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AUGUSTA — The Kennebec Historical Society will present “Augusta, a Visual Review,” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, via Facebook Live.
To view the presentation, click on the KHS Facebook page at 6:30 p.m. It will also be available to watch later. Those with questions should submit them in the comments section during the live video presentation.
Emily Schroeder, KHS archivist, will discuss some of Augusta’s landmarks, sights and events in a presentation that will feature photos and other materials from the Kennebec Historical Society’s collection. Travel back in time from the city’s birth through to present day, and see what the society has to offer.
Schroeder was born in Augusta and spent most of her life in Thomaston before graduating from the University of Maine Portland-Gorham (now USM) in 1978. She worked at the Maine State Library from 1980 to 2018, becoming a reference librarian in 1988 after earning a master of library and information science degree from the University of Rhode Island. In 2007, she took on the duties of genealogy specialist and began teaching classes statewide in that field. She started the library’s genealogy club and added an online genealogy newsletter. She has been interested in Maine and her people for a lifetime and joined the Kennebec Historical Society in 2002. She is on the society’s Board of Directors as the administrative vice president and archivist. She is the co-chair of the Collections Committee, and a member of the Personnel and Program Committees. She also belongs to the Maine Genealogical Society.
