The Westbrook Historical Society

PROGRAMS 2010 - 2011

(Programs are presented at 1:30 o'clock on the 1st Wednesday of each month, with the exception of June, July and August. Everyone is welcome, there is no charge.)

September 1, 2010 - The Writing of Remembering Westbrook:People of the Paper City. Andrea Vasquez, author, will discuss some of the historical figures in her book. Books will be available for sale and Andrea will be available to autograph previously purchased books.

October 6, 2010 -
The Story of the New England Barn
"Barns are iconic pieces of our rural landscape", writes Don Perkins who will speak about the history of our New England barns and why it is important to preserve them.

[The barn pictured at the right is the Maxwell Farm barn which used to sit at 214 Main Street in the area across from City Hall. It was built in 1850 and sold, dismantled and removed to Connecticut in 1982.]

November 3, 2010 - WW II As Seen Through the Diary of a Westbrook Soldier . Excepts from a WW II Diary relating a soldier's experiences on Okinawa and a slide show of WWII photos and memorabilia. will be the focus of this program presented by Donna and Norm Conley.

December 1, 2009 -

January 5, 2011 -

February 2, 2011 -

March 2, 2011 -

April 6, 2011 -

May 4, 2011

June 1, 2011 - Annual meeting - no program

2009-2010 Programs: Westbrook Then & Now Part III, Collecting is Fun, Over a Cardboard Sea entertainers, Treasure Hunting, Halidon Tax Colony, Halifax Disaster, Girl of the Past, History of Playing the Spoons, Bones & Saw, Westbrook Immigrants: Peters, Trickey, Kinmond, Roy, Rocheleau families, Maritime History of Portland.

2008-2009 Programs: Westbrook Then & Now Part II, Collecting Old Bottles, Maine Military Museum, Underground Railroad Quilt, Plight of Irish Longshoremen, S.A.L.T., Westbrook Pewter, Tom Nadeau's Artwork, 3rd Annual Westbrook Immigrants: Kourapis, Cairns, Fournier & LaViolette families.

2007-2008 Programs:Remembering Rudy Vallée, Gilding on Glass, Remembering Our Veterans, The Haskell Silk Mill, Westbrook Then & Now, Early American Folk Remedies, Exploring our Collection, 2nd Annual Westbrook Immigrants: The Woroneka, Zaharis, Conant and Guimond families.

2006 - 2007 Programs: History of Dowsing, Antique Bicycles, Just Black & White Photographs, Al Hawkes & Local Bluegrass Music, Placing Your Home on the National Register, Portland Trails in Westbrook, Maine Irish History, Northeast Historic Films, Westbrook Immigrants: The Turgeon, Gerhardts, Keating, Jensen & Rathgeb families.