2022 MEETINGS & EVENTS
PARSONSFIELD-PORTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Sat., May 21, 2:00 pm | 1st MEETING of the year PROGRAM: WHAT IS IT? Bring a mystery item for the group to identicy! |
Saturday, June 4, 1-4pm | History House is OPEN for its first open house of the season. Come see the new exhibit featuring “Vintage Toys!” |
Monday, June 13, 10-12 | Research Room Open. Come explore the history of our area. We have town reports, genealogies, histories, scrapbooks, obituaries, cemetery records , old maps and much more! Park in back and come in the back door. |
Saturday June 25, 2pm | MEETING & PROGRAM: Early Schools of Kezar Falls and Porter. Presented by Becky Carpenter. |
Monday, June 27, 10-12 | Research Room Open. |
Monday, July 11, 10-12 | Research Room Open. |
Saturday July 16, 9am-1pm | ANNUAL YARD SALE & BAKE SALE at History House. We will need donations, help setting up, selling, and clean up. We especially need you to come and find some treasures on sale day, |
Saturday, July 23, 2pm | MEETING & PROGRAM; The History of Elm Row Milk Farm. Presented by Rhonda Sanborn & Sylvia Pease. |
Monday, July 25, 10-12 | Research Room Open. |
Saturday, Aug. 6, 9am – 3pm | PAR SEM DAY at the Parsonsfield Seminary Grounds. Come visit us at our booth where you can purchase our publications, buy tickets for the quilt we are raffling off this year, and chat with us. |
Monday, Aug. 15, 10-12 | Research Room Open. |
Saturday, Aug. 20, 1-3 pm | ANNUAL DUAL OPEN HOUSES at Parsonsfield’s Middle Road Village: The Parsonsfield Old Town House (on National Register of Historic Places and the picturesque Parsonsfield Union Church across the road. Exhibits, self-guided cemetery walk and more. On Merrill Hill Road near Middle Road. |
Monday, August 29, 10-12 | Research Room Open. |
Sunday, Sept 4, 1-3 pm | OLD PORTER MEETING HOUSE OPEN. Don’t miss this once-a-year opportunity to tour this very special building. Also on the National Register of Historic Places. |
Sunday, Sept 11, 1-4 pm | .History House is OPEN. Last chance to see our exhibit of vintage toys and tour History House. |
Saturday, Sept. 17, 2 pm | MEETING & PROGRAM; The murder of David Varney – 1906. Presented by Sylvia Wilson. |
Saturday, Oct. 22, 2 pm | Meeting (Last business meeting of the year) and program: Billboard Grave Monuments of Maine. Presented by Ron Romano. Also: Drawing for the winner of our quilt raffle. |
Saturday, Nov. 12 | Thanksgiving Potluck Luncheon??? Check back for confirmation and details. |