PRESQUE ISLE, Mane — On Saturday, June 1 Presque Isle Historical Society’s Maysville Museum, located at 165 Caribou Road, will open for its eighth summer and will debut two new exhibits including one on area pioneer Sumner Whitney and one on the Teletrainer, a piece of equipment used to train residents on how to use a rotary dial landline telephone as they transitioned away from telephone operators. Visitors can also experience the museum’s working antique telephone switchboard.
The museum will officially open that day at 10 a.m. with a brief presentation detailing the new exhibits at 10:15. There is no admission fee to visit the museum. Summer hours will be Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through October.
Kim Smith, board member and museum curator, said, “It is so meaningful to all of the board and members to be able to continue to serve this community with our regularly recurring tours and presentations, over 40 different virtual tours, the 1875 Vera Estey House Museum, and the Maysville Museum as well as special monthly anniversary celebration events – and many of these offerings are free to the public. We love to share local history and are so fortunate to continue to be able to do so!”
In addition to the new exhibits, there are several small exhibits and four cornerstone exhibits within the museum: Presque Isle’s One-Room Schoolhouses, Presque Isle & the Civil War, The Aroostook War, and Agri-CULTURE.
Presque Isle Historical Society is an all-volunteer organization. Volunteers are needed to staff the museum for the summer. Anyone interested should contact the Society by phone at 207-762-1151 or email at pihistoricalsociety@hotmail.com.
The mission of Presque Isle Historical Society, a 501c3 non-profit founded in 1963, is to study, promote and preserve the history, culture, heritage and physical artifacts of Presque Isle for future and present generations. For more information on its programs or to make a tax deductible contribution, call 207-762-1151, email pihistoricalsociety@hotmail.com or visit them on the web at www.pihistory.org.
