Hope Historical Society News & Noteworthy
Annual Reports from HHS President
2023 - 2024
2022 - 2023
2021 - 2022
A Very Special Donation Letter
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We have a new Exhibit!
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Year 2026 Meeting/Event Schedule:
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 The next meeting will be Tuesday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the HHS house. Jim DellaPenna
will be presenting a talk and slide presentation entitled "Bodie California Ghost Town". He will discuss the history
of one of the last remaining gold and silver mining towns in California, which is now a state park located in the
eastern prairie desert near the Nevada state line. It was towns like Bodie that many easterners migrated to when the
gold rush began in 1848, some towns were never to be seen or heard from again after the boom.
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Books available from Hope Historical Society
An Array of Hope A fascinating look at Hope, a rural mid-coast Maine town (Available for $45)
John Fogler's Day Book You may order a copy of this book from Hope Historical Society - we will notify you when it is available.
Hope, Maine: Town Clerk Records 1804-1848 You may order a copy of this book from Hope Historical Society
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Officers
and Committees
President: Marie Berry
Vice President: Catherine Pease
Secretary: Linda Hillgrove
Treasurer: Ron and Sonja Howard
Building & Maintenance Committee: Scott McIntyre, Jarvis Johnson
Finance Committee: Ron and Sonja Howard,Gwen Brodis
Fundraising: Marie Berry and Catherine Pease
Hospitality Committee: Mary Ireland, Juanita Hunt, Nancy Ford and Linda Hillgrove
will greet, and sign people up for refreshments, set up for Christmas Brunch with volunteers,
and annual pot luck decorations.
Plowing: Rick Bresnahan
Program Committee: Donovan Bowley, Sonja and Ron Howard
Publicity: Catherine Pease, newspaper; Susan McIntyre and Linda Hillgrove
Website: Susan McIntyre
Genealogist: Cindy DellaPenna
Archivists: Gwen Brodis, Donovan Bowley
Memory Gardens & Grounds: Marie Berry, Linda Hillgrove
Transcriptions: Cindy DellaPenna, Mary Ireland, Linda Hillgrove, Ron
Smith, Veronia Westbo
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HHS MEETING MINUTES
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