Norlands receives outpouring of support, some events planned

Efforts by Mainers, the Washburn family, local businesses and political leaders have made it possible for Washburn-Norlands Living History Center to remain open and start offering programs again. The first will be a pancake breakfast on Maine Maple Sunday, March 26.

Washburn-Norlands receives needed money to restart programs

The living history center in Livermore have been given $140,000 to continue to operate.

Livermore’s Washburn-Norlands Living History Center needs $3 million by March to stay alive

Closing the Norlands is the absolute last option, the trustee president said, but not reaching $3 million by spring may mean the historic home of the Washburn family will need new stewards.

Rally for Norlands: Civil War Living History Weekend

Norlands uses the history of poverty as a lesson for the present

Historically, poverty and the common people consumed by it were overlooked in the history books. Not at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore.