic “Androscoggin Irish - A Walking Tour of Lewiston and Auburn” to the Androscoggin Historical Society on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, at 7:00 P.M. on the third floor of the Androscoggin County Building. The program is free and open to the public. An elevator is available to reach the third floor. John E. Henderson is a graduate of the Portland (Maine) History Docents program and brings history and architecture to life for visitors to Portland’s Old Port and Tate House Museum. He has lived in six states and three countries, and has visited many more, always with an eye for the unique genius of each place. John has degrees in political science, German studies, and logistics management; and has taught high school history, among other adventures. He is a resident of Auburn, Maine, and conducts historical research, writing, and education as Hometown History Works – Memories Made Manifest. He has produced a family history and individual biographies, as well as map guides to community history and architecture. “Each person, each building, each place has unique stories to tell. Knowledge of those stories enriches our communities and deepens our souls. History gives meaning and direction to life.”
· April 28, 2009 at 7 P.M. * Speaker: Nancy Lecompte * Topic: Our Cherry Valley Soldiers, New York, November 1778 *
Little Known Battle of the Revolution Subject of Presentation Nancy
Lecompte will present the topic “Our Cherry Valley Soldiers, New York,
November 1778” to the Androscoggin Historical Society on Tuesday, April 28,
2009, at 7:00 P.M. on the third floor of the Androscoggin County Building.
The program is free and open to the public. An elevator is available to reach
the third floor. Further information about the Society can be found at
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~meandrhs. Most folks know a bit about
American history and will recognize names like Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Valley
Forge, and Yorktown from the Revolutionary War. However, few will recognize
an event referred to as the "Cherry Valley Massacre" and fewer
still will know this event impacted a number of Androscoggin County's early
settlers. The Androscoggin Historical Society will host a presentation by
Nancy Lecompte concerning the Cherry Valley Massacre and the men of Maine who
were victims of this event. The presentation will be held Tuesday, April 28,
at 7 P.M. at the historical society. Nancy Lecompte is best known for her
involvement as director of the nonprofit organization Ne-Do-Ba, her book Alnôbak; The Story of Indigenous People in
Androscoggin County, and her local presentations on Native American topics.
Historical society members may also recognize her as author of a series of
articles under the title "Androscoggin Patriots," which appears
occasionally in the society’s newsletter. Please join us at this month's
presentation as Nancy switches gears to share her research on this little
known event of the Revolutionary War and its effects on local families.
· May 26, 2009 at 6:00 P.M. * Annual Dinner: High Street Congregational Church, Auburn *
· May 26, 2009 at 7 P.M.* Location: High Street Congregational Church, Auburn *
Speaker: Local author: Douglas I Hodgkin Topic: The Settlers versus Col. Josiah Little *
It has become necessary to change the announced topic of
the Androscoggin Historical Society’s lecture on Tuesday, May 26. Local
author Douglas I. Hodgkin will speak about “The Settlers versus Col. Josiah
Little” at 7:00 P.M. at the High Street Congregational Church in Auburn. Did
you ever think about frontier life in Androscoggin County? During the late
1700s, new settlers were busily establishing their homes and farms here.
However, besides the hardships of carving out a living in a wilderness and
surviving our cold winters, the settlers also faced the usual frontier
problems of conflicting land claims and establishing law and order. Col
Josiah Little, the father of Edward Little, was a Pejepscot Proprietor. 
He demanded payments for land and for rents
from those he viewed as squatters. The settlers fought back, including acts
of violence, property destruction, and intimidation. Hodgkin will draw much
of his information from his research on Lewiston history published in his new
book, Frontier to Industrial City: Lewiston Town Politics, 1768 to 1863. The
talk will include descriptions of incidents throughout what is now
Androscoggin County, including Minot, Danville, and other towns, as well as
Lewiston. A professor emeritus of Bates College, Hodgkin is a native of
Lewiston who received his education at Lewiston High School and at Yale and
Duke Universities. He has authored several works on Lewiston history,
including Lewiston Memories, The Grange at Crowley’s Junction, and Fractured
Family. He is editor of the Androscoggin Historical Society newsletter and a
member of Lewiston’s Historic Preservation Review Board.
See list of Prof Hodgkin's books for sale
*LEWISTON** TRANSFORMS:
ADAPTIVE REUSE OF ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARKS
Wednesday, June 24, 7 p.m.*
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Architecture as a cultural artifact has the unique aspect of being both
sculptural and utilitarian. Buildings have a purpose. What happens when
a building outlives its function? Do we keep a building for the sake of
historic preservation? How much of the building must remain to retain
its symbolic and cultural significance?
*FIND OUT:*
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*Why *Lewiston is the way it is - how it got its urban plan with its
street and traffic patterns, canals and districts, pedestrian zones and
landmarks.
*How *we will use our old landmark buildings to create new landmarks
and
adapt our city for a *NEW *age. Explore these and other issues
confronting the architectural legacy of Lewiston’s many historic
structures.
The presentation/exhibit will focus on two approaches to an adaptive
reuse of the Bates Mill No. 5 Weave Shed. Presenters are Mark Lee of
Harriman Associates and Steve Myers of Platz Associates. Topics will
include analysis of the present day site, theoretical and practical
architectural approaches, and conceptual models and renderings of
proposed reuses of the Mill.
Come join us at Museum L-A, 35 Canal Street, Bates Mill Complex,
Lewiston. Please call 207-333-3881 for more information. This event is
free of charge and no reservations are required.
