100 Years Ago: 1921
An unusually interesting meeting of the High Street Congregational Church Men’s Club is scheduled for Wednesday evening. Supper will be served at 6:15 at the Cushman-Hollis Shoe Co. Cafeteria on Court Street. Arthur G. Staples, editor of the Lewiston Journal, will address the members, and all who will be unable to attend the supper are urged to come for the meeting anyway.
50 Years Ago: 1971
Pauline Bourgoin got on her knees and started thumbing through a recently discovered box of scrapbooks and pictures at the YMCA. “I’ve got to be in here somewhere,” she said as she scanned a 1950s photo of about two dozen young girls lining the Y’s swimming pool. Bourgoin is herself a walking history of the club, having been a member since 1947 having taught art classes there for the last 46 years. As she shuffled through the pictures, she quickly recalled the names of the adults who ran the club during her childhood. Like Bourgoin, anyone who visited the Y regularly or participated in its activities would surely have memories jogged by the memorabilia, some of which date back to when the club opened its doors in Auburn in 1922. Officials at the Y said they knew that they had some memorabilia hidden deep in the bowels of the club at 62 Turner St.
25 Years Ago: 1996
The Boy Singers of Maine, under the direction of Jaye Churchill, have recently accepted Ethan Caswell of Auburn to join the program. He has begun with the Boy Singers of Maine in their Preparatory Choir and from there will be promoted to the Concert Choir.
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