Month: November 2019

Support 19th Century Curran Villages, an invaluable community resource for you and your family, for Maine and beyond.

A $5500 Matching Fund Challenge has been pledged once again by another anonymous donor. If met by February, 2020 with your generous donation, we will receive a much needed $11,000 to assist us in our ongoing mission.

Since this past summer, the museum has met two other challenges with $20,000 in total donations received. This is in addition to a generous donation from the William C. Bullock, Jr. Family Foundation of $50,000 to help kick start our 2019 Rural Maine Heritage Endowment Fund.

With a generous gift, you will:

• Preserve our Maine and New England rural history
• Allow us to develop new, maintain existing, and share at both our museum villages hands-on learning exhibits that inspire thought, nurture curiosity, and prepare a new generation for the challenges of the future with the know-how of the past.
• Become a supporter of a resource that adds to the quality of life among communities like northeastern and southwestern Maine, New Hampshire, and the many, annual visitors from away who appreciate the connections with the past they experience
• Not only affirm the importance of our rural heritage but deem the innovations and products of the Industrial Age rooted in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics worthy of your family’s attentions.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

In order for organizations like 19th Century Curran Villages to survive and serve their mission there is a need for the helping hands and spirit of neighbors and friends like yourself; continued financial support is affirmation of the ongoing hard work our volunteer board, our staff, and our volunteers have put into increasing field trip visitation like the 2100 school visitors who had so many memorable learning experiences this season, to improving and creating new infrastructure at the Orrington village so that it may serve greater visitation and offer more programming next year and in the future, as well as to preserving and to continuing to offer the special experience of Newfield…

Your charitable donation is tax exempt to the full extent of the law and will benefit countless people for years to come.

Call us at (207) 745-4426 or (207) 205-4849 to discuss your donation. Or Email us at: thecurranhomestead@gmail.com, or mail us at: 19th Century Curran Villages, PO Box 107, Orrington, ME 04474. Checks should be made payable to The Curran Homestead. You can include a donation to the Matching Fund Challenge with your mail-in 2020 Membership Renewal found in our in-print newsletter and mailed to you regularly or upon request.

Or Donate with PAYPAL Here

This past weekend much progress was made in the re-creation of the 1920s North Castine Post Office. This is a new addition to the museum village currently developing at 19th Century Curran Village at Orrington. We are looking for assistance with this and other projects. The post office construction has been done entirely by volunteers so far. The structure will serve as part of our evolving hands on learning tour with interactive exhibits of telegraphs, telephones, and postal communications. Check us out on Facebook: 19th Century Curran Villages at Orrington & Newfield. There is also a “19th Century Curran Village at Newfield” Facebook page.