The meeting comes at the close of a free community "Celebrate the Salmon Falls River" event during the gundalow’s ten-day visit Counting House Park at Quamphegan Landing on Liberty Street. Starting at 5:00 pm, the Counting House Museum will be open, and the public is welcome to free gundalow tours, music, displays and activities celebrating the Salmon Falls River.  

The historical society’s annual membership meeting begins with refreshments in the Counting House at 7:00 pm. After a short business meeting, the musicians will perform "Sounds Like Old Times," a new concert series using guitars, five-string banjo and occasionally a mandolin, with music adapted from early rural recordings of folk and country music from the middle decades of the 20th century.  

Well known around New England and in Europe for their presentations of traditional music of the sea, Peloquin, of Windsor, Maine, and Webb, of Phippsburg, have been singing traditional folksongs for more than 40 years. Two years ago they discovered their common interest in the earliest recordings of folk and country western artists. The result of their collaboration is a new concert offering a new sound that is decades old.  

The Counting House is the Old Berwick Historical Society’s 1832 textile mill building by Quamphegan Falls on the Salmon Falls River. This May, the museum is collaborating with the Gundalow Company in a number of community programs and a series of school visits throughout the gundalow's stay in South Berwick.  

Annual membership in the Old Berwick Historical Society is $20 per person, or $30 for a family. Member support provides the basis for the museum and for free community local history programming throughout the year. More information is available by calling 207-384-0000.