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Mayflower Hill: A History Of Colby College, Earl H. Smith
Mayflower Hill: A History Of Colby College, Earl H. Smith
Colby Books
A lively history of Colby College from its founding in 1813 to the present day.
Founded by Baptists in Waterville, Maine (and originally named The Maine Literary and Theological Institution), Colby College began as a tiny place- half college, half seminary. It faced doom at the end of the Civil War but was rescued by Gardner Colby, a wealthy manufacturer whose $50,000 donation saved the college. Three years later, it changed its name to honor its benefactor. Sixty years after that, the tiny college had become choked by the city's success. Squeezed between the Kennebec River and the railroad tracks, …
Remembered Maine, Ernest Cummings Marriner
Kennebec Yesterdays, Ernest Cummings Marriner
Kennebec Yesterdays, Ernest Cummings Marriner
Colby Books
A “social history of the Pine Tree State…especially…the Kennebec Valley” inspired by Marriner’s long-running Sunday evening radio program “Little Talks on Common Things,” broadcast by Waterville’s WTVL beginning in 1948.
From the foreword:
To my amazement I found hundreds of people interested in the social history of the Pine Tree State. Material has always poured in faster than I could use it. Out of trunks and boxes stored away in attics, came letters and diaries, account books and legal documents. Scrap books prepared by patient hands many decades ago were opened for my inspection. Yellowed newspapers, tied in neat bundles …