Belfast Historical Society

NOW HE BELONGS TO THE AGES: A talk on remembering the death of Lincoln. with Rev. Dr. Duncan Newcomer The meaning of Lincoln’s death can change everything about our present national crisis. As Walt Whitman long ago implored, we need to gather for this tragic reminiscence to recover Lincoln. A spiritual view of Lincoln answers […]

Deborah Nowers: Recollections: Growing Up on the East Side of Belfast in the First Quarter of the 20th Century. Based on a manuscript written by Sadie May Robbins Stinson Galego. She was born in 1900 and at age 94 looked back at the childhood she said had shaped her life.

Earle Shettleworth: Architectural Photographs of Charles R. Coombs. Images from the Penobscot Marine Museum collection depicting major homes and buildings in Belfast in the late 19th – early 20th century. Mr. Shettleworth is the Maine State Historian.

Frank Coombs, Larry Curtis, Wilma Moses, Gail Smith: What’s in Your Postcard Collection? Four collectors of vintage postcards share gems from their collections.

David Ruberti: The Life and Times of Edgar F. Hanson (1853 – 1933) Hanson was a ten-term mayor of Belfast and an energetic entrepreneur and booster of Belfast and Waldo County.

Kevin Johnson: More Historic Images from Penobscot Marine Museum Photograph Collection. Mr. Johnson is photo-archivist at the museum.