Museum L-A needs volunteers for historic race

LEWISTON   – On Sunday, June 27, Museum L-A is holding its first duathlon and is looking for volunteers to help with a variety of race-day activities.   LADU is slated to be historic in proportion and go down in the 2010 race books as the biggest duathlon in the state of Maine. This new race will be a 3-mile-run, 14-mile-bike and 3-mile-run in which athletes will race past historic millscapes, scenic paths and the mightiest river in Maine to benefit the preservation and celebration of L-A’s rich heritage underway at Museum L-A.

Museum L-A will need 100 volunteer to ensure a successful and safe event. Volunteer opportunities include duties such as athlete check-in, transition area support, bike and run course support. All volunteers will receive a race-day volunteer T-shirt and Maine State Park Passport. Please contact Museum L-A at 207-333-3881 for more information or visit the LADU section of the museum’s website at www.museumla.org/ladu.

Karla Leandri Rider of Museum L-A, left, and Irma McGuinness of Walmart Supercenter Auburn, right, are in charge volunteers for the upcoming LADU race on June 27.

Payday at Androscoggin Mill - circa 1910-1920. Paymaster Arthur B. Moorehouse, left, and Mr. Getchell.

Museum L-A to host discussion “The Culture of Money” 

 LEWISTON  – Museum L-A’s popular “Voices” lecture series continues at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 20 with “The Culture of Money” – a discussion of  money and banking for newcomers in Lewiston-Auburn. It is the first of a three-part series being held in conjunction with the Museum’s current exhibit “Rivers of Immigration: Peoples of the Androscoggin.”

The May 20 event includes a discussion of how Androscoggin Bank has worked with newcomers from other countries and cultures to Lewiston-Auburn – both historically and in the present. Anthropology students will discuss their research on immigrants’ relationship with money and about banking activities. Slated as featured speakers are: CJ Conrad, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Androscoggin Bank; Elizabeth Eames, Ph.D., Bates College, Associate Professor of Anthropology; and Bates College students.

The Spring 2010 “Voices” lecture series is being presented free of charge and underwritten by Androscoggin Bank. Museum L-A is located at 35 Canal Street in the Bates Mill Complex – at the corner of Canal and Chestnut streets. For more information, please call 207-333-3881 or email info@museumla.org .