Cayle Johnson, Executive Director, Scribners Mill Preservation, Inc

Scribners Mill Preservation, Inc. Announces New Executive Director

November 17, 2022 - Harrison, ME

In January of 2022, the Scribners Mill Board began an Executive Director search to identify the next leader of Scribners Mill Preservation, Inc. following the announcement of Marilyn Hatch leaving Scribners Mill and Harrison, Maine to be with family and to experiment with the idea of retirement.

After an extensive search process led by members of the Executive Search Committee, we are pleased to announce that Cayle Johnson has been selected as Executive Director, beginning April 1, 2023.

The Executive Search Committee received multiple applications from candidates for the Executive Director position. Over the past six months, the committee conducted a rigorous and thorough process of reviewing these applications and holding two stages of interviews with two well-qualified finalist candidates with the entire board. 

With significant consideration given to the skills, experiences and expertise needed to successfully guide the Scribners Mill Preservation in its next phase of growth, the Board has selected Cayle Johnson to serve in this important leadership role. Cayle’s love of history, friendly rapport with people, and her vision for growth of the museum, make her an excellent individual for the role of Executive Director. We are confident that under her leadership, the organization’s success and impact in achieving its mission and vision will continue to flourish.

Please join us in welcoming Cayle as Executive Director by making a donation and showing your support for Scribners Mill Preservations new leadership! Your financial support helps us accomplish our work, and your donation today will help usher in an exciting new chapter for the organization. You can also send your congratulations to Cayle by posting on the Scribners Mill Facebook page.



VISITING THE MILL SITE

We have tours on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month, June-September, from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm.  Also open on Memorial Day. Tours are free (but we LOVE donations!). If you would like to stop by and look at the mill on the off season, please feel free to roam the grounds, but the mill will be locked for security.  The mill and the Crooked River with the snow and ice in the winter are very beautiful and wonderful photo opportunities abound.  In addition to our regular in-season hours, we host special tours and educational programs.   We are closed during the winter. 

If you would like a private tour, please call 207-583-6455



EXHIBIT SHED

Our new exhibit shed is in place behind the long shed! This will be used to display period artifacts from the homestead farm and sawmill including an ox sling, along with various machines and items used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.


EVENTS

Scribner’s Mill is usually open for the last tour of the season of the mill and homestead on Labor Day week-end. 

Some highlights for the 2021 Labor Day weekend were hand hewing, two man use of the buck saw, and timber framing. On display was the newly restored Civil War Caisson that was adapted by the Scribner Brothers as a wagon to haul lumber and the big wheel log hauler. Tours of the mill included a demonstration of the 19 th century machinery to manufacture parts for dry (slack) barrels around 2:30.  In the long shed demonstrations of the shingle mill took place around 3:00. Across the street, the 1849 Scribner Homestead was open for guided tours.

The mill site, which includes the barn, ice house, and blacksmith shop, holds a large collection of antique mill, household, and ice harvesting equipment. 


 

Some photos from a "BACK TO THE PAST" event.