Narcissus 1912 Renovation Project: Coveted 🌟Starred Review for Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride!

In Jean Flahive's delightful historical fiction work for young readers, a girl growing up in rural Maine witnesses monumental events of the early 20th century.

The book begins as 96-year-old Millie visits Maine's Seashore Trolley Museum to witness the restoration of the renowned "Narcissus," an electric trolley car that was part of the transport system popularized during the early 20th century. During her visit, memories take her back to her childhood in rural Maine.

The year is 1911. Ever the dreamer, seven-year-old Millie Thayer imagines a life beyond her family farm. Such thoughts are enhanced by a fortune teller's prediction that Millie will someday meet a "notable" individual.

Three years later, when a new trolley line is up and running in her hometown, Millie meets former President Teddy Roosevelt as he travels aboard the Narcissus. Over the next decade, she learns about Roosevelt through a budding friendship she develops with a wilderness guide who is closely acquainted with Teddy. Her worldly curiosity is also peaked via informative conversations she has with a leading suffragette traveling the trolley system.

Rich in local and world history, the colorful story weaves historical content throughout about WWl, a deadly pandemic, and other important events of the time. Ultimately, Millie and her family must face the worries and grief of the era and hope for a triumphant future.

Final words from both the author and real-life restoration project manager, Phil Morse, lend insight into the historic transport system.

In this engaging narrative, Flahive weaves a charming, uplifting story by employing palpable writing that allows readers to experience the triumphs and tragedies of the days past. Its solid and engaging storytelling style, buoyed by likable characters, will appeal to a young audience, as well as train enthusiasts, Teddy Roosevelt fans, and lovers of history.

Also available as an ebook.

Award-winning Maine author, Jean Flahive

Porcelain advertising tile from the Lewiston ticket booth.

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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

Narcissus 1912 Renovation Project

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Monday, January 20, 2020

Coveted 🌟Starred Review for Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride!

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