Maine Archives & Museums Happenings for the Public at MAM Member Institutions

Our Ancestors in the Attic: Stories of Family History

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:34:04 GMT

Date: April 11, 2026, 1:00-2:30 pm
Location: Canton Historical Society, 25 Turner St, Canton, Maine

CANTON, Maine—The public will have a chance to learn local history by listening to entertaining stories at the Canton Historical Society’s “Our Ancestors in the Attic” event, to be held on Saturday, April 11, 1:00-2:30 p.m., at the Historical Society's Hayford Hall (25 Turner St.).

Members of the Society’s Board of Directors, whose roots reach deep into the history of Canton, will share stories of their ancestors. Whose great-grandfather moved to Canton in the early 1900s to become Postmaster of the Canton Point Post Office? Whose more distant ancestor, a revolutionary war soldier, was buried on his own land in 1804—land that later become the Ludden Cemetery?

The event is free, although donations are always welcome. Light refreshments will be provided. The building is handicap accessible, with ramps and a stairlift chair.

The Canton Historical Society is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and celebration of Canton's heritage, history, and community. The Society maintains a museum that exhibits original artwork, artifacts, photographs, furniture, and documents related to Canton’s history. During the winter, the museum is open on the first Saturday of each month, from 10-2.

Questions?
Email: cantonmehistorical@gmail.com Or visit: www.cantonmehistory.org

The Abyssinian Meetung House: The Restoration

University of Southern Maine — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:57:20 GMT

Event Details

Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026

5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

University Events Room

7th floor, Glickman Library

USM Portland Campus

Please join us for a talk by Deborah Cummings Khadraoui, Founder of the Committee
to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House. The Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House has raised more than $2.5 million to restore the historic structure. The
nonprofit has worked for more than 27 years to raise federal state and private funds to restore the Abyssinian Meeting House.

The talk will describe the progress of the final phase of the restoration effort and programming plans for the future.

The talk is followed by Q&A and refreshments will be provided.

This event is free and open to all but parking is paid by attendees. No registration required.

Parking location: 88 Bedford St, with the entrance located on Surrenden Street

How to pay for parking.

This event is hosted by the African-American Collection, USM Special Collections.

FREE Symposium at Maine Maritime Museum

Maine Maritime Museum — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:25:44 GMT

50th Albert Reed & Thelma Walker Maritime Symposium

Re|Sounding

November 21, 2025 9:00 - 3:30

In conjunction with our latest exhibit, Re|Sounding, the symposium is dedicated to re-measuring understandings of maritime history by centering Black and Indigenous perspectives and is reflective of an institutional commitment to responsibly and inclusively share Maine’s maritime stories. Featuring a dynamic exploration of maritime stories past and present, the symposium navigates the local and global impact of regional waterways and communities.

Read more about our speakers and topics by clicking below and register for FREE by Thursday, November 20.

https://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/event/symposium-2025

Tate House Museum Presents The Maritime Marauder Captain Henry Mowat

Tate House Museum — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:51:53 GMT

Tate House Museum Presents

The Maritime Marauder: Captain Henry Mowat

A Lecture by Author Harry Gratwick

Portland--- Join us for a talk by author Harry Gratwick about one of Portland’s most infamous characters, Captain Henry Mowat, a British sea captain who sailed into Portland’s harbor and bombarded the town by cannonball for much of the day on October 18, 1775. This act resulted in the destruction of more than two-thirds of the town and was a punitive measure against patriot activities during the Revolution.

Harry Gratwick’s talk is titled The American Revolution Comes to Maine: The Henry Mowat Controversy--was he truly the scoundrel of Revolutionary Maine?

Gratwick, a lifelong summer resident of Vinalhaven, is a retired secondary school history teacher who taught for 45 years mainly at the Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia. He has written extensively for the Working Waterfront and the Island Journal is the author of seven books on a variety of topics related to Maine's history. He is a graduate of Williams College and holds a Master’s degree from Columbia.

The lecture will take place in the beautiful backyard and garden at Tate House from 6:45- 8:15 pm. The first 30 min will include a book signing by Mr. Gratwick. Copies of his book will be available for sale and the lecture begins at sundown, 7:15 pm.

Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy the ambiance of Tate House overlooking the Stroudwater River. In the event of rain, the lecture will be moved indoors. Visit our website for details if the weather is questionable.

Tickets are available in advance at tatehouse.org and at the door. In advance prices are $12 general, $10 for THM members. At the door prices are $15 and $12 respectively.

October 18, 1775 marks the 250^th anniversary of this momentous event for Portland, and this lecture is the first of three commemorative programs to remember the occasion. Mark your calendars for a reenactment of the bombardment on Sept 20 and city-wide historical programs on Oct 18 including a special program at Tate House. Details forthcoming at tatehouse.org.

FMI: Holly Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1617841991949?aff=oddtdtcreator

Meet Clara Goodwin at the Goodwin House!

Sanford-Springvale Historical Society — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:12:30 GMT

Intro to Digitizing Photos for Cultural Heritage 2/20/2026 10:00am via Zoom

Penobscot Marine Museum — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:48:07 GMT

A POP Studies program from Penobscot Marine Museum

Instructors, Matt Wheeler, Digital Collections Curator and Kevin Johnson, Photo Archivist

Digitizing cultural heritage photographs creates exciting opportunities for accessing and sharing collections. It may also be a smart preservation strategy for materials at risk from age and deterioration. However, it entails unique challenges, dovetails with other considerations, costs money, and may seem daunting to the novice. Penobscot Marine Museum has been digitizing photo collections since 2005. Through making mistakes, seeking out professional development, consulting colleagues, trying new approaches, and fundraising, we’ve built capacity and established a set of practices that align with our goals, current level of expertise, and budget. If you work for a museum, historical society, or other cultural heritage organization that’s planning a digital project for the first time, or you’re looking to improve your current program, this hands-on course will help you lay the groundwork to get started. Please note that we’ll demonstrate workflows with our existing hardware and software to provide sample use cases. The quality and performance of both is very good, and the costs are reasonable. Of course, there are other options which participants can explore on their own.

Topics Covered:

Assessing the project
Shopping for Gear
Software Options
Show Me the Money
The Digital Darkroom
On Targets
Best Capture, Best Practice
Software and Hardware Settings
Image File Considerations
Overview of Next Steps: Describing, Sharing, Storing

Program Benefits:

Learn how to plan a successful photo digitization project using methodical steps
Helpful technology recommendations from experienced professionals
Tips on fundraising
Practical intro to using hardware and software
Overview of what to do with digital collections
Links to additional resources

Target Audience:

Museum professionals
Historical society staff or volunteers

Experience Level: Appropriate for both Novice and Intermediate

Novice - Has minimal or textbook knowledge without connecting it to the practice
Intermediate - Has basic knowledge of key aspects of the practice

Program Fee: $60 (MAM Members receive 20% discount with code MAM20)

Contact Hours: 2

Delivery: Lecture/Hands on

Dates & Locations (choose one):

Friday, Feb 20, 2026
10:00am – 12:00pm
Remote via Zoom

Friday, Aug 7, 2026
10:00am – 12:00pm
Off Campus, Belfast Free Library

Contact: For more information, please contact Shelly Patten, Office Manager at 207-548-2529 or spatten@pmm-maine.org.

This is a POP Studies program from the Penobscot Marine Museum.

About the Instructors:

Matt Wheeler, Digital Curator

mwheeler@pmm-maine.org

Matt Wheeler serves as the Digital Curator at PMM and has been working in the Museum's Photo Archives since 2011. His educational experience includes coursework in digital curation from University of Maine, Orono, as well as ongoing professional development in evolving standards and best practices in the industry. He guides PMM in building sound digital collections with an eye to accessibility and sustainability. Matt grew up in Camden and Lincolnville, living on and appreciating Penobscot Bay, and enjoys engaging audiences in the digital age with stories of Penobscot Bay's cultural heritage. His personal photography explores the rich natural settings of the region.

Kevin Johnson, Photo Archivist

kjohnson@pmm-maine.org

Kevin Johnson earned his bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s University and a Professional Certificate in Photography from the Maine Photographic Workshops. Kevin has served as the Photo Archivist at PMM since 2007 and has grown the Museum’s collection to more than 500,000 photographs. Since joining PMM, he has curated or co-curated more than 30 photography exhibits. He is the co-author of Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography, author of the forthcoming Boothbay Now and Then, and is a regular contributor to several area publications. Kevin was a co-founder and co-owner of Aarhus Gallery in Belfast. He occasionally finds time to pursue his personal photography.

How to Preserve Family Letters, Antiques & Heirlooms 3/20/2025 10:00am via Zoom

Penobscot Marine Museum — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:35:21 GMT

A POP Studies program from Penobscot Marine Museum

Instructor, Cipperly Good, Richard Saltonstall Jr Curator of Maritime History

Having the opportunity to care for prized heirlooms and family letters is a great joy but also a big responsibility. Whether you're preserving your own family history or that of your community, how do you make sure you save it for the next generation? This class will briefly recap how to handle those heirlooms and where to display them in your house or historic building, as discussed in classes A2 and A3 of this series (not a prerequisite). It will then delve into cleaning techniques, proper storage or display of materials, and when to call the conservator rather than repair any damage yourself. Practice makes perfect, so bring an item that fits into a shoe box to try out the techniques we learn in class.

Topics Covered:

When to clean and how to clean based on composition
What materials to use to store or display your heirlooms and family letters
Do-it-yourself repairs versus calling the experts

Program Benefits:

Learn how to clean without hurting your heirlooms
Prevent mold, rust, and pest damage to your heirlooms and family letters
Learn when to call the experts, and when you can do it yourself

Target Audience:

Antiques collectors
Collecting Institution (Museum and Historical Society) volunteers
Anyone who was gifted an antique

Experience Level: Novice - Has minimal or textbook knowledge without connecting it to the practice

Program Fee: $60 (MAM Members receive 20% discount with code MAM20)

Contact Hours: 2

Delivery: Lecture/Hands on

Dates and Locations (choose one):

Friday, March 20, 2026
10:00am – 12:00pm
Remote via Zoom

Friday, July 31, 2026
10:00am – 12:00pm
Off Campus, Belfast Free Library

Contact: For more information, please contact Shelly Patten, Office Manager at 207-548-2529 or spatten@pmm-maine.org.

This is a POP Studies program from the Penobscot Marine Museum.

Register: https://form.jotform.com/250435068978064

About the Instructor:

Cipperly Good (she/her) Richard Saltonstall Jr. Curator of Maritime History

cgood@pmm-maine.org

Cipperly Good serves as the Curator at PMM, where she has been on staff since 2010. In her many roles at the Museum, Cipperly cares for, preserves, and provides access to the object, archive, and library collections. She also serves as the registrar and exhibit designer. Cipperly holds a Bachelor’s degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she double majored in History and American Studies. She holds a Masters of Arts in Museum Studies, with a concentration in American History, from The George Washington University. Maritime museums combine Cipperly's two passions: sailing and maritime history! When not at the Museum, you will find her sailing around Penobscot Bay or cross-country skiing in Maine's woods.

Storage of Items in a Historic House 3/6/2026 10:00am via Zoom

Penobscot Marine Museum — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:25:51 GMT

A POP Studies program from Penobscot Marine Museum

Instructor, Cipperly Good, Richard Saltonstall Jr Curator of Maritime History

In an ideal situation, antiques would be tucked away in climate-controlled storage, but we want to live with our heirlooms and enjoy them. This class helps you develop a plan to preserve your antiques, based on object type, by maximizing the environmental conditions of your home or historic building. The Museum’s historic houses are our living laboratory. We will visit one to illustrate these concepts.

Topics Covered:

Mitigating environmental conditions in the home on a budget
Moving antiques to conducive relative humidity zones in the home
Basic Preservation Techniques

Program Benefits:

Reduce mold, rust, and fading on the antiques
Showcasing the antiques while preserving them
Improve the humidity in the house for your objects...and You!

Target Audience:

Antiques collectors
Collecting Institution (Museum and Historical Society) volunteers
Anyone who was gifted an antique

Experience Level: Novice - Has minimal or textbook knowledge without connecting it to the practice

Program Fee: $60 (MAM Members receive 20% discount with code MAM20)

Contact Hours: 2

Delivery: Lecture/Hands on

Dates and Locations (choose one):

Friday, March 6, 2026
10:00am – 12:00pm
Remote via Zoom

Friday, July 17, 2026
10:00am – 12:00pm
Off Campus, Belfast Free Library

*Please note – Off Campus class will be taken on a virtual house visit of Fowler-True-Ross house

Contact: For more information, please contact Shelly Patten, Office Manager at 207-548-2529 or spatten@pmm-maine.org.

This is a POP Studies program from the Penobscot Marine Museum.

About the Instructor:

Cipperly Good (she/her) Richard Saltonstall Jr. Curator of Maritime History cgood@pmm-maine.org

Safely Handling Antique Objects 2/13/2026 10:00am via Zoom

Penobscot Marine Museum — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:57:30 GMT

A POP Studies program from Penobscot Marine Museum

Instructor, Cipperly Good, The Richard Saltonstall Jr Curator of Maritime History

Whether you’re caring for your family’s heirlooms, managing a museum collection or volunteering at your local historical society, this class will teach you how to handle delicate objects. You will learn tips for packing them up and safely moving them to their new home. Practice makes perfect, so bring an item that fits into a shoe box to try out the techniques we learn in class.

Topics Covered:

Moving and Supporting Antiques
Packaging Antiques
Planning the Move

Program Benefits:

Reducing Breakage during the Move
Reducing Mold and Environmental Concerns
Hands-on Experience Moving and Packaging Antiques

Target Audience:

Antiques collectors
Collecting Institution (Museum and Historical Society) volunteers
Anyone who was gifted an antique

Experience Level: Novice - Has minimal or textbook knowledge without connecting it to the practice.

Program Fee: $60 (MAM Members receive 20% discount with code MAM20)

Contact Hours: 2

Delivery: Lecture/Hands on

Dates and Locations (choose one):

Friday, Feb 13, 2026
10:00am – 12:00pm
Remote via Zoom

Friday, June 26, 2026
10:00am – 12:00pm
Off Campus, Belfast Free Library

Contact: For more information, please contact Shelly Patten, Office Manager at 207-548-2529 or spatten@pmm-maine.org.

This is a POP Studies program from the Penobscot Marine Museum.

About the Instructor:

Cipperly Good (she/her) The Richard Saltonstall Jr. Curator of Maritime History

cgood@pmm-maine.org

Cipperly Good serves as the Curator at PMM, where she has been on staff since 2010. In her many roles at the Museum, Cipperly cares for, preserves, and provides access to the object, archive, and library collections. She also serves as the registrar and exhibit designer. Cipperly holds a Bachelor’s degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she double majored in History and American Studies. She holds a Masters of Arts in Museum Studies, with a concentration in American History, from The George Washington University. Maritime museums combine Cipperly’s two passions: sailing and maritime history! When not at the Museum, you will find her sailing around Penobscot Bay or cross-country skiing in Maine's woods.

Organizing Your Photo Collections 9/5/2025 10:00am via Zoom

Penobscot Marine Museum — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:22:50 GMT

A POP Studies program from Penobscot Marine Museum

Instructors, Kevin Johnson, Photo Archivist and Matt Wheeler, Digital Collections Curator

In this day and age, everyone has their own photography archive—typically made up of photos they have taken or acquired throughout their lives. These may include family albums, boxes of prints, negatives and slides, and digital photographs taken with cameras or phones. Managing a mass of images can be a daunting task. This course will offer tips and suggestions on how to organize your archive, find what you are looking for in it, and be prepared to pass it on to the next generation.

Topics Covered:

Organizing and archivally storing your physical photographs, negatives & albums
Organizing your digital photos on your computer and setting up a digital archive
Naming and/or numbering your files, understanding metadata and creating a basic finding aid

Program Benefits:

Learn how and where to store your physical photographic materials
Set up a digital archive on your computer where all your digital photos can be stored AND found later
Leave an archive for your heirs that will be useful, helpful and organized.

Target Audience:

Museum professionals
Historical society staff or volunteers
Schools
Libraries
Community Members

Experience Level: Appropriate for both Novice and Intermediate

Novice - Has minimal or textbook knowledge without connecting it to the practice
Intermediate - Has basic knowledge of key aspects of the practice

Program Fee: $60 (MAM members receive 20% discount with code MAM20)

Contact Hours: 2

Delivery: Lecture/Hands on

Dates and Locations (choose one):

Friday, Feb 6, 2026
10:00am – 12:00pm
Remote via Zoom

Friday, June 5, 2026
10:00am – 12:00pm
Off Campus, Belfast Free Library

Contact: For more information, please contact Shelly Patten, Office Manager at 207-548-2529 or spatten@pmm-maine.org

This is a POP Studies program from the Penobscot Marine Museum.

Register: https://form.jotform.com/250435068978064

About the Instructors:

Kevin Johnson, Photo Archivist

kjohnson@pmm-maine.org

Matt Wheeler, Digital Curator

mwheeler@pmm-maine.org

Matt Wheeler serves as the Digital Curator at PMM and has been working in the Museum's Photo Archives since 2011. His educational experience includes coursework in digital curation from University of Maine, Orono, as well as ongoing professional development in evolving standards of best practices in the industry. He guides PMM in building sound digital collections with an eye to accessibility and sustainability. Matt grew up in Camden and Lincolnville, living on and appreciating Penobscot Bay and enjoys engaging audiences in the digital age with stories of Penobscot Bay's cultural heritage. His personal photography explores the rich natural settings of the region.

North Cemetery Tour

Self-Employed — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:32:09 GMT

Visit With Some Useful Citizens at the North Cemetery in Skowhegan

Take a guided walk with Historian Melvin Burnham

Thursday, July 10, 2025 | 10:00am - 11:30am

New England’s graveyards have changed over time. Those most familiar to us today were based on styles carried to the continent by our early European ancestors. Skowhegan’s North Cemetery, like most burial grounds, serves as an outdoor museum full of history, art, religious representations all telling stories of lives well-lived, times of disease, war, and trying conditions within a community. The stones become permanent records of those interred and act as a form of textbook of community history.

Louise Helen Coburn describes the cemetery in her two-volume history of Skowhegan, Skowhegan on the Kennebec, “The cemetery is retired from the street, and is half circled at the rear by woods and the gorge of a little stream. It has been the resting-place of Hills, Philbricks, Dyers, Neils, and other village families, and holds in its keeping Revolutionary and Civil War graves.”

This history walk explores the lives of some of those “Useful Citizens” who are buried at the North Cemetery, lives that helped shape our community. As participants travel back in time, discussions will also focus on veterans and their experiences in our history, gravestone and monument design, and the various symbols used on the stones, as well as the history of this 1820’s cemetery. Former generations have much to say to us, although with great economy of words because each letter and ornament had to be chiseled in stone with hand tools.

This ninety-minute walk begins and ends at the North Cemetery gate located behind Walton Court Apartments on Walton Court just off Madison Avenue in Skowhegan, Maine.

Participants should be prepared to walk on uneven ground and to stand during periods of discussion. Light folding chairs and cameras are welcome.

This walk is not appropriate for young children.

Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center will open after the cemetery walk. Stop by for a guided tour of the historic house and to see the latest exhibition, "Living Legacy: Remembering Louise Helen Coburn". History House is located at 66 Elm Street, Skowhegan.

FMI: www.skowheganhistoryhouse.org

Canton Historical Society's 50th Anniversary Celebration - Join Us!

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:14:49 GMT

The Canton Historical Society Hosts its 50th Anniversary Celebration!

Date/time: Saturday, July 26, 2025, 10 am - 7:30 pm

Where: 25 Turner Street, Canton, Maine

About the event: Join us at the Canton Historical Society to view new exhibits including "Canton's History Through Maps." Enjoy a quilt show featuring historical quilts. Hear a talk about portrait artist Mary Neal Richardson and view many of her works on exhibit. Stay for the outdoor 70s party by the Gazebo from 4-7:30 pm. All are welcome!

