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- Dec 19, 2021
Christmas in the Log Camps
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum Christmas Dinner in the Maine Woods, Umbazookskus...
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- Dec 12, 2021
Emerson Pills
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum It’s basketball season! In the past, semi-pro...
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- Dec 5, 2021
Holiday Prep, 1908
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! By Trudy Wyman, Curator, Millinocket Society Museum Company coming for the holidays or shopping needs to...
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- Nov 28, 2021
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 21, 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 14, 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 7, 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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- Oct 31, 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 24, 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 10, 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 3, 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...
Trudy Wyman, Curator
- Sep 26, 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 19, 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...
Trudy Wyman, Curator
- Sep 12, 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...
Trudy Wyman, Curator
- Sep 5, 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...
Trudy Wyman, Curator
- Aug 29, 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...
Trudy Wyman, Curator
- Aug 22, 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...
Trudy Wyman, Curator
- Aug 15, 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...
Trudy Wyman, Curator
- Aug 8, 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...
Trudy Wyman, Curator
- Aug 1, 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...