Cobb Farm is topic of in-person Bailey Library event June 23

WINTHROP – Bailey Library wll host Jennifer Phillips in person at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, the library 29 Bowdoin St.
The event is the sixth part of a yearlong series celebrating Maine women. Phillips will give a slideshow presentation that focuses on the history and future of the historic 35-acre Cobb Heritage Farm, once a bustling dairy farm that was famous for its corn. The farm has been in the Cobb family for seven generations. Phillips will also discuss the industrious women in her family who lived and worked at the farm over the last 200 years.
Phillips is the oldest grandchild of Richard and Marion Hyatt Cobb, who ran the farm until the 1980s after buying the property in the 1940s. Phillips bought the farm in 2018, with intent to renovate and return the farm to active use.
She was born and raised in Illinois and moved to Winthrop after buying the property. Her first memory of the Cobb Farm is when she was 8 years old and spent a summer there. Before moving to Maine, Phillips and her husband owned and managed several properties and undertook renovation projects that included four historic homes.
Since moving to Maine, she has joined the Winthrop Maine Historical Society, and is a deacon at the First Congregational Church of Winthrop.
The event will take place in the King Event Room on the first floor of the library. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call 207-377-8673.