The newsletters of the Harpswell Historical Society are available from this page
Note about Spring 2003 edition:
The tool is a lobster measure when the tail length was measured.
One person has agreed that it was the 30’s. We also had an interesting email outlining the reasons why it had to be the late 20’s or early 30’s. I seem to have misplaced it.
These versions of the Newsletter are very much like what is sent out. However, they are large files and you need to have Acrobat Reader to read them. Acrobat reader can be downloaded free from here.
News 2017-Fall 10/2017 Johnson Harmon, President’s Report, Battle of Norridgewock, French and Indian Wars in Maine, Some Snippets from Around the Country, Bailey Island Library Hall, Some Tools Acquired by ther Society Recently, Can you recognize this building? The building is Watson’s General Store.
News 2016-Summer 9/2016 John Darling Hermit of Pond Island Fact from Fiction | Harpswell Day: A Celebration of Traditional Handcrafts and Subsistence Skills.| The Isles of Casco Bay in Fact & Fancy | History of 19th Century American Poorhouses | Subsistence
news 2015-Winter 12/2015 Deacon Timothy Bailey | Bailey Island origins: Richard Wescott | Bailey Island Origins: George Wheeler | Bailey Island Origins:Wikipedia | Bailey Island Origins: The Portland Phoenix | Notes on Black Will, and Will Black, Jr. | Smock Marriages | Island Chowder | Town Meeting Orders Barn Built | How to Salt Cod | Home Elijah Kellogg | Christmas in New England
news 2015-Summer Clem Dunning’s Memories | The Growth of a Resort | Meeting House | Patricia Barnes Moody | What Harpswell Means to Me. |
news 2015-Spring The Growth of a Resort | The Puritan Tithingman | Gareth Anderson Shares His History | Harpswell Memory
Newsletter 2014 Oct Laddie Whidden Reminisces | Laddie Whidden to the Rescue | Memories of Ice Harvesting | What Harpswell Means To Me | HHS Annual Meeting -August 20, 2014
news 2014-June Walter Norton Reminisces | Bailey Island 1913-1928 | More History of Harpswell Place Names | Preservation Efforts at the Kellogg Church | How Did Harpswell Get Its Name?
news 2014-January The Wilson’s High Head Farm. | The Sam Alexanders of Harpswell | Growing Up in Harpswell; Reminiscences by Anne Anderson | Early (1756) Warrant | Update On The District #2 School | Harpswell’s Shipbuilding Heritage
news 2013 Spring Harpswell Town among the Most Attractive Maine Resorts | Gone, But Not Forgotten | And Are Lobsters and Young Ladies Plenty? | Reminiscing about Lowell’s Cove | What is it?
news 2012 winter Plans for the Schoolhouse | Lobsters of Colonial Massachusetts | President’s Report. | Bowdoin Students Volunteer at HHS | Jordan Family of Harpswell | Old Crow Tales | Harpswell Men in the Revolutionary War
news 2012 summer The Town Dock | Annual Meeting on August 22 | Historical Society Archives? | Bailey Island Tuna Tournament | Bowdoin Students | Your Society at Work | Society’s Website is a Hit
news 2011 Spring A History of Harpswell, Maine. | As You Like It | Uncles of Casco Bay | A Sociological Study of Bailey Island, Maine | Response to Fundraising Appeal | Where We’ve Been and How Much We Have Changed
news 2009 Summer History of The East Harpswell Baptist Church | HHS Buildings and Sites: | Oral History in Harpswell | Home Folks of Harpswell and Other Poems | Ideas for the Future
news 2005 Summer Some Large Turnips | An anxious night on the New Jersey Coast
news 1999 Centennial Hall | Proposed Amendments to the by-laws of the Harpswell Historical Society | The Dead Ship of Harpswell”.| A Website for the Historically Curious