Last Chance to see "Her-Story"

Welcome to our fall

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019,   1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society

Last formal showing of  the Exhibit

“HER-STORY”

Remembering the Suffragettes who in 1919

finally won the right to vote for women in Maine

and

 Honoring some of the other remarkable women of our towns

and the State of Maine

by telling a few of their stories.

Come tour the house and view all the exhibits, browse our scrapbook collection and albums.

at

History House

92 Main Street in

Kezar Falls Village (Rt. 160)

FMI call 625-7019

One of our favorite local remarkable ladies included in this exhibit is Dottie Locke.

This is

HER STORY:

Dorothy Gilman Locke  (1921-2016)

Dorothy Gilman, known to most as Dottie, only child of Arthur and Olive (Gray) Gilman was born in Porter, Maine on the family farm which would remain her life-long home. Unlike most farm girls of the time, Dottie attended the University of Maine Orono receiving a degree in Education in 1942.

She worked for Piscataqua & York County 4-H Extensions, taught four years at Cornish High School, then fourteen years at Sacopee Valley High School teaching home economics to many still living. 

More importantly, Dottie exemplifies the truth that one need not do extraordinary things to be an extraordinary person.  While working full-time, maintaining a busy household with her husband Clayton Locke, and the mother of two she still found time to work for the betterment of her community through her work with the Porter Grange, Riverside Methodist Church, LMR Club, Porter Union Workers and Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society among others.

Dottie was skilled at sewing, knitting and a wonderful cook and used these skills often in her community service.  She was known for years as "the pie lady".

She passed away Sept. 19, 2016 at the age of 95. 

Dottie's portrait in First Person Rural: A Portrait of a Maine Town by Patricia Turner