100 Years Ago: 1924

A lot of land on Thornes’s Corner has been sold by Andrew Belanger to a land company to be cut up into lots for people who want small places with garden-spaces, in the suburbs.

50 Years Ago: 1974

Girls of the Youth Fellowship of the High Street Congregational Church are serving as hostesses on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, March 27 and March 28 during the Parish Guild’s 26th annual Antique Show and Sale. It will open at noon and continue through the evening until nine o’clock.

The hostesses are Linda Norris, Sheryl Fickett, Judy Lagrange, Mary Savignano, Debbie Fallon, Diane Morse and Cathy Swengel.

25 Years Ago: 1999

Pieces of the Aids Memorial Quilt went on display Monday in Augusta, complimenting similar exhibits in other state capitals from Tallahassee, Fla., to Olympia, Washington.

But Maine almost didn’t get to be part of this year’s national awareness campaign.

“We had a lull when it looked uncertain,” said Ellie Hands, the new co-chairman of the Names Project/Maine, “but people came back just like they always do. We’re off and running. We’re not stopping.”

Co-chairman Brian Kimball announced in December that the charity had plenty of money, but a lack of volunteers. Soon afterward 40 people called to express concern and offer help.

Sherri Hopkins, a grandmother of five, joined the effort after reading her granddaughter’s middle school yearbook. She said some of the girls had written things about sex, condoms, and pregnancy, but didn’t mention “AIDS.”

“They don’t see the stark reality. Far worse than getting pregnant is the prospect of getting “AIDS.”

The Names Project tries to increase awareness of AIDS by displaying part of an enormous quilt. Each panel of the quilt represents a person who died from the disease.

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