MDI historians plan annual meeting

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MOUNT DESERT – The Mount Desert Island Historical Society will hold its annual meeting, followed by a lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at Somesville Parish House, Main Street. Mary Jones, president, will give a society news update and members will elect a new…
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MOUNT DESERT – The Mount Desert Island Historical Society will hold its annual meeting, followed by a lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at Somesville Parish House, Main Street.

Mary Jones, president, will give a society news update and members will elect a new board of directors and officers.

After the annual meeting, guest speaker Caroline MacDonald Pryor, senior project manager at Maine Coast Heritage Trust, will present a slide show and lecture on “Favorite MDI Landscapes: Where Historic Preservation and Land Conservation Meet.”

The historical society has featured an exhibit “Not a Level Field in Town …Yet to Farming We Were Bound: The History of Agriculture on MDI” throughout the summer season that will remain open through Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Sound School House Museum, Route 198.

Refreshments will be served at the lecture. For more information, call the MDI Historical Society at 276-9323.


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