Entries by Mary Grow

Brown, Levasseur honored for service at Vassalboro town meeting

Vassalboro voters quickly approve 39 articles by Mary Grow VASSALBORO, ME — Vassalboro voters chose Richard Thompson to moderate their annual town meeting Monday evening, June 6, for more than the dozenth time, Thompson said. But for the first half hour after his election, his role was more master of ceremonies. First, Thompson introduced School […]

Up and down the Kennebec Valley: Immigrants

by Mary Grow Middle Easterners, Waterville, & Irish, Augusta The French-Canadians and the Irish were not the only groups coming to the central Kennebec Valley from other countries. Stephen Plocher wrote in his Waterville history (found on line) that in the 1860s, people he called “Syrian-Lebanese” from Syria (Lebanon and Syria were French mandates until […]