Rockland Public Library: Earle Shettleworth to give "Forever Young" talk on October 29

Rockland, Maine - The Rockland Public Library will host historian Earle Shettleworth for the illustrated talk, “Forever Young”, on Thursday, October 29 at 6:00 PM.  Real photo postcards of a century ago provide an engaging visual record of childhood in Maine. This illustrated lecture pictures children attending one room school houses, harvesting potatoes and blueberries, working in factories, playing sports, and attending summer camps. Many postcards also depict multi-generational family groupings of children, parents, and grandparents with Maine farms and village streets in the background.

A native of Portland, Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., attended Deering High School, Colby College, and Boston University and was the recipient of honorary doctorates from Bowdoin College and the Maine College of Art.  At the age of thirteen, Shettleworth became interested in historic preservation through the destruction of Portland’s Union Station in 1961.  A year later he joined the Sills Committee which founded Greater Portland Landmarks in 1964.  In 1971 he was appointed by Governor Curtis to serve on the first board of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, for which he became architectural historian in 1973 and director in 1976.  Shettleworth has lectured and written extensively on Maine history and architecture, his most recent publication being Homes Down East, which he co- authored in 2014.  Mr. Shettleworth has served as State Historian since 2004.

Rockland Public Library is located at 80 Union St. in Rockland. This event, sponsored by the Friends of the Rockland Library,  is free and open to the public. FMI: 594-0310.