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Complete Details:

The museum will open 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. for visitors to explore the collections, including new exhibits featuring maps of Canton through history and the paintings of Mary Neal Richardson—a renowned portrait artist from Canton in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. There will also be a quilt show featuring historical quilts from the collections of both the Canton and Jay Historical Societies.

2 p.m., A Talk by Frederic L. Thompson, author of Mary Neal Richardson: A Universalist Esthetic & Cosmic Interpreter, 1859-1937

4 - 7:30 pm - Join us for a party on the lawn. Cash bar by Boondocks Farm’s Backwoods Affair and food for purchase by Alabama’s BBQ’s Phat Vinnie’s Food Truck. Both vendors accept cash or credit. Those wishing to have alcoholic beverages will be asked to provide identification—and please, no outside beverages.

70s Party Theme: Because our society was founded in 1975, we urge everyone to wear their 1970s garb! Think tie-dye, denim, disco, bell bottoms, miniskirts, maxi dresses, hippy-style, and “flower power.”

Each attendee will receive a 50^th Anniversary souvenir gift (while supplies last), PLUS a slice of cake following the cake cutting! The Country Store will be open featuring local crafts and Maine themed gifts.

Admission is FREE. All ages are welcome, and the events are open to the public. The venue is handicap accessible. Parking is curbside or at the Public Boat Launch around the corner. If it rains the party will be moved inside.

The Canton Historical Society is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization devoted to the preservation and celebration of Canton’s heritage and history.

If you would like more information about this event, please email cantonmehistorical@gmail.com, or go to www.cantonmehistory.org or the “Canton Maine Historical Society” Facebook page.

Tate House Celebrates Flag Day June 14

Tate House Museum — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:00:19 GMT

Tate House Museum is hosting a Community Day when complimentary tours will be offered at 10 am, 11 am, and 12 noon (three tours, every hour on the hour, last one at 12 noon) followed by a special Continental flag raising at 1 pm. This flag will be flown at our Visitors Center for the season to commemorate the beginning of the American Revolution. As a colonial-era museum, Tate House traditionally flies the historical colonial flag--the British Red Ensign. This temporary change in practice is to mark and remember the historical events that occurred 250 years ago and led to the founding of our country. This Community Day will include tours of our 18 th century garden and refreshments for visitors. And, our unique Gift Shop will be open. Please join us to find out what we do!

Tate House is the only pre-Revolutionary museum in the greater Portland area and offers a unique experience of life in 18 th century Maine. At the historic home of Mary and George Tate, who was a mast agent for the Crown, docents describe how New England forests fueled colonial industry, strengthened the British Royal Navy, and sparked rebellion. We are open for guided tours through mid-October. For details, to purchase tickets, and for information about upcoming programs, visit our website at tatehouse.org.

FMI: Director Holly K. Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Kennebec Historical Society Used Book Sale, May 29, May 30 and May 31

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:09:23 GMT

The Kennebec Historical Society will be having a gently used book sale in the driveway and the garage at the society’s headquarters, 107 Winthrop Street in Augusta on Thursday, May 29, Friday, May 30, and Saturday May 31 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The society has received many hardcover and paperback book donations. Subjects include fiction, biography, history, travel, business, children's, cookbooks, and much more!

Hardcover books are $2.00 each, and paperbacks are $1.00. There will also be a table of specialty books and books signed by the author which will be priced as marked. For more information, call (207) 622-7718.

Kennebec Historical Society Presents: “Silent Films in Maine, Part III” on June 18, 2026

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:00:54 GMT

From 1919 to 1921, Augusta was home to a movie production company founded by Edgar Jones and local businessmen. His goal was to make “North Woods” films. He chose the Augusta area because of the Kennebec River, surrounding lakes and forestland, and its four seasons. Jones brought in a company of actors and a film crew, who all lived together at 129 Sewall Street. Jones used locals as extras in the films. The films premiered at the Colonial Theater in Augusta.

Jones worked with local writer Holman Day to adapt many of Day’s stories for the films. In 1921 Day and local businessmen took over the company, ousting Jones. Day soon bankrupted the company.

Six of the dozens of two-reel films from this era are known to survive. Four are archived at the Library of Congress in various collections, and British Film Institute donated a pair to Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport. Digital scans of the original 35-millimeter films, with new music scores added, were screened in June 2023 at the Colonial.

KHS presenter Ed Lorusso previously showed four of the films, Caught in the Rapids and Cupid, Registered Guide, back in August 2024 and Border River and A Knight of the Pines in November 2024. At this presentation, he will show two different films, Brother of the Bear and My Lady O’ the Pines, roughly 25 minutes each. As before, Lorusso will provide commentary, then answer questions after the viewing.

Lorusso has been restoring silent films since he retired. Six of his projects have been licensed by Turner Classic Movies, including The Enchanted Cottage (1924), which aired in late September. His projects have been screened at various theaters and silent film festivals across the country. He’s also the author of The Silent Films of Marion Davies and is working on a book about filmmaking in Maine during the silent era.

The Kennebec Historical Society presentation is free to the public (donations are gladly accepted) and will take place at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at Augusta City Center, located at 16 Cony Street in Augusta. If you have questions about the program, call Scott Wood, executive director, at 622-7718.

Explore the Castine Town Cemetery

Castine Historical Society — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:09:51 GMT

Saturday, October 18, 10:00 am (rain date: October 25) and repeated on Sunday, October 19, 10:00 am (rain date: October 26)

Join Georgia Zildjian and Lisa Lutts for a tour of the Castine Town Cemetery focusing on the lives of Castine residents. This event is co-sponsored by Castine Historical Society and the Wilson Museum. Participants are encouraged to wear sturdy shoes and to expect uneven terrain. Reservations are required and limited to 15. For details and to register visit castinehistoricalsociety.org

Does Anything from the Year 1776 Matter Today?

Castine Historical Society — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:06:57 GMT

Thursday, September 4, 7:00 pm, Mitchell Room, Castine Historical Society, 17 School Street, Castine.

Dr. Liam Riordon, Professor of History at the University of Maine, will speak on the Declaration of Independence’s meaning and political ideals in relation to US public life today. Reservations required for in-person attendance. Visit castinehistoricalsociety.org for more details, to register for attendance, or to get the YouTube link to watch remotely.

Castine Historical Society Annual Meeting and Program

Castine Historical Society — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:03:43 GMT

Thursday, August 21, 4-6 pm.

The CHS Annual Meeting, open to the public, is held at the Castine Inn and is followed by a social hour. No reservations required to attend in-person. Visit castinehistoricalsociety.org for YouTube link to watch remotely.

16th Annual Deborah Pulliam Memorial Lecture: "Penobscot Sense of Place"

Castine Historical Society — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:58:48 GMT

Presented by Castine Historical Society, Wednesday, August 16, 7:00 pm, Delano Auditorium, Leavitt Hall, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine.

James Eric Francis Sr, the Penobscot Nation's Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation and Tribal Historian, will speak on "Penobscot Sense of Place". No reservations required to attend in-person. Visit castinehistoricalsociety.org for the YouTube link to watch remotely.

Talk and Book Signing: "Castine and the Cultural Landscapes of the Cod Fishery"

Castine Historical Society — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:55:24 GMT

Thursday, July 17, 7:00 pm

Dr. Stephen J. Hornsby of the University of Maine will be speaking on New England, Castine, and the cod trade in the 19th century. A book sale and signing follows for his new publication “Cod Coasts: Cultural Landscapes of the Cod Fishery from Cape Cod to Labrador“. Mitchell Room, Castine Historical Society. Reservations required to attend in-person. See details and register for the in-person event or watch the livestream on YouTube at castinehistoricalsociety.org.

Castine Historical Society 2025 Open House, June 21, 4-6 pm

Castine Historical Society — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:49:41 GMT

Join us for a free reception to meet the new Executive Director and to view the exhibits. Refreshments will be served. No reservations required.

Tate House Museum Plant Sale and Raffle

Tate House Museum — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:38:41 GMT

Tate House Museum to Hold Annual Spring Plant Sale May 17, 2025

Wide Range of Annuals, Perennials, Herbs, Succulents, Native Plants for Sale Benefitting the Museum

Gently Used Garden Books and Tools for Sale

Book Signing with Award-Winning Author Maryann Cocca-Leffler

Raffle of One-Of-A-Kind Handmade Birdbath

Portland—Tate House Museum will hold its popular annual Spring Plant Sale from 9 am - 1 pm on Saturday May 17, 2025.

This year, there will be a wide variety of beautiful blooms on offer - ranging from annuals, perennials and herbs to succulents and native plants. All plants are locally grown and will be something for everybody, experienced gardeners and beginners alike. Additionally, members of the Tate House Gardening Committee will be on hand to answer questions and help you find the right plant for you.

This year, the sale will feature a range of gently used garden books to help inspire your spring garden planning, as well as pre-owned tools for sale, all donated by local neighbors.

Stroudwater resident and award-winning children’s author and illustrator Maryann Cocca-Leffler will be signing copies of her latest book, Marabella’s Moment, along with other titles. Maryann is also a potter and has donated a stunning, one-of-a-kind bird bath crafted in her charming home studio to be raffled on the day. Raffle tickets can be purchased online https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tate-house-museum-annual-plant-sale-and-raffle-tickets or at the plant sale, with the prize drawing taking place at the conclusion of the sale at 1 pm.

All proceeds benefit the Tate House Museum, the only pre-Revolutionary building in Cumberland County open to the public and whose mission is to invite everyone to experience 18th century life in Maine.

The Tates House is located at 1267 Westbrook Street in Portland.

For more information, visit: tatehouse.org.

FMI: Holly K. Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Two Lights for Tomorrow at Tate House

Tate House Museum — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:44:25 GMT

Tate House Museum Presents “Birth of the American Revolution” in collaboration with the Stroudwater Neighborhood Association and Maine Ulster-Scots Project

Portland—Tate House Museum is commemorating the Semiquincentennial of the events of 1775 that marked the beginning of the American Revolution 250 years ago with a free program open to the public on the evening of April 18 from 7:00-8:30 pm. The program will feature the hanging of two lit lanterns on the flagpole at the Means House to remember the two lanterns placed in the belfry of the Old North Church as a signal that the British were moving to Lexington-Concord by sea (the Charles River). This action aligns with a nationwide call for all statehouses in the U.S. to hang “Two Lights for Tomorrow” (see america250.org/event/two-lights-for-tomorrow) on the evening of April 18. Our program includes a colonial-dressed portrayal of a member of the Tate family, youngest son Robert Tate, who trained as a minuteman of Portland (then Falmouth) and was called up at the Lexington alarm. The program will feature a reading of the Longfellow poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” and a brief account of James Means and fellow Ulster-Scots who served in the American Revolution.

The Means House is located at 1267 Westbrook Street in Portland and all are welcome to join as witnesses in this commemorative event. Mustering begins at 7:00 pm and the historical program will commence at 7:30 pm. Refreshments provided by the team of collaborators.

For more information about each organization visit their websites: tatehouse.org,

stroudwaterassociation.org, and maineulsterscots.com

FMI: Holly K. Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Exhibit at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum!

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:26:42 GMT

ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait

EXTENDED! This exhibit will now be on display until December 14, 2025

This exhibit is on loan from the Textile Museum of Canada in collaboration with the West Baffin Cooperative of Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada.

This installation of the exhibit was made possible by a generous grant from The Coby Foundation, Ltd. and the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

More information about ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait can be found below:

https://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/exhibits/2025/printed-textiles-from-kinngait-studios.html

"It's Summer Somewhere!" Dance Party at the Canton Historical Society

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:50:11 GMT

CANTON, Maine—The Canton, Maine Historical Society will hold its annual fundraising party on Saturday, February 1, from 6-10 p.m., at their historic building, 25 Turner Street. The theme of this year’s party is “It’s Summer Somewhere!”

“If you are looking for a prescription to cure your cabin fever, look no further. We have your remedy,” said Phyllis Ouellette, President of the Canton Historical Society Board of Directors.

The gala event will feature a catered dinner by Boondocks Farm and a cash bar by Backwoods Affair. The public is invited to wear summer clothes and dance to the music provided by DJ Jason Lee from Rustic Beats. Enjoy beach decor, door prizes, limbo and hula hoop contests.

Tickets cost $25 per person and may be purchased on the website: www.cantonmehistory.org. The building has a maximum occupancy, so tickets may sell out in advance and not be available at the door.

Area businesses are also invited to sponsor this event. Different sponsorship levels include promotions and/or tickets. Email cantonmehistorical@gmail.com for details.

The proceeds from the “It’s Summer Somewhere” party will be used to fund the Society’s efforts to preserve Canton’s history, maintain the restored Hayford Hall, and host community events.

The Canton Historical Society is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and celebration of Canton's heritage, history, and community. The Society maintains a museum that exhibits furniture, artifacts, photographs and documents related to Canton’s history. During the winter, the museum and gift shop are open on the second Saturday of each month, from 10-2. The building is handicap accessible, with ramps and a stairlift chair.

Canton Maine Historical Society
25 Turner St., Canton ME 04221
207-597-0048

cantonmehistorical@gmail.com

http://www.cantonmehistory.org/

Tate House Celebrates a Colonial Christmas

Tate House Museum — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:41:20 GMT

The Tate House Museum is hosting A Colonial Christmas on Saturday, December 14 from 12:00 noon to 5:00 PM with Christmas-themed interpretations in the Tate House from 12 noon- 3:00 pm. During this 3-hour Open House, visitors will experience the Tate House seasonally decorated for the period, hear performers in 18^th century attire describing colonial customs and traditions around the holidays in a merchant-class British colonial household, and participate in colonial games. New this year: LIVE harp and lute music by the Colonial Troubadours and photos under the Tate House door arbor with dressed performers. Visitors will hear about the special foods and drinks made for Christmas, New Years, and Twelfth Night celebrations and enjoy colonial-inspired refreshments in our Visitors Center, the Means House, at 1267 Westbrook Street, Portland throughout the event.

From 3:00-3:30 pm, enjoy a visit from Tate family neighbors in the Means House, and from 3:30-4:30 pm, join our colonial tavern keeper as he prepares and shares the popular colonial drink “FLIP” in 18^th century fashion. Enjoy a tree lighting with carol singing at 4:30 pm.

Our Gift Shop will be open with unique colonial-themed gifts offered at a 10% discount that day only! We have beautiful new marble tile tree ornaments which come with a $5 discount to A Colonial Christmas.

Admission prices are as follows: $18 adults, $12 students (ages 13-17), $10 child (6-12 years), under 6 free, $45 family (2 adults and up to 2 children under 18).

*Discounts*

Members: $16 adult, $10 student, $8 child, $40 family Girl and Boy Scouts, Homeschool Families, and Stroudwater Neighborhood residents receive THM member prices!

Advance tickets can be purchased at www.tatehouse.org or at Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tate-house-celebrates-a-colonial-christmas-tickets-1102468877089?aff=oddtdtcreator

Tickets will also be sold at the door. Half price entry with a *NEW* THM membership at the door.

Come out to celebrate the holiday season and support the educational mission of Tate House Museum!

FMI:

Holly Hurd, Executive Director

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Free Tours for Veterans on November 11th

Tate House Museum — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:01:19 GMT

Tate House Tours for Veterans on November 11 th

Portland—Tate House Museum would like to thank those who have served our country by offering free tours of the Tate House on Veterans’ Day November 11 th . Veterans are invited to bring a guest for a complimentary one hour guided tour of the house located at 1267 Westbrook Street in Portland. Three tours are offered on the hour at 12:00 noon, 1:00 pm,and 2:00 pm. Tour group sizes are limited so ensure your place by reserving free tickets in advance at tatehouse.org.

Tate House is the only colonial house in the greater Portland area open to the public and offers a unique experience of life in 18th century Maine. At the historic home of George Tate, Maine’s last Mast Agent, docents describe how New England forests fueled colonial industry, strengthened the British Royal Navy, and sparked rebellion.

FMI: Director Holly K. Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

ColoniAle 2024 at Tate House

Tate House Museum — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:12:29 GMT

Portland—Beer, beer, beer! You can never know too much when it comes to beer and ale in the 18 th century. Come join our Tate House Museum docents on October 12 as they take you on an afternoon of education and entertainment surrounding the making of beer in colonial times. This all-new tour will enlighten our guests as to the role of servants in brewing and other kitchen duties. Learn what “pounded cheese” was, how to make it, and enjoy a sample.What did the colonials learn from Indigenous people that impacted their foods and its preparation? Cocktails from beer? You’ll be introduced to beverages you may want to try.

ColoniAle consists of a one-hour beer-centric house tour followed with a social time in the backyard of the Tate House where you will be given a Tate House pint glass and 2 pints of Mast Landing ale. Mast Landing Brewing is the generous sponsor of our event and is providing guests with their signature ale. Imbibing is encouraged!!!

Tours are on the hour at 3:00 and 4:00 PM with a social hour following from 4:00- 6:00 PM. General admission is $30 and $20 for Tate House Museum members. Timed tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coloniale-2024-at-the-tate-house-tickets-1028197304817

or at our website: www.tatehouse.org .

FMI:Holly K Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

The Colonial Mast Trade: a British Perspective

Tate House Museum — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 16:55:41 GMT

The Colonial Mast Trade: A British Perspective Fundraiser to Benefit Tate House Museum Tate House Museum is hosting a fundraiser on the afternoon of September 29, 2024 from 2:30-5:30 pm to benefit education and preservation projects. The event features high tea and an illustrated lecture by UK Arboriculturist Clive Mayhew titled “Building British Ships with American Timber,” which will provide context to George Tate's role as mast agent in 18th century Portland.

Mr. Mayhew’s millennium-spanning, global telling of British tree harvesting reaches from ancient Mesopotamia to Maine and from Portsmouth, NH to Portsmouth, England, as well as a myriad of places in between. His talk will include a chapter of this global story that is largely forgotten in Britain, the contribution made by American forests to the British navy in the golden age of sail. As Britain's navy grew larger and individual ships within it grew bigger, the demand for home grown timber began to outstrip supply. In response, the navy began to look across the oceans in search of new forests to address the shortfall. Supplies of American timber and masts kept the British navy afloat, quite literally, for the best part of two hundred years. This commercial venture formed the foundation of transatlantic trading links between America and Europe still in existence today.

Mr. Mayhew lives in East Sussex, south of London, and his professional experience as an arboriculturist will bring a unique perspective to Maine audiences interested in the colonial period. He has worked in UK arboriculture since the early 1990s, as a practitioner, local government officer, and independent consultant. He is a long-standing advocate of custodial arboriculture, seeing tree professionals as fleeting caretakers of the landscapes in their care. His research combines archaeology, geology, art, photography, and written records to reach a more holistic understanding of the factors that shape individual trees, the landscapes they inhabit, and the people who work them.

In describing the event, Tate House Museum’s Executive Director Holly K. Hurd says “This is a rare opportunity to hear a British timber expert describe the colonial mast trade from a new perspective, one we are not as familiar with in Maine. Clive’s visit here will allow us to share and connect the stories we tell about the economies of the mast trade from both sides of the pond.”

Tate House Museum supporters are also invited to purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win a facsimile of a rare antiquarian map from Tate House Museum’s collections; a beautifully-framed 1720s view of the harbor of Casco Bay by cartographer Cyprian Southack. Raffle winners need not be present at the event to win.

The fundraiser will take place at The Woodland Club, 39 Woods Road in Falmouth, with registration starting at 2:30 pm, High Tea 3:00- 4:00 pm, Clive Mayhew lecture from 4:00-5:00 pm, and questions, closing remarks, and raffle drawing from 5:00-5:30 pm. Fundraiser tickets are limited and offered at $75 per person and can be accessed at tatehouse.org while availability lasts. Raffle tickets are for sale online until 2:30 pm on Sept 29 and at the event until the winning ticket is drawn ~5 pm. Parking is readily available and free.

