On Saturday, July 20th Vanceboro will celebrate the town’s 150th Anniversary. The sesquicentennial celebration will include a short program –“Vanceboro: Past, Present, and Future” – along with music, a lunch version of your favorite Saturday bean supper, and the grand reopening of the Vanceboro Historical Society. There will be a chance to recall memories and tell stories of Vanceboro to be included in the historical society archives, tours of the museum, tables with old photographs yet to be identified, and a chance to include your favorite local recipe in the 150th Anniversary Vanceboro Historical Society Cookbook.
Poke around your family recipe box and send us your favorite – the one that brings you home, reminds you of your grandmother’s love, the warmth of the kitchen on a winter’s night, the bright lights around the Christmas tree. We don’t always consider how recipes passed down through our families preserve local traditions. But more than a taste of home, they’re windows into the culture of those who came before us: bean hole beans baked on the river drives, thick molasses cookies packed in railroad worker’s lunch boxes, fish chowders eaten on cool spring evenings up lake. Vanceboro area recipes hold the delicious stories of our Maine and New Brunswick history.
There are multiple ways to submit your recipe:
- Submit electronically: Click here to download a digital version to fill out on your computer/laptop. Then, please email the completed form to cluppi161@gmail.com.
- Submit handwritten by mail: Click here to download a recipe form to be printed and completed by hand. Please send printed form and pictures to: Carol Luppi, 161 Quincy Avenue, Winthrop, MA 02152
- Submit handwritten at the celebration: You can even bring a recipe and photos with you to the celebration on July 20th. We will also have forms to handwrite recipes available at the celebration.
Check out this sample submission, if just to get the juices flowing.
Vanceboro Historical Society 