Live-in Experience at Washburn-Norlands Is Back After Fire

Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me. › August 23, 2011

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LIVERMORE -- This July, the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in hosted its first Live-In Experience since fire destroyed the original barn and farmer's cottage on April 28, 2008. Thanks to the support of the local community and the wider community of history buffs, reconstruction of the cottage was completed this past spring, and Norlands once again is able to offer its wide range of 19th-century experiential history programs.

Over the weekend of July 22-23, seven Girl Scouts and their leaders from Troop #60235 of Gloucester, Mass., were spirited back to 1870s rural Maine by Norlands staff interpreters to discover what life was like before indoor plumbing, electricity and automobiles. Several years ago, other members of this troop participated in a live-in experience.

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Live-in Experience at Washburn-Norlands Is Back After Fire

Their first step into the past meant shedding anything that didn't exist during the 1870s. Smart phones...

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