What kind of artifacts do people donate to the Brick Store Museum? In its new exhibition, Welcome to the Collection: New Museum Acquisitions, the museum is showing off the answer.
The Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk announced the opening of a new exhibition, Welcome to the Collection: New Museum Acquisitions. Brick Store Museum photo
As a local history, art and culture museum, the institution holds more than 70,000 items related to the region’s history – and that collection is always growing. In its new exhibition, the museum displays the most-recently donated artifacts, including items such as a Civil War drum; a giant American flag c. 1950, wooden skis, 1970s clothing, and early 20th century menus from local restaurants and hotels.
This new exhibition joins the popular Archaeology in the Archipelago, exploring 8,000 years of artifacts uncovered during recent archaeological investigations conducted by the Cape Porpoise Archaeological Alliance. A highlight of the exhibit is the remains of the oldest dugout canoe ever found in the Wabanaki homeland of the far Northeast, first identified in 2018 and painstakingly excavated in the summer of 2019 by the alliance. Carbon dating places the canoe between 1280 and 1380 C.E.
To visit the museum to view these exhibitions, visitors are required to make a timed reservation through the museum’s online reservation system. This helps to prevent the spread of COVID-19, while allowing the galleries to remain open to the public. Visitors must have a valid reservation time to enter the buildings. To reserve, visit www.brickstoremuseum.org.
Middle school book group plans Zoom meeting
On Wednesday, March 24, the Middle School of the Kennebunks Book Group will meet via Zoom to chat and hold its discussion. Meetings will run 2:15 until 3:30 p.m. are are open to teens in the sixth to eighth grade.
The book club is being offered by Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library and Kennebunk Free Library. Hosts will be Terri Bauld from Graves Library and Jon Roy from Kennebunk Free Library. This month the group will read “The Serpent’s Secret” by Sayantani DasGupta. Participants can stop by either library to pick up a copy of the book.
For more information or to sign up in advance, call Graves Library, 967-2778, or Kennebunk Free Library, 985-2173. Participants should read the book in advance of the meeting.
SMHC announces arrival of WorkWell medical director
Southern Maine Health Care announced the hiring of Dr. Uche Onuoha, who will serve as the medical director for WorkWell, Southern Maine Health Care’s Occupational Health Program.
Dr. Uche Onuoha Courtesy photo
Onuoha completed an internship in internal medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, followed by occupational and environmental medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, respectively.
Onuoha is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received her doctorate at Temple University School of Medicine, both in Philadelphia. She also holds a master of public health from Mount Sinai School of Medical, New York. Since completing her training nine years ago, Onuoha has practiced occupational and environmental medicine in large hospital-based networks in New York and Pennsylvania.
“I believe that being well and living in a healthy environment are essential to life and performing work,” said Onuoha in an email. “As an occupational and environmental physician, I consider it a rewarding privilege to treat work related and environmental illnesses/injuries because it supports people in restoring their health and empowering them to optimally re-engage with their work and environment.”
Southern Maine Health Care’s WorkWell program offers a variety of local occupational health services designed to maximize worksite safety and employee health and productivity. WorkWell provides prevention, evaluation, rehabilitation, and education-based occupational health services. Onuoha will see patients at both the Biddeford and Sanford locations. For more information, visit www.smhc.org/workwell.
Local students earn dean’s list recognition at Norwich University
The following students have been recognized on the dean’s list at Norwich University for the fall 2020 semester:
* Ian Francis Connors, Kennebunk, and Tobias Mouser Macedo, Kennebunk.
A surfer makes his way toward the water at Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk on Saturday morning, Feb. 20. The National Weather Service forecast calls for mild temperatures during the weekend, with a high of 39 on Saturday and near 45 on Sunday. Dan King photo
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