The Thomas A. Hill House and Civil War Museum, of the Bangor Museum and History Center, located at 159 Union Street, opens for the 2010 season on June 1st.
For private tours and research contact Dana Lippitt, Curator 207.942.1900
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Founded in 1864, the Bangor Historical Society has been collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of the Penobscot Valley for over 140 years.
$5,000 gift to Bangor History! Rod Rodrigues, by DESIGN
gallery, presents a $5,000 check to Dana Lippitt, curator of Bangor Museum and
History Center. Mr. Rodrigues organized “BANGOR, brush with history” art show
this winter to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Bangor; naming
Bangor Museum and History Center the recipient of a portion of the art sales.
Photo
by Matt Bishop.
The Great Fire of 1911 Exhibit & the 4th Grade
Curators •
Visit the exhibit at the Hill House
For the second year, Mrs. Schmick’s fourth grade class of
Fairmount School is collaborating with Bangor Museum and History Center
to guest curate the summer exhibit at the Thomas A. Hill House. Designed
by Mrs. Schmick and museum curator Dana Lippitt, as a service-learning
project, the students researched the Bangor Fire of 1911.
Using newspaper accounts, letters and other primary source material from
the Museum’s archives, they wrote labels for photographs of the fire
from their own creative interpretations of the “voices” of people who
experienced it. They also performed a stage production at Hill House
portraying Bangor citizens discussing the fire and its aftermath for
parents and guests.
Historic Walking Tours of the Mount Hope Cemetery and the Ghost Lamp Tours
Mount Hope Cemetery is the second oldest garden cemetery in the United States. It was designed to meet the mid-19th century city dweller’s desire for a romanticized rural landscape. Many of Maine’s statesmen, military and civic leaders are entombed here, along with some of the infamous characters whose colorful legends still survive.
