Palermo Historical Society

05/24/2026

Hope to see you at the Worthing House around 11 tomorrow morning after the American Legion Post 163, Palermo, Maine does their grave side ceremonies!

03/21/2026

The first meeting of the year will occur this coming Tuesday, March 24, at 6:00 p.m., at the Worthing House on North Palermo Road. All are welcome to attend.

03/10/2026

One more reminder!

Tonight is the final installment in the Winter Lecture Series for this season (goodbye, winter!), with Mike Falla, Palermo's resident surveyor. Come on out and learn more about property rights and boundary management throughout Palermo's history! Doors of the Worthing House will open at 5:00 p.m. Presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.

02/04/2026

Did you see our end of year newsletter? PHS members and friends got this first!

https://tinyurl.com/5xyfwv5h

We voted last year to publish a biannual newsletter, and this is our second issue. We've got two more evenings in the Winter Lecture Series, with Mary Grow and Andy Pottle in Conversation coming up next week. Our first business meeting of 2026, and officer elections, are Tuesday, March 24th at 6pm. Two officers are stepping down so there's opportunity for new voices to help determine our future.

Contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

Palermo Historical Society Winter 2025 Newsletter Hello and Happy Holidays to PHS members, family, and friends! We hope you enjoy this second issue of our semi-annual newsletter, published in June and December. Inside you’ll find recollections of the second half of our 30th anniversary season, in....

01/12/2026

Doesn't this cardinal look handsome among the frosty flowers? Want to learn how to capture such stunning photos yourself? Come on out to the Worthing House (54 N Palermo Rd) starting at 5pm on Tuesday, 1/13, for an evening with the naturalist behind Here in the Wild: Field Notes and Photography, North Palermo's Logan Parker. The house opens for refreshments at 5, with Logan's talk at 6.

Logan is the third guest speaker in the Historical Society's new Winter Lecture Series, launched to commemorate our 30th anniversary in 2025. Previous guests include Greg Parker of Set in Stone Cemetery Restoration and John Bunker, apple scientist and historian.

Northern Cardinal.

I met up with a friend over the weekend to go birding at a few locations on the Pemaquid Peninsula. We started out along a small stretch of beach just as the day was beginning to warm. Unlike in summer, when birds will often vocalize at or just before the first suggestion of daylight, winter mornings start slowly. Birds will stir from their roosting places and set themselves to foraging, building up stores of energy to help ensure their survival through the winter night to come. A cardinal was slow to rise, or at least to make herself known, but we spotted her among the beach rose hips and winterberry.