LCHA's 2020 Annual Meeting will take place via Zoom. The agenda includes the election of officers and trustees. The Board recommends the current slate of officers:President - Michael ChaneyVice President - Ryan LaRochelleTreasurer - Bill BrewerSecretary - Linda Pope Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://maine.zoom.us/j/83640226748 Meeting ID: 836 4022 6748 Or Telephone: +1 312 626 6799  or+1 ...

Monthly meeting of the LCHA Executive Committee. Meeting will take place via Zoom.

Monthly meeting of the LCHA Board of Trustees. Meeting will take place via Zoom.

Courtesy Penobscot Marine Museum There’s a fascinating story behind the current exhibit of early 20th century photos at Lincoln County Historical Association’s Old Jail in Wiscasset, and Kevin Johnson is a key figure in the tale. Johnson, the photo archivist for the Penobscot Marine Museum (PMM) in Searsport, Maine, will tell all at a reception at the historic Museum & ...

The Lincoln County Pilgrimage: August 15-22, 2021 Historical organizations, societies, and groups throughout Lincoln County will commemorate Maine’s Bicentennial Plus One with a week-long series of events titled, “The Lincoln County Pilgrimage: Making a Living in Lincoln County, 1820 and Beyond.” Programming will show what has changed – and what has stayed the same – over the past two hundred ...

Quickly now, what do you think of when someone begins to speak of a sampler? Words of wisdom, often from the Bible, stitched on to a piece of fabric? The alphabet, in capital and small letters, embroidered in a cross-stitch in both cursive and block letters? And one form of needlework often signed by the maker, unlike so many other ...

  Pre-registration required to receive Zoom Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-history-of-maine-with-bob-greene-tickets-256856654167 It is frequently said that Maine is the whitest state in America. Yet Black people have a long history in the Pine Tree State. Slaves? Yes. But also builders, farmers, fishermen, ship captains, educators, etc. It’s that hidden history of our state that Bob Greene will reveal. A native of Portland, Bob Greene ...

Pre-registration required to receive Zoom Link In the spring of 2020, while working on a genealogy project in the history of a local white family in Lincoln County, Maine, independent researcher James Tanzer came across a digital copy of the will of a formerly enslaved Black man named Quash, who lived in Topsham, Maine during the eighteenth century. Eager to ...