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Ralph Richards Diaries
Ralph Richards was a 29-year-old Spanish American War veteran and rural mail carrier in 1908 when he began keeping a journal. For the next 58 years he wrote in his journal every day, until the day he died in 1966.
For about half that time he wrote in five-year diaries, little books called A Line a Day journals. In fact there are five lines allowed for each day...
To read more, follow along with the installments here:
Introduction January through March, 1908
April, 1908
May, 1908
June, 1908
July, 1908
August, 1908
September, 1908
October, 1908
Keep watching for new installments!
Schoolhouse Museum Has New Book
We're happy to announce the publication of Diane Roesing
O'Brien's Staying Put in Lincolnville, Maine 1900-1950. 
In
it the author follows the fortunes of our little coastal town through
two world wars, the Depression, and all the enormous changes those
fifty years brought. Horses are traded in for gasoline-power, kerosene
lamps for light bulbs, and one-room schools are finally consolidated.
Subsistence farming gives way to contracts with big poultry concerns,
and the mariner's way of life disappears
completely.
Staying Put has 344 pages with hundreds of photos, maps, drawings, and charts, soft-cover. Click on the images below for a closer look.
The heart of the book are the seventy-seven family stories, true to the events that life-long townspeople related to the author and placed in settings meant to illustrate the way life was. Town reports, the U.S. Census, letters, diaries and other sources are used to discuss issues such as the school system, political movements, and road building in essay form.
The book is $25 (plus $1.25 tax for Maine residents) plus $3.85 shipping. To order send a check payable to:
Lincolnville Historical Society
P.O.
Box 204
Lincolnville, ME 04849
Or to use a MC/V card: Call 207-789-5987
You may also order online by submitting your information via email using the link at left.
Search Our Collection
We've been cataloging our collection, and it's now available online at The Camden History Center. Use the Search Our Collection link on the left of their site to browse- have fun!