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“No one who has driven along the shore of Gloucester harbor in Massachusetts has failed to notice one of the most famous memorials in New England, the statue of the Gloucester Fisherman. It is…

“As already indicted, the halcyon days of the Nunan fleet and its companions were in the early 1900’s, when there were sometimes five or six {schooners} in the harbor at once, ready to set sail for…

“Two destructive storms launched 1978; a hurricane in January and a blizzard in February. The hurricane wreaked havoc in York County. The blizzard, a thirty-three -hour nor’easter that stalled over…

“Mr. Norton is now erecting a beautiful modern hotel on the site of the old Ocean Bluff hotel, destroyed by fire some years ago. The situation is one of the most commanding on the coast and the new…

“Transfer of Property—The sale of the Old Fort inn at Kennebunkport, owned and conducted for many years by Ruel W. Norton, marks a property transfer that is of interest to residents throughout York…

“Looking for a meeting place large enough to accommodate the whole Goose Rocks family at the same time led to one of the strangest stories of 1951, for that was the year the Romanascho Hall went to…

“The Kennebunk River Club was founded and the Clubhouse built in 1888, though its real beginning was the ‘Lobster Boat and Canoe Club’ started almost ten years earlier. For three-quarters of a century…

The first major event that I was involved with (other than my wedding, which is a story for another day) took place during the American Bicentennial. The town had appointed me co-chairman of the…

“I remember that I worked in the old Langsford House during the summers of 1935-36 and 1937. The first year I washed dishes and peeled potatoes. The second year I washed pots and pans. The third year…

Seven neighboring land conservation organizations in Southern Maine are collaborating to learn about and honor the intersection of land conservation and Indigenous communities. Their first public…

Courtesy photos from Josh McPhail, The Kennebunkport Conservation Trust and the Lewia family. In January of 2025, Nick Lewia, his wife Amy, and their son Brandon became the official caretakers of…

The Tommy McNamara Charitable Foundation (TMCF) was founded in 2013 to pay tribute to Tommy McNamara, a young man who was lost to us in 2012 but will always be remembered. The foundation’s mission is…

This is the fourth year KCT has utilized goats from the company Scapegoats as an eco-friendly way to control invasive and nuisance plants on Trust properties. The goats eat just about anything-from…