The Androscoggin Historical Society with Doug Hodgkin

What is the Androscoggin Historical Society? What does it do? Where is its museum and library? How did it get started?

 In a program sponsored by Senior College and the Lewiston Public Library, local historian Doug Hodgkin will answer these questions while providing an illustrated history of the Society and some of the people involved. The talk will take place at the Lewiston Public Library at 2:00 PM on June 9, 2016.

 Hodgkin, the current president of the Society and its newsletter editor, has been a member of the Society and its board of directors, serving in various capacities for thirty years. He has also compiled information from the Society’s early records.

 As a local historian, he is intimately acquainted with the Society’s holdings in its Clarence March Library. He will describe the sorts of material available to genealogists, owners of homes and businesses, and those interested in aspects of Androscoggin County and town history.

 Hodgkin is Professor Emeritus of Bates College with degrees from Yale and Duke Universities. He is the author of histories of Lewiston — Frontier to Industrial City for the period 1768-1863 and Lewiston Politics in the Gilded Age for 1863-1900. He has also produced monographs on the history of Lewiston Grange, Lewiston and Auburn Railroad, and the Baptist Churches on Court Street, Auburn.

This program is in partnership with the Senior College at USM LAC and is free and open to all ages of the public. For questions, please call 207-513-3135 or email lplreference@gmail.com.