Owls Head Transportation Musuem receives six-figure bequest
OHTM Executive Director Russ Rocknak receives a check for more than $125,000 from Dawn Swinton. Swinton's late uncle, Tom Appleton Plaisted, left the funds in trust for OHTM. Russ and Swinton elected to execute the check passing in front of the Museum's 1913 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost which originally belonged to Plaisted's ancestor, Alice Longfellow.
OHTM Executive Director Russ Rocknak receives a check for more than $125,000 from Dawn Swinton. Swinton's late uncle, Tom Appleton Plaisted, left the funds in trust for OHTM. Russ and Swinton elected to execute the check passing in front of the Museum's 1913 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost which originally belonged to Plaisted's ancestor, Alice Longfellow.
OWLS HEAD — The Owls Head Transportation Museum has received of a bequest from the estate of Thomas Appleton Plaisted, a longtime Museum volunteer.
Plaisted’s gift of more than $125,000 will assist the Museum as it continues to expand its programming and educational outreach initiatives.
The Plaisted family’s connection the Museum is profound. As descendants of the Longfellow family the Plaisteds are connected to one of the jewels of the Museum’s ground vehicle collection: a 1913 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost once owned by Alice Longfellow.
The vehicle recently underwent a mechanical tune up at the hands one of the country’s Rolls-Royce experts and is now among the most frequently demonstrated vehicles in the Museum’s operational collection, according to a news release.
On Monday, March 16 Executive Director Russ Rocknak met with Owls Head resident Dawn Swinton, the niece of the late Plaisted, for an official check presentation. Swinton and her husband, Tom, are the executors of the Plaisted Estate.
Swinton told Rocknak that her uncle was a soft-spoken man, an engineer and a champion of the Museum. She said that she hopes that the Plaisted bequest will inspire others to think about the Museum as they plan for the future.
To learn more about donating to the Owls Head Transportation Museum, contact Niki Janczura at (207) 594-4418 or visit owlshead.org.
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