You will find several older issues of our quarterly publication “The Shiretown Conserver” here. To get the most current issues, why not consider a membership?
P. S. If you’ve got ideas for the Conserver, contact us any time. (And we always welcome your memories of Dover-Foxcroft!)
(Click on the Year/Month, then the image to download the issue)
| 2021 – Summer | Crosby House in neighboring Atkinson |
| 2020 – Spring | Calvin Chamberlain and his Octagonal Barn Report if the Maine Board of Agriculture 1865 |
| 2019 – Winter | Emma B 2.22 Emma B Memorial Lewis H Dow Rolling Snow |
| 2019 – Autumn | Writer and Poetess – Verna Ellen Levensalor (m. Thornton) Excerpts of her writings Letter to Mrs. Reagan |
| 2019 – Summer | Story of Ruth Levensalor Crowley, Esq. |
| 2019 – Spring | Tale of the Little New Testament (1855) Dr. Leo Vetal Robbins Thoughts on Thompson Guernsey Recipe from the Blethen House |
| 2018 – Winter | Great Post Office Scandal of 1917 Siding in Dover Village 1916 |
| 2018 – Autumn | News Paperboy – David Anderson WWI On the Homefront Aug 6, 1914 Letters from Soldiers (WWI) |
| 2018 – Summer | Our Maine Hometown Boys Serve (part 2) Letters from Soldiers From Observer 3/28/1918 – Daylight Savings New Sidewalk in Union Square |
| 2018 – Spring | Our Maine Hometown Boys Serve (Company F, 103rd. Regiment, 2nd. Maine Volunteers) The Commons at Central Hall is open |
| 2017 – Winter | Joseph Henry Bodwell, Part 3 |
| 2017 – Autumn | Joseph Henry Bodwell, Part 2 Central Hall, a brief Note |
| 2017 – Summer | Joseph Henry Bodwell |
| 2017 – Spring | The Warren Home |
| 2016 – Winter | A Tribute to Lou Stevens Remembering my Cousin, Ann Weston The Final Buzzer Sounds, by Lou Stevens A Lou Stevens Biography |
| 2016 – Autumn | The Doctors Stanhope Three Squares |
| 2016 – Summer | 6th Grade, by Lou Stevens More on Dover-Foxcroft Schools Pat Leland Remembers Tale of Two Drugstores, by Mark Stitham |
| 2016 – Spring | 5th Grade, by Lou Stevens Helen Deag Remembers Mark Stitham Remembers |
| 2015 – Winter | School Days, by Lou Stevens Francis, Frank Douty |
| 2015 – Autumn | The Water Trough, by Mary Annis Clarence Blethen Mayo’s Mill is sold |
| 2015 – Summer | A small Town, by Lowell Tyler The Moosehead Hydro Plant, by John Wentworth |
| 2015 – Spring | Mayo’s Mill, the Early Years The Mayo Family |
| 2014 – Winter | Our 50th Anniversary – Part 4 A Tribute to Madelyn Betts Edward “Ned” Buck |
| 2014 – Autumn | Our 50th Anniversary – Part 3 Dr. Henry A. Robinson New Chestnut Trees Summer at the Dunham Forge |
| 2014 – Summer | Memorable Times at Central Hall Our 50th Wedding Anniversary, Part 2 |
| 2014 – Spring | Remembering Two Farms Our 50th Anniversary |
| 2013 – Winter | Remembering Mr. Timothy Perkins Christmas Shopping in 1901 Santa spent a night in the Dover jail |
| 2013 – Autumn | Local Treasure lost to fire New project at the Blacksmith Shop Changes on Park Street Letter from Wainwright Cushing (Civil War) |
| 2013 – Summer | Mary Elizabeth Greeley How to kill a town (1877) More on the Chief, Herb Green Foxcroft Academy Centennial |
| 2013 – Spring | Chief Herb Green A Morning to Market in 1913, Lou Stevens |
| 2012 – Winter | Wainwright Cushing A Letter from Wainwright Cushing Some early Foxcroft History |
| 2012 – Autumn | The Knights of King Arthur The Fair Letters from the War – Fred Kimball Well-loved horses – Lou Stevens |
| 2012 – Summer | The Cascade Comes Home Letters from Home – Fred Kimball Hasey’s Bus Lines – Lou Stevens Softball at FA – Glenice Haley Snyder |
