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READFIELD — Readfield residents have the opportunity to explore town history in two separate presentations this month.
On Wednesday, Oct. 18, Dale Potter-Clark will discuss the Currier family and home at Readfield Corner, which now houses the town library.
The slide-show presentation will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Maranacook Adult Community Education, and a reservation and fee is required. Currier, a young doctor, and his wife, Patience, bought the house that now houses the Readfiled Public Library in 1800, and it remained in the Currier family for nearly 150 years, until great-granddaughter Alice Eaton donated it to the town.
The fee for the presentation will help establish a Museum in the Streets town. To register call MACE at 207-685-4923, ext. 1065, or register online at maranacook.maineadulted.org.
From 10 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 27, residents can take part in a town history walk at Camp Kirkwold, 177 North Wayne Road.
The tour will include Camp Kirkwold on Lovejoy Pond. The camp has been a Girl Scout camp since 1952. It was founded as Camp Abenaki in 1919 by Emma Greene Wood, an osteopathic physician from New Jersey. She sold it to Marjorie Kirk of New York in 1927, who renamed it Camp Merrywold, meaning “happy world.” Kirk eventually donated it to the Girl Scout Council of Maine and it was renamed Kirkwold in Marjorie Kirk’s honor.
Walkers should park near the Kirkwold entrance, along North Wayne Road, or on the access road to the camp, by 10 a.m. The group will walk into the campground together from there. Dale Potter-Clark, co-author of “Summer Resorts and Kids’ Camps on Four Lakes in Central Maine,” will read from the chapter pertaining to Kirkwold. A walking stick and sturdy shoes are recommended.
For information, email crossings4u@gmail.com or call 207-441-9184.