FMI: contact Holly K Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, ME 04102

Botanical Dying Workshop at Tate House

Tate House Museum — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:55:28 GMT

Tate House Museum presents an 18th Century Botanical Dyeing Workshopat Tate House Museum on August 28 from 5:00-7:00 pm with a rain date of August 29 (same time). This unique late summer workshop will be held in the Tate House backyard and garden at 1270 Westbrook Street, Portland. Participants will be dyeing cotton fabric using the same botanical dye bath method that was employed in the 18 th century. We will also be exploring “bundle dyeing” (aka eco-printing), an ancient alchemical process that extracts botanical dyes from fresh and dried flowers and leaves. All botanical materials will be locally sourced from home gardens in the area and will be representative of the plants growing in the Tate House garden. Participants will take home their botanical creations. An informative talk about daily life in the 18 th century will reveal how the Tate House garden was utilized for medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and practical household purposes. The workshop will be headed up by Tate House Museum volunteers, Colleen Griffin, Sadhana Philbrick and Barbara Luke. Colleen is a registered horticultural therapist (HTR) and has been practicing horticultural therapy in Southern Maine since 2018. She is the co-owner of Cultivating Well-Being, LLC and serves on the faculty of the Horticultural Therapy Institute in Denver, Colorado. Sadhana is a Tate House Museum board member interested in plants and uses of the colonial garden. Barbara is the longtime head gardener at Tate House Museum and offers colonial garden tours for visitors.

This is an interactive, hands-on workshop for ages 14 and up and will be held outside. Please dress for the weather and note the rain date before signing up. Tickets are $30 non-member, $20 Tate House Museum members and can be purchased in advance at tatehouse.org

**Workshop is limited to 24 participants*

FMI: contact Director Holly K. Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

Closing Reception August 16 for Imagining Freedom

Tate House Museum — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:12:18 GMT

Tate House Museum and SPACE will host a closing reception on Friday August 16 from 5:00-7:00 pm for the art installation “Imagining Freedom” by Ashley Page currently on view at Tate House. This is your last chance to view this temporary exhibit which was part of Re-Site 2024 (FMI see space538.org).

Artist Ashley Page partnered with the Tate House Museum for her project, which she describes as follows. “Reconciling Portland, Maine’s history of industrialization and colonization while contending with the global reverberations of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Imagining Freedom, asks the viewer to step into the shoes of an enslaved Black individual, Bet. Her age, appearance, homelands, and quality of life are all unknown, lost to the unraveling nature of time. Only appearing in court records, we know nothing about Bet other than she was a servant living and working in the Tate House in the 1770s for an indeterminate amount of time. Researching the social, political and economic landscape of Maine during this period and reviewing archival documents, Page makes an intentional departure from the archive as she asks the guiding question: What did freedom look like for Bet? What did her daydreams look like, sound like, taste like? This historical recovery project grapples with the ways enslaved peoples were excluded from historical records and navigates new ways in which we tell our stories.

This free reception on August 16 will include Ashley’s original sound recording “Whispers in the Wind” which complements her visual artwork. Ashley will be at the closing reception to speak briefly about her artwork. Her exhibit can also be viewed as part of Tate House Museum’s regular guided house tours through Aug 16, Wednesdays - Saturdays, 10 am - 4 pm (tours available through mid-October.

Don’t miss this unique and provocative show and more inclusive telling of Tate House and colonial Portland history.

FMI: contact Director Holly K. Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

Calm Command: US Chief Justice Melville Fuller Book Talk with Douglas Rooks

Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 00:22:57 GMT

Calm Command: US Chief Justice Melville Fuller in His Times

Book Talk with Author Douglas Rooks

Wednesday, August 14th at 7:30pm

Sorrento Library, Waukeag Ave., Sorrento, ME 04677

Join the Sorrento VIA and the Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society for a talk by Maine journalist and author Douglas Rooks on his compelling new biography of US Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville Fuller who was born and raised in Maine, and later became a summer resident of Sorrento in the 1890s.

Open to all - donations welcome!

Songs from Way Downeast: Historic Songs from Hancock & Washington Counties

Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 02:54:24 GMT

The Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society & Frenchman's Bay Library present

Songs from Way Downeast: Historic Songs from Hancock & Washington Counties

Performed by Stephen Sanfilippo

A free and fun family-friendly event featuring songs of the sea that tell stories of our own local past. Learn about the importance of songs in preserving the 19th century history of the working waterfront.

All ages welcome! Light refreshments to be served after.

July 28 at 2pm

Sorrento Community Center

81 Pomola Ave.

Sorrento, ME 04677

Tate House Presents English Country Dancing

Tate House Museum — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:41:30 GMT

Tate House Museum is offering an English Country Dance in the Tate House Yard & Garden on Wed, July 3 from 5:00 -7:00 pm. Come celebrate our country’s independence with a contemporary historical activity! English country dancing has deep roots in British history. The first published collection dates to 1651. ECD came to America with the colonists and became an important social event for the well-to-do. It continued after the War of Independence, and spawned the American contradance. ECD is a living tradition, with new dances being introduced by multiple choreographers each year. For this program, our caller Robb Spivey will concentrate on some of the simpler dances from the colonial and early American periods. All dances will be taught and backed by live music from accomplished 317 Main musicians. Come experience lively tunes, friendly people, and the beautiful surroundings of the Tate House yard and garden, which will make our English Country Dance a pleasant and energizing experience. All dancers welcome from beginners to experts. No special clothing is required, but comfortable clothes and shoes are recommended as the dance takes place in the grassy yard.

Tickets will be available at the door. $15 General Admission and $12 for Tate House Museum members.

The 1755 Tate House will be open for a sneak peak from 4:15 - 5:00 pm and all attendees will receive a coupon for 50% off a Tate House guided tour that can be used during our regular open season.

Please bring your own chair or blanket for resting between dances. Picnics are welcome!

*Check our website and social media for an alternate location if it rains.*

FMI: Holly Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

Imagining Freedom Cyanotype Workshop: Tate House Museum

Maine Archives and Museums — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:33:25 GMT

In honor of Juneteenth, the Tate House Museum is offering an

Imagining Freedom Cyanotype Workshop

with Re-Site 2024 artist Ashley Page

from 12 noon - 3:00 pm

Participants will start by gaining an in-depth learning session about the history of the Tate House, Stroudwater Village, and the state of Maine from Ashley and Tate House Museum’s executive director Holly K. Hurd and consulting curator Laura F. Sprague which will be grounded in the theme of Imagining Freedom. Following this, we will explore these themes through cyanotypes. Participants are encouraged but not required to bring found objects, ephemera, or materials with personal significance. For example: grass, hair, beads, rocks, shells, feathers, fabric, inks, special papers, etc.

Advance tickets cost $30 each and include all materials. Space is limited to 25. Visit space538.org for tickets.

Please note, due to the cyanotype process, sunlight is essential. *Rain date for this event is Sunday, June 23, *2-5 pm*. Please be mindful of both dates when signing up.

The Tate House Museum will also be open to the public for a Community Day of free admission on June 19th from 10 am - 4 pm with tours every hour on the hour at 10:00 am, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 pm.

**Registration for free tours is required by June 17 at tatehouse.org. FMI contact Director Holly K. Hurd hkhurd@tatehouse.org**

https://www.simpletix.com/e/juneteenth-community-day-tickets-174073

The Kennebec Historical Society’s August Presentation: “Silent Films in Maine”

Kennebec Historical Society — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:49:28 GMT

Jones worked with local writer Holman Day to adapt many of Day’s stories for the films. In 1921 Day and local businessmen took over the company, ousting Jones. Day soon bankrupted the company.

KHS presenter Ed Lorusso will show two of the films, Caught in the Rapids and Cupid, Registered Guide, roughly 20 minutes each. He also will provide commentary, then answer questions after the viewing.

Lorusso has been restoring silent films since he retired. Six of his projects have been licensed by Turner Classic Movies, including The Enchanted Cottage (1924), which will air later this year. His projects have been screened at various theaters and silent film festivals across the country. He’s also the author of The Silent Films of Marion Davies and is working on a book about filmmaking in Maine during the silent era.

The Kennebec Historical Society presentation is free to the public (donations are gladly accepted) and will take place at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 21, at Augusta City Center, located at 16 Cony Street in Augusta. If you have questions about the program, call Scott Wood, executive director, at 622-7718.

The Kennebec Historical Society and the Maine State Library Presents: “The Maine Roadshow”

Kennebec Historical Society — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:48:10 GMT

After spending five years traveling thousands of miles around Maine, here are a few things writer Tim O’Brien has learned, according to a summary of his recent book, The Maine Roadshow: A Roadside Tour of the State’s History, Culture, Food, Funk & Oddities: “There’s a one-ton replica of the Liberty Bell on the grounds of the Maine State Capitol. The seeds for the Space Shuttle Pines, now growing in Augusta, travelled 2.4 million miles before being planted. Our state has more moose per mile than any of the other lower 48 states. Maine’s oldest town was incorporated 125 years before the birth of the United States. There’s a building in Columbia Falls that looks like a blueberry and one in Wells that looks like a hunk of cheese.”

O’Brien, the Kennebec Historical Society’s speaker for July, has captured these and other Maine highlights in his illustrated book. His lecture, supported by a PowerPoint presentation, will be about the book. A resident of Belgrade and Nashville, Tennessee, he is a photojournalist with 18 books to his credit. He has worked for decades as a communications specialist in the entertainment industry chronicling theme parks, amusement parks, roadside attractions, circuses, carnivals, and sideshows.

The lecture, co-sponsored by the Maine State Library, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. July 17, 2024, at the library’s temporary location, 242 State Street in Augusta. Donations are gladly accepted. If you have any questions about the event, please call the society at (207) 622-7718.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s June Presentation: “Logging in Maine”

Kennebec Historical Society — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:46:41 GMT

Maine’s forest is immense. Since Colonial times, Maine settlers have cut trees from its millions of acres of forest. Britain cut thousands of tall pine trees for masts for their royal navy ships. This slide presentation, titled “Logging in Maine,” describes logging from its earliest methods, including primitive cutting and hauling methods and water-powered sawmills, to the development of steam log haulers and steam-powered sawmills in the early 20^th century, when her latest logging book, Trouble in Nathan’s Woods, takes place. Log drives, on the Kennebec River and others, will be discussed. Cowan’s passion for writing about forests and logging was inspired by her family’s history. The Mortons owned Paris Manufacturing Company, located in South Paris, Maine, where they manufactured wooden sleds, skis, and other wood products. They also operated a large lumber camp, where her father lived as a young boy. The program includes pictures of 19^th-century logging camps, shows how logs were harvested and hauled out of the woods, and includes historic photos taken by her grandfather.

Award-winning author and KHS presenter, Mary Morton Cowan, has been writing books and articles for young readers for more than 30 years and has completed several courses focusing on that genre. A Maine native, Cowan graduated from Westbrook High School and Bates College, where she concentrated her studies in English and Music. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and of Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s June presentation is free to the public (donations are gladly accepted) and will take place at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 26, at the Augusta City Center, located at 16 Cony Street in Augusta. If you have any questions about the program, please call Scott Wood, executive director, at 622-7718.

Colonial Live at Tate House Museum

Tate House Museum — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:14:22 GMT

COLONIAL LIVE! Saturday June 22, 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm

OPENING SEASON CELEBRATION AT TATE HOUSE MUSEUM

Join us in celebrating the opening of the Tate House Museum’s 2024 season on Saturday, June 22 nd from 12 noon to 4:00 PM. We’ll be doing colonial up big with fun activities for the whole family. Our special guest is colonial reenactor Michael Dekker who will be demonstrating how structures were built in the 18 th century including the hand-hewing of logs using colonial tools and basic timber framing joinery. Dekker is the author of French and Indian Wars in Maine and will be engaging visitors with his extensive knowledge of the time period.

Colonial games and activities for children will be offered as well as tours of the housefeaturing our new temporary art installation by Ashley Page. There will be other colonial-focused activities such as a colonial play Tate Family & Neighbors, architectural tours,colonial displays, and more! See tatehouse.org for schedule details.Entrance fees are $18 for adults, $8 for children 6-12 (under 6 free), $40 for families with up to 3 children. Members of Tate House Museum are $15 / $5 / $35.

Come join in the fun and experience this unique museum with its colonial trappings LIVE! Experience our new, more inclusive narratives featuring the work and life of a domestic servant who was likely enslaved and Wabanaki baskets representing colonial trade.

Tate House Museum is now open for regular house tours through Oct 12. Please visit our website for advance tickets and information: www.tatehouse.org.

We are offering free house tours on Juneteenth and a special artist workshop with Ashley Page (ticketed) from 12 noon - 3 pm. Registration is required on our website. FMI visit tatehouse.org

FMI: Holly K. Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

2024 Mystery Tour - Buildings and Blooms

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 21:31:18 GMT

Enjoy a mystery tour of local homes and gardens that would not normally be open to the public. Each location will present a unique theme. Advanced orders will be taken for a boxed lunch (by phone or through our online store). Proceeds from this even fund the Rufus Porter Museum and it's community programs.

Buy tickets here

Reserve a boxed lunch here.

Exhibition Public Opening Reception - Thursday, June 20th, 4pm - 7pm - Margaret Chase Smith Library

Margaret Chase Smith Library — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:05:38 GMT

“Painting an Inclusive History: Maine Women in Politics,” is an exhibition of the work of Jerri Whitman. Based in Dresden, Maine, Whitman is a longtime artist who works in oil, pastel, acrylic, colored pencil and graphite. Presently, Whitman is working to create a portrait of every woman from Maine who has been elected to the Maine Legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, or the U.S. Senate. The first twenty-six of these portraits are featured in “Painting an Inclusive History” and are currently on display at the Margaret Chase Smith (MCS) Library. This exhibition opened on Monday, May 20th, and will close on Wednesday, November 27th, 2024.

On Thursday, June 20th, from 4pm to 7pm, there will be a public opening reception for “Painting an Inclusive History” at the MCS Library in Skowhegan, Maine. This event will be free and open to all, there will be light refreshments served, and brief welcoming remarks will be given at 5pm.

The staff of the MCS Library encourages everyone to either attend the public opening reception on Thursday, June 20th, from 4pm to 7pm, or visit the MCS Library before the exhibition ends in November 2024. The MCS Library is open to the public Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm, and reservations are highly encouraged for visitors. To make a reservation, please call the MCS Library, (207) 474-7133.

Margaret Chase Smith Library

56 Norridgewock Ave, Skowhegan, ME 04976

Tate House Museum's Annual Plant & Herb Sale on May 18

Maine Archives and Museums — Tue, 07 May 2024 00:10:58 GMT

Tate House Museum’s Annual Plant & Herb Sale on May 18

Portland --- It’s that time of year again when fingers are itching to get out into the garden. We invite you to shop for perennials and annuals for your garden in support of Tate House Museum on Saturday May 18, from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm.

This popular plant sale features moderately-priced perennials divided from the Tate House Museum’s 18th century reproduction garden. There will also be a variety of annual flowers, vegetable seedlings, native plants, other perennials and hanging baskets to choose from. This can be your one-stop garden shop to support a good cause!

We will once again have a “Make Your Own Seed Bomb” activity and a sneak peek viewing of Tate House featuring our new art installation by Ashley Page from 10-12 noon.

Proceeds from the sale support the educational mission of Tate House Museum, the only colonial area historic house open to the public in Greater Portland.

FMI: Contact Director Holly K. Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

A History of the Roberts Funeral Home

Winthrop Maine Historical Society — Mon, 06 May 2024 03:11:09 GMT

Winthrop Maine Historical Society presents A History of the Roberts FuneralHome with Lynn Roberts Reed and Leon Roberts on Thursday, May 9, 2024.6:00 pmAll presentations start at 6:00pm and take place at the Winthrop History and Heritage Center,107 MainStreet. A zoom link is also available athttps://networkmaine.zoom.us/j/81096636540. Meeting ID: 8109663 6540.Contact WMHS at207-395-5199 or atwinthropmainehistorical@gmail.comfor moreinformation.

Lynn Roberts Reed and Leon Roberts will speak to the Winthrop Maine Historical Society on Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 6 pm about the history of the Roberts Funeral Home. The funeral home dates to the mid-1800’s and to  six generations of the Roberts family.  William Harrison Roberts was a cabinet maker and undertaker in Wayne in 1840.  William had four sons. Frank Roberts moved to Georgetown, Mass to establish his own funeral home and Will, Wendall, and Nathan all moved to Readfield where Nathan’s son Leon carried on the family tradition after his father died.  Following a devastating fire in Readfield Village, Leon lost everything and decided to purchase a home on Bowdoin Street in Winthrop and renovated it into the first funeral parlor in the area.   Leon’s sons Carleton and Douglass carried on the family tradition until their retirements when Carleton’s son Terry took over.  Terry’s wife Janice and their daughter Lynn and son Leon joined them and took over when Terry & Janice retired.  With the next generation pursuing alternate careers and no one to continue the family tradition, Leon and Lynn sold the business in 2018 to Jeffrey Forsythe, a funeral director from Fairfield, Maine but both Lynn and Leon continue to work part-time.

Opening Night Reception with Artist Ashley Page on May 10 at Tate House Museum

Tate House Museum — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:04:39 GMT

Tate House Museum is pleased to announce our participation in Re-Site 2024 in partnership with SPACE. This Mellon Foundation-funded program is the second edition of a site-specific temporary public art and Portland history-telling initiative first launched in 2020 as part of Maine’s Bicentennial. Re-Site 2024 offers five new artistic projects in partnership with diverse public organizations and spaces that will help expand community knowledge of local histories and their impacts today as well as generate dialogue about what we carry with us into the future. Re-Site 2024 projects come with site histories, artist statements, bibliographies for further reading, and recorded conversations with the artists and other key participants. FMI about Re-Site 2024, visit space538.org.

Tate House Museum will host an Opening Night Reception with Re-Site 2024 Artist Ashley Page on Friday May 10 from 5:30-7:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public, and will include viewing of Ashley’s art installation titled Imagining Freedom in the context of the historic 1755 Tate House. Her artwork will be on display through June 30 and can be viewed as part of Tate House Museum’s regular house tours, opening for the season on June 5, Wednesdays - Saturdays, 10 am - 4 pm, through mid-October.

Ashley Page (ashleypagestudio.com), interdisciplinary artist and Studio and Programs Manager at Indigo Arts Alliance, describes her project as follows: Reconciling Portland, Maine’s history of industrialization and colonization while contending with the global reverberations of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Imagining Freedom, asks the viewer to step into the shoes of an enslaved Black individual, Bet. Her age, appearance, homelands, and quality of life are all unknown, lost to the unraveling nature of time. Only appearing in court records, we know nothing about Bet other than that she was a servant living and working in the Tate House in the 1770s for an indeterminate amount of time. Researching the social, political, and economic landscape of Maine during this period and reviewing archival documents, Page makes an intentional departure from the archive as she asks the guiding question: What did freedom look like for Bet? What did her daydreams look like, sound like, taste like? This historical recovery project grapples with the ways enslaved peoples were excluded from historical records and navigates new ways we tell our stories.

Stay tuned for more information about an upcoming workshop by Ashley Page on Juneteenth (June 19 th ) that will highlight her artistic process. Join us for this unique and provocative viewing and more inclusive telling of Tate House and colonial Portland history.

FMI: contact Director Holly K. Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Northern Nightmares: Monsters in Inuit Art at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum!

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:28:50 GMT

NEW Exhibit - Northern Nightmares; Monsters in Inuit Art

Northern Nightmares celebrates artworks by Inuit artists from Alaska, Canada, and Greenland in stone, antler, ivory, and on paper. Like people all over the world, Inuit tell many stories of monsters and artists draw on this rich mythology for inspiration. Some of the monsters they depict will be familiar: giants roam northern lands as they do all over the world. Many, such as Palraiyuk, with its lizard-like body and multiple stomachs to hold the various body parts of its human prey, are unique to the North. Tupilak carvings from Greenland have a gruesome story to tell, but also illustrate the complex relationship between Inuit artists and the contemporary art market. Completing the exhibit are a series of works by artists who draw on their imaginations to create new monsters, nightmarish, fantastical creatures of all shapes and sizes.

