Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
North Jay
Jay Historical Society
, Holmes-Crafts Homestead, Route 4, Jay Hill.
645-2732.
Norway
Norway Historical Society
, 232 Main Street. (No phone.)
Paris
Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum
, Old Stone Jail, Paris Hill.
Oxford County Jail until 1896, now houses public library and museum.
Artifacts from Hannibal Hamlin (and family), Lincoln's Vice President.
743-2980.
Phillips
Phillips Historical Society
(1825), Pleasant Street.
639-3352.
Poland
Maine State Building
(1893) &
All Souls Chapel
(1912), Route 26, Po-
land Spring. Grounds of former Poland Spring Resort.
582-7080.
Rangeley
Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society
, Main and Richardson
Streets.
864-3317.
Wilhelm Reich Museum
, Dodge Pond Road, off Route 4. Library, scien-
tific equipment, paintings and other memorabilia. The Wilhelm Reich
Museum at Orgonon Estate was Reich's home and workplace. Located in
the Rangeley Lakes Region of Maine and comprising 175 acres of fields
and woodland with a system of trails and two major buildings, the mu-
seum represents and interprets the life and work of this renowned yet
controversial physician-scientist and the environment in which he inves-
tigated the energy functions that govern all living things. Reich's views
on orgone energy, UFOs, sexuality, and his energy concentrators won him
some powerful enemies, including the government.
The Orgone Energy Observatory
, designed for Reich in 1948, exhibits
biographical materials, inventions, and equipment used in his pioneer-
ing experiments. Reich's library, personal memorabilia, sculpture, and
