by T. BLEN PARKER
LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE ON SWAN ISLAND:
FOR MORE PHOTOS OF THE LOST HOMES OF SWAN ISLAND, visit the Archive Center on 17 Spruce Street in Richmond. Over 16 homes depicted in colorful paintings, accompanied by island history of the families that once lived there.
TO BECOME A FRIEND OF SWAN ISLAND, CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW:
VIRGINIA OF SAGADAHOC – Original built at Popham, Maine in 1607. Historic replica built at the freight shed on Commercial Street in Bath, Maine. Cruises available summer 2025.
For more information: https://mfship.org/bath-freight-shed/
HISTORIC FIRST SHIP: VIRGINIA OF SAGADAHOC, DOCKED IN BATH, MAINE
COBBLESTONE BRIDGE – MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, MAINE
PLEASANT POND LILIES 2025
HUNGRY BABY ROBINS IN THEIR NEST
DRIED ALLIUM in an ART DECO VASE
AURORA BOREALIS – MAINE COAST, APRIL, 2024
EAGLE SWOOPING OVER A RABBIT
Artist’s rendition of ISLAND OF EAGLES, Swan Island in the Kennebec River of Maine
OFTEN PAINTING CONCEPTS are taken from vintage black and white postcards. I enjoy breathing life back into the subjects I paint with color. As a volunteer at the Richmond Maine Archive Center at 17 Spruce Street, I have access to many photos and news articles from the Richmond Bee, published from 1880 into the 1960’s.
WELL-KNOWN HATHORN BUILDING with SILENT POLICEMAN at the CORNER of MAIN & FRONT STREET, RICHMOND, MAINE
OLD BARN, ALEXANDER-REED ROAD, RICHMOND, MAINE
SUNRISE AT RICHMOND, MAINE….WATERFRONT PARK
FIRST UNITED CHURCH, Main Street, Richmond, Maine. Location of the granite bench on the little hill next to the FIRE DEPARTMENT today.
SHAW’S INN later known as PEACOCK TAVERN in Richmond, Maine, once the Pony Express stop. Visit Peacock Beach right across Route 201. Richmond claims this is the oldest building in town.
RICHMOND TOWN PARK – gazebo at the Kennebec Riverside in winter.
ORONO MAINE boys managed to hitch a MOOSE to a cart for a winter ride through the snow.
RETIRED BOAT, turned into a garden, filled with lush flowers – MONHEGAN ISLAND MAINE
FYTCHIANUM-BURMESE ORCHID
PARROT FEATHER TULIP
WHO’S THAT?
PLEASANT POND LILY
FUCHSIA GERANIUM
AMARYLLIS
DOUBLE PEONY & LILAC BOUQUET
CARDINlAL SWEETHEARTS
FAMILY FIDDLE in a GARDEN OF VIOLETS
MILKWEED BUTTERFLY, WORM & PODS
RED CALLA LILIES
SWAN ISLAND FERRY LANDING, VIEW OF THE OLD BRIDGE
TOWN TIN PEDDLER & HIS CART filled with pots & pans, household notions & fabric.
SUNRISE – RICHMOND WATERFRONT PARK
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