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Barbara F. Dyer has lived all her life, so far, in Camden and is the official official town historian.
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Capt. Anders Anderson
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 24I am once again at Mountain View Cemetery, not yet permanently, but because I received some information on an interesting family by a descendent, ...
Penobscot Bay Antique Loan Exhibition
By Barbara F. Dyer - Oct 11Many readers will think the middle of August 1935 is ancient history, but as a child, I still remember it well: the Antique Loan Exhibition was ...
Camden's business district of long ago
By Barbara Dyer - Sep 20The climate of today’s business district is very different from early Camden. Most visitors, who come to Camden today, love to go in our quaint ...
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Equality for women
By Barbara Dyer - Aug 30There is history on equality of women, but some of it is still in progress. I never miss voting in an election because Susan B. Anthony made it ...
Another bunch of 'summer cottages'
By Barbara Dyer - Aug 17Included with the “summer cottages” should be some on High Street and under the mountains. Many cannot be seen from Atlantic Highway (Route 1 or ...
Summer cottages: Dillingham Point
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jul 24Yes, I know I “put down my pen” after 30 years, but by request from many readers and my addictions to saving Camden history, the pen jumped right ...
Lake City Inn and Lake City
By Barbara Dyer - Jul 12Camden - None of my readers, or me, remember Lake City Inn, because it was only at Megunticook Lake for three years, burning in 1895. So this history is ...
Camden's great benefactors
By Barbara F. Dyer - Apr 19Camden and Rockport would never have been the lovely places of beauty that they are today had it not been for Mary Louise Curtis Bok and her ...
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One of a kind: Charlie Sturdee
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 29One day when I was in a store, a woman came up to me and said, ”You are the cemetery lady, aren’t you?” That was a new title, but I do write ...
A beautiful place in the heart of downtown
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 15Camden Public Landing is reached from the entrance of Main Street down Commercial Avenue. Today it is a parking area for townspeople, tourists, ...
1769-1969
Camden-Rockport bicentennial
By Barbara F. Dyer - Nov 06Many of my readers were not here in the Camden-Rockport area 45 years ago, when someone thought we should celebrate the bicentennial of the first ...
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Hotels of Camden
By Barbara Dyer - Sep 27As I have pretty much covered the “summer cottages“ and Camden businesses in the good old days, I don’t want to ignore the hotels of early days. ...
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The Herricks
By Barbara Dyer - Sep 06Just when you think I have given the people at Mountain View Cemetery a rest, I was given some nice pictures of a family that made me think about ...
Camden's summer cottages: Beauchamp Point
By Barbara Dyer - Aug 24The last group in my history of “summer cottages” around Camden and Rockport is about the cottages on Beauchamp Point. It was the Council of ...
Norumbega: Camden's castle
By Barbara Dyer - Aug 09Many of the so-called summer cottages are located on and just off High Street, under the mountains. Probably the best known of these is the ...
Camden's secret treasures
By Barbara Dyer - Jul 12Camden has a secret, although it isn’t meant to be. Camden has lots of secrets (better than Peyton Place). When Weymouth, Laite and Dyer get ...
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More gifts from the Bok benefactors
By Barbara F. Dyer - Apr 26Last week I wrote about Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist and some of the wonderful gifts she gave to Camden. I also mentioned her two sons. The ...
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As time goes by...
By Barbara F. Dyer - Apr 05Many of my readers may not know what went on in Camden in the 1950s and 1960s. Many may think it is ancient history, but to some of us it was only ...
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Age is relative, get out and about
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 21Spring came today, March 20th, just because the calendar says so. Those who drive a convertible will have the top down just to prove it. As you ...
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Kenneth J. Weymouth made Camden a better place
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 08I recently wrote about the grocery stores in Camden, when there were many and the population of Camden was small. The credit for starting the ...
