Year-round hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays; 8:30-6 Thursdays; 10-2 Saturdays. Admission: Free. No appointment necessary unless you want to research archives. Address: 16 Hannibal Hamlin Drive, Paris Hill. Phone number: (207) 743-2980. Website: www.hamlin.lib.me.us Original building: Oxford County Jail, built in 1822. Museum curator: Brandan Roberts (email [email protected]) Librarian: Jennifer Lewis (email [email protected]) Major fundraiser: Founder’s […]
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‘Unique’ Hamlin museum offers relics of Paris Hill’s past
The former jail now houses everything from artwork to clothing, books by Shakespeare, gems and rattlesnakes rattles — all reflecting the lives of Paris Hills’ residents since the 1800s.
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Face Time: Kevin Frost and friends bring some sunshine to those who need it
Frost, of Farmington, runs a nonprofit organization called Shining Star to help people in the community.
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Mystery Photo for June 11, 2023
Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $20 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.
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A mysterious lighthouse
In the 1919 film “Out Yonder,” which news accounts say was filmed along the New England coast, perhaps entirely in Maine, the action takes place near a lighthouse. But it isn’t clear where the lighthouse shown in the movie was located. Reviews referred to it as Great Reef Light, but that appears to be a […]
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Maine silent movie festival something to talk about
Century-old moving pictures filmed in Maine to be shown at Augusta’s historic theater next weekend, among them several involving Auburn’s Holman Day.
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In a word: All the buzz about spelling bees
When Kingston, Jamaica’s Jody-Anne Maxwell spelled ‘chiaroscurist’ correctly in 1998, she became the event’s first black winner and also the first winner from outside the United States.
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Mark LaFlamme: The pod people are among us
Talk of the town: Public confessions, zombifying flowers, only eating after dark and so much more.
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‘Good street eats’: Lewiston-Auburn food trucks and the people who run them
The food truck scene is cookin’ in the Twin Cities and throughout Maine these days, and there are a few tasty theories on why.
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Mystery Photo for June 4, 2023
Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $20 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.