Yarmouth History Center is proud to announce the winners of the 2026 Wellcome Prize for Student Historians. Please join us at the History Center at 7:00pm on Wednesday, November 18 as our winners present their prize-winning research projects in person. The talk is free and open to all.
Papers
- Paper, 1st prize: The Yarmouth Townies: History and Economics of Yarmouth Baseball After World War II by Henry Shub of Yarmouth High School
- Paper, 2nd prize: Portland, Maine: Rum Tycoon to Temperance Trailblazer by Denali Garson of North Yarmouth Academy
Films
- Film, 1st prize: The Portland Tunnels: A History of the Urban Legend by William Kennedy of North Yarmouth Academy
The Wellcome Prize is Yarmouth History Center’s student history competition, which is open to high school students in Maine. Students are invited to undertake original historical research about a local history topic related to Cumberland County and write a research paper or make a film about their findings. Entries are judged on the quality of research and presentation and winners are invited to share their findings with the public as part of the History Center’s fall lecture series. The lecture series is free and open to all and is sponsored by the Leon and Lisa Gorman Fund. More information about the prize is available here.
