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Annual Meeting: By-Laws Amendments Vote
Changes will be voted on at our Annual Meeting on May 20th. The Board of Directors has been reviewing our By-Laws, as all non-profit organizations should do every five years or so. We have made some updates to be better aligned with the Maine Nonprofit Corporation Act. We also made some changes that will help us be more efficient, as well as some that reflect our Strategic Plan.
These changes must be voted on at an annual meeting, so we will be presenting them this year. You can find the proposed changes on our website’s home page, where there is a link to an online document. If you are a member, please review the changes and email us with any questions at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We will have limited copies available at the annual meeting, in an effort to be eco-friendly. A copy can be found here. Green highlights are additions, red highlights are deletions.
By-Laws:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XnHa32LziuYD9NZAVcSQbFm5atjMuawPbTUnwBLzJek/edit?usp=sharing
Past Lectures-
To view the September 2020 Lecture about the South Berwick Fire of 1870
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BHObxonJ1Z6jnErWn16pnLY6riEKImud/view?usp=sharing
To view the October 2020 Lecture about the Gray Family
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qY1aqLZVsKkcYcDEmAbqGC3KHjZDGQD4/view?usp=sharing
To view the January 2021 Lecture about Maine's Suffrage Movement
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PMUcJVOuTEZZxS-rLCSuaFdwFWprlzV-/view?usp=sharing
To view the February 2021 Lecture about Malaga Island
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m64BRZJb-vF-BbLwKAh9gRlm0ZMzFuAL/view?usp=sharing
To view the March 2021 Lecture about Maine's Bicentennial
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WYwmtocq6vnf3Ca6UiuIKi1eL6wgh9N1/view?usp=sharing
To view the April 2021 Lecture about the Dunbar Soldiers in Maine
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CYbSgUlH12TwMXM_1sMlZntHtgwfjJtk/view?usp=sharing
Museum Open-
"Unwilling Immigrants" Exhibit
The Counting House Museum exhibit, "Unwilling Immigrants: From the Scottish Battlefield to the New World, 1650", is now open. The panel and touchscreen exhibit, produced at Durham University in England, is expanded at the Counting House Museum with a display of artifacts and images that recount the experience of the Dunbar prisoners who arrived in southern New Hampshire and Maine as indentured servants and settled in the Berwicks, leaving a long and proud Scottish legacy in our town.
The companion exhibit focuses on four soldiers from Scotland, who survived starvation, imprisonment, and travails at sea to become sawyers, farmers and carpenters in New England. It features items from our collection, including materials from the 17th-century Chadbourne house and sawmill site, as well as objects loaned from local collectors.
The Counting House Museum is open June-October on Saturdays from 1pm-4pm, and by appointment. Limit of 5 guests per appointment and facemasks are required. Call 207-384-0000 or email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Free admission, donations gratefully accepted.
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