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Special Trains
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad played an important...
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Nov 28, 2021


Catch a Movie at the Dream Theater!
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum “If you can think of anything to make our show better,...
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Nov 21, 2021


A Little Taste of History!
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum “Bake in a hot oven,” “add lump of butter the size of...
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Nov 14, 2021


The Millinocket Bottling Company
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum Bottled soda water, mineral water and non-intoxicating...
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Nov 7, 2021


Sons of Veterans
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum Since 1954, Veteran’s Day (formerly Armistice Day) has...
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Oct 31, 2021


Some Early Stores!
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum McAvey and Smart and McAvey and Scribner were two...
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Oct 24, 2021


Dining on the Train!
Get a hot lunch of grilled brook trout served with whipped potato, biscuits, Harvard beets and a beverage for $1.75 per person! If that...
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Oct 10, 2021


Early Homes
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum Many houses in the older sections of Millinocket have...
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Oct 3, 2021


Dance Schools
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum Dance classes and recitals for the boys and girls of...
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Sep 26, 2021


GNP Employment Office
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum The story of GNP’s Spruce Wood Department’s Bangor...
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Sep 19, 2021


Woods Camp Labor Schedule
A notice from the Spruce Wood Department of GNP dated 1917-18 often catches the attention of visitors to the museum’s logging/river drive...
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Sep 12, 2021


Millinocket CAP
In the 1940’s, Millinocket had a unit of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) with about twenty members. The Maine Wing of CAP had been formed in...
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Sep 5, 2021


Millinocket Schoolhouses Book
A look back into the 100+ years of Millinocket schoolhouses…get a copy of the Millinocket Historical Society’s new 72 page book and...
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Aug 29, 2021


Ripogenus Dam, 1915
In the spring of 1915, work began on the construction of a new dam at the foot of Ripogenus Lake. It would be below the site of a small...
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Aug 22, 2021


Driving Boots and Wangan
Now on display in the logging room of the museum is a fairly large wooden crate with stenciling on one end stating the crate contained...
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Aug 15, 2021


Remember the Drug Store?
Do you remember going to the drug store, taking a seat on a stool at the soda fountain and enjoying a delicious treat? In Millinocket in...
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Aug 8, 2021


Order of Odd Fellows/Rebekahs
Millinocket has had many organizations through the years and for many there were separate men’s and women’s groups. One such group was...
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Aug 1, 2021


Frank and Emma LePage
When Frank and Emma LePage came to what would become the town of Millinocket, there was little here. In a news article interview several...
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Jul 25, 2021


Peavey/Swing Dingle
Still found in many garages, basements and barns around central and northern Maine, the logging tool known as a peavey has an interesting...
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Jul 18, 2021


July 1921, In the News!
100 years ago in July of 1921, these were some of the Millinocket newsworthy items that appeared in print. 1. “A huge new scoreboard and...
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Jul 11, 2021
