Merrymeeting Lecture Series: Stories from Maine

Thursday, July 28 from 5-7 p.m. with Lori-Suzanne Dell. $10. Advance registration required through Merrymeeting Adult Education.

Hour One: We will cover two Harpswell residents, Dr. John R. Andrews and Nurse Florence Alice Bibber, who both became heroes in the historic Texas City Disaster of 1947. Hour Two: This lecture will cover the famed Pulitzer Prize winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay’s life while living at her summer home on Ragged Island off the coast of Harpswell.