
The Hotel Heiress and Her Calamitous Captain

The Hotel Heiress and Her Calamitous Captain
- When
- –
- Where
- Dyer Library
371 Main St, Saco, ME
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- Cost
- Free
- Listed by
- Dyer Library / Saco Museum
- Last updated
- October 31, 2026 · 10:16 AM
Museum Artifact Session on the Staples Family Painting: the wild saga behind the Saco Museum's newly restored Civil War-era "China Trade" portrait of Old Orchard Beach's vaunted hotel family — commissioned in Hong Kong by heiress Josephine Staples, whose husband Capt. Charles Lee Moses's erratic escapades sparked a full-blown diplomatic disaster in Borneo. See the large painting in its fully restored glory (listing photo is pre-restoration).
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