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Every year, the District hosts a variety of events, bringing the community and members together, to celebrate the arts and culture while building a deeper connection within the community.
Every year, the District hosts a variety of events, bringing the community and members together, to celebrate the arts and culture while building a deeper connection within the community.
Since 1929, Flying Santa has visited the men, women, and families of the Coast Guard who keep watch over our coastal waters at USCG stations and lighthouses. The pioneering Maine pilot Bill Wincapaw inaugurated this program and, along with his son Bill, flew for two decades. They recruited Edward Rowe Snow, the popular New England historian and storyteller, to join them; Snow kept the flights going through 1980.
Today, the nonprofit organization Friends of Flying Santa donates thousands of hours each year to ensure the success of the flights that visit the children of Coast Guard families from Maine to New York.
Join Jeremy D’Entremont, historian of the U.S. Lighthouse Society and vice president of Friends of Flying Santa, to learn about the colorful history of the Flying Santa program from 1929 to the present day.
This virtual program is presented in collaboration with the Bacon Free Library and Ashland Public Library.
PLEASE REGISTER HERE FOR THE ZOOM LINK.
NOTE: This program will be recorded and available to view on the Ashland Library’s YouTube Channel.
