The Collections Committee of Freeport Historical Society has developed a new initiative to create an advocacy group–“Friends of the Collections.” Members would be centrally involved in establishing and maintaining a “Collections Fund,” and in making decisions about historical items offered for sale.
We are hosting an event to showcase some of our most important collections. Please come to learn more about our historical artifacts, and to consider whether you would like to join us. We hope to sponsor these gathering regularly, so if you are not able to attend this time, please let us know if you might be interested in the future.

Thursday, August 23 at 7:00 PM
Freeport Historical Society
45 Main Street

Please RSVP at info@freeporthistoricalsociety.org

Saturday June 23, 2018 6pm

Strouts Point Wharf

This spirited celebration of Freeport History will include live music, live and silent auctions, the now famous “wheel of chance,” local seafood, and local beer and spirits! Tickets are on sale now at Eventbright. Buy your tickets before May 31 for $45 per ticket. After May 31, tickets will be sold at $55 a ticket.

Show your support as a Gala Stewards – $250 – Includes two tickets to the Gala, four drink tickets, and your name listed in the Gala program. Stewards are encouraged to send checks directly to FHS to avoid processing fees.

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Thank you to our Sponsors: HM Payson, Strouts Point Wharf Company, Hannaford, Titos Vodka, Harraseeket Lunch & Lobster, Autowerkes, Maine Shore Lobster Bakes, Griffin & Griffin, LL Bean.

Saturday, June 9, 12 pm

Pettengill Farm

Come join us for a workshop and picnic featuring guest lecturer Hannah Peterson at our Pettengill Farmhouse property.We will be discussing the use of local medicinal plants in the Colonial period and how they can be used in our lives today. Her workshop will cover the variety of ways plants were used here in Maine—as food, as medicine, as dye, for personal hygiene, and how they were prepared. She will provide hands-on examples of plants, dyed fabrics, and tools. We will also prepare a small historical meal over an open fire, and our c. 1800 National Register Pettengill Farmhouse will be open for viewing. Guests are welcome to bring picnic essentials such as blankets and bug spray and are encouraged to explore the 140 acres of fields, woods, apple orchards, and salt marsh. All ages. Sign up required.

$15 nonmembers $12 members, $5 for children.

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Opening Reception Wednesday, May 23, from 5–7 pm 

Exhibit runs May 24 through December of 2018. This new exhibit will highlight and interpret changes in Freeport Village over a century-and-a half beginning with the earliest landowners and developers, a blacksmith and store owners, and ending with the multi-store blocks and smithies that dominated the village at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibit runs May 24 through December of 2018. All are welcome, please join us!

March 29, 2018 at 7pm Freeport Community Library

Join us for a lecture given by John Butman. John will be discussing his new book New World, Inc.

“There was a lot going on in America long before the Pilgrims arrived on Cape Cod in 1620—and some of the most important action was in Maine. Starting in 1602, the English organized many voyages of discovery, exploration, and settlement to Northern Virginia, as New England was then called. They came in search of gold, sassafras (which was thought to cure everything from headache to diarrhea), timber, fish, fur, and promising settlement sites. They developed relationships with Indians and also betrayed them. George Popham, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Captain John Smith, Squanto—these names may be familiar to Mainers, but their stories have largely been forgotten. They touched Maine at Cape Elizabeth, anchored off Monhegan, sailed through Casco Bay, and settled on Sabino Point (as they called it). This is the story of Maine’s role in how America was developed—largely as a commercial enterprise, not as a religious haven—in its earliest years.”

John Butman is an author, editor, and collaborative writer whose work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, The Nation, and other publications and has been featured in the New York Times, the Economist, and media venues around the world. His previous books include Trading Up: The New American Luxury, a BusinessWeek Best-seller, and Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas.