After months of interviewing and vetting, the Dallas Historical Society has made a selection for its executive director replacing Shannon Roberts. DHS Chairman of the Board Bill Helmbrecht reports the new executive director is Amy Aldredge.
That names sounds familiar to locals. Perhaps it’s the Aldredge Bookstore or the fact that her grandfather was former Dallas Mayor Sawnie Aldredge.
A graduate of Highland Park High School, Amy earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Maine and another master’s degree from the University of Edinburg with a focus on history.
Over the years, Amy has been an “active participant in the city of Yarmouth, serving on the Planning Board, the Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee and the Community Services Committee.”
Because of her days in Yarmouth, she “authored “Yarmouth Revisited’ in 2013.”
Before accepting the DHS position, she was the executive director of the Yarmouth, Maine Historical Society.” Thanks to her involvement in Yarmouth, the society was “relocated from the town’s public library to the Yarmouth History Center. The new facility enable the society to expand and include a permanent exhibit gallery, a contemporary art gallery and a program/facility rental space.”
Another change in DHS personal is longtime DHS employee Alan Olson, who “will assume the newly created position of deputy director of the Dallas Historical Society.” Alan has been babysitting the executive director duties while the search has been underway.