Open Meeting May 2008
Our May meeting was held at the Captain Stone Inn in Brunswick on Saturday, May 3, 2008. This was an open meeting and prospective members were invited.
There was a training session conducted by our Historian, Syrena Gatewood for those interested in learning the requirements for becoming a member.
Our speaker was Thomas A. Desjardin, Historian for the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands and author of Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775. Mr. Desjardin discussed the significance of this campaign to the Revolutionary War and what life in present day Maine was like in 1775.
Open Meeting May 2007
Our May meeting was held at the Senator in Augusta on Saturday, May 5, 2007. This was an open meeting and prospective members were invited.
There was a training session conducted by our Historian, Syrena Gatewood for those interested in learning the requirements for becoming a member.
Our speaker was Roxanne
Moore Saucier. Roxanne Moore Saucier is a lifelong resident of Maine and a graduate of the
University of Maine. She has worked for the Bangor Daily News for 20
years and has received awards from the Maine Genealogical Society,
Maine Library Association, the Maine Council of Churches, Eastern
Agency on Aging and the March of Dimes. Currently she is editor of The
Weekly, and she writes the Family Ties genealogy column in Monday's
Bangor Daily NEWS. She has been working on her family tree for 30 years
and is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the
Mayflower Society, the latter as a descendant of Francis Cooke. Her
other Mayflower passengers include Isaac and Mary Allerton and their
4-year-old daughter Mary.
Our first meeting of the new year was held at the Taste of Maine Restaurant, Rt 1, Woolwich, Maine on Saturday, May 6, 2006. This was an open meeting and prospective members were invited.
There was a training session conducted by our Historian, Syrena Gatewood for those interested in learning the requirements for becoming a member.
Our speaker was Jeffrey Brown from the Maine State Archives. Jeff has been working at the Maine State Archives since 1980 and has a life-long interest in history and genealogy. He described the many resources available at the Maine State Archives and related examples of the types of genealogical and historical information that may be discovered.