Top screenshot from the WHS Facebook page - Bottom - Both postcards - PWM
Updated - November 17, 2024
As the guest speaker for the Winthrop Historical Society, I created a slideshow for the live broadcast. I converted the slideshow for use in this post. I added some descriptions and links to various posts related to the slides. Once the recording of the live broadcast is posted to the Winthrop Historical Society's YouTube Channel, I will add the link here so viewers can access the presentation. Of course, there will be side stories and details mentioned in the broadcast that are not listed in this blog post - PWM
Click Here: to see the YouTube post of the live broadcast...or just click on the post below.
The Electric Railway; Augusta, Winthrop & Gardiner Street Railway, served Winthrop and built the Island Park pleasure resort, known as a Trolley Parl, at Lake Cobbosseecontee. Below are links to four other popular Trolley Parks in Maine.
Click Here: for the post on Casco Castle Trolley Park 1902-1914 (South Freeport)
Click Here: for the post on Merrymeeting Trolley Park 1899-1906 (Brunswick)
Click Here: for the post on Riverton Trolley Park 1896-1933 (Portland)
Click Here: for the post on Underwood Spring Trolley Park 1899-1907 (Falmouth)
Main Entrance - 195 Log Cabin Road - Kennebunkport, Maine
Lower L-R - Main Line, aerial view and up close - Revolution Railbike
Photos - STM
Photos - Upper - PWM - Both Lower - STM
Click Here: for the Special Christmas Prelude Event on Thursday - December 5 - 9:30-4
at the new Maine Central Model Railroad Building - HO Scale - 3,000 feet
$3 admission - try your hand at operating - docent-guided tours - an interactive scavenger hunt and if weather permits, roasting marshmallows outside
Click Here: for the Special Christmas Prelude Event on Thursday - December 12 - 9:30-4
Photos - STM
Click Here: for the Christmas Prelude Trolley Rides Friday-Sunday, December 6-8 - 9:30-5:30
Click Here: for the Christmas Prelude Trolley Rides Friday-Sunday, December 13-15 - 9:30-5:30
Photos - STM
Top left screenshot from Great Documentaries YouTube page
Top right photos of the front and back cover of the DVD of PWM
Click Here: to go to the YouTube documentary or click on the video below
The blog has more than 320 posts highlighting; Electric Railway History in communities
throughout Maine, the history and restoration of the Portland-Lewiston Interurban, Narcissus, Theodore Roosevelt's connections in more than 30 communities in Maine, and the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Photos - PWM
Amos Fitz Gerald was involved in the establishment of so many electric railways
in Maine. One of the earliest was the Augusta, Hollowell, and Gardiner, and the initial
plans for an extension to Winthrop that would later be extended to connect with Sabattus,
Lewiston, and beyond. Plans changed. You can read more details in the two links below.