“The pieces in this exhibit are certainly scary,” reports curator Genevieve LeMoine, “but many are also very beautiful, and some are humorous, too. It has been very interesting to learn more about the stories, and to see the different approaches of the artists.”

The exhibit opened on Tuesday, May 7, and will remain up until Spring 2025.

The museum is located in the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies, 10 Polar Loop. Regular museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 AM- 5 PM and Sunday 1-5 PM, closed Mondays and national holidays. For more information visit our website at Bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum or call 207-725-3416.

Dr. Lydia Moland Presents Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life

Self-Employed — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:43:53 GMT

Dr. Lydia Moland, Colby College professor, will talk about her new book, Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life, on Tuesday, April 9th at 6 pm at the Margaret Chase Smith Library, 56 Norridgewock Ave, Skowhegan.

The program takes place in person and on Zoom.

To register for the Zoom link, visit: www.msad54.maineadulted.org

A prominent abolitionist, Lydia Maria Child’s philosophical thinking and moral courage made her one of the most important voices among white Americans fighting to end slavery. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was also a women’s rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, and journalist. Despite her activism, she may be most remembered for her poem “Over the River and Through the Wood”.

Dr. Moland’s biography was published by the University of Chicago Press in fall 2022. The book has been reviewed in the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and other venues. You can find some of Moland’s writing and speaking about Child in the Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, The American Scholar, Aeon, and on National Public Radio, on her webpage here: https://web.colby.edu/lmoland/198-2/media/

Dr. Moland is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Philosophy at Colby College where she teaches courses on moral philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of modern philosophy. She has written on nineteenth-century German philosophy, including two books on G.W.F. Hegel and an edited volume on the philosophy of humor in the nineteenth century.

Books will be available for sale.

To attend this program via Zoom, please register in advance at www.msad54.maineadulted.org

Sponsored by the Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center

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Poetry and the Creative Process: A Poetry Reading with Stuart Kestenbaum

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:00:34 GMT

Stuart Kestenbaum, Maine’s poet laureate from 2016-2021, will present a series of poems and talk about the process of making his work. He will also delve into the comparisons to other creative processes he uses. This 30 minute presentation will be followed by a 30 minute Q&A session.

A Zoom link to the lecture will be sent the Monday prior to the lecture.

Tickets are free with a suggested donation. Get your tickets here.

A Virtual Lecture with Polly Forcier on Stenciling

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:58:27 GMT

Polly Forcier will present a virtual lecture on Historic Stencils from 1790-1840+. Beginning with “Border Wall Stencils” from c.1790-c.1820, she will then discuss all-over wall stencils in imitation of wallpaper. She will go on to discuss the stencils used in the Rufus Porter School of Wall Stencil Murals. She will end with a brief "how to" on stenciling. Tickets are free with a suggested donation. Get your tickets here!

Maine Day Open House at Poland Spring Museums

Poland Spring Preservation Society — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:39:46 GMT

Poland Maine - The Poland Spring Preservation Society will hold the annual "Maine Day" Open House on Saturday May 25th from 9-3pm at the Maine State Building, 37 Preservation Way, Poland Maine.

Join us as we open the doors for the 129th anniversary of the Maine State Building at Poland Spring! See the new exhibits, play games related to the World's Fair, learn about the heritage of the Maine State Building and the 1893 Columbian Exposition, and visit the gift shop with local Maine made crafts and more. "Maine Day", May 24th, 1893 at the World's Fair served as the official dedication of the Maine State Building in Chicago, Illinois. A reception was held in the rotunda led by Governor Henry B. Cleaves and other prominent Mainers. At noon, an address was made detailing the work of the board and its efforts to showcase the materials, work and design of Maine craftsmanship. The building was then declared open to the public. At the end of the fair, the building was purchased by the Ricker family of Poland Spring, dismantled and rebuilt at Poland Spring Resort for use as a library and art gallery. It is 1 of just 5 buildings that remain from the 1893 World's Fair, and the only state building that remains. Admission is free, and all are welcome to attend!

FMI https://www.facebook.com/events/433483299142769/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A%5B%5D%7D or call 207-998-4142

Chili Chowder Cook-off at Canton Historical Society April 6

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:48:19 GMT

CANTON, Maine—The Canton Historical Society will hold a Chili and Chowder Cook-off on
Saturday, April 6, 12-2 p.m., at their historic grange building, 25 Turner St., Canton

Local chefs will prepare their favorite chili or chowder for the contest. The public will sample and vote for the best in each category. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children under 12. The admission fee includes bread, beverages, and dessert as well as all the chili and chowder samples you can eat!

The museum and gift shop will be open to the public during this event. Housed in the back of the recently restored 1897 Grange building, the museum exhibits furniture, artifacts, photographs and documents related to the history of Canton and the region.

See you there and bring your appetite!

Saturday, September 7: Hidden Legacies: A Walking Tour of Castine’s African American History

Castine Historical Society — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:43:40 GMT

Saturday, September 7: Hidden Legacies: A Walking Tour of Castine’s African American History, 10:00 a.m. Join Georgia Zildjian and Lisa Lutts for an hour-long walking tour on Castine’s African American history. Reservations required and limited to 15 people. Rain date September 8.

https://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/events/hidden-legacies-a-walking-tour-of-castines-african-american-history-2/

Thursday, August 8: The 15th Annual Deborah Pulliam Memorial Lecture,

Castine Historical Society — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:34:30 GMT

Thursday, August 8: The 15^th Annual Deborah Pulliam Memorial Lecture, 7:00 p.m. Hans D. Strauch, Boston architect, will give a talk entitled "Rising from the Ashes: Building on Restituted Family Property in Post-Nazi Berlin, Germany.” Delano Auditorium, Leavitt Hall, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine. No reservations for in-person. Reservations required to receive YouTube link.

https://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/events/pulliam-lecture-with-hans-strauch/

“A History of Castine in 40 Objects”: An Illustrated Talk

Castine Historical Society — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:37:34 GMT

Join us on Thursday, July 18th at 7:00 p.m. for an illustrated talk by Castine Historical Society Executive Director, Lisa Simpson Lutts entitled, “A History of Castine in 40 Objects.” The talk will be held in-person in the Mitchell Room of the Castine Historical Society, 17 School St., Castine, as well as livestreamed on the CHS YouTube channel. Due to limited seating, reservations are required for the in-person lecture.

Lutts’ talk will explore objects in the Castine Historical Society’s permanent collection that tell unexpected and compelling stories about the town’s 400-year history. Based on research conducted for the Historical Society’s current exhibit, also titled “A History of Castine in 40 Objects,” Lutts will highlight some of the exciting discoveries made by the staff and exhibits committee while researching the CHS permanent collection.

Visit castinehistoricalsociety.org to register or to find the YouTube link.

"Art of Penobscot Bay - A Sampler" Saturday, June 29, 4:00 p.m.

Castine Historical Society — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:42:14 GMT

“Art of Penobscot Bay—A Sampler,” Saturday, June 29, 4:00 p.m. An illustrated talk by Carl Little on paintings of the Penobscot Bay area through time followed by a book signing for his new book, Art of Penobscot Bay. Co-sponsored with Compass Rose Books. Mitchell Room, Castine Historical Society. Reservations required due to limited seating. https://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/events/art-of-penobscot-bay-a-sampler/

Castine Historical Society 2024 Season Open House

Castine Historical Society — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:26:03 GMT

The Castine Historical Society invites the public to its free annual Open House Reception on Saturday, June 22 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. This early evening reception is a great way to view the Historical Society’s 2024 exhibits including The History of Castine in 40 Objects. The event is also a good chance to meet old and new friends and enjoy light refreshments. No reservations are required to attend.

"Castine in the Civil War"

Castine Historical Society — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:37:26 GMT

“Castine in the Civil War,” an illustrated talk by Diane and Ned Smith, Civil War historians and authors will be held on June 13 at 7:00 p.m. in the Mitchell Room of the Castine Historical Society. In their talk, the Smiths will discuss their research into Castine’s soldiers who served during the Civil War. In particular, they will delve into the treasure trove of letters written home by Private Henry Butler who served for four years in the 16^th Maine Regiment before his untimely death just before the war ended.

Reservations required for in-person attendance or to receive on-line viewing link.

https://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=7845&action=edit&classic-editor

Jane's Walk ME

Maine Preservation — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:29:13 GMT

JANE'S WALK ME 2024

Mark Your Calendar for Saturday, May 4th

Maine Preservation is excited to be collaborating with Friends of Congress Square Park, Greater Portland Landmarks, Maine Downtown Center, and Portland Downtown to bring Jane's Walk to communities across Maine. Last year, nearly 40 walks were held in 26 cities and towns, such as:

A Walk Through Two Wars, in Castine
Cochrane's Gem of Monmouth: Cumston Hall and its Community
Create Your Own Museum in the Streets of Stonington
Engineering, Stormwater Design, and Trails in Our Downtown, in Westbrook
Exploring the Historic Middle of Middle Road & the Middle of Parsonsfield in the Middle 1800s
My Queer Portland: A Walk Back in Time to the 1980s & ‘90s
Of Cows and Crabs: the Evolution of the Wells Reserve at Laudholm
Walking on Coals: Farmington's Great Fire of 1886
Wild and Delicious Houlton
And DOZENS more!

Mark your calendar for Saturday, May 4, and stay tuned for more news about free walks near you!

Learn More About Jane's Walk ME!
www.janeswalkme.org

LEAD A JANE'S WALK

Free to Participate

Anyone can lead a Jane’s Walk—including YOU! Whether you are affiliated with an organization or an impassioned individual, Jane’s Walk is an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with your community. Deadline for submission is March 31.

I have a Jane's Walk idea!
www.janeswalkme.org/submit-a-walk/

Ellsworth, ME.

Portland, ME.

CELEBRATING PLACE

What is Jane's Walk and Who Was Jane Jacobs?

Jane’s Walk is a global festival of free, volunteer-led walking conversations inspired by community activist Jane Jacobs. Jane’s Walks combine the simple act of exploring a place with personal observations, local history, and civic engagement. The annual Jane’s Walk festival takes place the first weekend in May, in more than 200 cities and towns around the globe.

Jane Jacobs was a community activist and writer who lived from 1916-2006. She is best known for galvanizing her neighbors to stop a highway from being built through their community. She believed in the power of individuals to influence the places they live. Today, her principles represent the participatory planning approaches that have been embraced in communities around the world.

SUPPORTING WALK LEADERS

New Resources to Expand Jane's Walk ME

The 2024 festival in Maine is supported by Sappi North America as part of its Ideas That Matter program and will incorporate the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Working with designer Willy Wong, coordinating partners have expanded Jane’s Walk Maine by creating a core festival identity and platform, designing a new organizer outreach campaign, a walk leader training toolkit, as well as marketing and promotional efforts to support the festival—all towards the goal of engaging more Mainers in this annual tradition and empowering them toward social impact.

Learn More About Jane's Walk ME!
www.janeswalkme.org/explore-walk-leader-faqs/

Castine Uncovered Walking Tours - Friday, Saturday and Monday

Castine Historical Society — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:57:17 GMT

The Castine Historical Society offers guided Walking Tours of Castine for the 2024 season! Starting June 22, the staff and volunteers of the Historical Society will offer Castine Uncovered Walking Tours, a fun, informative, outdoor learning experience. All tours are free of charge, but donations are greatly appreciated and can be made onsite or on our donations page. No reservations are required for the tour.

June 22-October 14: Friday, Saturday, and Monday at 10 AM

Meet your guide in front of the Abbott School at 17 School Street, and take in the sights and sounds of Castine while learning about our beautiful town and its historical significance. The tour takes approximately one hour, and will give you an overview of Castine’s history, identify buildings of architectural significance, show you several of our beautiful Elm trees, and point out Fort George, the earthworks of a Revolutionary War British fortification. Please wear good walking shoes! The tour is a little over 1/2 mile long and involves some inclines.

"A History of Castine in 40 Objects"

Castine Historical Society — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:54:34 GMT

Castine Historical Society presents "A History of Castine in 40 Objects".

Explore five centuries of Castine's history through never-before-seen objects in the Historical Society's permanent collection. Open Monday through Saturday 10-4 and Sunday 1-4 through Labor Day. Open Fri, Sat, & Mon 10-4, Sun 1-4 September 6 through October 14.

Historical Societies exist to tell a community’s history through objects and archival records. In a new exhibition, “A History of Castine in 40 Objects,” the Castine Historical Society will highlight aspects of the town’s history through never-before-displayed objects from our permanent collection. Forty unexpected and compelling artifacts weave together almost 400 years of Castine history.

Each of the objects in the Castine Historical Society’s permanent collection is a window into our town’s history. For this exhibition, a team of community members and staff selected objects that tell Castine stories that are both familiar, like the town’s Revolutionary War history, and unexpected, such as our African American history.

For more information, visit our website castinehistoricalsociety.org

A Lecture by Maine Author Darrell Hartman

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:48:00 GMT

Please Join the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum for a lecture by Battle of Ink and Ice author, Darrell Hartman!

Thursday, March 28, 2024 • 7:00PM

Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College

FREE and Open to the Public

Battle of Ink and Ice tells the story of American explorers Frederick Cook and Robert Peary, both of whom claimed in 1909 to have discovered the North Pole. It’s also a tale of warring newspapers, because each man was backed by a rival New York City daily, the New York Herald and the New York Times. It’s a sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that has something to tell us about the media-saturated world we inhabit today.

Darrell Hartman was born and raised in Maine. He graduated from Yale in 2003 with a B.A. in Literature and has been a freelance writer since 2007. Published in 2023, Battle of Ink and Ice is Mr. Hartman’s first book.

Sustaining Cultural Heritage: A Practical Primer on Preservation Environments

Maine Maritime Museum — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:32:24 GMT

Maine Maritime Museum is hosting Jeremy Linden of Linden Preservation Services, Inc., to present a day-long workshop on Thursday, March 28th on the topic of preventative conservation. This workshop will focus specifically on the challenges faced by small to mid-size institutions.

Professionals in facilities and collections care roles working in museums, historic sites, galleries, public libraries, and universities will benefit from this opportunity. Participants will learn how environmental conditions affect the things that they care for, gain an understanding of environmental control systems, and be empowered to monitor and troubleshoot issues at their institutions.

This event is co-sponsored by New England Museum Association and made possible, in part, through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

More info and registration:

https://nemanet.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1838116&group=

Poetry and the Creative Process: A Poetry Reading with Stuart Kestenbaum

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:24:29 GMT

Tickets are free with a suggested donation of $10.00. A Zoom link to the lecture will be sent the Monday prior to the lecture.

Stuart Kestenbaum is the author of six collections of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press), House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions), Prayers and Run-on Sentences (Deerbrook Editions) Only Now (Deerbrook Editions), How to Start Over (Deerbrook Editions), and Things Seemed to Be Breaking (Deerbrook Editions). He has also written The View from Here (Brynmorgen Press), a book of brief essays on craft and community.

He has written and spoken widely on craft making and creativity, and his poems and writing have appeared in small press publications and magazines including Tikkun, the Sun, the Beloit Poetry Journal, and the New York Times Magazine. He hosted Poems from Here on Maine Public Radio/Maine Public Classical and was the host/creator of the podcasts Make/Time and Voices of the Future.

He was the director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine for over twenty-five years, and was elected an honorary fellow of the American Craft Council in 2006. More recently, working with the Libra Foundation, he has designed and implemented a residency program for artists and writers called Monson Arts.

Former US poet laureate Ted Kooser has written “Stuart Kestenbaum writes the kind of poems I love to read, heartfelt responses to the privilege of having been given a life. No hidden agendas here, no theories to espouse, nothing but life, pure life, set down with craft and love.”

Tickets available https://www.rufusportermuseum.org/event-details/poetry-and-the-creative-process-a-poetry-reading-with-stuart-kestenbaumhere.

A Discussion on the Jonathan Poor Murals in Maine with Jane Radcliffe

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:23:02 GMT

This evening, Jane Radcliffe will speak about murals, primarily in Maine and Massachusetts, that were both signed and dated by J.D. Poor. This includes the hall, stairway, and bedrooms from the Norton House, in East Baldwin, which will soon be installed in the new building of the RPM.

Jane Radcliffe is a graduate of Connecticut College, with a master’s degree in American History and Historical Museum Work from the University of Connecticut in a program co-sponsored by Old Sturbridge Village. She has been studying and researching New England painted wall decorations since she arrived as a staff member of the new Maine State Museum in Augusta. She learned that the museum has the custodian of a complete muraled room from the Captain Samuel Benjamin House which had been in Winthrop, Maine until it was demolished during the late 1960s. During the past fifty plus years, Jane's specific area of study has been the murals painted between 1830 and 1842 by Jonathan D. Poor, the nephew and follower of Rufus Porter. Jane is a past trustee of the Rufus Porter Museum of Art & Ingenuity, and one of the founders and the Immediate Past President of the Center for Painted Wall Preservation.

Tickets available here.

January History Hour via Zoom! Douaquet: The Early Acadian History of Upper Frenchman Bay

Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:26:49 GMT

Join us for History Hour online with the Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society's Tobey Crawford Connor, who will be presenting highlights from her recent research on Douaquet (alternatively known as Adowaket and Waukeag).
This little-known French Acadian settlement with Wabanaki origins existed along what is now Sullivan and Sorrento between 1650-1750. We'll also learn how Flanders Bay got its name, dating back to this period.

January 9th, 2024 at 7pm

Click here to register!

FRYEBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY EXHIBIT AT PACE GALLERY

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:16:58 GMT

The art exhibit includes artifacts and paintings from the Samuel Osgood House Museum, as well as prints taken from some of the restored and enlarged photographs to be found throughout the recently published: Fryeburg, Maine: An Illustrated History. Books and prints will be available for purchase.

The Pace Gallery welcomes visitors on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10 AM to 1 PM, and Thursdays from 1 PM to 4 PM. For those unable to attend during these hours, personalized visits can be arranged by contacting the box office at boxoffice@fryeburgacademy.org or calling 207-544-9066.

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Canton Historical Society Christmas Craft Fair and Open House

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:33:21 GMT

The Canton Historical Society presents the Annual Christmas Craft Fair and Open House

10 am – 3 pm on Saturday, Dec. 2. Location: 25 Turner Street, Canton, ME. Free admission. Handicap accessible.

Many crafters will offer unique items including knitting, photography, ornaments, wreaths, jewelry, crochet, leather items, paintings, photo cards, canned goods, bake sale, dog collars and bandanas, minerals, table runners, advent calendars, nightlights, soaps, sage, wooden signs, epoxy coasters, coffee mugs, and much more!

Raffles for Holiday Gift Baskets and a 50/50. Food and snacks for sale. The Historical Society’s Country Store will be open with Maine-themed gifts and crafts by local artisans.

The Canton Historical Society will be collecting gifts for the Santa for Seniors – a program to collect gifts for residents of Pinnacle Rehabilitation and Health Care Canter in Canton. Gift donation ideas include playing cards, gloves, mittens, hats, throw blankets, hair accessories, note cards, puzzles, body lotion, reading glasses, picture frames, etc. Drop off at Canton Historical Society during the craft fair, or on Sat. Nov 25.

For more information, visit www.cantonmehistory.org, email cantonmehistorical@gmail.com, or find us on Facebook.

Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series: Tribal Sovereignty Discussion with Ambassador Maulian Bryant and Darren Ranco

Self-Employed — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 17:09:40 GMT

The Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series continues with a discussion on tribal sovereignty led by Ambassador Maulian Bryant and Darren Ranco. They will share the history of the issue and potential detailed changes that sovereignty would bring.

Tuesday, November 21 at 7pm at the Margaret Chase Smith Library, Skowhegan.

