Madelyn Marx 1924 – 2019
Leaving a Legacy
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Marx Preserve
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Above photo courtesy of Marx Preserve was taken by KLT volunteer, Brooke Larrabee, who conducted a year long photo project on Marx Preserve. The photo project was completed in May 2019 and dedicated in memory of Madelyn. |
Madelyn was one of the Founders during the late 1960s of the Kennebunk Conservation Commission and served as its chairwoman. When a major oil refinery complex was proposed in the early 1970s for Sanford, she played a major organizational role in the Friends of Intelligent Land Use which opposed and defeated the project.
In 1998, the Kennebunk Land Trust recognized Madelyn’s pioneering dedication to land conservation by establishing the 14-acre Madelyn Marx Preserve along the Mousam River. In a Coast Star interview at that time, Madelyn credited her conservationist mother for shaping her love of Maine’s coast, open spaces, and forests. She said, “I picked it up from her.”
Please view her full obituary at Bibber Memorial
