WINTHROP — Kerry Wilkins-Demming plans present a “History of Apples in Winthrop: What We Know and What We Don’t Know,” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8.
The talk will take place at at the Winthrop History and Heritage Center, 107 Main St.
Wilkins-Demming, who lives in East Winthrop, will talk on the early history of Pond Town, the more recent history of apples in Winthrop and the future of apple orchards in town.
Ichabod Howe, an early settler in what was then called Pond Town, planted orchards there. He and his family moved from New Hampshire to Pondtown in 1768.
Howe brought with him a bag of apple seeds. One of the seedlings became the Winthrop Greening, which still exists today due to Morris Towle (1911-93), who found the Winthrop Greening and saved it.
The Winthrop Greening, now over 250 years old, can be found at the Maine Heritage Orchard in Unity where one can obtain scion wood for the Winthrop Greening from Fedco trees.
For more information, call 207-395-5199 or email [email protected].
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