Updates – March 2026

Calendar

Special Event

Dedication Ceremony – Pauper Grave Marker
Dunstan Cemetery, Scarborough, Maine
May 24, 2026 | 11:00 AM

Businesses

Hotels, Motels, & Inns

Atlantic House

Historic sepia photograph of the Atlantic House, a large multi-story wooden hotel with wraparound porch and dormer windows, showing several people seated on the porch, photographed by McKenney of Portland, Maine.
Atlantic House, front view.
Photograph by McKenney, Portland, Me.
Courtesy of the Scarborough Historical Society.

Brochure – Atlantic House, large 17″ x 11″
Menu – Atlantic House Wine List & Luncheon Menu
Clippings – Atlantic House Clippings – Includes a 1981 article, “The Atlantic House: A grand old lady preserves the atmosphere of an English novel” and two articles regarding the hotel being demolished in 1987.

Early “snapshots” of the Atlantic c. 1908:

I created a Gallery for Agriculture and added a photo of the Hayfield at the Atlantic House with workers and a horse-drawn wagon from the late 1800s.

Collections

Tammy Shepherd Collection

Shepherd-Swasey Photo Album

Everett Swasey, et al, in Army Uniforms

Education

Grammar Schools

Black Point School

Black Point School – ca. 1879 – baseball team.

Group portrait of Oak Hill Grammar School Grade 8 students in Scarborough, Maine, 1952, posed in a classroom with boys standing and girls seated, with a class sign at center.
Oak Hill Grammar School – Grade VIII, 1952.
Students posed in a classroom setting.
The original photograph has handwritten identification on the reverse.

Dunstan Grammar – Class of 1939 – Grades 1 through 7

NamePagePositionGrade/Part
Linwood VarneyPage 01pt. 1
Annette GervaisPage 02pt. 1
Howard MerrillPage 03pt. 1
Naomi MunsonPage 04pt. 1
Joy SewellPage 05pt. 1
Arthur BlanchettePage 06pt. 1
Bryce NorrieAbsent1pt. 1
Billy BurnhamAbsent2pt. 1
Helen BrooksAbsent3pt. 1
Ethel BrooksAbsent4pt. 1
Mattie BrooksAbsent5pt. 2
Clifford GrantPage 11pt. 1
Alice FerrelliPage 12pt. 2
Adelaide W. HigginsPage 13pt. 2
Gladys DaltonPage 14pt. 2
George MerrillPage 15pt. 2
Richard BeachleyPage 16pt. 2
Norma EatonPage 21pt. 2
June SkillingsPage 22pt. 3
Francis WoodPage 23pt. 3
Dorothy McGrantPage 24pt. 3
George Dana MorrisMcIntirePage 25pt. 2
Douglas GoodrichPage 26pt. 2
Charles BurnhamPage 31pt. 3
Florence MerrillPage 32pt. 3
Malcolm DodgePage 33pt. 3
Juliette GervaisPage 34pt. 4
[same]Page 35pt. 4
Wesley VarneyPage 36pt. 4
Clinton HigginsPage 41pt. 4
Gilmore RoundsPage 42pt. 4
James GearyPage 43pt. 4
Mary FerrelliPage 44pt. 4
Melvin WilliamsPage 45pt. 4
Roberta CarterPage 46pt. 4
Audrey DavisPage 51pt. 4
Patricia SeaveyPage 52pt. 4
Anne BradfordPage 53pt. 5
Norman VerrillPage 54pt. 5
Lewewis GervaisPage 55pt. 5
Marion MillikenPage 56pt. 5
Charles KilbyAbsent1pt. 5
Helen NielsonPage 61pt. 5
Frances BurnhamPage 62pt. 5
Leon PlummerPage 63pt. 6
Carol GuestPage 64pt. 6
Lona PlummerPage 65pt. 6
Mayael MorrisPage 66pt. 6
Gerrad GervaisPage 7 (top & bottom rows)1pt. 6
Carl Carter7Page 7 (top & bottom rows)Page 7 (top & bottom rows)2pt. 7
Lawrence NielsonPage 7 (top & bottom rows)3pt. 7
Priscilla ScanmanPage 7 (top & bottom rows)4pt. 7
Gordon GuestPage 7 (top & bottom rows)5pt. 7
Raymond SkillinPage 7 (top & bottom rows)6pt. 7
Fred LearyPage 7 (center row)1pt. 6
Helen SoulePage 7 (center row)2pt. 7
Rachael WipplePage 7 (center row)3pt. 7

School Classes

SHS Class of 1954

Class Will – 1954

Programs

Scarborough PTA Presents “The Magician and the Maiden” – 25 May 1957

Other Additions

Surname – Knight

Ruthanna Knight – Report Cards – Dunstan 1923-25, 1925-27, and SHS 1926-30.
Ruthanna Knight – Class of 1931

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