Four Machias Valley Women Honored for Keeping Local History Alive with Commemorative Coin

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Four Machias Valley Women Honored for Keeping Local History Alive with Commemorative Coin

By Will Tuell Four generations of Downeast women credited with keeping the Machias area’s rich Revolutionary War-era history alive are being immortalized on a coin designed by artist Tom Brennan, which the Downeast Revolutionary War Reenactors are selling as part of an annual fundraiser to help preserve local history. The women include Rose Hall, Michelle Stanhope, Heather Vose, and a woman widely regarded as the “Matriarch of Machias History,” …