PARIS – Talks on the history of Oxford County’s courthouses, the Paris Hill community and naturalism will be part of the Oxford County bicentennial celebration, thanks in part to a grant.
Larry Glatz, coordinator for the 2005 Oxford County Bicentennial Committee, said Thursday that the group has been given just under $500 by the Maine Humanities Council.
“It really just pays for (the speakers’) travel expenses,” Glatz said. He added that the county is fortunate to have received the money, and that all three speakers are willing to donate their time for the June 11 bicentennial celebration.
Martha McNamara, an associate professor in the history department at the University of Maine, will be speaking on the history of Oxford County’s courthouses, according to a press release from Glatz.
Earle Shettleworth Jr., Maine state historian and director of the Maine Historical Preservation Commission, will speak on Paris Hill past and present.
State Rep. Herbert Adams, D-Portland, a native of Oxford County, will give a talk titled “Oxford County’s remarkable naturalists: Charles O. Whitman, Addison E. Verrill and Edward Sylvester Morse.”
Oxford County bicentennial events will kick off March 4. That morning, replicas of the county charter documents will be carried from the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston and given to a rider on horseback, who will begin a journey to the county seat.
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