WINTHROP  — The Bailey Library is scheduled to host Jennifer Phillips at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, in the King Event Room on the first floor of the library on Bowdoin Street.

The event is the sixth part of a yearlong series celebrating Maine women.

Phillips will give a slideshow presentation that focuses on the history and future of the historic 35-acre Cobb Heritage Farm in Winthrop, once a bustling dairy farm that was famous for its corn. The farm has been in the Cobb family for seven generations. She will also discuss the industrious women in her family that lived and worked at the Cobb Farm over the last 200 years.

Phillips is the oldest grandchild of Richard “Chick” Cobb and Marion Hyatt Cobb, who ran the farm until the 1980s after purchasing the property in the 1940s. Phillips purchased the farm in 2018, with intent to renovate and return the farm to active use.

Phillips was born and raised in Illinois, and moved to Winthrop after purchasing the property. Her first memory of the Cobb Farm is when she was 8 years old and spent a summer there. Before moving to Maine, Phillips and her husband owned and managed several properties and renovation projects, including four historic homes.

Since moving to Maine, she has joined the Winthrop Maine Historical Society, and is a deacon at the First Congregational Church of Winthrop.

Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call the library at 207-377-8673.

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