DELIVERING ICE in Edgecomb is one of the industries that guest speaker Jay Robbins will discuss during a free history program at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Boothbay Railway Village on Route 27.

DELIVERING ICE in Edgecomb is one of the industries that guest speaker Jay Robbins will discuss during a free history program at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Boothbay Railway Village on Route 27.

BOOTHBAY — The Boothbay Railway Village on Route 27 will host its third in a series of speaker programs for this season, “Wresting a Living from Our Land: Edgecomb’s Industrious Past,” at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free.

“Jay Robbins of Robbins Historical Research Inc. has spent the past year and a half recovering information about Edgecomb’s industrial past,” a release from the museum states. “Starting with the earliest extant maps and working forward to the regional directories of the 1930s, (Robbins) has made the most thorough examination ever of the documents relating to Edgecomb’s history. … (Robbins) has compiled a massive amount of information about how Edgecomb folk worked, struggled, thrived and survived.”

Through a presentation using photos, maps, broadsides and documents, Robbins plans to share what he has learned so far about such places as Trask’s Mill, Parson’s Creek Tidal Mill, Huff ’s Mill, the Shattuck and Hodgedon Tidal Mills, Huff ’s Corn and Lobster Cannery, Rosicrucian Spring, Quarry Point, the brickyards along the Damariscotta, the several sites where ice was harvested, and other Edgecomb locales.

Robbins also intends to explain how the local and regional economy changed with time.

For more information, contact the Boothbay Railway Village at 633-4727 or www.railwayvillage.org.


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