OTISFIELD — At their Sept. 11 meeting, the Otisfield Historical Society will showcase the life of one of its most accomplished centenarians, the late Orrell Linnell, artist, farmer, mechanic, woodworker, writer and woodworker extraordinaire.

Linnell, recipient of Otisfield’s Boston Post Cane, died on Dec. 1, 2013, at the age of 103. The program will be held at the Old Town House, 53 Bell Hill Road, and will begin at 7 p.m.

Quentin Henderson, a close relative, will join Celeste Hyer in a PowerPoint presentation of the life of this modest man, who, like generations of his family before him, lived most of his life in the Gore area of Otisfield.

Because Orrell was farsighted enough to record in writing many of his important life stories, in one sense he really will tell his own story. For example, the audience will hear about Orrell’s experiences during World War II, when, as a civilian, he travelled from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Ore., and eventually to Hawaii.

They’ll learn, in Orrell’s own words, what it was trying to make a living while raising chickens and cucumbers in the years following that war. And in one later account they’ll hear about Orrell’s trip to Philadelphia so that he could measure the original Liberty Bell in order to make a model for Otisfield’s 1998 bicentennial. That bell is now in a place of honor in Otisfield’s town office.

As always, the public is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served following the program.