Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport
Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from April’s photo.
What a nice surprise to see the fireplace in the Fowler-True-Ross House. It was the homestead of my great-grandfather, Captain Andrew McGilvery Ross. My father, Clark Nichols, was born in that house, in 1914, and when he retired to Searsport, in 1976, he began a second “career” as a trustee of the museum and loved to give tours. In later years, he’d proudly remark that he was the luckiest man alive — most people have to die before their birthplace becomes a museum, but he was still around to tell others what a wonderful treasure it is.
— Dan Nichols, of Searsport, Maine
