KENNEBUNK – Back by popular demand, the Brick Store Museum will present “The Fire of ’47: 70th Anniversary Retrospective” lecture by Kennebunk Town Historian Stephen Spofford at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18 in the Museum’s Program Center.
This second presentation has been scheduled due to the vast popularity of the Fire of ’47 Talk at the Town Hall in October this year. Admission at the door is $5, and free for children under 18.
The Fire of ’47 was a collection of over 200 fires that burned in Maine from Oct. 13 through Oct. 27 in 1947. Together, the fires consumed a quarter of a million acres of forest, and wiped out nine entire towns.
The fires burned from Bar Harbor (which was almost completely destroyed) to Kennebunkport and Goose Rocks Beach and inland York County to communities like Waterboro and Newfield. 1947 became known as “The Year Maine Burned.”
Photographs, artifacts, oral histories and home movies will be included in the presentation, all from the Brick Store Museum’s collection.
Learn more by visiting www.brickstoremuseum.org or by calling 985-4802.
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