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Posted inSouth Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies

A Window on the Past – More on South Portland’s town and city halls

Last week, we looked at the old meeting house on Cottage Road, the building for which Meeting House Hill is named. Our town meetings were held in that parish-owned building through 1834, when the parish members decided to tear the building down and build a new church on the same site. The meetings of the […]

Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies

Letters to the Editor

Bells of Kennebunkport To the editor, Church bells have been used for three primary reasons: Ringing the hours to tell parishioners the time, to summon parishioners to services, and to inform parishioners there is important news. Since about 1960, when personal timepieces became nearly universal, ringing the hours became noise in two ways: It annoys […]