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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:

1908	1909	1910	1911	1912
January	January	January	January	January
February	February	February	February	February
March	March	March	March	March
April	April	April	April	April
May	May	May	May	May
June	June	June	June	June
July	July	July	July	July
August	August	August	August	August
September	September	September	September	September
October	October	October	October	October
November	November	November	November	November
December	December	December	December	December

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.

Table of Contents	Index
Sample Family Story	Sample From the Record

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!