Freeport Historical Society - Freeport, Maine

Harrington House · 45 Main St.
Freeport, Maine · 207.865.3170

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1990 – 1994 Newsletters

January/February 1990 Newsletter Vol. 11, No. 5

  • A Sleeping Giant at the Farm
  • Visits to Collectors
  • Bicentennial Briefs
  • President’s Report
  • Transitions
  • Queries
  • Annual Appel Going Well
  • New Staff Hired
  • Collections Growing
  • Documenting Freeport’s Quilts
  • Remembering a Fun Afternoon
  • Harrington House Gallery News
  • When Is a Store Not a Store?

Winter 1991 Newsletter Vol. 12, No. 2

  • New Directions at Harrington House
  • Photo of Linnie Anderson
  • FHS Continues in the News
  • Staff News
  • Thank You to 1990-1 Annual Fund Donors
  • What’s Ahead in 1991?
  • Query: Are There Ghosts in Freeport?
  • Additions to the Collections
  • New Members
  • Above the Marshes–Notes from the Pettengill Farm
  • Thank You Volunteers
  • Valentine Making at FHS

Fall 1991 Newsletter Vol. 13, No. 2

  • Preserving the Documents of Freeport’s Past
  • FHS Celebrates the Fourth
  • President’s Column
  • FHS Needs You
  • Staff Notes
  • What’s in the Kitchen?
  • Early New England Gravestone  to be Featured
  • Harrington House News
  • FHS Loses a Friend
  • Keeping Well in Freeport
  • Welcome to New Members
  • Above the Marshes–Notes from the Pettengill Farm
  • Clock Raffle
  • Job Opportunity
  • Community Notes

Winter 1992 Newsletter

  • Collections Take on New Life
  • Gardening and Horticulture Talks Scheduled
  • President’s Column
  • Thank You to Annual Fund Donations
  • Geneva Small Fund Established
  • Welcome to New Members
  • Staff Notes
  • Calendar of Events
  • Grange Exhibit Slated
  • In the Past
  • Tea Exhibit Opens
  • Above the Marshes–Notes from the Pettengill Farm
  • Harrington House News
  • What’s in a Name?
  • From the Files

Spring 1992 The DASH

  • Annual Garden Tour
  • Calendar of Events
  • Presdent’s Message
  • Membership Renewals to be Done Quarterly
  • Thank You to Annual Fund Donations
  • Welcome to New Memebrs: Individuals & Business
  • Restored Maps Exhibited
  • Historical Society Names New Trustees and Award Recipients
  • The Phantom of Casco Bay
  • The Dash Remembered
  • Elmer Porter: Building Freeport’s New Tower
  • Harrington House Museum Store
  • A New Look for the FHS Newsletter

Fall 1992 The DASH

  • Around the World Supper at the Congregational Church
  • Welcome to New Members
  • Thank You to Volunteers
  • A Note on Thanksgiving Dinner
  • Memorial to Martha Curate Curtis 1754-1839
  • New Exhibit Opens at Harrington House
  • PCushingolitical Comment
  • Holiday Party Scheduled for Thursday 12/3/92
  • Recent Additions to Photograph and Archive Collections

Winter 1993 The Dash

  • Winter Logging Crew with Myra Libby on Horse
  • Historic Preservation
  • Welcome to New Members
  • Drawbridge in Freeport
  • Sale at Harrington House
  • Dale Bourassa Winner of Raffle
  • Collections Committee Searches for Old Clarions
  • 1992 was a Busy Year for Researchers
  • Garden Tour Scheduled for 7/10/1993
  • Man Against the Sea
  • Recent Additions to Photograph and Archive Collection
  • 1992/3 FHS Annual Fund Drive
  • Notes from our Holiday Party at Harrington House

Spring 1993 The DASH

  • Historic preservation
  • Welcome to New Members
  • Images of Our Past
  • Our Collections Rediscovered
  • Historic Garden Lecture a Great Success!
  • Memorial Gift
  • No April Fools
  • Annual Meeting Scheduled
  • Recent Additions to Our Collection
  • Thank You’s to Donors

Summer 1993 The DASH

  • New Trustees & Presentation of First Clifford “Mel” Collins Award
  • Town Papers Being Sorted
  • Welcome New Members
  • Accessibility Survey Completed
  • Norm Buttrick Receives Award
  • Additions to Collections
  • 1993 Freeport in Bloom
  • Calendar of Events
  • Collections Grant Received
  • Simeon Curtis Family papers Come to Light at Summer Auction

Fall 1993 The DASH

  • 25th Anniversary Project Underway This Fall
  • New Landscape Plan
  • New Members
  • Grandmother’s First Trip to Portland
  • Cemetery Research Enters the Computer Age
  • Holiday Party and Members Night at Harrington House
  • Additions to Collection
  • Thanks to Business Sponsors
  • Scary Halloween at Harrington House
  • Looking for House Moving Pictures
  • Repointing of Masonry at Harrington House

Winter 1994 The DASH

  • Society Acquires Noah Pratt Collection
  • Mitchell House Ell Demolished
  • Gifts Received for the Collection
  • Staff Changes
  • Barn Renovation

Spring 1994 The DASH

  • Barn Renovation Update
  • Freeport Painting Sold at Auction
  • Collections Additions
  • New Book Purhcased for Archives
  • LL Bean Honors Volunteers
  • A Look Back at 25 Years of Historical Society
  • Annual Meeting and 25th Anniversary Celebration
  • Jane Austen Society of Maine Meeting in Freeport

Summer 1994 The DASH

  • Barn Renovation Update
  • Summer Assistants at FHS
  • New Collections Donations
  • New Book Purchased for Archives
  • Take Me Out to the Ballgame
  • Porter’s Landing Poems
  • Annual Meeting and 25th Anniversary Celebration
  • Archives Conference
  • Freeport in Bloom
  • Fall Programs
  • Nickie Kitchin 1923-1994
  • Dick Marston & Walter Colbath

Fall 1994 The DASH

  • Congregational Church Works Toward Universal Accessibility
  • Christmas Story
  • Collections Update
  • Maine Street Walking Tour
  • Barn Update
  • First Exhibit in Barn (Freeport’s Main Street National Register District)
  • Portland Camera Club Visits Pettengill Farm
  • Harrington House Gardens Enjoyed by All for Another Season
  • Harrington House Museum Store News
  • Katharine Bannar Memorial Fund

 

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