2006 Season's Events

The Peaks Island community came together to welcome home the regiment's battleflag on June 17.

Following several months of treatment by textile conservateur Gwen Spicer, the 1861 silk flag was installed as the centerpiece of a new exhibit, Sacred At Any Cost, which highlights many of the men and women who followed the flag during the Civil War.

Casco Bay High School student Will Nelligan interviewing historian Herb Adams in front of the flag. Herb delivered a slide lecture, Down In Dixie, created and presented by Fifth Maine Adjutant George Bicknell after the Civil War. .	All photos by Don Perry

The flag preservation is the largest and most expensive collection project undertaken by the museum to date with 99% of the $21,000 cost covered by a few small grants and donations from over sixty members and friends of the museum in the Peaks Island community and beyond. A big thank you to everyone who helped to make this project successful!

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