Theodore Roosevelt and William W. Sewall of Island Falls, Maine
remained close friends from the first time they met in 1878 when TR
stayed at the Sewall House in Island Falls until TR's death in January
1919. Donna Davidge is the great-granddaughter of William W. Sewall
and has kept the Sewall House in the family. Ms. Davidge will
have a few personal family items, including several 3-D photographs
of TR (including the ones above) that guests will be able to
experience using the 3-D viewer. Ms. Davidge's TR/Sewall items
will be on display only at Seashore Trolley Museum for the opening
gala of the TeddyRoosevelt Days Event to benefit the Narcissus,
Friday, July 20. Photo courtesy Donna Davidge
Guests will not need Dramamine to enjoy their
The 3-D viewing experience of vintage 3-D photographs
of Theodore Roosevelt on July 20.
Friday, July 20, will be the only time the TR/Sewall
artifacts will be on display during the Teddy Roosevelt
Days event weekend. See below for an online ticket
purchase link and more details on the weekend
schedule and guest speakers
for the Friday opening.
This beautiful original photo of First Lady, Edith Roosevelt,
is signed by her and dated February 6, 1903. Mrs. Roosevelt and her
husband, the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt were
close friends with Mr. and Mrs. William W. Sewall of Island Falls, Maine.
Donna Davidge is the great-granddaughter of Mr. And Mrs. Sewall and has
kept the Island Falls, Sewall House, in the family. Ms. Davidge will have
a few personal items, like this, framed signed image of Mrs. Roosevelt on
display at Seashore Trolley Museum for the opening gala of the Teddy
Roosevelt Days Event to benefit the Narcissus.
Photo courtesy Donna Davidge
The Theodore Roosevelt/William W. Sewall-related artifacts
will only be on display during the opening gala, Friday, July 20
-- Seating is Limited --
Friday gala opening tickets are available to purchase online.
The Friday Katahdin Expedition is SOLD OUT!
Tickets are $30 each. Click Here to Order Tickets Online
A Fundraising Event to Benefit 1912 Portland-Lewiston Interurban,
No. 14, Narcissus. Theodore Roosevelt was a passenger on the
Narcissus on August 18, 1914. The three-day event is hosted by
Seashore Trolley Museum.
Seashore Trolley Museum.
2018 Teddy Roosevelt Days
a three-day event being held
at
Seashore Trolley Museum
Seashore Trolley Museum
Kennebunkport, Maine
July 20, 21, & 22
A Benefit Event For the Narcissus Project
The Friday Katahdin Expedition is SOLD OUT!
4th Annual Teddy Roosevelt Days Event at Seashore
As in previous years, the fundraising event to benefit the Narcissus Project will kick off with a Friday activity that requires tickets to be purchased in advance for the limited-seating gala opening. The Friday activity will include a reception, trolley rides, a guided tour of the Narcissus, presentations, raffles, a silent auction, and Theodore Roosevelt-related items for sale. All proceeds benefit the restoration and companion interpretation programs (Exhibits & Education Program Development) of the 1912 Portland-Lewiston Interurban, No. 14, Narcissus.
Saturday and Sunday activities are open to the public with the purchase of general admission tickets to the Museum.
Tickets for the Friday gala opening are available now to purchase online.
Tickets are $30 each. Click Here to Order Tickets Online Sold Out
Full Schedule for the Weekend Event:
FMI contact p.morse31@gmail.com
Following the close of last year's Teddy Days opening night
gala activities, the early evening trolley ride was aboard the
beautifully restored 1901 CT Co. No. 303.