Or, join by Zoom. Register for the Zoom link here: https://forms.gle/XmoTSerkhBrggbbJ8

Ranco, a Penobscot Tribal member, is an associate professor of anthropology and coordinator of Native American research at the University of Maine at Orono. Ambassador Maulian Dana was appointed by Penobscot Nation Chief Kirk Francis in September 2017. As Ambassador, Maulian is responsible to act as a representative of the Penobscot Nation and to serve as a liaison for the Nation at the local, state and federal levels of government to educate and advocate for policy and laws that impact and protect the Penobscot Nation's sovereignty, culture, natural resources and the general welfare of the Penobscot people.

Sponsored by Skowhegan History House & Research Center.

Art Of John Bradley Hudson Lecture With Earle Shettleworth

Tate House Museum — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:39:42 GMT

On Wednesday November 8^th at 7:00 PM the Tate House Museum has the honor of presenting “The Art of John Bradley Hudson, Jr.” in an illustrated lecture by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. on Zoom. A native of Portland, Mr. Shettleworth attended Deering High School, Colby College, and Boston University and was the recipient of honorary degrees from Bowdoin College and the Maine College of Art. He became architectural historian for the Maine Historic Preservation Commission in 1973 and director in 1976. He retired from that position in 2015. Mr. Shettleworth has lectured and written extensively on Maine history and architecture and has served as State Historian since 2004.

John Bradley Hudson, Jr. was one of Portland’s leading 19th century artists. Born in the city in 1832, he established a studio there in 1858. For the next four decades, Hudson produced oil paintings and watercolors of local scenes, the Maine Coast, and the White Mountains. He supplemented his income as a sign and decorative painter. Much of what is known about his work is found in his illustrated journal as well as in period newspaper articles. This lecture will trace Hudson’s career through his pictures with a special focus on his watercolors of such Stroudwater landmarks as the Means House, Tate House, and Broad Tavern. The Tate House Museum’s visitors center proudly displays an 1879 watercolor by Hudson that is a striking rendition of the Means House with a glimpse of the Tate House in the background.

This lecture is free to all and can be accessed by going to www.tatehouse.org where you will be directed to sign up.

FMI: Holly K Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

Book Launch

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 20:21:30 GMT

PACE GALLERIES OF ART PRESENTS:

FRYEBURG, MAINE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY

OCTOBER 27, 4-7

MEET BRADFORD A. FULLER, (THE AUTHOR)
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT AND HISTORICAL IMAGES AND ARTIFACTS FROM THE FRYEBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S MUSEUM COLLECTION.

18 BRADLEY ST. FRYEBURG, ME.

ON THE CAMPUS OF FRYEBURG ACADEMY

www.bradfordfuller.com

"Let me also say that this is an incredible work---so much time and effort you put into this, and it really shows. It's interesting, thought-provoking, and will intrigue readers and make the historical society justifiably proud. Congratulations."

Associate Editor of the Journal of American History at Indiana University

Dr. Cynthia Gwynne Yaudes

Tate House Museum Presents ColoniAle 2023

Tate House Museum — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 18:49:09 GMT

Beer, beer, beer! You can never know too much when it comes to beer and ale in the 18^th century. Come join our Tate House Museum docents on October 14 as they take you on an afternoon of education and entertainment surrounding the making of beer in colonial times. This all-new tour will enlighten our guests as to the role of servants in brewing and other kitchen duties. Learn what “pounded cheese” was, how to make it, and enjoy a sample. What did the colonials learn from Indigenous people that impacted their foods and its preparation? Cocktails from beer? You’ll be introduced to beverages you may want to try.

Tours are on the hour at 3:00 and 4:00 PM with a social hour following from 4:00- 6:00 PM. General admission is $25 and $20 for Tate House Museum members. Timed tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coloniale-2023-tickets-718448898997 or by visiting our website at tatehouse.org.

FMI:

Holly K Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Mapping Colonial New England in Manuscript and Print

Tate House Museum — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:35:58 GMT

Tate House Museum is having a fundraiser on the evening of September 26, 2023 from 5:30 to 8:30 PM to benefit preservation of the historic Tate House. The event is generously hosted by the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. Guests will have the opportunity to privately view rare historic maps and globes from the library’s collections guided by Professor Matthew Edney, Osher Chair in the History of Cartography. Professor Edney will cap off the evening with an entertaining and informative talk, “Mapping Colonial New England in Manuscript and Print.” This illustrated lecture will explore the complex interplay involved in the mapping of colonial New England among politicians, administrators, military officers, scholars, land owners, and the public on both sides of the Atlantic.

The event features a wine and cheese reception with expansive views of Portland from the 7th floor of the Glickman library followed by map and globe viewing, and culminates with the mapping lecture and a dessert reception.

In describing the evening, Tate House Museum Executive Director Holly K. Hurd says “This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to view the exquisite space and impressive collection of rare maps at Maine’s premier map library while supporting preservation of the 1755 Tate House. We are excited to partner with the Osher Map Library to bring colonial mapping history to life for the Greater Portland community!”

A special auction and raffle of reproduction prints from Tate House Museum’s collections offer guests the chance to take home their very own piece of history. Supporters can participate in the auction or raffle without being present at the event. Map lovers seeking a framed facsimile of a rare 1720 map of Casco Bay by English cartographer Cyprian Southack can bid online until 7:00 pm the night of the event. Supporters can buy raffle tickets online or in person to win one of two reproduction prints. The first is A Plan of Ancient Portland (then known as Falmouth) ~ Circa 1688 ~ With Additions of Later Points of Historic Interest by Ray Gailey. Engraved by James H. Gallagher and published by R. H. Gailey in 1946, this map comes in a handsome period-style frame and depicts early Portland, South Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and the island of Casco Bay. The second is “Night,” a charming and whimsical engraving by William Hogarth. First published in 1738 as part of a four-part series, The Four Times of Day, “Night” is a caricature depicting the chaos-filled city streets of London after dark. This print comes with a $100 gift certificate that can be used toward framing.

In addition to the Osher Map Library, our generous sponsors include: The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maine, Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine, Grapheteria Custom Framing, Matrix Absence Management, Preservation Timber Framing, Barba & Wheelock Architects,and Casco Bay Frames & Gallery.

The event will take place at the Osher Map Library, 314 Forest Avenue in Portland, with registration and wine/cheese reception starting at 5:30 pm. Fundraiser tickets are limited and offered at $75 per person. They may be purchased online at www.tatehouse.org. Parking is available nearby at the University of Southern Maine garage for $4/hr.

FMI: contact Holly K Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

The Suffrage Movement in Maine - A Talk by Author Anne Gass - Oct 25

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:06:26 GMT

The Suffrage Movement in Maine - A Talk by Author Anne Gass
October 25, 2023, 6:30 PM

CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY—The year 2020 was the 100^th anniversary of a woman’s universal right to vote in the US. In recognition of that landmark anniversary, the Canton Historical Society is hosting a talk on the suffrage movement that proceeded that change. It will be on Wednesday, October 25, at 6:30 p.m., at 25 Turner Street. The speaker will be Anne Gass.

Anne Gass’s great-grandmother, Florence Brooks Whitehouse, was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons. In 1914, she joined the movement that helped move suffrage forward in Maine. Ms. Gass will talk about Florence’s leadership in that movement that resulted in the Maine legislature ratifying the 19^th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Slides of historic photos will accompany this lively talk.

Learn more about Ms. Gass at www.mainesuffragecentennial.org/anne-b-gass.

This talk is free admission and open to the public. The venue is handicap accessible. Refreshments will be served. Doors open at 6 p.m.

If you would like more information about this event, please email cantonmehistorical@gmail.com, or go to www.cantonmehistory.org or the “Canton Maine Historical Society” Facebook page.

Canton Historical Society
25 Turner Street
Canton, Maine

Hawk Henries in Concert at the Granite Art Garden

Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:05:53 GMT

The Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society and the Granite Art Garden present an afternoon outdoor concert by noted Nipmuc musician and flute maker Hawk Henries on Saturday, September 9th at 1:30pm.

Hawk has performed all over the country to great acclaim and calls Sullivan home. He'll play the flute and tell stories among whimsical granite sculptures by Obadiah Buell at the site of the historic Robertson Quarry, now the Granite Garden Gallery/Granite Art Garden.

This event is free to the public with donations welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Bring your chairs and bug spray just in case.

We hope to see you there!

Colonial Live at Tate House Museum

Tate House Museum — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 16:34:00 GMT

Come celebrate all things COLONIAL at Tate House Museum on Labor Day

weekend, September 2 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (rain date Sunday or Monday, Sept 3 or 4). We’ll have lots of fun colonial activities for the whole family. Our special guest is Colonial Reenactor Michael Dekker who will describe Native-Colonist trade in the 17th and 18th centuries with his Living History Mobile Museum. Michael is the author of French and Indian Wars in Maine and he will be engaging folks all day with his extensive knowledge of the time period. Colonial games and activities for children will be offered from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM while one-hour docent-led tours of the Tate House will commence at 10 AM, 11 AM and 12 noon. There will be a backyard performance of colonial-dressed characters-- Tate Family & Neighbors--from 1:00 to 2:00 PM. Other exhibits include Herbs and Plants of the Colonial Garden and Herbal Tea Tasting from 10:00-12 noon. Historic textile aficionado Vivian Cunningham will be demonstrating 18th century clothing throughout the day. Special tours in the afternoon will highlight NEW collections and tour narratives, including Native baskets and the work of a domestic servant who was probably enslaved. These tours will occur every half hour from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. We will also offer an Architectural Tour at 2:30 PM that provides a look at the Tate House attic and cellar not included on a regular tour (a $25 value!)

The cost for the day’s activities is $18 for adults, $7 for children under 12 years and $35 for families with children. Member prices are $15 adults, $5 children, and $30 for families. Tickets available at the door.

Come join in the fun and experience this unique museum with its colonial trappings LIVE! Tate House Museum is open for regular guided house tours Wednesdays- Saturdays through Oct 14. Please visit our website for advance tickets and information: www.tatehouse.org.

FMI: Holly K Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

Tate House Presents Maine and the West Indies Trade

Tate House Museum — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:53:55 GMT

On August 30^th at 7:15 PM Tate House Museum welcomes audiences to another Backyard Lecture beginning at sunset. Seth Goldstein has spent the last several years researching Maine and the West Indies Trade. He will provide details of the significant economic exchange in which Maine provided food that fed enslaved Africans and materials that built plantations in Caribbean locations such as Barbados, Haiti, and Cuba. Maine merchants exchanged these goods for what were considered luxury commodities at the time: sugar, rum, molasses, cocoa and exotic spices. Goldstein will exhibit how this trade provided a significant source of financial return for merchants from Portland specifically, and Maine generally. He will describe how the urban topography and architecture of Portland was shaped by this economic relationship and the horrid conditions that enslaved Africans endured to produce that wealth.

Seth Goldstein grew up on Cape Cod where he developed his passion for maritime history. He received his bachelor’s degree in European History from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his master’s degree in World History from Northeastern University. His research interests include the historic North Atlantic fishery, global piracy, New England shipwrecks and lighthouses, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Vietnam War era counter culture. He has worked for Greater Portland Landmarks and The Portland Harbor Museum and taught at the University of New England and Southern Maine Community College. Goldstein currently teaches at The Maine College of Art and Design. He is a member of the Atlantic Black Project-- a grass roots non-profit that examines Maine and New England’s marginalized history and the region’s complicity with the economics of enslavement. He is the Director of the Cushing’s Point Museum at Bug Light Park and is the Director of Development for the South Portland Historical Society.

Advance tickets are $12 for the general public, $10 for Tate House members and can be purchased on our website www.tatehouse.org or in our gift shop. At the door tickets are $15 for the general public and $12 for Tate House members. Bring your own blanket or chair. The Tate House ell will be open for a sneak peek at the house from 6:30-7:15 pm. If it rains the lecture will move to the Stroudwater Village Church at 1729 Congress St Portland.

FMI: Holly Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook St

Portland ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Skowhegan Falls History Walk

Self-Employed — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 17:55:49 GMT

Skowhegan Falls History Walk in Celebration of Skowhegan’s Bicentennial

Date: Thursday, August 24, 2023

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Benedict Arnold Park behind the Federated Church, Island Avenue, Skowhegan, Me.

In celebration of Skowhegan’s Bicentennial Melvin Burnham, local historian, will lead a history walk at Skowhegan Falls Thursday, August 24^th 10:00 am, beginning at the Benedict Arnold Park behind the Federated Church, Island Avenue, Skowhegan.

This history walk offers participants in-depth information with vintage images that illustrate what role Skowhegan Island and Skowhegan Falls played in the development of industry and culture on the Kennebec River during the 19^th century. Participants will learn what it was like to live and work in this era; how the power of moving water can shape the destiny of a community. This island once could only be accessed by rowboat, canoe, or bateaux. Native Americans used it for fishing, resting, growing crops, and gathering mineral resources for their weapons. Now thousands of vehicles cross this 12-acre island every day.

The old Spinning Mill, built in 1922, is currently being repurposed as housing units, a hotel, and a brewery. If the conditions are right tour participants will be offered a chance to look inside this project to see how an historic structure can be reconstructed and continue to serve the community.

Many of the photos shared in this walk originated from the H. A. Wyman Collection assembled by Roland Taylor Patten (1864 - 1913), an early editor/owner of the Independent- Reporter and avid cyclist. Prior to his involvement in the Independent-Reporter photos used in the paper were discarded after use. Mr. Patten, realizing their value, decided to save them and over the years collected numerous photos depicting early Skowhegan history. Upon selling his interest in the newspaper and moving away, Mr. Patten secured funds from H. A. Wyman to assemble his image collection in binders and labeled each with valuable information. The Wyman Collection is now housed at the Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center.

The ninety-minute walk will be tailored to participants’ needs and interests. Participants are welcome to bring and use lightweight folding chairs for their comfort and use their cameras along the way.

Join the tour and take a step back in time to see why Skowhegan Falls was and continues to be an important historic district in this community.

Tate House Presents Backyard Concert With the Wortzelini Brothers

Tate House Museum — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 14:51:43 GMT

Portland--- Tate House Museum is offering a Folk-Pop concert in our beautiful backyard featuring the Wortzelini Brothers on Saturday August 5 from 5:00 -7:00 PM. Come hear classic tunes by CSNY, the Band, Eagles, and Grateful Dead, as well as some original songs by this talented family band that includes two generations of brothers. Their instruments are guitars,mandolin, ukulele, harmonica, and percussion. The concert will have two sets with a short break in between.

The Wortzelini Brothers consist of brothers Rick and Rob Wortzel, and special guests Jeremy and Josh Wortzel from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Boston, and Providence. They have been playing, singing, and writing music together for decades and their wonderful music includes harmonies and instrumental jams.

The 1755 Tate House will be open from 4:15-5:00 pm for a sneak peek inside and all attendees will receive a coupon for 50% off a Tate House guided tour that can be used during our regular open season. Come meet and hear these wonderful musicians and enjoy a relaxing evening of music and sing-alongs.

Tickets are $5 in advance for Tate House Museum members, $8 for the general public, and can be purchased on our website tatehouse.org or in the Gift Shop during open hours. At-the-Door tickets are $8 for members and $10 for the general public. Please bring your own chair or blanket to 1270 Westbrook Street in Portland. Refreshments will be available for sale.

Please check our website and SM for updates if it rains.

FMI: Holly Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

House Tours in Bucksport

Bucksport Historical Society — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 18:55:47 GMT

On Saturday, September 16, 2023 from 1-4:30 pm the Bucksport Historical Society will be hosting tours of six historical homes built in the 1800’s and 1900’s, including for the first time a house located in the “townsite” a housing development built by the owners of the paper mill for its workers in the 1930’s and 40’s. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the Bucksport Historical Museum, 92 Main Street, which is open to the public from 1-4 pm Wednesdays through Saturdays in July and August. Starting on September 1 tickets can be purchased from Bookstacks at 71 Main Street.

Summer Margarita Party at Canton Historical Society

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:22:29 GMT

Summer Margarita Party in Canton on August 5

On Saturday, August 5, from 4:30-7:30 pm, the Canton Historical Society is presenting a Summer Margarita Party on the lawn of the Society’s building at 25 Turner Street, Canton, Maine.

The menu includes delicious BBQ Chicken or Pulled Pork, hosted by Alabama’s Barbeque. Cash bar hosted by Canton’s Boondocks Farm, featuring the signature drink: The Canton Margarita. Music, games, raffles. Maine gifts for sale.

The event is open to the public – free admission. (Attendees must present ID at the gate to access the cash bar.) Cash only for food; cash or CC for the bar. Park curbside or at Canton’s Public Boat Launch off Staples Hill Rd. Rain or shine!

The Canton Historical Society presents a year-round calendar of events and activities. For more information, visit: www.cantonmehistory.org, email: cantonmehistorical@gmail.com, or call: 207-500-9893.

Quilting Presentation and Luncheon

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:30:37 GMT

Former archaeologist Laurie LaBar, a curator at the Maine State Museum and author of Maine Quilts: 250 years of Comfort and Community, will be presenting about Quilting. Lunch will be provided. Registration required at the following link. https://www.rufusportermuseum.org/events

Learn Genealogy with Rufus Porter

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:28:30 GMT

Calling all 4th and 5th graders! This free program, hosted by our summer intern, will be programing for elementary students interested in Genealogy and history.

The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity is excited to invite 4th and 5th graders to come learn about Genealogy! Participants will be introduced to the subject of genealogy, and invited to explore familial and local history.

Family members are asked to please send children with family photographs, names, and dates, or anything that might help the museum assist them in putting together a family tree, which they will take home with them at the end of the event.

Admission is free, we just ask that you register online ahead of time so we have enough craft supplies for everyone.

For questions, please call 207-647-2828 or email intern@rufusportermuseum.org

https://www.rufusportermuseum.org/events

Mystery House Tour, Bridgton Area Homes: Then and Now

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:26:41 GMT

This popular fundraiser for the Rufus Porter Museum will take place on Saturday July 22nd, 2022 from 10 AM to 3 PM. Each venue will host a special theme. Locations are kept a “mystery” until check in at the Museum on the day of the tour when maps are distributed to ticket holders.Registration required at the following link. https://www.rufusportermuseum.org/event-details/2023-mystery-house-tour-bridgton-area-homes-then-and-now

Poetry in the Garden at Tate House

Tate House Museum — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:33:35 GMT

Tate House Museum Presents “Poetry in the Garden” with Michael Bove and Suzanne Simmons

Portland--- Tate House Museum is offering a Poetry Reading in our beautiful backyard and colonial garden with two published New England-based poets, Michael Bove and Suzanne Simmons. Join us on Thursday July 13 for a reception and reading from 6:15-8:00 pm. Cheese and refreshments will be served and guests offered a sneak peek at the 1755 Tate House from 6:15- 7:00 PM; poetry reading will commence 7:00- 8:00 pm. All attendees will receive a coupon for 50% off a Tate House guided tour that can be used during our regular open season. Come meet and hear these fantastic poets and enjoy refreshments on the Tate House Museum.Entry is free and open to the public of all ages! Please bring your own chair or blanket to 1270 Westbrook Street in Portland on July 13.

Mike Bove is the author of four books of poems: Soundtrack to Your Next Panic Attack (forthcoming 2024), EYE (forthcoming 2023), House Museum (2021) and Big Little City (2018). His work has appeared in journals in the US, UK, and Canada. He was winner of the 2021 Maine Postmark Poetry Contest and a 2023 finalist for a Maine Literary Award in poetry. He is Professor of English at Southern Maine Community College and lives with his family inPortland, Maine where he was born and raised. Many of his poems explore nature, memory, and New England life, particularly in Maine and the city of Portland.

Suzanne Simmons’ poems, essays, and photographs have appeared in the New York Times, The Baltimore Review, Rattle, Miramar, Fifth Wednesday and numerous other journals. In 2020 her poetry chapbook In September They Draw Down the Lake, was published by Alexandra Quarterly Press. She holds an MFA in poetry and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In May of 2023 she appeared in an episode of the World Channel’s Stories From the Stage, and she is currently finishing a manuscript that she began in Grub Street’s Memoir Incubator in 2022. She’s been a chef, a teacher, and a business owner, and raised two children on a family farm. Visit her at www.suzannesimmons.net

Please check our website and SM in the advent of rain.

