PARIS – The Paris Cape Historical Society will hear Frank Vierling, historian for Oradell, N.J., share his research on Kimball Chase Atwood, local insurance man who once owned the famous home of Hannibal Hamlin on Paris Hill, now home of Robert Bahre. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21.

Vierling, retired from NBC Television Co., has done considerable research on Kimball C. Atwood from his birth in Buckfield in 1853, his education at Hebron Academy, to his death in New York.

The program will be of local interest as the Atwood family owned the Paris Hill property for more than 60 years. Vierling summers at his cottage in Raymond.

The public is invited to this meeting and the brief business meeting which will take place in the downstairs vestry of the Trinity Lutheran Church only one mile from Market Square, off the Buckfield Road, Route 117.

After leaving home at age 19, Atwood went to New York where he started in the dry goods business until he got positions in insurance associations where he rose to fame for new ideas in insurance policies.

Later he established a fruit grove in Florida where an idea originated the development of the pink grapefruit. Throughout his life he owned estates in Florida, New York, New Jersey and Maine, He bought the Paris Hill home in 1910, The program will tell what changes he made to it.

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