The Northwood Institute Margaret Chase Smith Library

Continuing the discourse
The Northwood Institute Margaret Chase Smith Library, now 25 years old, looks to future
By DARLA L. PICKETT
Staff Writer Morning Sentinel

SKOWHEGAN -- The generations of people who knew Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith -- the woman who shook the hands of world leaders, fought against the scare tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and was the first woman nominated by a major political party for the U.S. presidency -- are dwindling.

Just as she knew it would.

It's an inevitability Smith predicted, a reality she began preparing for 25 years ago when she first helped establish the Northwood Institute Margaret Chase Smith Library on Norridgewock Avenue.

There, in a library attached to her graceful home overlooking the Kennebec River, she and the institute created a repository for Smith's papers and memorabilia from more than 32 years in Congress.

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