Plimoth gives hands-on history lesson

With spring finally here, it’s just the time to plan a trip to Plimoth Plantation, the living museum based on 1627 Plymouth, Mass., which has been in existence for more than a half-century.

The plantation is one hour south of Boston, Exit 4 off Route 3 south.

We have visited the plantation several times over the past 30 years, both with and without children, and enjoyed it thoroughly. It is delightful to “meet” the inhabitants of 1627 Plymouth and see how they lived.

I doubly recommend the trip if you have children in grade school or older.

The plantation also will have a role in the new PBS history series, “Colonial House.” The show premiere will air May 17 and rerun on May 18, 24 and 25.

Visitors to the plantation will be able to share some of the experience between May 29 and Nov. 28

Roll-up-your-sleeves activities will include opportunities to work on a 17th century-style house, set sails on the Mayflower II, learn to sail or row a period boat, speak in a 17th-century dialect, and bake the 17th-century way.

The Wassebec Genealogical Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. May 13, in the Mayo Regional Hospital Conference Room off Dwelley Avenue in Dover-Foxcroft.

Jack Battick will give a program on immigration and naturalization records, including passenger ship lists, in genealogical research. For information on the meeting, contact Jack Battick at 564-3576.

The Corinna Historical Society will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 11, upstairs in the library building in the middle of the town. I will be speaking on the use of census records pertaining to Corinna. I hope to see you there.

The Washington County Genealogical Society will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 15, at the Milbridge Historical Society building.

Organized in 1992, the society has as its mission to collect, exchange and preserve related documents and information, and to spur interest and scholarship in genealogy and family history in Washington County.

Membership is open to anyone interested in learning more about their family genealogy and history, especially in Washington County and neighboring Charlotte County, New Brunswick.

Meetings are held from March to November, with the exception of July and August. Dues are $10 a year. Members receive a quarterly newsletter, “Weirs and Woods,” which features free queries, information and the exchange of genealogical material.

For information, contact Frances Raye, president, at 853-6630, or Valdine Atwood, secretary, at 255-4432.

The Aroostook County Genealogical Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. May 11, at the Thomas Heritage House, the yellow house across from Northeast Propane on South Main Street, Caribou. This is a change from the regular meeting place of the Caribou Public Library.

Those attending will tour the house and view the various items the family has collected over the years.

If you have queries or material to donate to the society, write ACGS, P.O. Box 142, Caribou, ME 04736-0142.

3263. COREY-WING. Looking for family of Nelson Corey and Effie (Wing) Corey, Snowman, md. July 29, 1894. Nelson b. April 17, 1862, d. 1945. Effie Wing b. November 1879. Their children: Elden, my father; Faye Elva Smith Dionne, Pearl M. Shorey, Hilda Leavitt Clark and Helen Mae DeCarlo Joines. Am currently trying to correct what little information I have on my grandmother, aunts and cousins to complete the Corey genealogy. Also seeking the Lanzarah Cooly-Wing connection. Sheila Corey McKenna, 757 State Road, Mapleton, ME 04757; telephone 764-4849; sheila.mckenna@mainemutual.com.

3264. YOUNG-WRIGHT. Have been searching for several years for parents of Abraham Young Sr., b. 1782-1784, md. Hannah Wright in Lewiston in 1802, moved to Avon, then on to Guilford, where he died in 1857. Have much info after they moved to Guilford, have been unable to find any birth info. Any help appreciated. Carol McBrierty, P.O. Box 196, Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426; or e-mail carolann@kyndnet

Send genealogy queries to Family Ties, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor, ME 04402; or send e-mail to familyti@bangordailynews.net