Season 3, Episode 14: The Stone Barn Farm
Guests: Tim Garrity and Renee Duncan
Air Date: December 8, 2022
Host: Jenna Jandreau
Tim Garrity chats about the geological history of the fertile farm region, the acreage’s history of ownership and stewardship, who built the Stone Barn, and more.
Renee Duncan of Maine Coast Heritage Trust provides updates on the Stone Barn Farm since they acquired it in 2019, and shares some of their plans for the future.
About Our Guests
Tim Garrity, formerly executive director and historian for MDI Historical Society, has contributed to every issue of Chebacco from 2011 to the present, including an upcoming article in the 2023 edition about one of the worst cases of mutiny and mass murder in American maritime history.
Now retired, he lives in Blue Hill with his wife, Lynn, where his chief occupation is renovating their 1820 farm house.
Chebacco articles by Tim Garrity
- The Stone Barn Farm (2022)
- Land of Lies: The Role of Deception at Saint Sauveur (2020)
- George Hefflon’s Silent Mission (2019)
- The Norwood’s Cove Object: Saint Sauveur in History and Legend (2018)
- Real and Imagined France in Acadia National Park (2017)
- Immigrants in the Borderland, 1880-1920 (2016)
- Borderland of the Present with Catherine Schmitt (2016)
- A Cloud of Witnesses (2015)
- The War at Home – Copperheads Down East, 1861-1865 (2014)
- Far from Home: The Spring of 1864 (2013)
- The Woman Question: Francis Parkman’s Arguments Against Women’s Suffrage (2012)
- John Gilley Fell at the Battle of the Wilderness (2011)
Previous Chebacco Chat appearances
- No. 35: Centennials: Now and Then
- No. 32: George Hefflon’s Silent Mission
- No. 30: The Norwood Cove Object
- No. 23: John Gilley Fell at the Battle of the Wilderness
Renee Duncan is the MDI Regional Outreach Manager and Stone Barn Farm Steward at Maine Coast Heritage Trust, the non-profit conservation organization that now stewards the 128-acres and buildings of the Stone Barn Farm. She lives in Hancock and takes care of an old barn, a few goats, and lots of trees. She’s also a gardener, a facilitator for Downeast Restorative Justice, and serves of the board of her local library.