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The Leeman House, The Willett House, & Mcguire Point (1800s-1900s), Randy Lackovic
The Leeman House, The Willett House, & Mcguire Point (1800s-1900s), Randy Lackovic
Darling Marine Center Historical Documents
This is a local history of former residents of the Leeman House at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, ME. It is also a history of McGuire Point in Walpole, Maine, and it is a history of past residents of the Willett House of the University of Maine at McGuire Point.
Mellie Dunham: A Remembrance Norway Maine Summer Festival, July 2003, David Sanderson
Mellie Dunham: A Remembrance Norway Maine Summer Festival, July 2003, David Sanderson
Maine History Documents
The story of Mellie Dunham continues to fascinate, even some seventy-five years after the events. The tale of the 72-year-old country fiddler invited to play for Henry Ford, made famous by the media, then hugely successful as a vaudeville performer, seems almost too perfect to be true. But it all happened, and it was Mellie’s own grace and lack of pretense, a genuineness that inspired the public’s affection for him, that was as much as anything else responsible for the events of 1925 and 1926.
This booklet was created to mark Mellie’s 150th birthday, July 29, 2003. We call it …