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Note about Spring 2003 edition: 

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 their 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-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 2003 Summer

Harpswell Center

News 2002

Harpswell’s Oldest Twins Celebrate 88th Birthdays

News 2001

Bailey’s Store  | Fisherman’s Memorial

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

News 1998

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