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Join our gatehouse renovation crew

We are looking for volunteers to help us transform the former paper mill gatehouse building into the Bucksport Paper Mill Museum. Weekly work sessions are scheduled every Tuesday this summer from 8am to noon. Drop by and see what we have been up to and lend a hand. 

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Envisioning the future museum

On Saturday, June 8, members of the Paper Mill Museum Working group and others who are interested in supporting the museum, gathered in the gatehouse building that will be the future home of the museum.

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Working group secures deed to the guardhouse building

After a four plus years effort with four different owners, Attorney Bill Tymoczko delivered the deed to the former mill guardhouse property from Bucksport Generation LLC to Ed Buck, president, Bucksport Historical Society.

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Ranzoni donates royalties to preserve papermaking history

Patricia Smith Ranzoni, Bucksport Poet Laureate, presented the first donation of over $2200 in royalties from her anthology: STILL MILL: Poems, Stories & Songs of Making Paper in Bucksport, Maine 1930-2014, to the Bucksport Historical Society President Ed Buck at the May 7, 2018 meeting.

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