Author Archives: Don Taylor

Photo Friday – Dyer, McCann, McLain, Peabody, & Roche.

Posted on August 16, 2024 by Don Taylor

Linwood Dyer Collection – Part 028Isabel Dyer Skillin AlbumPhoto FridayBy Don Taylor These photos are from the Isabel Dyer Skillin photo album, courtesy of the Scarborough Historical Society, Linwood Dyer Genealogical Collection, and include people from the South Portland High … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday – Dyer, Fullerton, Hannaford, Hutchinson, & Smart.

Posted on August 9, 2024 by Don Taylor

Linwood Dyer Collection – Part 026Isabel Dyer Skillin AlbumPhoto FridayBy Don Taylor The album includes a clipping from the Portland Evening Express, dated 16 Jun 1949. The clipping indicates that the South Portland Class of 1899 had its 50th reunion. … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday – Dyer, Evans, Melcher, Morrison, & Woods.

Posted on August 2, 2024 by Don Taylor

Linwood Dyer Collection – Part 025Isabel Dyer Skillin AlbumPhoto FridayBy Don Taylor This photo album from the Linwood Dyer Collection was a bit confusing. The spine has a modern label, “Graduation Class 1892, Isabel Dyer Skillin, So. Portland High.” South … Continue reading →

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Brown Family Reunion – 1943 – In the News.

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Don Taylor

81 Years AgoBy Don Taylor Grandpa Brown was mentioned in the news as being present at a family reunion in Brainard in late August 1943. I ran across a clipping regarding a family reunion at the Arthur W. Brown residence. … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday – Curtis, Nisbet, (neé Dain), Norton, Pedneault, Potter, & Rood.

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Don Taylor

Seven people identifeid from the Linwood Dyer Collection:

Roger & Irene Pedneault, and Grace & Newton Curtis, 1941.

Henry Staples Potter, Jr., 1883.

Bernes O Norton, circa 1905.

Doris Ione (Dain), [Dyer], Nisbet, circa 1991.

& Emily A Rood, March 1899 (Not fully identified). Continue reading →

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