page_title: Esther E. Wood
section_title: Other activities
hierarchical_section_title: Esther E. Wood / Other activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Front of the Jonathan Fisher House and Memorial, 44 Mines Road, Blue Hill, Maine.
context_page_description: Esther Elizabeth Wood was an American historian, educator, author, and journalist. She taught history and social science at Gorham State Teachers College for 43 years. After her retirement, she wrote four books, a newspaper column, and numerous articles describing the history of Blue Hill, Maine, where her family had lived for generations, achieving local celebrity as the "town historian". She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.
context_section_description: Wood was an active supporter of the George Stevens Academy, serving as a trustee and a member of the executive committee for a 1981 endowment campaign. She personally contributed to campaigns for a library expansion and the installation of tennis courts. She was also a member of the Blue Hill Historical Society, the Blue Hill Baptist Church, the Blue Hill Cemetery Association, the State Cemetery Association, the Blue Hill Garden Club, and the Jonathan Fisher Memorial, serving as secretary for the latter organization.
  In 2000 she endowed a $100,000 scholarship at the University of Southern Maine at Lewiston-Auburn in memory of Edna Frances Dickey, her fellow history professor at Gorham State Teachers College.
caption: Jonathan Fisher House, Blue Hill, Maine
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