Gold Fever
Save the date of June 19th and go for the gold! Yes, BHHS’s program features Jan Eakins, who will tell us about an opportunity that was even more promising than the Powerball and Megamillions together! The talk of the town during the mid- Nineteenth Century among the more adventurous folk here in Maine was “Go West Young Man (and many women)”. They opened their enthusiasm and empty pocketbooks and headed for the mines in California and other parts of the vast, dangerous, mostly unexplored western parts of the still raw country.
Jan Eakins, our guest speaker, is a distinguished architectural historian and popular lecturer. She currently is hard at work writing her book A Chance World, Lost Stories of Maine and the California Gold Rush. Ms. Eakins holds degrees in historic preservation and cultural history, mass communications, and journalism. Among her many other interests and activities, she teaches courses in Maine history and in mass media at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Portland.
There were two young men from Buxton-Hollis who followed the gold: Eugene Bradbury and Francis Emery.
Jan Eakins, our guest speaker, is a distinguished architectural historian and popular lecturer. She currently is hard at work writing her book A Chance World, Lost Stories of Maine and the California Gold Rush. Ms. Eakins holds degrees in historic preservation and cultural history, mass communications, and journalism. Among her many other interests and activities, she teaches courses in Maine history and in mass media at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Portland.
There were two young men from Buxton-Hollis who followed the gold: Eugene Bradbury and Francis Emery.