Strout Foundation
@stroutfoundation.bsky.social
A nonprofit dedicated to marine preservation, tribal sovereignty and the recognition of the Strout whalers as some of New England's first settlers.
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Pauline Virginia Strout (1916-2001)
August 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Pauline Virginia Strout (1916-2001)
In 1965, Arthur E. Strout testified in Congress as Chairman of the #DC Home Rule Committee for self-governance.
Strout: "[In DC], the basic ingredient of all urban government - a city administration responsive to the needs of its constituents - is conspicuously absent."
Strout: "[In DC], the basic ingredient of all urban government - a city administration responsive to the needs of its constituents - is conspicuously absent."
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In 1965, Arthur E. Strout testified in Congress as Chairman of the #DC Home Rule Committee for self-governance.
Strout: "[In DC], the basic ingredient of all urban government - a city administration responsive to the needs of its constituents - is conspicuously absent."
Strout: "[In DC], the basic ingredient of all urban government - a city administration responsive to the needs of its constituents - is conspicuously absent."
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Anyone in the Rockport Maine area knowledgeable of area history? I haven't been able to find any information on Granite Rock Bottling Co in West Rockport Maine. I have found some similar bottles from other states, but nothing for West Rockport Co. Also shown is a Vess Dry bottle from the 1940s-50s
July 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Anyone in the Rockport Maine area knowledgeable of area history? I haven't been able to find any information on Granite Rock Bottling Co in West Rockport Maine. I have found some similar bottles from other states, but nothing for West Rockport Co. Also shown is a Vess Dry bottle from the 1940s-50s
Squadron Leader Graham Strout (1921-1950) of Adelaide was the Korean War's first #RAAF casualty & one of the first UN pilots shot down 🇦🇺
Despite the war having just begun, the Korean Army assisted in the recovery of his remains and buried him in Pusan, S. Korea
#photosky #koreanwar #KIA
Despite the war having just begun, the Korean Army assisted in the recovery of his remains and buried him in Pusan, S. Korea
#photosky #koreanwar #KIA
August 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Squadron Leader Graham Strout (1921-1950) of Adelaide was the Korean War's first #RAAF casualty & one of the first UN pilots shot down 🇦🇺
Despite the war having just begun, the Korean Army assisted in the recovery of his remains and buried him in Pusan, S. Korea
#photosky #koreanwar #KIA
Despite the war having just begun, the Korean Army assisted in the recovery of his remains and buried him in Pusan, S. Korea
#photosky #koreanwar #KIA
Early #20thCentury photo by Leon Strout of the Androscoggin River Falls b/w Topsham & Brunswick, #Maine
courtesy of the Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection at Bowdoin College
#photosky #MaineHistory
courtesy of the Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection at Bowdoin College
#photosky #MaineHistory
August 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Early #20thCentury photo by Leon Strout of the Androscoggin River Falls b/w Topsham & Brunswick, #Maine
courtesy of the Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection at Bowdoin College
#photosky #MaineHistory
courtesy of the Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection at Bowdoin College
#photosky #MaineHistory
August 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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If you’ve never read 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, now’s the time. 📚✨
This book will completely shift how you think about the history of the Americas. Before colonization, this land was home to vast, complex, & sophisticated Indigenous civilizations -1/2
This book will completely shift how you think about the history of the Americas. Before colonization, this land was home to vast, complex, & sophisticated Indigenous civilizations -1/2
August 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If you’ve never read 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, now’s the time. 📚✨
This book will completely shift how you think about the history of the Americas. Before colonization, this land was home to vast, complex, & sophisticated Indigenous civilizations -1/2
This book will completely shift how you think about the history of the Americas. Before colonization, this land was home to vast, complex, & sophisticated Indigenous civilizations -1/2
In the 1670s, Christopher Strout worked the sea at Marblehead bf settling in #CapeCod, where #NativeAmerican tribes had lived for 10,000 years.
Those tribes did not simply vanish.
Strouts.org is proud to present the 1st in a critical series on our #AmericanHistory
www.strouts.org/origins
Those tribes did not simply vanish.
Strouts.org is proud to present the 1st in a critical series on our #AmericanHistory
www.strouts.org/origins
Strout Origins Pt. 1 - Stolen Lands — Strout Generations Project
An in-depth exploration of the systematic Native American genocide, enslavement, land theft, debt peonage and family separation that immediately preceded the first Strout in America, who settled in an...
www.strouts.org
August 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In the 1670s, Christopher Strout worked the sea at Marblehead bf settling in #CapeCod, where #NativeAmerican tribes had lived for 10,000 years.
Those tribes did not simply vanish.
Strouts.org is proud to present the 1st in a critical series on our #AmericanHistory
www.strouts.org/origins
Those tribes did not simply vanish.
Strouts.org is proud to present the 1st in a critical series on our #AmericanHistory
www.strouts.org/origins
Roger S. Strout in Brunswick, Maine circa 1907
photo by his father, courtesy of the Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection at Bowdoin College
#photosky #history #historicphotos #fotosky
photo by his father, courtesy of the Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection at Bowdoin College
#photosky #history #historicphotos #fotosky
August 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Roger S. Strout in Brunswick, Maine circa 1907
photo by his father, courtesy of the Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection at Bowdoin College
#photosky #history #historicphotos #fotosky
photo by his father, courtesy of the Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection at Bowdoin College
#photosky #history #historicphotos #fotosky
Capt. Carl Strout (1882-1947) of #Maine became one of the most well-known steamship merchants on the West Coast ⚓️
In 1919, the Seattle Daily Times lauded Capt. Strout's safekeeping of 403,000 troops in #WWI aboard his ship, the Yale, "dodging Germany's swiftest submarines."
In 1919, the Seattle Daily Times lauded Capt. Strout's safekeeping of 403,000 troops in #WWI aboard his ship, the Yale, "dodging Germany's swiftest submarines."
August 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
In 1862, Sarah A. Strout, daughter of Union Captain Richard Strout, married a Union soldier who survived the war & became a doctor then, eventually, Mayor of #Minneapolis
August 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In 1862, Sarah A. Strout, daughter of Union Captain Richard Strout, married a Union soldier who survived the war & became a doctor then, eventually, Mayor of #Minneapolis
August 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Our poster boy, Capt. Joshua Strout (1825-1906)
One of four gens of Strouts to man the Portland Head Lighthouse in Maine, Capt. Strout is believed to have inspired "The Lighthouse" by Longfellow
One of four gens of Strouts to man the Portland Head Lighthouse in Maine, Capt. Strout is believed to have inspired "The Lighthouse" by Longfellow
August 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Our poster boy, Capt. Joshua Strout (1825-1906)
One of four gens of Strouts to man the Portland Head Lighthouse in Maine, Capt. Strout is believed to have inspired "The Lighthouse" by Longfellow
One of four gens of Strouts to man the Portland Head Lighthouse in Maine, Capt. Strout is believed to have inspired "The Lighthouse" by Longfellow