Text/stats from 1969 publication by O. R. Cummings and edited by Roger Borrup in
O. R. Cummings' book, Transportation Bulletin No. 76-Trolleys to Augusta, Maine.
Click Here: for the Biography of Amos Fitz Gerald "Electric Railway King" of the Pine Tree State
Click Here: for the post "Trolleys to Augusta Maine"
The map is from the 2015 NEERHS book, The Illustrated Atlas of Maine's Street
& Electric Railways 1863-1946
Photos from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
The milage info and map are from the 2015 NEERHS book,
The Illustrated Atlas of Maine's Street & Electric Railways 1863-1946
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Text/stats from 1969 publication by O. R. Cummings and edited by Roger Borrup in
O. R. Cummings' book, Transportation Bulletin No. 76-Trolleys to Augusta, Maine
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Photos from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.Text/stats from 1969 publication by O. R. Cummings and edited by Roger Borrup in
O. R. Cummings' book, Transportation Bulletin No. 76-Trolleys to Augusta, Maine
Postcard July 31, 1933 - PWM
Postcard (left) c1910 - PWM
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Postcard (left) - PWM
The map is from the 2015 NEERHS book,
The Illustrated Atlas of Maine's Street & Electric Railways 1863-1946
Postcard from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum
Postcard - no postmark - and photo - PWM
Postcard from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum
Postcard from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
The stats are from the 2015 NEERHS book,
The Illustrated Atlas of Maine's Street & Electric Railways 1863-1946
The map is from O. R. Cummings' book, Transportation Bulletin No. 76-Trolleys to Augusta, Maine
Postcard - postmarked January 21, 1907 - PWM
Postcard c1910 - PWM
Postcard from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum
Postcard from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum
Postcard from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum
Postcards c1910 - PWM - Screenshots - Google Maps
Postcard postmark July 25, 1913 - PWM - Screenshots - Google Maps
Postcard postmark September 30, 1907 - PWM
The map is from O. R. Cummings' book, Transportation Bulletin
No. 76-Trolleys to Augusta, Maine
Left - Postcard c 1910 - PWM - Right - Screenshot - Google Maps
Left Postcard from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Right Postcard postmarked December 2, 1905 - PWM
The photo is from the 1986 publication, Downeast Depots:
Maine Railroad Stations in the Steam Era, by Robert F. Lord
The map is from the 1969 publication by O. R. Cummings and edited by Roger Borrup in
O. R. Cummings' book, Transportation Bulletin No. 76-Trolleys to Augusta, Maine
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Text/stats from 1969 publication by O. R. Cummings and edited by Roger Borrup in
O. R. Cummings' book, Transportation Bulletin No. 76-Trolleys to Augusta, Maine
Photos from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum
Photos from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Text/stats from 1969 publication by O. R. Cummings and edited by Roger Borrup in
O. R. Cummings' book, Transportation Bulletin No. 76-Trolleys to Augusta, Maine
Photo from the O. R. Cummings Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
Text/stats from 1969 publication by O. R. Cummings and edited by Roger Borrup in
O. R. Cummings' book, Transportation Bulletin No. 76-Trolleys to Augusta, Maine
Screenshots on top - Google Maps - photo lower right from
the 1911, Electric Rwy Dictionary
Postcard with no postmark - PWM
Postcard partial postmark 1908 - PWM
Postcard postmark August 12, 1907 - PWM
Postcards postmarked: top August 27, 1910 - bottom July 6, 1916 - PWM
Screenshots of Moonlight Bay - Amazon.com
Postcard postmark September 4, 1933 - PWM
Screenshot - Cobbosseecontee Lake Assoc. FB post
Screenshots - Google Maps and Google Earth
Screenshots - A few of the many events during the year at STM
Photos of Millie book cover, bookmarks, and brochures - all PWM
We continue the restoration work on the Narcissus, the only surviving interurban coach of the PLI. Please consider making a donation to the Narcissus Project to help the restoration work continue to completion.
Click Here for the post that has the short virtual 3-D video of the digital model of the Narcissus, with components added to the file from earlier this year (the gold leaf file had not been added yet).
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Restoration work continues on the Narcissus. The Narcissus is more than 110 years old now and has so many incredible stories to share. The restoration of this majestic icon of Maine's electric railway history is but one of those incredible stories.
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.
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
Seashore Trolley Museum Promo Video
The paperback edition of Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride can be purchased online through the Seashore Trolley Museum's store website. Books purchased through the Museum's website directly benefit the Museum and the Narcissus project.
