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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
