PHC Walking Tour - New Meadows Cemetery and Lives from the 1920s

159 Park Row,Brunswick ME 04011

19 September, 2021

Description

Pejepscot History Center's popular Summer Walking Tour series - New Meadows Cemetery and Lives from the 1920s, led Barbara Desmarais. For years, Pejepscot History Center walking tours have offered stories of the past, perspective on the landscape, social time, and exercise to participants. Of the 12 tours this June-September, a whopping 8 are brand new or heavily revised. Please visit https://pejepscothistorical.org/events/summer-walking-tours for full descriptions of all tours. New Meadows Cemetery and Lives from the 1920s, led Barbara Desmarais. New for this year, in keeping with our 1920s theme, one of the Brunswick area’s leading cemetery historians, Barb Desmarais has revealed a great deal of hidden history over the years. Now she shines a light on New Meadows and a complicated era: a white Baptist farming community in the time of Americanism, KKK, new-fangled airplanes, a stock market crash, and no Naval Air Station. Treating those long gone as full human beings, Barb will reveal their complications–racism and French Canadian prejudice–as well as their accomplishments. Please note that this tour begins at New Meadows Cemetery, Purinton Road, Brunswick Landing. Please check-in with tour leader at least 10 minutes prior to tour time. Space is limited. PHC maintains a waiting list for each tour in case of cancellations. Pejepscot History Center is a non-profit, educational organization charged with preserving the collective heritage of Brunswick, Harpswell, and Topsham. The Society owns and operates the Joshua L. Chamberlain House Museum and the Skolfield-Whittier House, both of which are open to the public Memorial Day-Columbus Day. For further information please call the Center at 207.729.6606 or find us at www.pejepscothistorical.org.