Click Here to go to the Museum Store web page to order online
Click Here to go to the Amazon page to order the ebook or audiobook online
Paperback books are available at these local bookstores in
Androscoggin Historical Society, Lewiston
Eliot Historical Society, Eliot
Gray Historical Society, Gray
Kennebec Historical Society, Augusta
Letterpress Books, Portland
Maine Historical Society Store, Portland
Morph Gallery & Emporium, Kennebunk
New Gloucester Historical Society, New Gloucester
Print: A Bookstore, Portland
Roosevelt Campobello International Park, Welshpool, NB, Canada
Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport
Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shops, All Locations
Thompson's Orchard, New Gloucester
Winthrop Maine Historical Society, Winthrop
Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride
by Jean M. Flahive
Illustrations by Amy J. Gagnon
Listen to a 2-minute, 30-second, Retail Audio Sample of the Audiobook
Millie Thayer is a headstrong farmer's daughter who chases her dreams in a way you would expect a little girl nicknamed "Spitfire" would run full tilt and with her eyes on the stars. Dreaming of leaving the farm life, working in the city, and fighting for women's right to vote, Millie imagines flying away on a magic carpet. One day, that flying carpet shows up in the form of an electric trolley that cuts across her farm. A fortune-teller predicts that Millie's path will cross that of someone famous. Suddenly, she finds herself caught up in events that shake the nation, Maine, and her family. Despairing that her dreams may be shattered, Millie learns, in an unexpected way, that dreams can be shared.
A resource for teachers
Companion curriculum State-standard-based units,
vocabulary, and reading activities for use in grades 3-8
are available online as downloadable resources through
Seashore Trolley Museum's website
www.trolleymuseum.org/elegantride/
Maine Historical Society has created eight companion lesson units in Social Studies and ELA that were inspired by Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride - These State-standard-based lesson plans for use in grades 6, 7, and 8 are easily adapted for use in grades 3-5. Vocabulary and Reading activities for grades 3-8 along with the eight lesson plan units are available free and may be downloaded through Seashore Trolley Museum's website www.trolleymuseum.org/elegantride/
Go to the Teacher Resource Page in the pull-down for more details.
A 60-second intro to Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride by author, Jean Flahive
Click Here to watch the video on YouTube
Award-winning author, Jean M. Flahive
Please Consider a Donation to the Narcissus Project to help us tell the incredible story of the Narcissus through the interpretation portion of the Narcissus Project.
Here is an example of how donations to the Narcissus Project now will help with the interpretation portion of the project. The interpretation programming will include exhibits, displays, and education programming. In 2019, through generous donations to the Narcissus Project, we were able to conserve, replicate, and have high resolutions digital image files made of the original, 1910, 28.5-foot long, surveyor map of the elevation and grade of the 30-mile private right-of-way of the Portland, Gray, and Lewiston Railroad (Portland-Lewiston Interurban) Click Here
Thank You!
the crowd gathered in Gray, Maine on August 18, 1914.
Image courtesy of Gray Historical Society
The Narcissus as the Sabattus Lake Diner in Sabattus, Maine,
circa 1940. Photo by John Coughlin in the Kevin Farrell
Collection at Seashore Trolley Museum
L. Henri Vallee (right) and family members in the
Narcissus, when it was Vallee's summer camp in
Sabattus, Maine circa 1958. Photo courtesy
Daniel Vallee
Inside the Donald G. Curry Town House Restoration Shop, the Narcissus is in the midst of major work as we strive to complete its restoration. We are now planning the interpretation portion of the Narcissus Project. Donations to the Narcissus Project may be used in the future to help tell the incredible 100-plus-year-old story of the Narcissus. Your donation to the Narcissus is helping to make the dream of the project's success, a reality.
See below for Donation options -
It starts with YOU
Your Donation Matters
Make a Donation TODAY
Please Help the Narcissus.
Donation Options to Help the Narcissus Project:
The New England Electric Railway Historical Society
is the 501c3 organization that owns and operates the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, ME, and the National Streetcar
Museum in Lowell (MA).
The New England Electric Railway Historical Society registered with the IRS (EIN# 01-0244457) and was incorporated in Maine in 1941.
