Harbour Mitchell News Today

The recent flooding in Waldoboro caused a lot of challenges mostly in a “can’t get there from here” way.

Forty-three years ago, I began writing about Lincolnville every week for the Camden Herald. The editor at the time, Nancy Griffin, had interviewed me for a story about Lincolnville’s non-existent kindergarten, and our push to have one...

Alison McKellar, Camden resident and Vice-Chair of the Select Board, considers the Camden history of Indigenous Peoples Day.

Many people who drive up and down Beach Road every day don’t know it’s there. The Beach Schoolhouse aka/LIA (Lincolnville Improvement Association) or LHS (Lincolnville Historical Society) is a somewhat non-descript, shabby-looking building at the...

A simple email to the Lincolnville Historical Society a few months ago woke us up. “Why doesn’t the LHS focus on the Indigenous people?” it said, or something to that effect. Why not indeed? Local history (and Lincolnville is not alone in this...

I’m not gonna lie – we had a sweet deal. For a few hundred dollars a year ($200 in the beginning, $1,000 at the end to help cover the cost of heating oil) the Lincolnville Historical Society (LHS) occupied the original classroom of a 19th century...