Events
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March 2020
March 15: NYHS Annual Meeting, Program by Ann Gass
Sunday, March 15, 2020 Wescustogo Hall and Community Center 120 Memorial Highway, North Yarmouth 4:30, NYHS Annual Business Meeting 5:15, Program: Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage, with author Ann Gass Based on her 2014 book Voting Down the Rose, author Ann Gass profiles her great-grandmother, Florence Brooks Whitehouse in this compelling presentation. Florence was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914.…
Event DetailsMay 2020
Thursday, May 28: Zoom with NYHS!
Thursday, May 28, 2020. REGISTER for this event—see below ** 6:30: NYHS Annual Business Meeting 6:40: Program—Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage, with author Anne Gass Join us as NYHS makes history: this will be our first remote Annual Meeting! After our short annual meeting, settle in to hear author Anne Gass’s presentation about her great-grandmother and Maine suffragette Florence Brooks Whitehouse. Anne charts Florence’s journey from a career as a novelist, painter,…
Event DetailsJanuary 2021
Tackle Your Photos Today: 3 Simple Strategies
Join in on a great presentation by Maureen Taylor, “The Photo Detective!” A free webinar for anyone with a box, bin, or closet full of pictures. This pandemic time is a great opportunity to tackle your photos. But it still seems overwhelming, right? Wading through photos can be such an big task that it seems easier to just put it off—or, worse, leave the task to the next generation. Big problem: the next generation doesn’t always know what to do…
Event DetailsFebruary 2021
Talkin’ Heads Talkin’ North Yarmouth!
An online NYHS roundtable—Qs & As!. Click on Event Details button for more info and to register.
Event DetailsMarch 2021
Land Title Research in Maine, Session #1
Learn online deed searching techniques to research the history of your property.
Event DetailsLand Title Research in Maine, Session #2
Part 2: Learn online deed searching techniques to research the history of your property.
Event DetailsApril 2021
Wabanakis in Maine: Our Indigenous Past and Present
We live on the homelands of the Wabanakis—the People of the Dawn. Learn more about this important past and present history with Prof. Joe Hall of Bates College.
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