LIVERMORE — A cold, windy day didn’t prevent scores of families from experiencing what a 19th-century Christmas would have been like at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center on Saturday. Visitors made their way from room to room. Tour guides, in character, were ready to answer questions or talk about the various items on display. In […]
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Washburn descendant helping to create 3-D model of Norlands homestead
LIVERMORE — Peter Washburn Kelsey’s eyes had welled up three times since he began work Monday with a team to create a photo-realistic, 3-D-accurate computer model of his ancesters’ homestead. Kelsey, a strategic projects executive for software company Autodesk, is the great-great-great-grandson of Cadwallader C. Washburn. Cadwallader was born in 1818 to Israel and Martha […]
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‘Christmas at Norlands’ in Livermore on Dec. 7
Journey back in time and enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides, 19th-century parlor games, stories, children’s craft activities in the cozy Washburn kitchen, caroling, the one-room schoolhouse, mulled cider made on the woodstove, and the simply decorated 1867 Washburn mansion. Kerck Kelsey, Washburn descendant and historian, will share stories about the Washburn family in the mansion at […]
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Half-price day is Tuesday
LIVERMORE — The Check It Out listing published on Page B4 of Thursday’s Franklin edition should have said Half-Price Living History Tours at the Norlands will be offered from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5.
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Avon business prefabricating post, beam frame for Norlands barn
AVON — Thirty-six thick, timber frame posts are stacked against a wall in the Maine Mountain Timber Frames workshop on Route 4. Mortise and tenon joinery have been cut into the hemlock posts so they will interlock when the new barn frame is put together at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore. A mortise […]
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Norlands to offer live-in experience on April 25, 26
LIVERMORE — Unplug from the 21st century and return to a simpler time at Maine’s oldest living history farm in Livermore. Spend 24 hours as part of a farm family in the year 1870. Experience an overnight introduction to the activities of sustainable rural living in both historical and contemporary times. The program takes place […]
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Campaign launched to raise money to finish barn
LIVERMORE — Directors of the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center launched a campaign Monday to raise the remaining $250,000 needed to build a barn. A barn and the farmer’s cottage were lost in an accidental fire on April, 28, 2008. The cottage was rebuilt and opened in 2011. The center is a nonprofit living museum, dedicated […]