Gift Shop and Museum News
The Museum will continue on summer hours until September 14, then revert to fall hours: open weekends only until Monday, October 13.
Just in time for fall, new cozy quarter-zip shirts have arrived in our shop. We are always adding items to the discount bench, so stop in and check out our sales too.
We continue to offer our newly released cookbook, “A Taste of Chebeague”, both in the store and online. They make great holiday gifts.
Summer Hours: Wed.- Sat., 10 to 4; Sun.,1 to 4; Mon.,10 to 4. Closed Tuesdays.
Fall Hours: Saturdays, 10 to 4; Sundays, 1 to 4.
The Carriage Has Left the Building!
On July 10th the Higgins carriage left the Webb barn on the island to go to the Skyline Farm Museum in North Yarmouth. It is a community organization that provides educational programs based on the role of animal-drawn transportation in the cultural, social and economic development of New England. They were thrilled to acquire this piece of history and to make it available to the visiting public. Toby Webb and John Sowles are shown in the photo loading the carriage for transport by CTC barge.
Houses of Little Chebeague!
At 7 p.m. on Monday, September 22, Lock Kiermaier will deliver the next presentation in the Ellsworth Miller Series. Lock’s topic is “The House of Little Chebeague.” Refreshments will be available before, during and after!
September Mystery Photo
What was the name of this building? (Spelling counts!) Where was it located? Who owned it? How was it used? What happened to the building? What is there now? Send in responses to [email protected].
August Mystery Photo Revealed!
Kathy Gray was the only one who correctly guessed the August mystery photo, the remains of the Jenks’ third Sunnyside Hotel. It was located near what is now known as Jenks Landing or Sandy Point. In about 1880 the Jenks family moved to Great Chebeague from Little Chebeague, where they had operated a hotel named Sunnyside. They built a very large hotel on the site of the Castine Cottage. The hotel burned in the early 1890s. The Jenks family built the third Sunnyside between the site of the 1880s hotel and what is now known as Paul Cleary’s. The building was still standing, though in disrepair, into the 1960s.
