Those who once lived or live now in Vanceboro have funny, moving, and telling stories, many of them passed down from parents or grandparents. Such stories offer an archive of everyday life in Vanceboro. Sharing, reminiscing, laughing about school antics, swimming at the boat landing, pickup baseball games, government cheese, fourth of July celebrations, and local nicknames reveal a language, wry humor, sensibility and sense of place that was, and is still, recognizably Vanceboro.

If you’d like to submit stories and memories about Vanceboro to be included in this section, please follow these guidelines:

  1. Submit text using word-processing software (e.g., Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Google Docs); we can’t use pdfs.
  2. Submit images and pictures as separate files; we can’t use them if they are embedded in another text.
  3. Submit stories and images to lyn.brown@colby.edu.