A kick-off event for Pembroke Academy's 200th birthday was held at the high school on Saturday in Pembroke, April 14, 2018. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)
A kick-off event for Pembroke Academy's 200th birthday was held at the high school on Saturday in Pembroke, April 14, 2018. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff) Credit: Elizabeth Frantz—Monitor staff

Pembroke Academy, which was founded in 1818, kicked-off its bicentennial celebration with a day of events at the high school Saturday.

Students performed skits of key moments in the school’s history. Peter Mehegan, a 30-year veteran teacher at Pembroke Academy, re-enacted the school’s founding with a dramatic reading – in full period costume – of Dr. Abel Blanchard’s will. And former headmaster Bill Marston returned to give a keynote address.

To find out more about events planned to celebrate Pembroke Academy’s birthday, visit Facebook.com/PABicentennial.