FMI: Holly Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

History Walk - North Cemetery, Skowhegan

Self-Employed — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 01:11:48 GMT

Visit With Some Useful Citizens at the North Cemetery in Skowhegan

Take a guided walk with Historian Melvin Burnham

Thursday, June 29, 2023: 10am - 11:30am

This history walk explores the lives of some of those “Useful Citizens” who are buried at the North Cemetery, lives that helped shape our community. As participants travel back in time, discussions will also focus on our veterans and their experiences in our history, gravestone and monument design, and the various symbols used on the stones, as well as the history of this 1820’s cemetery. Former generations have much to say to us, although with great economy of words because each letter and ornament had to be chiseled in stone with hand tools.

This ninety-minute walk begins and ends at the North Cemetery gate located behind Walton Court Apartments on Walton Court just off Madison Avenue in Skowhegan, Maine.

Participants should be prepared to walk on uneven ground and to stand during periods of discussion. Light folding chairs and cameras are welcome.

This walk is not appropriate for young children.

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Portland Women History Makers

Tate House Museum — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:45:25 GMT

Tate House Museum Presents “Portland Women History Makers” by Dugan Murphy

Portland---It’s time again for lectures in the backyard of the Tate House Museum! Join us on June 28^th at 7:00 PM for “Portland Women History Makers” with Dugan Murphy. Locally-raised historian Dugan Murphy shares unforgettable stories about Portlanders of all backgrounds—told with heart, humor, and humanity---through his company Portland by the Foot, which offers walking tours of Portland’s downtown. He is a graduate of the Portland History Docent Program, former executive director of Maine Archives & Museums, and a curious and enthusiastic tour guide. After several years as the most requested tour guide at another local tour company, Dugan decided to create his own version of walking tours, with even more intimate, surprising, and delightful experiences.

His lecture at Tate House, “Portland Women History Makers,” will focus on women who have contributed to the area’s history. Whether running the factories or running for office, Portland women boldly shaped our city’s culture while continually moving the country toward equal rights. Drawing from over 300 years of history, Dugan will share stories of women who achieved remarkable things, like the Indigenous Penobscot performer who re-framed immigration policy, the Chinese immigrant and laundress who won American Mother of the Year, the white tavern keeper who went up against the British Navy, and the enslaved Black maid who abolished slavery statewide. You'll leave with a greater appreciation for the charm and depth of a city that was almost lost were it not for the impact of women’s collective energy and passion. Wednesday, June 28, at 7:00 PM in Tate House Museum’s backyard, 1270 Westbrook Street Portland, ME. Join us for this exciting lecture, heard from the comfort of a lawn chair, while enjoying summer in Maine!

Tickets purchased in advance are $12 General Admission and $10 for Tate House Museum members. At the door prices are $15 General Admission and $12 for THM members. Advance tickets can be found at www.tatehouse.org Attendees are asked to bring their own lawn chairs or blanket. If it rains, the lecture will be held at the Stroudwater Village Church, 1729 Congress Street, Portland.

FMI: Holly Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

Summer With The Past! Summer camps for kids ages 7-11

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:36:20 GMT

Lincoln County Historical Association's annual day camp for kids, Summer with the Past, Discovering 18th and 19th Century Art, Crafts and History is again offered for children ages 7 through 11. This year’s sessions will be held at the Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, June 26 – June 30, and at the 1811 Old Jail and Museum in Wiscasset, August 7 - 11.

The children will be introduced to each site’s unique history and enjoy a variety of projects and games popular in the 18th and 19th Centuries. These activities vary depending on the time frame of the historic site. Included in the activities planned for both sites are art and textile projects, and unique craft work. In support of summer reading, each child can choose an historical theme book to borrow for the week. The books have been chosen based on their historical themes, and/or their relevance to Maine.

Pre-registration is required, further details and registration information can be found on the LCHA website: www.lincolncountyhistory.org - click on Learn and scroll down to Youth Programs. To request information to be mailed to you, please contact LCHA by phone (207 882-6817), write LCHA at, Post Office Box 61, Wiscasset, ME 04578, or e-mail at info@lincolncountyhistory.org Space is limited, so please register early.

Photo Caption: A participant at the Summer with the Past program copies 18th century textile art. Photo by Louise T. MIller.

The Gardens of Lincoln County Tour

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:28:41 GMT

Incredible gardens in Lincoln County villages will be open to visitors over two days this summer. “The Gardens of Lincoln County,” hosted by Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA), includes self-guided tours of special gardens in Dresden, Wiscasset, Newcastle, Damariscotta, and Round Pond on Friday June 30 and Saturday July 1.

“The Gardens of Lincoln County” will showcase a variety of garden styles including perennial gardens, cottage style gardens, working gardens, historically-inspired gardens, and gardens that express a particularly special personal design.

Tickets to the garden tour will include free admission for a tour at any of LCHA's historic museums: The 1754 Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, the 1761 Pownalborough Court House in Dresden, and the 1811 Old Jail and Museum in Wiscasset.

Tickets may be purchased in advance for $30 for one day or $50 for both. Visit https://www.lincolncountyhistory.org/garden-tour for more information and to order tickets.

Proceeds from Gardens of Lincoln County will support the ongoing work of Lincoln County Historical Association to collect, preserve, and interpret the history of Lincoln County, Maine.

Pownalborough Court House in Dresden is one stop on Lincoln County Historical Association's summer garden tour. Photo by Bob Bond.

Jailhouse Rock! A fun "friendraiser" party for all ages at the Old Jail in Wiscasset

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:21:24 GMT

The yard of the Old Jail will come alive with rock ’n roll music by Gary Lawless and his band, Leopard Girls. Bring a picnic and a blanket or lawn chairs. Cookout fare will also be offered, including hot dogs, veggie burgers, chips & water for a nominal fee. Pre-registration is requested. Admission is $5 for adults; kids free. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets may be purchased at https://www.lincolncountyhistory.org/jailhouse-rock/.

Gary Lawless has dug deep into his repertoire for jailhouse tunes, including I Fought The Law, I Shot the Sheriff, Jailhouse Rock, Folsom Prison, Mama Tried, Whipping Post, Unchain My Heart and more!!. There will be lawn games for all ages, and a chance to meet new neighbors.

The Lincoln County Historical Association is a non-profit organization that provides stewardship for the 1754 Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, the 1761 Pownalborough Court House in Dresden, and the 1811 Old Jail and Museum in Wiscasset. For more information, visit www.lincolncountyhistory.org or Lincoln County Historical Association (Maine) on Facebook.

A Conversation with Penobscot Artist Barry Dana on June 8

Self-Employed — Wed, 31 May 2023 00:01:27 GMT

Join Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center for A Conversation with Penobscot Artist Barry Dana.

Thursday, June 8 at 7pm, in person at the Margaret Chase Smith Library, 56 Norridgewock Ave, Skowhegan.

Barry will share his process in creating a beautiful new mural commissioned by the Skowhegan History House depicting life along the Kennebec prior to European contact. This will be an open ended conversation about history and culture along the Kennebec. He will offer visual representations of his experience of his culture, his tradition and the natural world.

Barry Dana was born and raised on Indian Island. He is a self taught painter, birch bark basket maker, educator and former chief of the Penobscot Nation. After graduating with a forestry degree from UMO, he got a degree in education and for 14 years taught a course to strengthen the connection with nature and culture for the elementary school children on Indian Island. This course evolved to his current school visit program that has taken him all over the state to share his culture and traditions with non-native children of all ages. He has dedicated his whole life to preserving Wabanaki culture and language through his school visits and through his basket making and painting.

This talk is a part of Skowhegan History House's Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series.

FMI: visit https://skowheganhistoryhouse.org/speaker-series/ or call (207) 474-6632.

Mali Obomsawin Presents the LandBack Movement & Kennebec Region History on June 15

Self-Employed — Tue, 30 May 2023 23:55:40 GMT

The Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center is pleased to announce that Mali Obomsawin is the next speaker in its Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series. On Thursday June 15 at 7pm, Mali Obomsawin presents the living Wabanaki history of the Kennebec River region and its people from before European arrival to the colonial era (up to present) and the LandBack movement in Maine and beyond.

Obomsawin's tribal historic preservation research focuses on Abenaki community history and its intersections with other Wabanaki nations in the modern-day US. The Abenaki of today make up two federally recognized First Nations (Odanak and W8linak) in Canada, but originally come from homelands in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Mali Obomsawin is a musician, writer, and community organizer originally from Farmington, Maine and a citizen of Odanak First Nation (Abenaki). She currently serves as executive director of Bomazeen Land Trust, an inter-tribal Wabanaki initiative dedicated to land return, rematriation, and food sovereignty across Wabanaki homelands. Mali also works as a consultant and writer with Sunlight Media Collective and is committed to telling stories at the intersections of environmental justice, history, and tribal sovereignty through her work. Her writings have also been published in The Boston Globe and Smithsonian Folklife Magazine. Mali holds a dual degree in Government and Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College (2018).

This event is free and takes place at Tewksbury Hall on Weston Avenue in Skowhegan and will also be broadcast via Zoom.

Join by Zoom here: https://bit.ly/45Azt2m or visit https://skowheganhistoryhouse.org/speaker-series/

FMI: (207) 474-6632

Opening Day at Tate House Museum - Colonial Live

Tate House Museum — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:18:38 GMT

Portland---Come celebrate the opening of the Tate House’s 2023 season on Saturday, June 3 rd from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (rain date Sunday June 4). We’ll be doing COLONIAL up big with lots of fun activities for the whole family. Our special guest is Colonial Reenactor Michael Dekker who will describe Native-Colonist trade in the 17 th and 18 th centuries with his Living History Mobile Museum. Michael is the author of French and Indian Wars in Maine and he will be engaging folks all day with his extensive knowledge of the time period.

Colonial games and activities for children will be offered from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM while one-hour docent-led tours of the Tate House will commence at 10 AM, 11 AM and 12 noon. There will be a backyard performance of colonial-dressed characters-- Tate Family & Neighbors--from 1:00 to 2:00 PM. Other exhibits include Herbs and Plants of the Colonial Garden and Herbal Tea Tasting from 10:00-12 noon. Historic textile aficionado Vivian Cunningham will be demonstrating 18 th century clothing throughout the day.

Special tours by our consulting curator, Laura Sprague, and executive director, Holly K Hurd,will highlight NEW collections and tour narratives, including Native baskets and the work of a domestic servant who was probably enslaved. These tours will occur every half hour from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Docent Bill Gousse will offer an Architectural Tour at 2:30 PM whichprovides at look at the Tate House attic and cellar, not included on a regular tour.

The cost for the day’s activities is $18 for adults, $7 for children under 12 years and $35 for families with children. Member prices are $15 adults, $5 children, and $30 for families.

Come join in the fun and experience this unique museum with its colonial trappings LIVE!

Tate House Museum will be open for regular house tours on Wednesday June 7. Please visit our website for advance tickets and information: www.tatehouse.org.

Atlantic Coast Preparedness Workshop at the Portland Art Museum

Northeast Document Conservation Center — Fri, 12 May 2023 12:42:58 GMT

Atlantic Coast Preparedness Workshop Series (in-person) – https://www.nedcc.org/acpw
Portland Art Museum, Maine, August 17th
Greetings from the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC). I am reaching out to share information about NEDCC’s Atlantic Coast Preparedness Workshop series. Eight low-cost workshops for cultural heritage organizations, emergency management personnel, and government departments along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, funded partly by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. These in-person workshops provide the opportunity to acquire hands-on experience with salvage techniques for formats commonly found in cultural collections, including books, documents, photographs, and audiovisual materials. Dates and locations for each state are on the project page.

Tate House Museum Plant and Herb Sale

Tate House Museum — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:59:40 GMT

Portland --- It’s that time of year again when fingers are itching to get out into the garden. On May 20 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 pm the Tate House Museum at 1267 Westbrook St., Portland invites you to shop for perennials and annuals for your garden. New this year: Native Plants for sale! Children (and all ages) are invited to make a native plant “seed bomb.” The Tate House kitchen will be open from 10 am to 12 noon with a special garden-themed display and information about plant use by the Tate family.

This popular plant sale features perennials and herbs divided from the Tate House garden along with perennials and native plants from local gardens. There will also be a variety of annual flowers, vegetable seedlings, and hanging baskets to choose from. This can be your one-stop shop for the garden this year! Come and enjoy a cup of coffee while you pick out those special plants.

Proceeds from the sale support the educational mission of Tate House Museum, the only colonial period public museum in Cumberland County.

FMI: Contact Holly K. Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Bounty: Film Screening & Conversation, Apr. 18 at 5 PM via Zoom

Maine Archives and Museums — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 22:00:11 GMT

April 18, 5:00PM-6:30PM | Attend live via Zoom: REGISTER HERE

Join us for a free virtual screening of "Bounty" followed by a conversation with filmmakers and educators.

Bounty, part of the Upstander Project's Dawnland film series, reveals the hidden story of the Phips Proclamation, one of many scalp-bounty proclamations used to exterminate Native people in order to take their land in what is now New England. In the film, Penobscot parents and children resist erasure and commemorate survival by reading and reacting to the government-issued Phips Proclamation’s call for colonial settlers to hunt, scalp, and murder Penobscot people.

Following the screening, moderator Jared Lank,Mi’kmaq documentary filmmaker, will engage a panel including Dawn Neptune Adams, Penobscot filmmaker and journalist, Sunlight Media Collective, Bounty co-director/participant; Zev Bliss, Educator for Portland Public Schools; and Mishy Lesser,Learning director, Upstander Project, co-director, the Upstander Academy, and Emmy® award-winning researcher, in a conversation about the the film.

Place Justice is a statewide truth-seeking and historical recovery initiative of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations that seeks to engage Wabanaki and Maine communities in examining a wide range of commemorative practices to better understand and respond to the ways in which racialized and Indigenous populations are represented in or absent from the narratives inscribed on our natural and built environment.

The Place Justice Event Series features free, virtual and in-person panel discussions and film screenings to engage the public in considering some often complex and contentious issues. Whose stories are being told and whose suppressed? Whose legacies are being forwarded, and at whose expense?

Learn more about the Permanent Commission, the Place Justice Project, and the full event series.

Poetry Reading with Maine Poet Laureate Julia Bouwsma

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:25:46 GMT

Julia Bouwsma, Maine poet Laureate, will do a reading of new and published poems, followed by a Q&A session. Julia lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine, where she is a poet, homesteader, editor, teacher, small-town librarian, and Maine’s current Poet Laureate. Bouwsma is the author of two poetry collections, Midden (Fordham University Press, 2018) and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review, 2017), both of which received Maine Literary Awards for Poetry Book. Other honors include the Poet’s Out Loud Prize (2016-17), the Cider Press Review Book Award (2015), and residency fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Monson Arts (Monson, ME), Annex Arts (Castine, ME), and Storyknife (Homer, AK). She currently serves as the Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield, ME and teaches in the Creative Writing department at the University of Maine at Farmington. Tickets are free with a suggested donation of $10.00. https://www.rufusportermuseum.org/event-details/readings-and-q-a-with-maine-poet-laureate-julia-bouwsma

Nathan Scholl Presents Archaeological Discoveries at Shawmut Dam, Skowhegan

Self-Employed — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:49:23 GMT

Nathan Scholl, a Geo-archaeologist/Principal Investigator, will present his discoveries at Shawmut Dam and adjacent riverfront properties on Friday, March 31, at 7 p.m. This free program is sponsored by Skowhegan History House and takes place at the Skowhegan Free Public Library at 9 Elm Street. It will also be broadcast via Zoom.

Mr. Scholl worked between 2019 - 2021 for a consulting firm specializing in cultural resources management and historic preservation services. He visited History House in 2021 with questions about 1800s early ferry services and first settlers. During the visit he discovered a link between Philbrick’s 1809 pottery factory and pottery shards found in the heirloom gardens that match those found at the dig sites. He commented how rare it was to find an original source of any recovered artifact.

Other unearthed artifacts could be related to Benedict Arnold’s army as it moved upriver through Skowhegan towards Quebec in 1775.

For more information, contact Patricia Horine at psaeon2@gmail.com or 207-474-8215.

The presentation will also be broadcast online via Zoom. To register for the Zoom call, visit https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvdOCqrz8uGN3-0bM9DGc1H6DOu9_dhI_2

Clark Fitz-Gerald: Castine’s Celebrated Sculptor-in-Residence

Castine Historical Society — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:49:53 GMT

The Castine Historical Society will debut the second season of the exhibition, Clark Fitz-Gerald: Castine’s Celebrated Sculptor-in-Residence. The exhibit was so popular we are bringing it back with many new sculptures. This will be a fresh new look at this artist’s amazing career. For detailed exhibit hours visit www.castinehistoricalsociety.org.

Clark Fitz-Gerald: Castine’s Celebrated Sculptor-in-Residence will explore the life and work of the sculptor, Clark Fitz-Gerald (1917-2004). When Fitz-Gerald moved to Castine in 1956, he had already made a name for himself as a sculptor. Throughout his long career, he achieved regional, national, and international renown for his work. On display will be sculptures lent from private collections, along with Fitz-Gerald’s drawings, historic photographs, and writings from the Clark Fitz-Gerald archival collection donated to the Castine Historical Society by the family in 2017.

Castine Uncovered Walking Tours - Friday, Saturday and Monday

Castine Historical Society — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:47:55 GMT

The Castine Historical Society offers guided Walking Tours of Castine for the 2022 season! Starting June 17, the staff and volunteers of the Historical Society will offer Castine Uncovered Walking Tours, a fun, informative, outdoor learning experience. All tours are free of charge, but donations are greatly appreciated and can be made onsite or on our donations page. No reservations are required for the tour.

June 17-October 10:

Friday, Saturday, and Monday at 10 AM

If you are not in Castine at one of these times and would like to set up a special tour, please call us at (207) 326-4118, or send an email to info@castinehistoricalsociety.org. Special tours are offered 7 days a week through the season, but must be arranged a minimum of 48 hours in advance.

Hidden Legacies: A Walking Tour of Castine’s African American History

Castine Historical Society — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:45:58 GMT

Date: Saturday, October 14, 2023

Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Reservations required at castinehistoricalsociety.org and limited to the first 15 people. Rain date October 21.

Join Georgia Zildjian and Lisa Lutts for an hour-long walking tour on Castine’s African American history.

Attendees will take an hour-long walk through Castine to visit the homes, places of work, and burial sites of Castine’s African and African American residents. During the tour you will learn first-hand about their lives, struggles, and successes living in this coastal community.

Abolition and the Underground Railroad in Maine

Castine Historical Society — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:44:01 GMT

Date: Thursday, September 7, 2023

Time: 7:00 pm

Preregistration is required for those attending via Zoom at castinehistoricalsociety.org. No registration is necessary if you will be attending in-person.

A lecture by Dr. Mary Freeman, University of Maine, that explores slavery and emancipation in Maine, antislavery activism and the role of African Americans, and Underground Railroad myths. Via Zoom and in-person at Emerson Hall, 67 Court St., Castine.

This presentation will briefly explore the long history of slavery and emancipation in Maine before focusing on antislavery activism in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Dr. Freeman will pay particular attention to the role of African Americans in advancing the cause of abolition in Maine and the complicated relationship between myth and historical fact in understanding Mainers’ involvement in the Underground Railroad.

14th Annual Deborah Pulliam Memorial Lecture: “Cargos of Despair: Northern New England and the Slave Trade”

Castine Historical Society — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:41:00 GMT

Date: Thursday, August 10, 2023

Time: 7:00 pm

Preregistration is required for those attending via Zoom at castinehistoricalsociety.org. No registration is necessary if you will be attending in-person.

Dr. Kate McMahon of the Smithsonian Institution will deliver a lecture on New England and the slave trade via Zoom and in-person at Delano Auditorium, Leavitt Hall, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine.