Check or Money Order ***** should be made payable to:
New England Electric Railway Historical Society
In the memo: for a donation to the Interpretation programming
please write: PLI Education Fund 817
For a donation to help with the restoration write: Narcissus Fund 816
Mail to: Seashore Trolley Museum
P. O. Box A
Kennebunkport, ME 04046
Credit Card ***** donations can be a one-time donation or you
may choose to have a specific amount charged to your card
automatically each month. Please contact the Museum bookkeeper, Jill, via email at finance@trolleymuseum.org or by phone, at 207-967-2712 ext. 5.
Online Donations - may be made by using a Credit Card:
Click Here to make an online donation through the Museum's website - When at the Donation page: Fill in donor info, etc., when at "To which fund are you donating? Scroll down to "Other" and type: 816 Narcissus, then continue filling in the required information.
Click Here for PayPal - to make an online donation: you can email: finance@NEERHS.org and in the message box write:
For "Narcissus Fund 816" - if supporting the restoration
For "PLI Education Fund 817" - if supporting Interpretation programs
Donation of Securities ***** We also accept donations of
securities. You can contact the Museum bookkeeper, Jill, via email at finance@trolleymuseum.org or by phone, at 207-967-2712 ext. 5,
for brokerage account information for accepting donated securities.
BONUS ***** If you work for a company/corporation that will
"match" an employee's donation to an approved 501c3 non-profit
educational organization, please be sure to complete the necessary paperwork with your employer so that your donation is matched :)
Questions? ***** Please contact Narcissus project sponsor:
Phil Morse, narcissus@gmail.org or call 207-985-9723 - cell.
Thank You :)
Thank You for our Current Funding Partners
* 20th Century Electric Railway Foundation - 2018 - Major Gift, 2017/2014 Matching Grants
* Renaissance Charitable Foundation (LPCT) by Fiduciary Trust Charitable Giving Fund
* Renaissance Charitable Foundation (LPCT) by Fiduciary Trust Charitable Giving Fund
* Mass Bay RRE - 2018 Railroad Preservation Grant
* Thornton Academy (Saco, ME) - Staff & Alumni - Matching Grant Challenge 2014
* New England Electric Railway Historical Society (Kennebunkport, ME) - Member Donations
* Amherst Railway Society - 2015 Heritage Grant
* National Railway Historical Society - 2016 & 2015 Heritage Preservation Grants
* Enterprise Holding Foundation - 2015 Community Grant
* Theodore Roosevelt Association - Member Donations
* John Libby Family Association and Member Donations
* The Conley Family - In Memory of Scott Libbey 2018/2017/2016/2015
* The W. S. Libbey Family - Awalt, Conley, Graf, Holman, Libbey, McAvoy, McLaughlin, Meldrum, O'Halloran, Salto, - 2018/2017
* The Hughes Family 2017/2016/2010
* New Gloucester Historical Society and Member Donations
* Gray Historical Society and Member Donations
* Gray Public Library Association - Pat Barter Speaker Series
* Scarborough Historical Society - PRR/PLI
* LogMein - Matching Employee Donation
* IBM - Matching Employee/Retiree Donations
* Fidelity Charitable Grant - Matching Employee Donations
* Richard E. Erwin Grant - 2017/2016
The Narcissus, with interior back-lit, majestic stained glass windows.
Make a donation today to help restore the interior of this Maine gem.
Help Theodore Roosevelt's Maine Ride get back on track! Once restored,
you will be able to ride in luxury on this National Register Treasure at
Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.
PWM photo
Please Consider Making a Donation to the project of the National Register of Historic Places member, Narcissus. We are currently raising funds to advance the restoration and to tell the incredible story of this Maine gem.
Various News stories during the summer of 2015 about the
Narcissus and its connection to Theodore Roosevelt. TR
was a passenger on the Narcissus on August 18, 1914.
Photo by Patricia Pierce Erikson
The Narcissus - July 31, 2015. Make a donation today.
Help Theodore Roosevelt's Maine Ride get back on track!
Once restored, you will be able to ride in luxury on this
National Historic Treasure at
Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.
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