| 2012 – Spring | Happy 200th Birthday Foxcroft Letters from the War – Fred Kimball The Grammer School |
| 2011 – Winter | Christmas – 1911 Letters from the War – Fred Kimball Helen Stitham Grace E. Martin Annis Bush |
| 2011 – Autumn | Streets in Dover and Foxcroft Letters from the War – Fred Kimball Do you know who this child is? A labor of love The Doctor’s House on Winter Street |
| 2011 – Summer | Three Generations of Weatherbees Enjoyable Meetings Letters from the War – Fred Kimball The Circus Comes to town |
| 2011 – Spring | Growing up in Dover-Foxcroft – Lou Stevens Central Hall Update A Civil War Reading List Letters from the War – Fred Kimball Jacob “Jack” Koritsky Jack Koritsky Remembered – Lowell Tyler |
| 2010 – Winter | If houses could talk (William F. Sampson) – Sylvia Dean Thanks to the Batticks Buck’s Apothecary The Blue Lady Mr. Koritsky? |
| 2010 – Autumn | The Grandstand at the Fairgrounds – Lou Stevens Summer Melody Ice Cream Social The Blacksmith Shop – New Drawings D-F & Guilford split Doubleheader Five Sets of Buildings Burned |
| 2010 Summer | FA Academy News – Lou Stevens East Dover Bridge Eliza Chadbourne |
| 2010 Spring | Towns Supported Soldiers & Refugees inn WW1 Fight to Save Central Hall More on the East Dover Bridge Cemetery Project |
| 2009- Winter | East Dover-s Exotic Bridge King of the Bobcat Trackers Volcanos – Here? When? |
| 2009 Autumn | Memories of Uncle Ralph – Lou Stevens The Society’s Unknown Mrs. Robinson’s Will Main Street Walking Tour |
| 2009 Summer | Foxcroft’s Freeland Holmes & The Washburn Family (2) Chandler’s Cinderella |
| 2009 Spring | Foxcroft’s Freeland Holmes & The Washburn Family (1) Historic Zoning Ordinance |
| 2008 – Winter | Foxcroft Meets the World Via the Tin Can Tribute to Jim Brown and Bob Pomeroy Emma B. Memorial Central Hall |
| 2008 – Autumn | Observer Building Sports “New” Look Ike’s Secretary in DF Grandeur of the Past |
| 2008 – Summer | One of the Greatest Generation’s Sacrifice (Ora Murch) First Ever Ornament Work on the Facade |
| 2008 – Spring | What do We Do About Central Hall? – Lou Stevens Museum in the Courthouse The USS Isabel A Letter from Sacramento, 1862 |
| 2007- Winter | Major Wreck at Foxcroft Yard! Lou’s Sixtieth Eliphalet Washburn |
| 2007 – Autumn | “Bump” Barrows FA Touchdown Record – Lou Stevens Central Hall’s Future in Jeopardy |
| 2007 – Summer | Great Exhibits, Great Programs: Make us part of Your Summer Plans Work at the Blacksmith Shop Touring with Lou Stevens |
| 2007 – Spring | The Lighting Legacy of Elias J. Hale Farewell to Dot Greenlaw Blacksmith Shop Needs Your Help |
| 2006 – Autumn | Making a Living in Dover & Foxcroft in 1904 – Lou Stevens A 10th Anniversary A Cow Rental Contract |
| 2006 – Summer | New Exhibits & Programs at the Observer Building The Society’s Unknown |
| 2006 – Spring | Tortured Genius (John Francis Sprague) Our New Sign |
| 2005 – Winter | Foxcroft’s Opera House |
| 2005 – Autumn | The 1869 Diary of Laura Maria Johnson Civil War Day |
| 2005 – Summer | Civil War Day Celebration The Burgess Family of Dover – Part 3 Corrections & More on Center Theatre |
| 2005 – Spring | When the “Talkies” Came to Town The Burgess Family of Dover, Part 2 My Grandmother & Johnny Computer Donated to Society |
| 2004- Winter | Future Dormitory on the Move (Chamberlain House) The Burgess Family of Dover, Part 1 The Case of the Mortgaged Teeth Buy a Blacksmith Shop Window |
| 2004 – Autumn | The Lure of Silver (foxes) – Lou Stevens Museum Receives Facade Grant Central Hall Memories The Blacksmith Shop’s New sign |