In her talk, Dr. McMahon will discuss how the United States prohibited its citizens from participating in the African slave trade in 1808. Yet despite this, northern New Englanders, including Mainers, plied the coasts of Africa in increasing numbers from 1808 until 1862, transporting and selling hundreds of thousands of captive Africans to the Caribbean and South America. This talk will discuss how this brutal traffic occurred, and the ways in which African people resisted their enslavement.

“Portland’s Abyssinian Meeting House and Its Ties to the Underground Railroad”

Castine Historical Society — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:38:20 GMT

Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Time: 5:30 pm

Preregistration is required for those attending via Zoom at castinehistoricalsociety.org. No registration is necessary if you will be attending in-person.

A talk on Portland’s African American meeting house and its ties with Castine by Pamela Cummings, Board Chair, Abyssinian Meeting House. Via Zoom and in-person at Emerson Hall, 67 Court St., Castine.

The Abyssinian Meeting House, a National Historic Registry site located at 75 Newbury Street in Portland, was built in 1828, and was the historical, religious, educational, and cultural center of Portland’s 19th-century African American community. It has a unique tie to Castine as one of its founders, Abraham Niles, was born, raised and educated in Castine before moving to Portland to continue his career as a sailor. Cummings will talk about the history of the Meeting House and its ties to the Underground Railroad. Because of its easy access by rail and sea, Portland developed as one of the northernmost hubs of the Underground Railroad, the last stop before legal freedom outside the country. When the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, it allowed slave owners and their agents to track down freedom seekers in the North and return them to slavery. Portland’s black and white activists reacted, providing safe houses and helping to organize escape routes to England and Canada. Despite the trepidation of some members, The Abyssinian Meeting House was closely associated with the Underground Railroad and with local abolitionist activity. Leaders and members of the Abyssinian Church actively participated in concealing, supplying, and transporting refugees from slavery, as recounted in slave narratives and oral traditions. The Portland Union Antislavery Society, founded in 1842, was one of several grassroots movements advocating for the abolition of slavery in the South. The founding meeting was held at The Abyssinian Meeting House. One unpublished memoir also refers to a fugitive slave being concealed in the meeting house itself.

“Castine: Occupation, Accommodation, Collaboration, and Treason in the War of 1812"

Castine Historical Society — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:35:49 GMT

Thursday, June 29: “Castine: Occupation, Accommodation, Collaboration, and Treason in the War of 1812", 7:00 p.m. Hosted by the Castine History Partners, this talk by Dr. Joshua Smith focuses on the 1814 British occupation of Castine with stories of traitors, smugglers, and spies. Via Zoom and in-person at the Wilson Museum’s Hutchins Education Center, 112 Perkins St., Castine.

Preregistration is required for the zoom session at https://www.wilsonmuseum.org/events/castine-war-of-1812-2023

“The Singular Life of Mary Tyler Jackson”

Castine Historical Society — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:32:46 GMT

Date: Thursday, June 22, 2023

Time: 7:00 pm

Preregistration is required for this Zoom event at castinehistoricalsociety.org.

A talk via Zoom on Castine’s African American Jackson family by local author and historian, Georgia Zildjian.

During this talk, George Zildjian will explore the legacy of a life-long African American resident of Castine, Mary Tyler Jackson (1850-1917). This remarkable woman’s story forms the center point of a fascinating two-generation family saga. Orphaned and alone at just 14, Mary persevered through the often incongruous circumstances of her youth, becoming a beloved member of her community. Join us as we chart the journey of Mary Jackson’s life and her impact on the living history of Castine.

“Uncovering the Legacies of Castine’s African Americans”

Castine Historical Society — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:38:04 GMT

Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023

Time: 7:00 pm

Preregistration is required for this event at cstinehistoricalsociety.org.

A talk via Zoom on the hidden stories of Castine’s African American population from enslavement to the early 20th century by CHS Executive Director Lisa Simpson Lutts.

The stories of Castine’s African and African American citizens have largely been ignored in the written histories of the town. Over the past few years, staff have researched the archival records to uncover these hidden stories. Attendees will learn about the earliest enslaved people who worked in Castine, as well as the stories of free black families who lived and worked in Castine while raising their children.

The Place Justice Initiative

Castine Historical Society — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:32:29 GMT

Thursday, May 4: “The Place Justice Initiative: A Statewide Truth-seeking and Historical Recovery Initiative of the Permanent Commission”, 7:00 p.m. A talk via Zoom by Meadow Dibble and Erika Arthur of Maine’s Place Justice Project. Preregistration is required at castinehistoricalsociety.org.

Who gets memorialized through place names, statues, and historical markers is a strong indicator of a society’s values and its dominant sense of collective identity. The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations has launched a Place Justice Project that seeks to engage Wabanaki and Maine communities in examining a wide range of commemorative practices to better understand and respond to the ways in which racialized and Indigenous populations are represented in or absent from the narratives inscribed on our natural and built environment. Whose memory is visible and celebrated, and whose has been erased or misrepresented? How do the politics and practices of public remembrance and forgetting continue to impact our communities today?

Maine's Black History

Castine Historical Society — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:28:05 GMT

Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023

Time: 7:00 pm

Preregistration is required for this event at castinehistoricalsociety.org.

A talk via Zoom on three centuries of Maine’s Black history by historian and journalist Bob Greene.

Did you know that Maine’s Black history goes back to at least 12 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock? The history of the Pine Tree State includes many Black builders, farmers, fishermen, ship captains, educators, and more whose lives have often been forgotten or ignored. In fact, the first doctor in Maine may have been a Black man, and the nation’s first Black lawyer practiced in Portland after passing the bar. The Castine Historical Society will host historian Bob Greene, who will explore and celebrate this often hidden side of Maine’s history.

Virtual Lecture: Poetry Reading with Maine Poet Laureate Julia Bouwsma

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 19:30:20 GMT

Julia will do a reading of new and published poetry followed by a Q&A session. Free with a suggested donation of $10.00

Create a 19th-Century Style Floorcloth

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 19:25:29 GMT

Welcome to Painted Floorcloths. Using designs inspired by Moses Eaton and other 19th Century stencil artists, this class is suitable for beginners or those who have limited experience with stenciling. For more information about Moses Eaton: https://www.mbhistoricdecor.com/uploads/1/0/1/6/101615892/moseseatonstencils.pdf

Participants will be creating a 2' x 3' floorcloth to take home. All materials will be provided to complete the project. The Instructor will share a bit of history on the use of floorcloths and decorative stenciling in a brief presentation.

Cost = $80.00

Date = Saturday April 29th

Time = 10 AM to 4 PM

Location = Stevens Brook Elementary School Art Room (Frances Bell Drive, Bridgton)

Maximum per Class = 8

Please bring a hair dryer (if you have one) to expedite drying time!
Bring a bagged lunch to eat
If class is full, please email staff@rufusportermuseum.org so that we can start a wait list for a second class.
Instructor: Peg Puza
When you arrive, park in the back of the building and walk to the front and come to the Art Room door, marked A4. There will be signs to show you where to go.

Rug Hooking with Elizabeth Miller

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 20:29:14 GMT

Would you like to learn the art of North American rug hooking?

June 11, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Bridgton, The Rufus Porter Museum or Art and Ingenuity 121 Main St, Bridgton, ME 04009, USA

Would you like to learn the art of North American rug hooking in an easy going, relaxed environment that encourages modern interpretations?

Join us for a one session hooking class to get started on our 6" x 6" mug rug pattern using your choice of available patterns!

Session will include: Introduction to hooking including some history of the craft, an overview of styles, how to choose hooking wools and other materials, tools, rules (there are very few), tips, and tricks, and getting started on our projects. Finishing instructions will also be demonstrated!

Materials included in the price of the course are: hook, 12" hoop, 6" x 6" pattern hand drawn on linen rug foundation, all wool needed to complete the pattern (you choose your own colors!), printed instructions, ongoing access to the instructor for questions after class, new friends, and a new craft!

Lunch included. $95.00

I hope you will join us for this fun class!

Register HERE

The Role of the Arctic in a Warming World

Wilson Museum — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:19:04 GMT

Have you ever wanted to go to the Arctic? Dr. Paul Andrew Mayewski, an internationally acclaimed glaciologist, climate scientist, and polar explorer, has led over 60 expeditions throughout the remotest polar and high elevation reaches of our planet and lived in the Arctic for nearly two years.

On Monday, February 13 (6 pm), Dr. Mayewski will share insights from his award-winning research and extensive experiences in the Arctic focusing on the significant impact this apparently isolated part of the globe has on the rest of the world, especially as it is warming two to three times faster than the rest of the planet.

This presentation is free of charge and can be attended in-person or virtually. If attending virtually, please register in advance of the program via the registration link on the Wilson Museum’s calendar of events: https://www.wilsonmuseum.org/events/the-role-of-the-arctic-in-a-warming-world.

The program is part of the Arctic: Changes in a Northern Climate segment of the Wilson Museum’s Connecting to Collections program series made possible through the generous support of Bangor Savings Bank.

Judges Needed for National History Day in Maine

Margaret Chase Smith Library — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:10:20 GMT

National History Day in Maine is currently looking for volunteers to judge middle and high school aged historical research projects at their regional and state contests!

For the first time in three years, the contests will be in-person for the 2023 season. The 2023 contest schedule is as follows:

Southern Lewiston Contest: March 3, 2023

Northern Bangor Contest: March 25, 2023

University of Maine State Contest: April 29, 2023

You may be asking, “who can judge?” We are looking for teachers, professors, historians, museum professionals, or anyone with a substantial interest in history to serve as judges. Anyone interested is welcome to serve as a judge, no prior experience is necessary. Please pass this along and encourage your colleagues to participate this year too!

Registration is easy and you can participate in multiple contests. Click the link(s) (below) for the contest you want to judge, go to “create an account” at the top right, choose “judge” in the dropdown menu, and follow the instructions. It’s that easy. For further instruction or to sign up for multiple contests using one account please reference our 2023 Virtual Judging Guide.

As you register, consider which categories you might be interested in judging. You may request a specific category (exhibit, website, paper, performance, or documentary) that aligns with your profession or interests. If you do not choose a specific category we will assign one for you.

Before the contest (Roughly 3 weeks prior) you will receive your judging assignment from me, this will include names and contact information of your fellow judges within your team and further instructions and information on the category you will be judging.

Here are the links. Please take note of when judge registration closes.

Southern Lewiston Contest Judging: Registration Closes February 10, 2023

Northern Bangor Contest Judging: Registration Closes March 3, 2023

University of Maine State Contest Judging: Registration Closes April 7, 2023

As a notification, there are a few changes or carryovers from the virtual contests that will now be part of the fun. They include the following:

From now on it will be expected that you bring an electronic device (i.e. a computer, tablet, etc.) with you on contest day in order to fill out the online evaluation forms. Please understand that a smartphone is NOT compatible with the online system and therefore should NOT be the device you choose to rely upon. If you cannot provide one for yourself please contact Coordinator John Taylor john.m.taylor@maine.edu to work out other arrangements.
Students will be required to upload process papers and annotated bibliographies prior to contest day. This means you will be able to access them before the contest and read them at your own leisure through our contest portal. Be sure to remember your username and password when you register to judge.
Lunch will NOT be provided at the regional contests. You will be offered heavy snacks and beverages throughout the contest, but most judging will end by 1:00PM. Lunch will still be provided at the state contest.
- For better understanding of the contest schedules, please click here (schedules are subject to change).

Thank you for your consideration. Please contact the State Coordinator John Taylor at john.m.taylor@maine.edu if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.

Create a 19th Century Style Floorcloths

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:27:20 GMT

Sat, Feb 25

Stevens Brook Elementary School

Create a 19th-Century Style Floorcloth

Welcome to Painted Floorcloths

Time & Location

Feb 25, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Stevens Brook Elementary School, 14 Frances Bell Dr, Bridgton, ME 04009, USA

About the Event

Cost = $80.00

Registration Required. Register here: https://www.rufusportermuseum.org/event-details/create-a-19th-century-style-floorcloth

Tate House Celebrates a Colonial Christmas

Tate House Museum — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:43:53 GMT

Portland--- The Tate House Museum is hosting a Colonial Christmas Open House on Saturday, December 17 from 12 to 4 PM with Christmas-themed tours of Tate House from 12-3 PM. This event will feature docents sharing stories of colonial life around the holidays in the time of the Tate family.

This year the open house will encompass all of the rooms of the Tate House where docents clothed in 18 th century attire will tell visitors about life in colonial times in a merchant class British colonial household. They will talk about some of the customs and traditions of the time around the holidays and how these customs may have differed from their Puritan neighbors. The special foods made for Christmas, New Years, and Twelfth Night celebrations will also be described.

Following your tour of the Tate House cross the street to the Means House for some wassail, cookies, and music. This is also your opportunity to shop for unique holiday gifts in the gift shop with a 10% discount off your entire purchase.

Please join us on Saturday, December 17 from 12 to 4 PM for the sights, sounds, and tastes of a Colonial Christmas at the only pre-Revolutionary home in Greater Portland open to the public.

Admission in the Means House is $15 adult non-member, $12 adult member, $10 child 5-12 years non-member, $8 child member, under 5 free. Family rate (up to 4 people) non-member $30, member $25. Advance tickets are available on our website tatehouse.org or at the door.

FMI:

Holly Hurd, Executive Director

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Eventbrite Link:

New Insights into Enslaved and Indigenous Peoples in Colonial Portland

Tate House Museum — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 17:40:38 GMT

on Wednesday, November 16, Holly K. Hurd, Executive Director, and Laura F. Sprague, Consulting Curator, Tate House Museum, will present an illustrated Zoom program at 5:30 pm. The lecture will be moderated by Aimee Keithan, PhD, Research Associate, University of York. They will highlight new research about colonial Portland & perspectives on Indigenous and Enslaved people that will expand the interpretation of historic Tate House. Recent interpretations shared with visitors to the historic site in Portland's Stroudwaterneighborhood have focused primarily on the lives of George and Mary Tate, of a wealthy merchant class family, who built the house in 1755 and lived there until 1794. With the support of a Maine Humanities Council grant, Tate House Museum has been working to expand its narrative to understand the lives and work of enslaved people in the neighborhood and perspectives and representations of Indigenous people who also lived in the region. The lecture will include research about Colonel Thomas Westbrook and Samuel Waldo and describe how their actions affected Native people as well as what is known and not known about enslaved people and domestic servants in Stroudwater. Tate House Museum’s objective is to engage in important community conversations about Maine’s colonial history to make its educational offerings more inclusive and to tell a more complete story.

Registration for the lecture is free and open to the public. Information about ticketing is available at www.tatehouse.org. Please direct questions to Holly Hurd at hkhurd@tatehouse.org.

October 13: Chris Sockalexis presents, "Cultural History/Archaeology within the Traditional Landscape of the Penobscot"

Self-Employed — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:22:03 GMT

The Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center is pleased to announce that Chris Sockalexis is the next speaker in its Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series. On Thursday October 13 at 7pm, Chris will present Penobscot culture, history, and archaeology within the traditional landscape of the Penobscot Nation. This will include an overview of the archaeological record mixed with traditional knowledge and traditional / contemporary drumming and singing.

Chris Sockalexis is a member of the Penobscot Nation and is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Penobscot Nation. He is a graduate of the University of Maine Anthropology Department as well as the Climate Change Institute. Chris is also an accomplished singer who travels throughout the northeast to various powwows and other gatherings with his drum group, The RezDogs. He loves being out on the waterways of Maine and is one of the lead contacts for the Penobscot Nation Cultural Tourism Program which offers guided canoe trips along the Penobscot River.

This event is free and takes place at Tewksbury Hall on Weston Avenue in Skowhegan and will also be broadcast via Zoom. Masks are required for in-person attendance.

To register for the Zoom link, visit https://msad54.maineadulted.org/

FMI: (207) 474-6632.

WWII: Why They Fought - An Interactive Presentation, Oct. 8, at Canton Historical Society

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:23:28 GMT

WWII: Why They Fought
An Interactive Presentation on WWII History

On Saturday, October 8, 2022, at the Canton Historical Society in Canton, Doug Culver will present an interactive talk on WWII, using original artifacts to tell the story of these ordinary men and women and their extraordinary achievements. The program includes hands-on demonstrations of the uniforms and equipment used during the War and will highlight the stories of several local residents’ family members who served in various branches of the military.

You will learn about the War and why we fought, as told through the vivid stories of the men and women who served, made even more dramatic by a first-hand view of the uniforms they wore and the equipment and supplies they carried. You will gain a new understanding of the unfolding events of WWII and how they shaped our country and the world. The program provides guidance on identifying WWII uniforms, ribbons, medals, and other artifacts found in family collections, and how these items can help trace the service of your family’s WWII veterans.

Doug Culver has presented free WWII programs for the past 40 years for high schools, veterans’ groups, museums, libraries, historical societies, and other organizations.

Admission is free and open to the public. Program times: 1-3 pm. Doors open at 12:30 pm. Seating is limited. Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Not recommended for very young children.

Saturday, October 8, 2022
Canton Historical Society
25 Turner Street, Canton, ME www.cantonmehistory.org

Free admission – nonprofit event – open to the public

For more information, contact the Canton Historical Society: Email: cantonmehistorical@gmail.com

Tate House Museum Presents ColoniAle 2022

Tate House Museum — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 18:31:57 GMT

On Saturday, October 8 from 3 to 6PM the Tate House Museum presents ColoniAle 2022 at the museum. Come find out what you don't know about making beer in colonial times while you tour the Tate House museum on a special guided tour. What is spruce beer? How did a woman in the 1700's make beer for the family? What kinds of “cocktails” can you make with beer? This is a one hour tour followed with a social time in the "backyard" where you will be given a Tate House pint glass, 2 pints of Mast Landing Ale and a Tate House tote. Imbibing is encouraged!!

Tours 3-5PM with social hour 4-6PM. Admission is $25 for General Admission and $20 for Museum Members. Tours are timed when you arrive and can be purchased by going to Eventbrite with the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coloniale-2022-tickets-409358882437 .

Or go to www.tatehouse.org

For More Information:

Holly K Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Tate House Museum Presents Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding

Tate House Museum — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:37:51 GMT

-On Wednesday, September 14 at 7PM the Tate House Museum presents the third in its series of outdoor lectures on the lawn of the museum.

Nathan Lipfert, Curator Emeritus of the Maine Maritime Museum, will offer an illustrated

talk about the history of Maine shipyards, and the shipbuilders and vessels they built,

concentrating on the 200 years since statehood. During the wooden shipbuilding era,

Maine shipyards built more ships than any other state, and every coastal community

participated in this industry. Maine continues as an important shipbuilding region into

the present, providing well-paid skilled employment to thousands of people who build

vessels of wood, metal, and composite materials that have an impact around the world.

Lipfert’s presentation will be based on research from his recently published book, Two

Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding: A Visual History. (book will be available for sale)

For Advance Tickets visit tatehouse.org or https://www.simpletix.com/e/two-centuries-of-maine-shipbuilding-lectur-tickets-114200. Tickets are $12 General Admission, $10 Tate House Museum members. Tickets At the Door $15 General Admission, $12 Tate House Museum members.

Bring lawn chairs or blankets. Note: Rain date will be Thursday Sept 15 (same time).

Please check our website if weather predicts rain. Beverages and snacks will be available for purchase.

FMI: Holly Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, ME 04102

August 25: Stories of Nanrantsouak/Norridgewock Village: Understanding the Legacies of our Shared Histories of Violence

Self-Employed — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:20:52 GMT

The Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series, sponsored by Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center, continues with a talk by Ashley Smith on Thursday August 25th from 7pm to 8pm. Ashley's talk is entitled, “Stories of Nanrantsouak/Norridgewock Village: Understanding the Legacies of our Shared Histories of Violence.”

This event is free and takes place at Tewksbury Hall on Weston Avenue in Skowhegan and will also be broadcast via Zoom. Masks are required for in-person attendance.

To register for the Zoom link, visit msad54.maineadulted.org.

