Saturday, May 24, 2025

Memorial Day 2025 at the GTC

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     Monday, May 26th, is Memorial Day.  It has become our tradition since the recovery  of the ancient Presumpscot/Grand Trunk Cemetery, to...
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Thursday, October 31, 2024

ANNUAL FAll CLEANUP and FOUNDER'S DAY at the GRAND TRUNK CEMETERY

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     Sunday, October 27th, 2024 marked 14 years when Portland Girl Scouts, their families, friends and East Deering neighbors gathered to...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Preparing for Memorial Day 2024/Remembering May Deaths

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       Despite the drizzle and dampness, Girl Scout volunteer leaders and family members gathered at the Presumpscot/Grand Trunk Cemetery fo...
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Monday, April 15, 2024

PATRIOTS DAY 2024 / April Deaths and Burials at the Grand Trunk Cemetery

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      On this April 15th, 2024, Patriots Day is celebrated in recognition of the actions that propelled colonists into a great war for inde...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

MARCH DEATHS/BURIALS AT THE GRAND TRUNK CEMETERY REMEMBERED

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    During the month of March there were seven recorded deaths and burials at the Presumpscot/Grand Trunk Cemetery. The oldest recorded de...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

FEBRUARY DEATHS REMEMBERED OF THOSE INTERRED AT THE PRESUMPSCOT/GRAND TRUNK CEMETERY

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  Author's Note: I want to begin this post with a happy acknowledgement of a donation made to the Maine Old Cemetery Association by Mic...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

January Deaths Remembered

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  am re-posting this piece in remembrance of Eva Ella Boothby, age 27 months old and Irish School Master, Timothy Galvin who died in this m...