AUBURN — Jason Libby will speak on “Poland Spring: Hotels, Water and Community,” at a meeting of the Androscoggin Historical Society at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in 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.

Libby will discuss the history, formation and development of the Poland Spring resort and water company. His discussion also will include the Ricker family, which founded and formed Poland Spring, golf and other recreational activities at Poland; the history and goals of the Preservation Society and the life of its long-serving board president, George A. Ricker Jr., who died last month. Ricker was a member of the last generation of the founding family to live on the property.

Libby is the executive director of Poland Spring Preservation Society and Park. The Preservation Society was formed to preserve the Maine State Building, built in 1893, and All Souls Chapel, built in 1912, which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The society also preserves the history of Poland Spring through museum tours and the museum’s collections and publications.

Libby’s duties also include working with Poland Spring Water on water science education and overseeing the operation of the museum at the former Poland Spring Water Bottling facility, 1907, and nature trails at Poland Spring Preservation Park.

He has a bachelor’s degree in history and political science and a master’s in education from the University of Maine. He has served as adjunct faculty, teaching history courses at Central Maine Community College and assisting with a political science course at the University of Maine.

He recently co-authored, with the Poland Spring Preservation Society, the book “Poland Spring,” which was published by Arcadia Publishing through its Popular Images of America series. Libby lives in New Gloucester with his wife and their two sons.

Other programs planned at the Androscoggin Historical Society headquarters are: 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; 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.