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AUGUSTA — The Kennebec Historical Society’s next presentation, “How Maine Changed the World,” will take place 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, at South Parish Congregational Church, 9 Church St.
It will focus on the achievements of prominent, as well as some nearly forgotten or never-known, Mainers who materially changed the world.
The event is free to the public, but donations will be accepted.
Many people remember Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience” delivered on the Senate floor to oppose the actions of her colleague, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, but fewer people may know Maine inventors F.E. and F.O. Stanley provided the photographic plate that made Eastman-Kodak successful, or that Chester Greenwood gave the world the earmuff.
Probably still fewer could name the inventor of the zig-zag stitch for sewing machines that revolutionized commercial sewing forever. Maine’s unique contributions include the microwave, the Maine coon cat, Moxie, the “bridge in a bag” and the Clean Water Act.
Speaker Nancy Griffin, of Thomaston, a former newspaper and wire service reporter who has been a freelance writer for magazines and newspapers for more than 20 years, has written four books — “The Remarkable Stanley Brothers,”” Making Whoopies,” “Maine 101” and “Fifty Things to Do in Maine Before You Die.”
PHOTO: Nancy Griffin (Submitted photo)
