STRATTON – Michael and Carol Reed VanHoosier presented the Dead River Area Historical Society with an album of photographs of the Green Farm, taken in 1956-58 when her parents owned it and a book of “The Ancestry and Descendants of Abiathar Greene” by Frances B. Green, Boothbay Harbor, Boothbay Register press 1930. The Abiathar Greene history dates back to 1874.

Carol VanHoosier read parts of that book and showed the album at the July 10 program. Twenty-three people attended and participated in the lecture. Earl McIntosh, Herb Bachelder and Rita Targett shared their memories of the farm, the Reeds and of the fire that destroyed most of it. McIntosh and his dad, who was called Jim Mac by the Reeds, worked at the farm.

Creg Dam, owner of the Green Farm today, talked about the remains of the original buildings, such as the water tower. Gail Merrill will take photos and they will be placed in the album for future references.

People are encouraged to write their stories about the Green Farm. Those stories will be typed onto archival paper and added to the album as well.

The Dead River Area Historical Society is open every weekend during July and August from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. On display are artifacts, manuscripts and photographs that have been donated or loaned by interested townspeople and descendants of original families of the Dead River Region.

Collections from 1850 on include old carpentry and logging tools, china, glass, church organ, furniture from native families, a complete schoolroom, a memorial room to the “lost” towns of Flagstaff and Dead River, the lineage of several native families and a host of memorabilia from native homesteads.

For more information, call Mary Henderson at 246-2271.