PWM photo
The Mount Katahdin Expedition
Friday Opening, July 20th, 2017 - 3pm-8pm
Tickets to the Expedition are $30 Click Here to Order Tickets Online Sold Out
(Each ticket includes; an all-day Friday (July 20, 2018), a general admission ticket to Seashore Trolley Museum, allowed to attend the meet, & greet reception, with light refreshments, two drink tickets (beer/wine), one raffle ticket, and a silent auction bidder #)
Friday Opening Schedule - Prepaid tickets required for this opening activity: Sold Out
(Each ticket includes; an all-day Friday (July 20, 2018), a general admission ticket to Seashore Trolley Museum, allowed to attend the meet, & greet reception, with light refreshments, two drink tickets (beer/wine), one raffle ticket, and a silent auction bidder #)
Friday Opening Schedule - Prepaid tickets required for this opening activity: Sold Out
3 pm Guest arrival, check-in, silent auction preview
4 pm Vintage Trolley Ride to Riverside Barn and walk to Town House Shop for Tour of
Narcissus (currently under renovation) with Project Manager Phil Morse
5:30 pm Reception at Exhibit Gallery, Visitor's Center with light refreshments (beer & wine) and silent auction (rare TR-related books, glass art, etc.) bidding ongoing
6 pm Welcome & Opening Remarks: Mr. Phil Morse, Narcissus Project Manager, Seashore Trolley Museum - Introduction of each guest speaker
* Presentation: Ms. Sheila Libby Alexander, Board Member, Skyline Farm, and Carriage Museum, North Yarmouth, ME - History of Skyline Farm & Carriage Museum, How the Libby Sleigh was acquired, and comments on the restoration of the art on the Sleigh by Conservator Nina Roth Wells.
* Presentation: Ms. Donna Davidge, Owner of Sewall House Yoga Retreat, History of her great grandparents' National Historic Registry home and the Willliam Sewall-Theodore Roosevelt family's life-long friendship.
7:15 pm Raffle, Silent Auction closes
7:45 pm Vintage Historic Trolley Car exclusive trolley ride along Seashore Trolley Museum's Heritage Main Line
Tickets for the Mount Katahdin Expedition are $30 Click Here to Order Tickets Online
Seating is limited for the Friday opening, Sold Out
Following the close of last year's Teddy Days opening night
gala activities, the early evening trolley ride was aboard the
beautifully restored 1901 CT Co. No. 303.
PWM photo
This Narcissus Blog post has details on both guest speakers below:
Donna Davidge from the Sewall House Yoga Retreat and
Sheila Libby Alexander from Skyline Farm & Carriage Museum
Speaker bio
Donna Davidge
Keenly interested in health and exploration, Donna (Amrita) Davidge is a highly experienced 500 E-RYT yoga teacher. She received her Master's in Nutrition in the late 70s, then acted and modeled (living in Europe from 1982-85) from the mid-80s into the early 90s. In 1985 Donna discovered Kundalini Yoga in New York City, practicing and studying this form as a powerful tool for healing and personal growth. Her teacher Ravi Singh encouraged her to begin teaching within a year. Pursuing yoga avidly, she became certified by 3HO and Yoga Alliance. She has been a full-time yoga and meditation teacher ever since and can be found in NYC during the winter months when she’s not at Sewall House. She has taught tens of thousands of hours in New York City in groups and privately, as well as in workshops in the Northeast, Canada, Italy, and Costa Rica. Her first yoga teacher was Yogi Bhajan, who gave her the spiritual name Amrita (nectar) in the late 80s. She has studied Ashtanga with Eddie Stern since 1999, Dharma Mittra since 1999, and Iyengar with Genny Kapuler since 2004. She views yoga as a way to grow from within and study the physical and emotional marks our life has made on us. Her teacher Yogi Bhajan said happiness is our birthright so she explores ways to serve her students in a manner that can aid them in finding health and happiness in their own lives. Sewall House offered its first Yoga Teacher Training by request in 2009, with a small group of committed students.
Donna Davidge from the Sewall House Yoga Retreat and
Sheila Libby Alexander from Skyline Farm & Carriage Museum
Speaker bio
Donna Davidge
Keenly interested in health and exploration, Donna (Amrita) Davidge is a highly experienced 500 E-RYT yoga teacher. She received her Master's in Nutrition in the late 70s, then acted and modeled (living in Europe from 1982-85) from the mid-80s into the early 90s. In 1985 Donna discovered Kundalini Yoga in New York City, practicing and studying this form as a powerful tool for healing and personal growth. Her teacher Ravi Singh encouraged her to begin teaching within a year. Pursuing yoga avidly, she became certified by 3HO and Yoga Alliance. She has been a full-time yoga and meditation teacher ever since and can be found in NYC during the winter months when she’s not at Sewall House. She has taught tens of thousands of hours in New York City in groups and privately, as well as in workshops in the Northeast, Canada, Italy, and Costa Rica. Her first yoga teacher was Yogi Bhajan, who gave her the spiritual name Amrita (nectar) in the late 80s. She has studied Ashtanga with Eddie Stern since 1999, Dharma Mittra since 1999, and Iyengar with Genny Kapuler since 2004. She views yoga as a way to grow from within and study the physical and emotional marks our life has made on us. Her teacher Yogi Bhajan said happiness is our birthright so she explores ways to serve her students in a manner that can aid them in finding health and happiness in their own lives. Sewall House offered its first Yoga Teacher Training by request in 2009, with a small group of committed students.
