Hiram Historical Society

04/07/2026

Join the Hiram Historical Society this Saturday April 11th for an eclectic concert to raise funds to reconstruct the Ridlon Schoolhouse. This ongoing project involves several community organizations and needs your support!

🎼Saturday, April 11th from 6-8pm at the Arts Center at 8 Hancock. $20 suggested donation. Refreshments and great music from Maine musicians!

10/17/2025

Its finally here! We hope to see you there!

08/03/2025

This Saturday, don't forget to buy tickets!

08/03/2025

This upcoming Saturday! Don't forget to buy your tickets!

07/11/2025

Come see us this weekend at the Ossipee Valley Fair! Learn about "Rebuilding Ridlon," an 1819 one room school and register for our August Barn Tour.

06/20/2025

The Great Ossipee Museum is opening for the season on Saturday, June 21st from 9:30am-12:30pm. Exhibits are "Bringing Ridlon School to Life" and "Play Ball!" The Museum will be open on the third Saturdays from June-September 9:30am to 12:30pm and by appointment.

We hope to see you this summer!

11/02/2024

The last Membership meeting of the year is Saturday November 16 from 11-12. NOTE that it is being held at the Hiram Arts Center - which is heated! This is a very important meeting at which HHS Board Members and Trustees are elected.

The slate of officers includes:

President - Liz Donald. Liz is presently Secretary. She was elected a new Board Member last year.

Also running is Kit Linnell, for the office of Secretary. Kit is presently serving as Treasurer and seeks to switch with Liz. We are happy to be able to accommodate this realignment of skills and interests.

Darby Crowley is an artist who has redesigned a significant part of the stairwell display Log Drives on the S**o and Ossipee Rivers - you may have admired her rendition of tree rings that serves as the backdrop of photo images. She hopes to be elected as a Member at Large of the HHS Board.

Ellie Stein, presently serving as President, hopes to be elected as a Trustee.

There are no trustees whose terms have ended. Trustees whose terms are current are Bill Johnson Sr.and wife Marilyn, Ken Kimball, Sue Moulton, Bruce Nason, and Sylvia Pease.

We need a quorum to authorize a vote - please come - there will be refreshments!

Not all of you are HHS members - we wish you were! - you can join, receive the Newsletter and vote for as little as $10 - a bargain and it will help keep the great programs coming!

HHS Board meets from 9:30-11 at the Hiram Arts Center. See you there.

10/12/2024

We're just one week away from our annual Trash Can Turkey Roast! We have a day filled with good food and activities planned! Food will be catered by Smoke'N Days and the Community Center will have Raffles, Award ceremonies, Music by Don Chase, a kids crafts table and entertainment by local actor Xander Berkeley! When you've had your fill and talked with your neighbors, mosey on over to the Great Ossipee Museum!

Rain or shine - see you there!

09/14/2024

Today!

Today 9/14 at the Great Ossipee Museum, 20 Historical Ridge, Hiram 04041 (off Main Street, Route 117). Free and open to the public, light refreshments, FMI 207-615-4390. Hiram Historical Society

08/18/2024

If you missed it this weekend, The Great Ossipee Museum will be open again this upcoming Wednesday evening, August 21st from 6-8 pm for anyone who missed our Play Ball program!

Hope to see you there!

07/18/2024

Our July program takes place this Saturday at 1:30pm, we hope to see you all there!

Brilliant storyteller Jo Radner brings "Wit and Wisdom" to Hiram Historical Society this weekend. Her new book brings out a forgotten New England tradition of gathering to display knowledge, opinion and humor – what rural folks of all ages did for entertainment on cold winter Saturday nights before Tik Tok.