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Barbara F. Dyer
Barbara F. Dyer has lived all her life, so far, in Camden and is the official town historian.
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Camden's summer cottages
By Barbara Dyer - Jun 22Before all the lovely summer cottages were built in Camden and Rockport, many people visited here from the large cities to get out of the traffic ...
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As time goes by, part II
By Barbara F. Dyer - Apr 13Last week, I reminisced about earlier days, this week continues where I left off: Camden Public Library is much larger today and a beehive of ...
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Prolific author Gilbert Patten, used pen name Burt L. Standish
By Barbara F. Dyer - Sep 29Growing up in Camden, we all knew Edna St. Vincent Millay spent her childhood here and graduated from Camden High School in 1909. But there was ...
More Fletcher's Annals of Camden, part VII
By Barbara F. Dyer - Sep 08The thought never entered my head, when writing about Fletcher’s Annals of Camden, 130 years ago, that I would receive a nice letter from a ...
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The Tyler Family
By Barbara F. Dyer - May 19Because of valuable information and extensive research shared with me by Edwin Tyler, I am able to write about an early and important family, some ...
The Hardy Family
By Barbara F. Dyer - Feb 18We are all familiar with history telling us about James Richards, “Camden’s first settler”, who sailed into Camden harbor on May 8, 1769 with his ...
Brewster and his shirt factory
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jan 01Joseph Almond Brewster was born on Nov. 17, 1870, the son of Joseph and Priscilla Pottle Brewster. He grew up on a farm in Belmont, but when his ...
Who's Who at Mountain View: Theresa Butler Parker
By Barbara F. Dyer - Nov 20Theresa Butler Parker was born in Camden on Jan. 23, 1868, the daughter of Moses L. and Mary Cleveland Parker. She lived in the Parker homestead ...
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Death of a captain
By Barbara F. Dyer - Oct 08World War II was on and Henry Bickford had become personnel manager at Camden Shipbuilding and Marine Railways Co., Inc. He was keeping order of ...
Captain Ezra Curtis
By Barbara F. Dyer - Sep 15This is a story of a captain and his boat. He wasn’t just any captain, because during past centuries in Maine if you were not a farmer, you were a ...
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Farewell to the pen
By Barbara F. Dyer - May 03Many years ago I gave up wasting my time with worry. I had learned that what I worried about never happened, but what did happen I had never ...
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More 'Annals of Camden'
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 01In my book, "Who's Who at Mountain View," I wrote about Peter Ott and his son, Peter Oat. I wrote that he came over on the vessel Priscilla Nov. ...
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Annals of Camden, Part VIII
By Barbara F. Dyer - Sep 15Colonel Nathan Fletcher and I are still spending time together. I am fascinated in his version of Camden history, because he actually wrote his ...
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J. Crosby and Annie Hobbs
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 10In 1935 our family moved from Harbor Road to 98 Chestnut St. It was a wonderful neighborhood and there were some school-age children, so we had ...
Yorkie the Clown
By Barbara F. Dyer - Apr 20Erskine C. York was one of Camden’s most colorful characters for many years, into the 1980s. As children in the late 1930s, we first knew him as ...
No bodies, just background
By Barbara F. Dyer - Feb 04People are saying that all things today are much worse than ever before, but good things have happened. You just have to look a little harder to ...
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The Popular 'Peanut' Alley
By Barbara F. Dyer - Dec 15Leroy “Peanut” Alley was born in Camden, Dec. 23, 1908, an early Christmas present to Leroy and Ethel Bracy Alley. He not only was born here, but ...
Extraordinary first engineer
By Barbara F. Dyer - Oct 23Two luxury yachts, both named Lyndonia, graced Camden Harbor in the 1920s and 1930s and their chief engineer was Albert Bradley Bennett. They were ...
Henry Dunbar Storey
By Barbara F. Dyer - Sep 26The following poem was written about Henry Dunbar Storey on June 24, 1927, by one of Camden’s favorite authors, Gilbert Patten. Mr. Patten ...
The good doctors Bisbee
By Barbara F. Dyer - Aug 14Deplura H. Bisbee, one of Camden’s well known business man in the 1800s, died in 1893 and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery. He was greatly ...
