Sunday, June 20, 2010

Pettengill Farm

Meadow Chairs

In June, 2005, while visiting my cousins in Maine, I had the opportunity to photograph interior portions of Pettengill Farm. Summer always brings me happy memories and thoughts of Maine, so I thought I would share this series now.

Pettengill Farm, a 19th century salt-water farm on the estuary of the Harraseeket River, is owned by Freeport Historical Society (http://freeporthistoricalsociety.org/). It includes a saltbox house (ca. 1810) on 140 acres of fields, woods, antique apple orchards and salt marsh. Most interesting are the etchings (sgraffitti) found on the plaster walls in the upper chambers of ships, sea monsters, longboats and animals. The farmhouse remains without plumbing, central heat and electricity and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Millie Pettengill was its last resident and lived in the house until 1970. In addition to the website, Millie has a Facebook page which carries up-to-date information about events at the Farm. More on the flickr photostream.

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