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NORWAY — A stage-manage curtain in Norway Grange 45 on Whitman Street is being documented as part of a regionwide toil by the Vermont organization Curtains Without Borders to conserve and protect stage-manage curtains throughout New England and beyond.
Curtains Without Borders Director Christine Hadsel, who is documenting stage-manage curtains across northern New England, said Wednesday that the project has already found 130 present curtains in Maine.
The curtains have been found in 83 locations throughout Maine. In this province, in addition to the Norway Grange Hall, stage curtains have been found at the Excelsior Grange 5 in Poland, Lakeside Grange 63 in Harrison, North Jay Grange 10 and the Androscoggin Grange Convention hall in Greene. Bryant Pond's grand stage curtain has been lost, but a backdrop curtain depicting a thoroughfare and country scene survives, Hadsel said.
The town of Sweden has a manoeuvre curtain, but Hadsel said she has not seen it yet. Neither has she been able to see the Norway Grange curtain because it has been in storage until recently.
Source: Lewiston Sun Journal