AUBURN — Martha Elkin will discuss and demonstrate the ancient art of shearing, carding and spinning wool at a meeting of the Androscoggin Historical Society at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Society’s headquarters on the third floor of the County Courthouse at Court and Turner streets. The public is invited to attend without charge.

Elkin will show samples of wool and yarn that has been dyed with plants from her farm in Sumner.

A native and former resident of Danville, she was a nursing educator for more than 20 years and is the author of a nursing textbook. She retired from teaching to farming and with her partner, Mary Ann Haxton, owns A Wrinkle in Thyme Farm, where they have 28 sheep, six Angora goats, 32 laying hens and make maple syrup.

Elkin also participates in the living history program at Morrill Farm in Sumner, for which she is the schoolmarm for an 1853 school day. She organizes the fiber and sheep portion of the program, which involves fiber production similar to how it was done in the late 1800s.

Other Tuesday programs planned at the historical society headquarters include: Nov. 17, “Poland Spring: Hotels, Water and Community,” by Jason Libby; Feb. 23, “Snowmobiling History: A Museum in Turner,” by Paul Bernier; March 23, “Harriman Architects and Engineers; Its Architectural Legacy in Androscoggin County,” by Mark Lee; April 27, “150 Years of Methodists and Court Street Baptists in Auburn,” Betty Dexter and Douglas Hodgkin; and May 25, “Gettysburg’s Lost Battles; Civilian Struggle in 1863,” by Prof. Margaret Creighton, also the annual dinner meeting, held in the High Street Congregational Church.