Boothbay Region Historical Society’s

ANNUAL HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE

Saturday, December 7, 2024 from 10am-2pm
72 Oak Street, Boothbay Harbor, Maine 

Happy Holidays! Please join us as we celebrate the season with vintage decorations, delicious treats, and lively conversation. Take a chance on door prizes and basket raffles including a music-themed basket, a breakfast feast basket, a kids and grandparents basket, and a jolly homemade snowman piñata filled with goodies. Our gift table will offer a variety of sale items including vintage frames for your precious family photos. Find that perfect book or map for the local history buff on your list. Do your local roots go way back? We’d love to hear your family stories.  Are you new to the area? Tell us what drew you to the Boothbay Region. There is no charge for this event as it’s our chance to say thank you to the community.

The trustees, volunteers, and staff at the historical society strive to preserve, archive, and make available the objects and stories that tell the rich history of the Boothbay Region. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization we depend on you. Whether you support our work as a dues-paying member, donate to our annual fund, attend our events, or simply stock up at our cheese and bake sales, your involvement helps sustain these efforts. Thank you!

HOLIDAY RAFFLE NOW OPEN!

WIN

A signed, matted watercolor print of The Good Voyage – The Eleanor F. Bartram and the Portland
Artist: Earle G. Barlow (1923-2013), East Boothbay resident and nationally known maritime artist
Size: 21.5”x16.5”
Date: 1976
Print #225/400
More information: The Bartram was launched in 1903 at the W. I. Adams Yard in East Boothbay.
Visit the museum, Thursday-Saturday, 10:00-2:00 to look at this beautiful signed print!

 AND

Boothbay Region Historical Sketches, Volume III
Barbara Rumsey, Editor
Published in 2006

This third anthology contains fifty-seven more of the popular “Out of Our Past” columns, first published in the Boothbay Register during the last eighteen years. Each selection highlights facets of this unique, historic region. Subjects range from the ever-fascinating islands and lighthouses to the reality behind local legends, from early nineteenth rascals to characters from the 1950s, from fishing stories to profiles of shipyards and beloved local vessels. The anthology closes with a short section on some pitfalls in dealing with local history. For more information, click here.

$5.00 per entry or three for $12.00

Three ways to enter:

• In person at 72 Oak St, Boothbay Harbor, Thursday-Saturday, 10:00-2:00.
• Call us at (207) 633.0820, Thursday-Saturday, 10:00-2:00.
• Send a check to:
  Boothbay Region Historical Society
  PO Box 272
  Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538
  Please include your email address or phone for confirmation.

Entries open from 11/15/2024-12/20/2024. The winner will be drawn on Saturday, December 21 at 1:00pm. You do need not be present to win. In accordance with Maine state law, persons under age 18 are ineligible to participate in this raffle. 

Your support will help the society preserve and share the region’s history for future generations.
Thank you and good luck!

2024 EVENTS (Past)

• March 20 Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage WATCH on YOUTUBE
• May 21 Annual Meeting and Put in Their Place: Criminalizing the Other in Lincoln County WATCH on YOUTUBE
• June 27 A Look Back: 150 Years in Boothbay Harbor WATCH on YOUTUBE
• July 11 The Rice Brothers of East Boothbay WATCH on YOUTUBE
• August 8 Queen Marie Antoinette & Boothbay Area Links to France and Other Places READ the REPORT
• August 18 Mapping Maine: A Boothbay Region Historical Society Fundraiser (in-person only)
• October 11-12 Annual Cheese and Bake Sale

2023 EVENTS

• May 18 Annual Meeting of the Boothbay Region Historical Society and The Bowdoin
• June 22 The History of Harbor Theater
• July 13 Memories of the Boothbay Region
• August 20 Fundraiser featuring Bob Krist’s documentary films about life along the Maine coast
• September 21 Exciting Changes at Maine State Aquarium, Learning Lab, and Burnt Island

2022 EVENTS

• May 17 Annual Meeting of the Boothbay Region Historical Society and First Maypole Dance in America: Damariscove in the 1600s 
• June 2 Boatbuilding in Maine and Boothbay from 1980 to the Present
• July 21 Sprucewold: The Early Years
• August 25 Early Shipyards of Boothbay
• September 29 Past Images of Ocean Point, Maine

2021 EVENTS

• May Shared Ground: An Exploration of 17th century Indigenous and Euromerican Cultures through Gardening
• June The Thistle Inn: From Captain’s Home to Local Tavern
• July Holiday Bake Sale Fundraiser
• July Preserving Land in the Boothbay Region: The Story Behind Thirty-five Miles of Nature Trails
• August Roadside Maine, The Development of Route One, 1900 – 1950
• September Boothbay Harbor’s Wharfscape: Structures, Territory, and Life at Water’s Edge
• October Cheese and Bake Sale 
  

2019 EVENTS

• May 21 Annual Meeting of the Boothbay Region Historical Society and Life at the East Boothbay Store: Then and Now
• May 23 The Camera Discovers Monhegan: Island Photographs from 1859 to 1900
• August 1 Midcoast Maine in World War II
• September 5 The Life of Capt. Anders Anderson
• October 3 History of Quilting Trunk Show
• October 12 Cheese, Bake, and Tea Sales
• November 16 Boothbay Fisheries Project
• December 7 Holiday Lights Open House

2018 EVENTS

• May 10 Speaker Series: The Tenders of Southport Bridge
• May 15 Annual Meeting of the Boothbay Region Historical Society
• July 18-21 and 25-28 Silent Auction
• July 26 Speaker Series: The Evolution of Washburn & Doughty Associates
• July 28 Annual Bake Sale
• August 16 Cake and Culture Tour: A History of the Boothbay Region in Ten Objects
• August 23 Speaker Series: 1950s Minstrel Shows Rise Once More!
• September 6 Speaker Series: History of Quilting Trunk Show
• September 27 Cake and Culture Tour: A History of Boothbay Region in Ten Objects
• October 17-20 Cheese Sale
• November 10 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day Commemorated
• November 14 Looking at History through Our Collections Adult Ed Class
• November 28 Growing Up in Maine in the 1800s Adult Ed Class
• December 1 Annual Harbor Lights Open House