I like to photograph honor rolls and other monuments with lists of names. My dad and his brothers are on the Honor Roll in Abbot for their war service, and state memorials in Bangor list those killed in the Korean War and Vietnam.

The Wilson Museum in Castine has put nice photos displaying the names on local monuments on the Web. Go to www.wilsonmuseum.org, then to Treasures from the Past.

Click on the images you want and actually print them out in sections so that you can read the names. How great is that?

On the World War I Honor Roll, 1917-1918, are: B. Wheeler Bartlett, Fred’k S. Bartlett, Bernard F. Bowden, Geo. W. Bowden, Geo. N. Carpenter, Arthur B. Conner, Geo. T. Coombs, Edw. P. Crie, Oscar Crie, Joseph Dennett, Chas. W. Devereux, Harry P. Dodge, Malcom K. Douglass, Maynard F. Douglass, Carl Dunbar, Ormond Gott, Joseph D. Gray, Edw. R. Hale, Geo. F. Harmon, Joseph Hussey, Walter Jordan, Horace Leach, Chauncey V. Lowell, Geo. E. Lowell, Albert A. McIntire, Wm. J. Morey, Richard J. Morgrage, W. Carlton Perry, Harold C. Philbrook, Sargent W. Ricker, Leslie B. Scammon, Forrest F. Spurling, Brainerd F. Steele, W. Edmund Walker, Louis F. Webster, Allen P. Wescott, Mercy M. Wescott, Edw. A. Willard and Clarence N. Williams.

The World War II Memorial lists: Philip B. Babcock, Norwood W. Bakeman, Woodrow P. Bakeman, Boyd W. Bartlett, Frederic S. Bartlett, Warren E. Bevan, Arnold L. Bowden, Hazelton E. Bowden, Joseph R. Bowden, Kenneth T. Bowden, Leland A. Bowden, Clifford Chadbourne, Charles W. Chester, Harvard L. Clark, Edward M. Coombs, William R. Coombs, John A. Cunningham, Gerald H. Day, John O. Dennett, Richard A. Devereux, Edwin C. Douglas, George W. Dunbar, Livonia E. Eaton, Clarence L. Gray, Ellis S. Gray, John E. Gray, John W. Gray, Linwood G. Gray, Bert C. Grindle, Frederick B. Hackett, Charles A. Hall, Robert A. Hall, Robert K. Hall, Maurice O. Howard, Mina I. Ladd, Willis K. Leach, Merton Littlefield, Clyde F. McKinnon, George W. McKinnon, Maxwell McKinnon, Leland Mixer, Frederick T. Morey, Robert B. Ordway, Charles S. Parker, Arthur W. Patterson Jr., Frederick G. Patterson, Edward A. Perkins, Frank W. Perkins, Keith B. Perkins, S. Vaughn Perkins, Wendall T. Perkins, Mahlon W. Richardson, James G. Sawyer, Leonard Sawyer, Marjorie Sawyer, Thomas R. Sawyer, Arthur I. Scammon, Theodore H. Scammon, Edgar J. Smith, Ernest W. Smith, Arnold L. Veague, Bernard K. Wardwell, Donald K. Wardwell, Douglas E. Wardwell, Dwight B. Wardwell, Elmont E. Wardwell, George P. Wardwell, Philip H. Wardwell, Robert R. Wardwell, William R. Wardwell, William R. Wardwell, Howard E. Webster, Lewis B. Webster, Henry B. Witham, Owen S. Witham and Langdon W. Wood.

Another monument lists “The Solid 28,” the First Class of 1941 Memorial, Maine Maritime Academy: Philip J. Adams, Martin B. Billings, William J. Brasier, Edward S. Brown, Keith E. Brown, Robert M. Calder, Gordon M. Cousins, Edgar W. Dorr, Richard D. Economy, Alfred D. Flagg, B. Deane Herbert, Davis E. Jameson, George H. Jennings, Harry E. Long, William H. McReel, William E. Murdock, Edgar W. Pearson, Horace A. Record, Donald E. Ritchie, Nate J. Rogers, Charles A. Savage, Thomas C. Smith, Paul A. Stearns, Donald M. Stewart, Rex L. Stone, James E. Taggart, Stephen C. Williams and Warren Johnston.

Need an excuse to visit Castine? This afternoon, 65 American racing yachts will arrive in Castine Harbor for a three-day visit as part of the 149th annual Cruise of the New York Yacht Club.

At 10 a.m. Tuesday, join the welcome for the visiting racers in Delano Auditorium at Maine Maritime Academy, sponsored by the Castine Historical Society, the Castine Yacht Club and MMA.

A free slide lecture, “Castine and its Architecture,” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., will be presented. Shettleworth, Maine State historian and executive director of the Maine State Historic Preservation Commission, will talk about Federal-style homes and Victorian summer cottages in Castine.

Docents of the Castine Historical Society will lead short guided tours for New York Yacht Club members, concluding at the Abbott School on the town common, home of the historical society. The visitors will see the historical society’s new permanent exhibit about the 1779 Penobscot Expedition.

So who’s in charge of the Wilson Museum? I never would have guessed this. It’s the Castine Scientific Society. The museum on Perkins Street is open 2-5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday until Sept. 30. Admission is free. For information, call 326-9247.

There is an admission charge for the John Perkins House, which is open 2-5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday this month.

The Hannan-Hannon-Morse-Lermond-Boynton Reunion, for descendants of John Odell Hannan, John Lane Morse, Benjamin Boynton and all Lermonds, will be held midday Sunday, Aug. 21, in the Maresh backyard, 169 Howard Road, Belmont. Bring food to share, memorabilia and a folding chair. Information, 342-5208.

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