Isabel Morse Maresh
Isabel Morse Maresh lives in Belmont and writes about history and people.
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I have Type 2 diabetes
By Isabel Morse Maresh - Feb 23I have Type 2 diabetes. That is a fact. I was diagnosed in 2000. After reading that the press and public has been harassing a celebrity because ...
The Reverend Jason Mariner — a 'minister of force'
By Isabel Morse Maresh - Feb 16Jason Mariner was born Nov. 14, 1824 in Lincolnville. He was the next to the youngest son of Deacon Joseph and Abigail (Heal) Mariner. Jason had ...
Sisters create a 'garden of Eden' at Lincolnville Beach farm
By Isabel Morse Maresh - Dec 05Varina woke early as usual, on a Saturday morning in 1937. She could hear sister Lela bustling in the kitchen below, pumping water to make coffee ...
F. O. Young — A multi-talented man from Maine
By Isabel Morse Maresh - Jul 13Lincolnville was home to a multi-talented man who made his way to San Francisco when it was a fledgling city. Much of the biography of Frederick ...
The trials and tribulations of Jane (Shepherd) Heal
By Isabel Morse Maresh - Jun 16Sometime before 1993, my friend Betsy found a divorce case in the Waldo County Court records at the state archives in Augusta. At that time I had ...
Some background on Belmont
By Isabel Morse Maresh - May 04The territory which covers the Tri-Town area of Belmont, Searsmont and Morrill was once Greene Plantation. Belmont and Searsmont were set off as ...
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A history of the Greenlaw House in Northport
By Isabel Morse Maresh - Mar 01How often have we heard the statement, "If these old houses could talk!" Have you ever wondered about the tales an old house could tell? Well, ...
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Julia Katherine (Lermond) Griffin, 1870-1956
By Isabel Morse Maresh - Dec 21Kate sat in her kitchen at 4 Eaton Ave. in Camden, enjoying a hot cup of tea, poured from the tea kettle that seemed to sing on the wood-fired ...
