Garden Club Federation of Maine

found: NUCMC data from Maine Hist. Soc. for Longfellow Garden Club records, 1924-1992(Garden Club Federation of Maine; coll. contains its newsletter)

found: Its WWW, Feb. 15, 2011(Garden Club Federation of Maine; abbrev.: GCFM; in June 1930, a call was sent to the nine known garden clubs in Maine, inviting members to attend a meeting to consider a garden federation. The meeting was held at the Portland home of Mrs. Walter B. Brockway, President of Longfellow Garden Club, who attended the first annual meeting of NGC in Chicago. The Garden Club Federation of Maine (GCFM) was org. June 3, 1931 at Camden, [Me.], with eight charter clubs and four more clubs interested. On June 7, 1932, the GCFM affiliated with NGC at their third annual convention in Boston)