Back to the Past
Kathy and Michael at Scribner's Mill, Harrison, Maine
Every year, the first weekend in August, Scribners Mill holds their Back to the Past events. Our friend had told us about it before, but this was our first year that we attended. Although we wear our Victorian clothes around the house and Effinhgam, give us and opportunity to wear them out somewhere, and we are usually there.
For just $6 each, we got to roam around what use to be an active mill up until 1962. From 1851 through 1962, three generations of Scribners owned and operated the mill and two additional generations worked in the mill. You can read more of history of the mill be visiting https://www.scribnersmill.org/history.shtm.
Scribner’s Mill’s vision is “to be an accurately reconstructed saw mill, powered by water using early technology to produce wood products.” We feel that this is an important part of mill history, and we wanted to support them any way we could.
They had saw mill demonstrations, exhibitors from all over, blacksmith demos, tours, craftsmen at work, antique fire truck from 1927 , candle dipping, all sorts of childrens’ events, a pig roast on Saturday and baked bean ‘suppah’ (darn we missed this) and much more.
Back to the past we went, and had a great time.
