READFIELD HISTORY WALK #16 ~ Union Meeting House & Old Fairgrounds & Readfield Corner Cemetery ~ Friday November 22, 2013

For this November (hunting season) history walk we will stay out of the woods and closer to town but we suggest you wear something orange to be extra safe. Also bring a sandwich because we will eat lunch together on the trail.

Printouts will NOT be shared / distributed for this walk. For background material follow the links in the descriptions below. This will be a three phase excursion:

1. At 10:00am meet at the Union Meeting House on Church Road to see the spectacular and historic Trompe l'oeil art by Charles Schumacher. We will also visit the inside of the vestry next door. This building was once the home of Captain John Smith and sat on Main Street. It was donated to the Union Meeting House by his daughter Ursula Gile in 1868 for use as a vestry and moved to its present location. Since that time it has been used by various groups or congregations. Many remember when this building was used to hold summer Bible School and Methodist Youth Fellowship meetings in the 1950s and 1960s.
2. From there we will walk to see the improvements and additions made to the Old Fairgrounds trail this past summer. There is also a baseball field under construction there. The History Walkers journeyed these trails about a year ago but we will see that significant work has been done since then.
3. If there is no snow on the ground (to prevent it) we will also venture into the Readfield Corner Cemetery adjacent to the Old Fairgrounds. There we will find some of the people we have learned about over the past year.