STRATTON — The Dead River Area Historical Society’s pictorial 2019 calendars are available. The cover features Stratton School grades three and four, 1949-50, with teacher Nyra Stevens.
Other photos are January: 1947 basketball team; February: Kern’s Inn; March: Novelty Mill Stratton, circa 1907; April: Eustis Village postcard, 1903 or earlier; May: Stratton, Brook Bridge, accident scene 1907; June: Haying, Hatch Family, Eustis, Maine; July: The cabins at Tim Pond, circa 1911; August: Dredging, North Branch Dead River upriver from Cathedral Pines, Eustis; September: The Bigelow Family, 1949, Jimmie, Laurence and Marguerite at the Morgan Farm Camps; October: Lloyd Nile and Harry Stevens in front of the White Front Garage, Stratton circa 1940s; November: Grading work and forms of foundation for Frank’s Store, September 1944; December: Early 1950s Christmas card from Charlie, Nyra and Newton Stevens.
The back page of the calendar features a paragraph about each photograph.
Calendars are for sale at Pine’s Market and Fotter’s Market, and can be purchased by mail for $8 plus $2 for postage for each calendar. Send to: Dead River Area Historical Society, P.O. Box 15, Stratton, ME 04982.
There are also many pictorial calendars left from previous years for sale at $2.50 each.
Cookbooks — $6 each or two for $10 — can be purchased by mail at the same address.
For more information call Mary Henderson at 207-246-2271.
The cover of the Dead River Historical Society 2019 calendar features Stratton School grades three and four, 1949-50, with teacher Nyra Stevens. From left, front row, are Judy Dyer, Patty Wyman, Lee Henderson, David Jovan, Bob Currie, Linwood Blake, Barbara Nile, Joan Pinkham, and Sandra Sylvester; middle row, Steven Jones, Nancy Thibeadeau, Johnny Dunphy, Janet Lander, Helene Blais, Sharon Townsend, Florence Nile, Terrance McCutcheon, Gordon Hatch, Kathryn Fournier, Maria Stevens and Dennis Brault; back row, Janice Young, Linda Sprague, Randall Scribner, Harold Simpson, Olive Currie, Mary Blake, Earl Fletcher, Joyce Pinkham, Geraldine Thibeadeau, David Simpson, Clista Ramey, Connie Douglas and Harold Caldwell.
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