PHIPPSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL students Owen Nickerson, Benny Brewer and Ashley Sloan perform a re-enactment during the town’s recent 200th birthday party. At right, students re-enact the signing of the Phippsburg charter.
The Phippsburg Elementary School gym was at capacity as residents gathered to celebrate at their town’s 200th birthday party.
Approximately 200 residents gathered May 8 for the party, said Mike Young, Phippsburg’s town administrator.
Teacher Betsy Card’s fourth grade class performed a dramatic re-enactment of the signing of Phippsburg’s charter for the attendees.
A birthday cake baked by Bath Regional Career and Technical Center students was shared by all, and guests were invited to sign a bannersized birthday card that will be placed in a time capsule.
“We’ll put photographs, programs of town events and other things in the capsule,” said Young, “so that 50 years from now people can see what was happening in our town.”
The time capsule will be sealed at the closing ceremony in November, after the nearly year-long schedule of anniversary celebrations. It will be opened during the town’s 250th anniversary celebration.
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