JAY – The Western Maine Paper and Heritage Museum recently received a $3,000 grant from the Western Mountains fund of the Maine Community Foundation.
“This grant will be used toward capacity building and to develop a preservation plan for the museum’s growing collection,” said Sherry Judd, museum chair. The Western Maine Alliance agreed to act as the museum’s fiscal sponsor for the grant. “The history of our forest products, the paper industry, and the heritage linking them is a story that needs to be told,” said Deb Burd, alliance executive director.
The museum committee began approximately a year and a half ago. Since its conception, Judd has taken paper industry artifacts on the road in a modified railway caboose to the region’s mill towns.
The committee is days away from becoming a non-profit organization and is on its way to finding a home for the artifacts the committee has collected. It’s also considering any offers of a building. Contacts for the museum are Judd at 897-3117 or Brenda Clark at 897-5613.
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