Mark Matteau – Stock Photo
COVID-19 has affected everyone and everything in some way in recent months, including our museum. We have had to cancel a variety of events and programs in response to the necessity for social distancing. We are monitoring the possibility of resuming our regular activities following state, national, and local guidelines and the museum and historical societies community at large.
The work of our museum continues being done by individual members pursuing further research, attending to online and telephone queries, and continuing our presence in outreach via our webpage and Facebook.
The work of digitizing our collections to make these items available to our larger communities continues. Also, work on the schoolhouse continues to be an ongoing project; and to that end, we have formalized a committee to oversee the project to move it forward into the future.
I would like to express my own personal thanks to our dedicated members and friends for their ongoing work and help, including the maintenance of our grounds, building, and collections.
I know we all look forward to the time when we shall be able to resume our programming, outreach, and the reopening of our building and be able to meet and interact in person again with our members, friends, and visitors.
Respectfully,
Mark A. Matteau
President
“Military Records” 3×5 card boxes. This collection of 3×5 cards indicates facts regarding various Scarborough individuals who had military service. Accession numbers, 89.9.1778a and 89.9.1778b. This collection has been scanned and is available in two parts – 
![10 articles](http://Besides "The Villages of Scarborough," in 2011 the Scarborough Leader ran a series of articles titled "Looking Back" about various objects at the Scarborough Historical Society. These articles included the following: Looking Back Board for drying freshly spun will - 2011-08-05 Bootjack - 2011-05-20 Bronze Clock - 2011-06-24 Early Vacuum Cleaner - 2011-05-27 Edison Gould Moulded Records (cylindrical record) - 2011-06-10 Looking Back - Granite Mile Markers - 2011-05-06 Looking Back - Ornamental tools - 2011-06-03.jpeg Looking Back - Ross Road Violin - 2011-04-29 Looking Back - Ship Model "Delia Chapin" - 2011-07-01 These articles have been compiled and are available in a PDF file: “Clippings - Looking Back - 2011” While researching these clippings, I found a 10th article regarding custom-built "bog shoes" in the April 22, 2011, edition of the Leader. I've included it in the “Clippings - Looking Back - 2011” file. These articles are also available through the efforts of the Scarborough Public Library through “Advantage Preservation."){kind=link}