| 2004 – Summer | The Mayo Building Fire of 1895 – Lou Stevens Hearse and an Engine Madelyn Betts honored Members Remember Central Hall |
| 2004 – Spring | Mural, Mural, On the Wall (The Post Office Murals) Central Hall Isaac Royal: Dover’s Naval Hero? The 1937 Basketball Champs Letter from a Civil War Hero |
| 2003 – Winter | If Only He Could Talk (Monument Square) Aunt Hannah’s Hill Long Journey Home (Edward Hinks’ Civil War Trunk) Madelyn Betts Resigns as Secretary |
| 2003 – Autumn | Oil Under Dover? Ghost Noises from the Past? Blacksmith Shop’s Roof Madelyn’s “Townies” Racing in His Blood – Lou Stevens |
| 2003 – Summer | Stories in Bronze (Bronze Plaques) Cupid & the Printer’s Devel Why We Moved to Maine (Walter Boomsma) |
| 2003 – Spring | Stone Monument of Douty Family Tells Story of Much Sadness – Lou Stevens Who Needs Walmart? 1902 Valentine Union Band of East Dover Preserving Old Scrapbooks |
| 2002 – Winter | Two Dover-Foxcroft Men Gave Life & Hope to Millions of Children (Henry Gerrish and nephew Hap Gerrish). Boys Will Be Boys Civil War Medicine 1866-1867 Report to Selectmen MacDougal Program |
| 2002 – Autumn | Lydia’s Magical Elixar (Lydia Pinkham) FA football in 110th Year Intriguing Obituaries Fountain/Car Crash Raising Foxes |
| 2002- Summer | The Story of Stanley William Tumosa Madelyn’s 90th Birthday Boys in the Belfry Collecting Milk Bottles Maine Families at Sea Drinkwater Creamery |
| 2002 – Spring | Dover & Foxcroft in the Spanish American War Hickory Dickory Dock Kicksled memories |
| 2001 – Winter | Daniel Putnam – A gentle man in an ungentle time Kicksleds |
| 2001 – Autumn | Dover Craftsman (Daniel Neal) honored by Marine Museum Dover’s “Lady With a Lamp” (Sarah Elizabeth Palmer) Hill’s Hall (Ward, True Value building) |
| 2001 – Summer | The “Duke of Bridgewater” visits Society The Foxcroft Slate Quarry Historical Society & the Town’s Comprehensive Plan A Trail of Parsonages (Congregational Parsonages) |
| 2001 – Spring | Piscataquis Observer, Excerpts from 1997 guide In the Summer of 1900….. |
| 2000 – Winter | Christmas Holidays at the Observer Museum Know your Officers Central Hall – by Lou Stevens “Big House, Little House, Backhouse, Barn” Maro Regional Hospital |
| 2000 – Autumn | Ryan Stitham Takes on Eagle Project South Dover-s Oil Well |
| 2000 – Summer | Springtime Means Spruceup Time Sebec Lake Notes A Cinderella on Lincoln Street (Charles Parsons Chandler’s Law Office) |
| 2000 Spring | Furnace Fails at the Observer Building Recollections by William G. Glover, Sr. |
| 1999 – Autumn | Recollections by WIlliam G. Glover, St. The Millerites in Maine |
| 1999 – Spring | Dyer & Hughes Manufacturer of Organs and Pianos Workers with the Divining Rod Joshua Jordan’s Woolen Mill Names of Squares (Market Square, Merrick Square, Hill’s Block) |
| 1998 – Winter | The Kimball Family and Their Store – Lou Stevens 19th Century Building Trade George Babson, Business and Philanthropist |
| 1998 – Autumn | Daily Life was a Struggle for First Settlers Nathaniel Hopkin’s Brick Store South Dover Meeting House Test Your Maine Lingo |
| 1998 – Summer | The Peaks Family The Peaks Family The Pleasant Street School – Mary Chandler Lowell |
| 1997 – Autumn | A. G. Lebroke, The Town’s Great Orator Preserving Our Past Lorenzo Dow’s Farm Diary News of the Observer Building |
| 1997 Spring | Mary Chandler Lowell, a Thoroughly Modern Woman Preserving our Past We’re About to Take Title to the Observer Building Blackwmith Shop Museum |