Summer’s here! Don’t forget to write!

School is out; the weather’s warm; it’s time to hit the road, explore old (and new!) favorite places, and share your adventures and travels with friends and family.  Long before Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, postcards were the way to drop a line and keep folks up to date.  We have a wonderful collection of Gardiner-themed postcards in our Community Archives Room.  Many of them depict scenes around town, but there are also quite a few that were more generic, novelty cards into which Anytown, USA, could be inserted — and Gardiner was not to be left out of the fun! …

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From the Archives

For a change, I thought I would showcase some postcards that are in the Archives Room.      These postcards, from around 1906, show some of the ships that went up and down the Kennebec River with supplies and people.     If you have old postcards of the Gardiner area that you are willing to donate, the Gardiner Public Library would love to have them.  These postcards are just one of the things that the Archives Room at the library has to show our customers.             Archive Hours –  Tuesday – 10:30 – 7:30 Wednesday – …

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