The Sewall House & Yoga Retreat in Island Falls, ME
Ms. Davidge purchased the Sewall House in 1997 to keep the
home in her family and to keep the legacy of her
great-grandfather's (William W. Sewall) life and love of
nature alive. PWM
Theodore Roosevelt, William Windgate Sewall, and Wilmot Dow
ca March 1879 somewhere in the Island Falls area
TRC 520.12.-016 Houghton Library, Harvard University
Speaker bio:
Sheila Libby Alexander
Sheila Libby Alexander
A Maine native from Yarmouth originally whose paternal Libby family relatives landed in Maine in 1637. A friend of Dorothy Plummer donated the Libby Family Sleigh to Skyline Farm when Ken Sowles was putting the Carriage Museum together in North Yarmouth. A graduate of the University of Maine with a degree in History, with a Master's Degree in Library Sciences from Simmons College. Retired from a 36-year career at the Portland Public Library. Have been on the Board at Skyline for several years and in fact learned to ride there as a kid when Skyline was a riding stable and I'm still happily riding almost every day.
John Libby Family sleigh is seen here in a photo courtesy of
Skyline Farm and Carriage Museum in North Yarmouth,
Maine. The Libby Sleigh will be on display at Seashore
Trolley Museum during the 2018 Teddy Roosevelt Days
event to benefit the Narcissus on the weekend of
July 20-22, 2018
1) The John Libby Family Sleigh. John Libby was an early settler (the 1630s) in the Black Point area of Scarborough, Maine. W. S. Libbey, the builder of the Portland-Lewiston Interurban, is a descendant of John Libby (as is this blogger :) This sleigh is described as an "Early Painted Sleigh" The original artwork on the back exterior panel is exquisite. Ms. Alexander's presentation will include a description of the conservation of the beautifully painted scene on the back of the Libby Family Sleigh.
2) A wagon from the late 1800s. Theodore Roosevelt visited Maine several times before his New England tour as President in 1902. His early visits to Maine included using horse-drawn transportation of the day. A passenger in a Stagecoach from Dexter to Greenville in 1872. Several trips in a wagon while visiting Island Falls in the company of Maine's William Sewall and William's nephew, Wilmot Dow during guided expeditions in the Maine woods in the summers of 1878 and 1879. Also, as a passenger in sleighs during his February 1879 visit to Island Falls. He escorted his fiance' in a pony-drawn buggy while they were visiting Mount Desert Island in 1880. As President, he was a rider in an open landau carriage pulled by horses in Portland during his August 1902 visit. You will learn more of these details over the weekend :)
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At Skyline Farm &Carriage Museum PWM
At Skyline Farm &
Carriage Museum PWM
At Skyline Farm & Carriage Museum PWM
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We continue the restoration work on the 1912, Narcissus, the only surviving high-speed, luxury interurban coach of the Portland-Lewiston Interurban.
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Being more than a century old, the stately, "Elegant Ride," Narcissus, is a gem. This shimmering precious stone of Maine transportation history is brilliantly resplendent as it emanates so many elements of history, including; time, places, people, and events, that it was coupled to, that when just a smattering of its seemingly innumerable stories are shared, the contents captivates, fascinates, then generates, interest to learn more 🙋. The majestic Narcissus is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The restoration of this majestic icon of Maine's electric railway history is but one in a series of captivating stories containing an abundance of incredible coalition of narratives.
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The Narcissus is featured in the national Gold Award-winning novel, Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride. The "Elegant Ride" is the Narcissus. Theodore Roosevelt was a passenger on the Narcissus on August 18, 1914, between Lewiston and Portland, Maine, while campaigning for the Progressive Party candidates.
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Independent book publisher, Phil Morse, holding
the Gold Book Award Winner plaque for
the Middle Reader category for The Eric
Hoffer Book Award. Congratulations to
award-winning Maine author,
Jean M. Flahive
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