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A Reminder: WE ARE SEEKING YOUR MEMORIES! 2020 Exhibit: “Growing Up on Chebeague”

As we announced last summer, we need your help. e Museum’s next exhibit will tell Chebeague’s story through the eyes of its children. e exhibit planners want to include as many folks as possible so please nd that favorite childhood photo of you, your children, grandchildren, and/or your ances- tors. e response and sharing to date have just been amazing, but we don’t want to miss anything! Photos can be scanned and returned to you. We are also interested in borrowing toys or memorabilia that you might have from childhood (birth to marriage if you were married on Chebeague) that contributes to Chebeague’s story. Short descriptions of favorite childhood memories will certainly be invaluable as the Exhibit develops. For more info: Email chebeaguehistory@gmail.com or call Donna Damon, CIHS Collections Manager at 207-846-5237.

Hiring: Summer Museum Assistant CIHS seeks an outgoing, motivated, friendly individual to be its 2020 Summer Museum Assistant. e Assistant contributes to the Museum visitor experience and Gi Shop operation. Responsibilities include: · Serving as Museum greeter and guide for visitors. · Introducing visitors to the exhibit and supporting updates to the exhibit. · Performing computerized cash register sales transactions and cash management. · Providing support for purchasing, inventory control, and other related daily activities for the CIHS Gi Shop. · Handling routine stock management and customer service activities. · Other duties relating to Museum collections and operations as assigned. · Performing light facility duties. Work can commence in mid to late May, getting the Museum and the gi shop ready to open mid-June. Position o ers up to 35 hours per week, with compensation based on experience. Successful applicant will have a basic knowledge of word processing and a willingness to learn new programs. Experience working with computerized cash register is also a plus. We are open to job sharing as well. Interested applicants should contact the Historical Society, via e-mail. chebeaguehistory@gmail.com

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Marty’s Memories - Listening to Our Storytellers by Marty Trower

Sometimes you don’t know when it’s happening to you. When you are caught in a moment - or twenty- when a tale unravels. Sometimes I get to thinking about what I should be or would like to be doing elsewhere but not anymore. Now I stop and remember. I remember Ed Jenks- was he over a hundred then in the sixties when he was telling Lee Bowman and I this story? That he had been part of a crew of soldiers and/or civilians who went to clean up after the massacre at Little Big Horn out west. Custer’s Last Stand. We were sitting in his simple kitchen with a great view out onto the water on the west end and the flimsy curtains were pumping at the partially opened window. A still but sometimes gusty October day. I don’t remember him revealing details but Classified Ads Top Shelf Cleaning and Services: Cleaning, moving cars to and from the Stone Pier or Chandlers Wharf, snowplowing and snowblowing, and winter house watching—daily, weekly, or monthly—lawn mowing, and light tractor work. For more information, call Cindy at 207-846-1055. Seasonal Rental at 13 Island View Rd: Fully equipped summer home with 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, and private right of way to the water; $1100 per week plus a $300 security deposit. Contact Richard Bowen at rhbowen3@gmail.com or 207-831-6148.

somehow the story was believable. He knew exactly what he was talking about as he moved easily into the politics of the day. The Viet Nam War. Another massacre, he thought. That was at least fifty years ago, that memory. For the past couple of weeks, Ernie Burgess has come over to cut up and split my two huge trees that fell in the Great Wind of October 2019 (my name for it). Over the last few days we have been sitting around my kitchen table while we waited for his cutting machine to warm up. Only I didn’t know that part until the next day. In the meantime, Ernie’s many intriguing stories brought us back to The Cuban Missile Crisis and his close-up encounters with that near nuclear war. Those led to others and soon I knew I was sitting across from a master storyteller.

Notices Ladies Aid: Please join us for crafty projects and camaraderie at 11:00am each Thursday. Catholic Communion Service: A regular Catholic Communion Service will be held every Saturday at 4:00pm at the church. Sew Good: Sew Good will meet Sept 11 th and 25 th from 1:00-5:00pm at the Parish House. For more information, please call Lola Armstrong (846-4737) or Karen Corson (846-0938).

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