STRATTON – Ruey Stevens Baldwin, one of the 70 authors of “There Was a Land” and former resident of the drowned village of Flagstaff, will be at the Dead River Area Historical Society on Saturday, July 22.

The village of Flagstaff was drowned in 1950 by Central Maine Power Co. when it erected a dam at Long Falls on the Dead River in order to create a hydropower reservoir.

Baldwin interviewed many former residents of the village and has compiled short stories about life in Flagstaff. “There Was a Land” will be available for purchase.

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

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.