Coloring Book-Grace Aurelia Adams

Who says history can't be fun? Our coloring book tells the story of a girl living on a Maine farm more than a century ago. The text from Grace's journal is courtesy of her granddaughter, Betsy Jo Whitcomb. Artwork was done by Pam Szalajeski and Ann Sanborn. Grace Aurelia Adams was born in 1893 to large family living on a farm in the rural village of South Lewiston. She was the youngest child of seven boys and two girls. Her father was a carpenter at the Androscoggin Mill and a farmer. After graduating from Lewiston High School and Dingley Normal School, she became a teacher who taught at five schools over the next two decades. She later worked for another two decades as a buyer for Peck's department store in Lewiston. She married Fred Hatch. They had a son and two daughters. The Hatches retired to West Poland in 1955. Upon her death in 1991, Grace was the holder of the Boston Post Cane as the oldest inhabitant of Poland.