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by Bette Britt On a July weekend when area historical societies had many special things to offer those who “toured through time,” Brooksville opened the Farmhouse Museum at 595 Coastal Road. It is 2.2 miles from the handsome boathouse that was converted into headquarters for the Brooksville Historical Society some years ago, and the two locations will eventually offer visitors a day’s worth of rural Maine education. Currently, that would mean studying written history, like bound family journals and town vital records, checking out tools and household items, studying marine artifacts, examining farming and blacksmith equipment, looking at varied displays, gardens, fruit trees and contents of a hearse house at 150 Coastal Road. As the Touring Through Time brochure stated, historical societies, like that in Brooksville, are “Keeping our pasts present.” With acquisition of the former Gerard Condon place about a year ago, the goal of the Brooksville Historical Society continues to be preservation and education, according to Denis Blodgett. As musicians from the Reversing Falls Band played in the shingle-covered barn on Sunday afternoon, Lorraine Dyer joined Blodgett in describing plans for the Farmhouse Museum. So far, the barn is our main thrust,” Blodgett said, indicating it had been swept clean of cobwebs and the rough plank floor repaired to handle the steady flow of visitors, appearing “right from the get go—and the same thing today,” said Blodgett with a grin. There are already neatly labeled farm tools on display, some hanging on the wall and others, like a churn for making butter out of cream, resting on the floor. And both Dyer and Blodgett voiced big dreams for the future—literally big, like livestock, at least sheep to shear. |
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