FMI: (207) 474-6632.

Ashley Smith was born and raised in Madison, Maine where some members of her family have been for multiple generations. She is a child of factory and papermill workers in the heart of this region of Maine. She also understands herself to be a product of the deep histories of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships and struggles that have shaped this region. As a child, her grandfather regularly took her to gather water at the site of the Wabanaki village Nanrantsouak or Norridgewock, known locally as “the Pines” in Madison. She grew up hearing stories of this place and the horrible violence that the English had brought to Wabanaki people here. For a high school project, she decided to research the history of this place and learned, to her surprise, that much of what she found in published books contradicted what she had grown up knowing and what her family had taught her about this place. Since then, she has spent much of her adult life learning about this place and its stories and memories from multiple perspectives, both book research and interviews with Indigenous descendants and non-Indigenous locals. She tries to understand how competing narratives like the ones she faced come about, how they impact people into the present, and what we might do about it. She holds a PhD in Anthropology and Native American and Indigenous Studies and is affiliated faculty at Hampshire College in Massachusetts where she used to teach. She recently left academia to return home and serve the Maine communities that mean so much to her. She now works as a legal aid paralegal and consumer advocate at Pine Tree Legal Assistance.

Film and Discussion with Dwayne Tomah on July 21, 7pm to 9pm

Self-Employed — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:40:44 GMT

The Skowhegan History House Museum is pleased to announce that Dwayne Tomah, Director and Curator of the Sipayik Museum, is the next speaker in the Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series. On Thursday July 21 at 7 pm, Tomah will lead a discussion after showing the 1-hour film: “The Doctrine of Discovery–Unmasking the Domination”. The Doctrine of Discovery refers to a principle in public international law under which, when a nation “discovers” land, it directly acquires rights on that land. The Doctrine provided the basis for subsequent laws depriving indigenous peoples of their lands.

Tomah has been involved in repatriation and Land Back issues and will share historical truth regarding The Doctrine of Discovery from an Indigenous perspective. He is a Language Keeper and teacher of the Passamaquoddy language and culture. He is the youngest fluent speaker of the Passamaquoddy Tribe and has served on the Tribal Council.

He has also worked with Animal Planet on a segment called Winged Creatures, highlighting the history of the Thunderbird.

His life has been dedicated to working on the language and culture preservation. He has edited the Passamaquoddy dictionary and worked to help create the Apple ~ Passamaquoddy Language App. He shares Native legends through song and dance.

Dwayne is currently working with the Library of Congress on translating the Passamaquoddy Wax Cylinders. These recordings are the first recordings in the world of Native languages. They were recorded in 1890 by Jesse Walter Fewkes, who borrowed the device from the inventor Thomas Edison.

This event is FREE and takes place at Tewskbury Hall on Weston Avenue in Skowhegan and will also be broadcast via Zoom. Masks are required for in-person attendance.

To register for the Zoom link, visit msad54.maineadulted.org.

FMI: (207) 474-6632.

Announcement - BitCurator Forum - Save The Date

Global Archivist LLC — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:07:56 GMT

As a new member to the MAM, I'm excited to help bring the BitCurator Forum to Maine -- Virtually! Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about Digital Forensics, digital appraisal of digital archives and records using digital forensics techniques, or the BitCurator Consortium. I am a past-President and past-Executive Committee member for the BCC. - Kari Smith, Global Archivist LLC
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Mark the week of March 28-30 for the 2023 BitCurator Forum! This year will feature virtual panels, workshops, lightning talks, “Great Questions!,” Birds of a Feather sessions, and sponsor office hours. We will also be experimenting with regional hybrid programming. Stay tuned for more information!

Expect to see the Call For Proposals in late August. Exact dates of the Forum will be announced at that time.

About the Forum

The BitCurator Forum brings together representatives of all levels of experience from libraries, archives, museums, and related professions engaged in (or considering) digital archives work.

The Forum will balance discussion of theory and practice of digital forensics, curation, and related digital analysis workflows. There will also be hands-on activities with the BitCurator environment, and other useful tools.

You do not need to be a BCC member or user to submit a proposal and/or attend the event. The BCC is committed to fostering an open, inclusive and safe environment. See the Code of Conduct on the Forum website.

#BitCuratorForum #HybridExperiment

The Impacts of Earth Changes on Turtle Island; The Wabanaki - presented by Natalie Michelle on July 7

Self-Employed — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:55:37 GMT

The Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center continues its Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series with Natalie Michelle, member of the Panawapskwei (Penobscot) Nation, on Thursday, July 7, at 7pm at Tewksbury Hall - located on Weston Avenue behind the Federated Church on the island in Skowhegan - and will also be broadcast via Zoom. She will present, "The Impacts of Earth Changes on Turtle Island; The Wabanaki”. Her lecture will review the historical and climate impact on cultural customs and practices of indigenous interrelationship and interdependency linking Native lifeways within the ecology.

The discussion will encompass the cultural paradigms of environmental relationship, stewardship, lifeways, holism, spiritual connections, kinship ties and oral histories. Traditional economic systems of food acquisition including the cultural practices for utilitarian procurement of culturally important species remain fundamental in the recovery, language preservation that encompasses the transmission and mobilization of traditional ecological knowledge important to adaptation in environmental changes. Multifaceted mechanisms Impacting Socio-ecological Resiliency of the Wabanaki will be presented including the identification of major Climate Change indicators of the Wabanaki and what it means for Wabanaki cultural survival.

Natalie Michelle's diverse background includes Nursing and BS in Human Nutrition and an MA in Public Administration, Pi Alpha Alpha with a concentration in Environmental Management and Sustainability. She is a PHD in Interdisciplinary Studies in Ethnobotanical Studies at the University of Maine at Orono. Her interests are in areas of Climate Change Impacts on Cultural Practices, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Research Methodology, and TEK and Language as an Adaptive Strategy.

Masks are required for in-person attendance.

To register for the Zoom link, visit msad54.maineadulted.org.

FMI: (207) 474-6632.

Tate House Presents Free Concert in the Garden

Tate House Museum — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 21:23:08 GMT

its inception in 2010, Pretty Girls Sing Soprano has quickly turned heads and gained a

loyal following. Ingrid Ayer-Richardson (guitar), Susan Mathews, and Deana Gurney (keyboard,

percussion) come together with tight, original vocal harmonies to share their love for acoustic

and acapella music. The Pretty Girls will sing to your soul and leave you with a smile as they perform a variety of songs from folk, country, bluegrass and rock.

On Friday, July 15, from 6 to 8PM the Tate House Museum is offering a free concert of these ladies on it’s beautiful back lawn overlooking the Stroudwater River, 1270 Westbrook St Portland. Snacks will be available for purchase and all are welcome. This is an enjoyable event for families and children. Bring your own chairs or blankets and sit and relax for a fun filled evening.

This event is sponsored by Desert of Maine, Stroudwater Neighborhood Association and the Tate House. A rain date of Saturday, July 17^th is planned if needed.

FMI: Holly Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

June 24-26, & July 1-2, 2022, Count Me In Watts Hall Player, Thomaston, ME

The General Henry Knox Museum — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:13:47 GMT

After 4 years of planning Count Me In a play about Henry Knox, his role in the Revolution and his life in Thomaston, Me 1794-1806

Join the fun.

https://wattshallcommunityplayers.org/events/

July 7, 2022 Henry Knox Domestic God - Whaat? Lecture by Ann Coggan

The General Henry Knox Museum — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:11:51 GMT

If you scroll through Pinterest or Instagram, you might presume that women make 2022 home design choices. It may be true today, but it was not true in the post-Revolutionary War era. Women had little input, if any, when prominent historic homes rose in the new country. The founding fathers built and created interiors to reflect their personal interests and status in the world.

Noted Architectural Designer and Design Historian, Annie Coggan will share how Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Monticello, were designed, and furnished. Some like, Henry, Franklin and Washington were quite persnickety. Each had his own influences and added his own flair. In person, July 7, 2022. 5:30pm Donations welcomed. info@knoxmuseum.org 207-354-8062

June 23: Maria Girouard of Penobscot Nation presents, "The Original Meaning and Intent of the Maine Indian Land Claims"

Self-Employed — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:56:20 GMT

The Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center continues its Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series with Maria Girouard of Penobscot Nation on Thursday, June 23, at 7pm at Tewksbury Hall - located behind the Federated Church on the island in Skowhegan. She will present, "The Original Meaning and Intent of the Maine Indian Land Claims”. Masks are required for in-person attendance.

For those who prefer to attend by Zoom, register at msad54.maineadulted.org.

Maria Girouard of Penobscot Nation is an historian with a particular expertise in the Maine Indian Land Claims. She earned a master’s degree in history from the University of Maine in part from her thesis entitled: The Original Meaning and Intent of the Maine Indian Land Claims: Penobscot Perspectives. Maria is a long standing community organizer, environmental steward, and educator. She speaks extensively on topics such as the Maine Indian Land Claims, Penobscot cultural connections to Katahdin, history of the Penobscot River, and food justice. She is a co-founder of the Sunlight Media Collective and of The Peoples' Garden, a community garden located on Indian Island. Maria currently serves as the executive director of Wabanaki REACH, a non-profit organization dedicated to truth, healing, and change.

FMI: contact Skowhegan History House at (207) 474-6632

Colonial Herb Garden Tea Tasting

Tate House Museum — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 17:11:51 GMT

Colonial Herb Garden Tea Tasting at the 18^th century reproduction Tate House Garden

1270 Westbrook Street, Portland, ME

June 23 @ 6:00 pm Rain date June 26 @ 3:00 pm

Colleen Griffin, resident of Stroudwater Neighborhood, will offer a program focused on how European colonists used the herb garden for culinary and medicinal purposes. Her talk will also include information about how the Wabanaki people used particular plants such as the needles of white pine trees to benefit health.

The presentation will be followed by a tasting of three natural and herb teas: white pine tea, lemon balm-lavender tea, and dandelion root tea, supplemented with fresh herbed butter cookies. Participants are encouraged to bring along a teacup for the tasting (BYOTC).

Presenter Colleen Griffin has a degree in horticulture and a passion for herbal medicine. She has taken several courses in growing, drying, and preparing medicinal herbs, and is a registered horticultural therapist practicing in Southern Maine. She is currently an independent contractor working with the Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care and is a volunteer for the University of Maine’s Master Gardener program. She formerly worked with the Bonny Eagle School district running a greenhouse program for special needs students in grades 6-12.

Cost is $15 for the general public and $12 for Tate House Museum members. Advance ticket purchase is required and can be obtained by visiting tatehouse.org.

The program is limited to 25 people and tickets will not be sold at the door.

Wabanaki Storytelling: History and Lessons with John Bear Mitchell on May 19, 2022

Self-Employed — Fri, 13 May 2022 20:15:50 GMT

The Skowhegan History House continues its Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series, featuring John Bear Mitchell on May 19, 2022 at 7:00pm. A citizen of the Penobscot Nation from Indian Island in Maine, John Bear Mitchell is a Lecturer of Wabanaki Studies and Multicultural Studies at the University of Maine in Orono, where he also serves as the Native American Waiver and Educational Program Coordinator. He will speak about “Wabanaki Storytelling: History and Lessons.”

The talk takes place at Tewksbury Hall, located on Weston Avenue behind the Federated Church on the island in Skowhegan. Masks are required for in-person attendees.

This presentation will also be broadcast on Zoom. To register, visit: http://skowheganhistoryhouse.org/speaker-series/

Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series on May 5, 2022 with Darren Ranco: Our Indian Distinction: Wabanaki Diplomacy, Treaties, and Colonial Legacies of the Maine Frontier.

Self-Employed — Sun, 01 May 2022 20:25:05 GMT

The Skowhegan History House presents the second of the Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 5, with Darren Ranco at Tewksbury Hall on Weston Avenue, behind the Federated Church on Island Avenue in Skowhegan. Ranco, a Penobscot Tribal member, is an associate professor of anthropology and coordinator of Native American research at the University of Maine at Orono. He will discuss “Our Indian Distinction: Wabanaki Diplomacy, Treaties, and Colonial Legacies of the Maine Frontier.”

Masks are required for in-person attendees.

Those who prefer to attend by Zoom can register online here:

https://msad54.maineadulted.org/course/wabanaki-voices-speaker-series/

After registering, a confirmation containing information about joining the meeting will be emailed.

“Our Indian Distinction: Wabanaki Diplomacy, Treaties, and Colonial Legacies of the Maine Frontier.”

Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series: April 21, 2022 with James Francis, Penobscot Tribal Historian

Self-Employed — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 12:11:24 GMT

The Skowhegan History House presents the Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series, beginning with James Francis, Penobscot Tribal Historian.

Mr. Francis will talk about sense of place, the relationship between natural resources, place names, and the Wabanaki world view.

The first talk will be held on April 21, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. in Tewksbury Hall, which is located behind the Federated Church on the island in Skowhegan. Masks are required for in-person attendees.

This presentation will also be broadcast on Zoom. Register in advance for the Zoom call using the following link:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sc--spjMqHtL-hnW4bT2nxHZ5ZuOpTsxq

VIRTUAL EVENT 4/14: Brown Belongings: A Dialogue about the Politics of Color and Class

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 12:47:32 GMT

Join the First Amendment Museum for a free, virtual event on Thursday, April 14th at 7 pm on Zoom as they host artist Linda Vallejo.

She will be describing her new exhibit “Brown Belongings”, which represents ten years of concentrated work on visualizing what it means to be a person of color in the United States. These works reflect what she calls her “brown intellectual property”—the experiences, knowledge, and feelings she has gathered over more than four decades of study in Chicano/a and American indigenous communities.

To register for Zoom - click here.

To learn more about this event - click here.

Jane's Walk ME - Information Session

Maine Preservation — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 14:44:58 GMT

Jane's Walk Information Session

Tuesday, April 12 at 12pm

Learn more about this statewide festival of walking conversations, including instructions for how to submit and lead a walk. We look forward to seeing you there!

Register Here

What is Jane’s Walk? Jane’s Walk is a global festival of free, volunteer-led walking conversations inspired by community activist Jane Jacobs. Jane’s Walks combine the simple act of exploring a place with personal observations, local history, and civic engagement. The annual Jane’s Walk festival takes place the first weekend in May, in more than 200 cities and towns around the globe. Jane's Walk ME will be held on Saturday, May 7.

Who was Jane Jacobs?

Jane Jacobs was a community activist and writer who lived from 1916-2006. She is best known for galvanizing New Yorkers to stop a highway from being built in her neighborhood. She believed in the power of individuals to influence the places they live. Today, her principles represent the participatory planning approaches that have been embraced in communities around the world.

Who can lead a Jane’s Walk?

You can! Anyone is welcome to lead a Jane’s Walk. Whether you are affiliated with an organization or an impassioned individual, Jane’s Walk is an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with your community.

March 16th Virtual Film Screening with artist Robert Shetterly

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:14:10 GMT

Join the First Amendment Museum on Zoom on Wednesday March 16th at 7 pm as we screen the documentary film TRUTH TELLERS: Artist Robert Shetterly’s Journey to Uphold Our Founding Ideals.

A special virtual screening and conversation with Artist and Activist Robert Shetterly about the new documentary, TRUTH TELLERS, a film that delves into the lives of courageous Americans fighting for social, environmental and economic justice. Shetterly has painted 255 portraits of Americans, past and present, who had the moral courage to confront the pressing issues of their time. Shetterly’s art and activism is a history lesson in what it means to be a citizen of our democracy.

Jane's Walk ME - May 7

Maine Preservation — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:24:17 GMT

Maine Preservation is excited to be collaborating with Friends of Congress Square Park, Greater Portland Landmarks, Maine Downtown Center, and Portland Downtown to bring Jane's Walk to communities across Maine on Saturday, May 7.

What is Jane’s Walk?

Jane’s Walk is a global festival of free, volunteer-led walking conversations inspired by community activist Jane Jacobs. Jane’s Walks combine the simple act of exploring a place with personal observations, local history, and civic engagement. The annual Jane’s Walk festival takes place the first weekend in May, in more than 200 cities and towns around the globe.

Who was Jane Jacobs?

Who can lead a Jane’s Walk?

Click here to learn more about Jane's Walk ME!

FREE SPEECH: A History from Socrates to Social Media

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:21:50 GMT

Join our free, virtual Speaker Series event on Wednesday, March 2nd at 12:30 pm ET!

Free speech around the world today is in retreat. Authoritarian and nationalist figures from Narendra Modi in India to Viktor Orbán in Hungary are silencing dissenting voices in an effort to entrench power.

Even in democracies, where it is hailed as the “first freedom” and a bedrock democratic value, the free speech debate is weaponized by the political left and right, as different groups aim to curtail it on college campuses, in classrooms, and on digital platforms — undermining the very culture of tolerance and open-mindedness on which this freedom ultimately depends.

Join author Jacob Mchangama for a conversation on the global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today. Register at https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/free-speech-a-history-from-socrates-to-social-media/

Mary McLeod Bethune and the Necessity of Black Women’s Leadership

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:28:25 GMT

Join the First Amendment Museum on Monday, February 28th at 7 pm for a free online presentation!

The First Amendment Speaker Series presents Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston, author of Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State.

Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the “First Lady of Negro America." Historian Ashley Robertson Preston explores the life, leadership, and amazing contributions of this dynamic activist.

For more information and to register, visit https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/mary-mcleod-bethune-and-the-necessity-of-black-womens-leadership/

Join us for this unique event as we celebrate the end of Black History Month and the beginning of Women's History Month!

2022 Winter Virtual Lecture Series - Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity

Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:15:33 GMT

The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity is excited to announce that it will offer a three-part virtual lecture series this January, February, and March 2022. Join us one Wednesday a month as we explore the life, times, and legacy of Rufus Porter with guest lecturers from across the state and New England.

February 2022 Virtual Lecture

Rufus Porter's Clock

February 9th, 7 pm

Presented by Bob Frishman, horologist and previous owner of the clock, this lecture will focus on the history of the only known clock attributed to Rufus Porter. Through images and insights, Bob will tell the story of this remarkable device that the Museum is very grateful to have in its collection.

Free. Suggested donation: $10. Donations can be made at https://rufusportermuseum.square.site/donation

Registration is required. A Zoom link will be provided before the lecture.

https://www.rufusportermuseum.org/event-details/2022-virtual-lecture-series-rufus-porters-clock/form

Tate House Celebrates a Colonial Christmas

Tate House Museum — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 21:30:08 GMT

Tate House Museum is hosting a Colonial Christmas Open House on

Saturday, December 11 from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. This event will feature an afternoon of inside and outside activities for the whole family to enjoy.Outside, families and friends will have the unique opportunity to have their photos taken in front of the decorated front door of the 1755 Tate House by photographer Ari Kellerman. There will be no extra charge for this activity, but donations are appreciated!

Inside the Tate House Museum docents donned in period attire will lead visitors on an abbreviated tour of the kitchen and sitting room in the 1755 home of Captain George Tate and his wife Mary. They will talk about some of the traditions and customs of the time, including the holiday food that might have been served and how the Tate’s celebration differed from how we celebrate today.

Across the street in the historic Means House, you’ll be able to peruse the museum shop for unique holiday gifts and enjoy a Colonial Christmas special of 10% off your entire purchase.

Please note that tours of the Tate House will be limited to 8 people per tour and shoppers in the Means House will be limited to 4 at a time. Also, face masks must be worn inside regardless of vaccination status. Thank you for helping us keep all our guests, staff, volunteers, and families safe and healthy!

While you wait for indoor activities or to have your photo taken you will be able to sip some wassail or cider while enjoying a homemade cookie near an outdoor fire.

Please join us on Saturday, December 11th from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. for the sights, sounds, and tastes of a Colonial Christmas at the only pre-Revolutionary home in Greater Portland open to the public.

Admission is $5.00 for Members, $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 to 17. Children under 12 are free. FREE Admission to this event with a NEW membership to THM.

FMI:

Holly Hurd, Executive Director

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Museum Shoppers Sunday

Tate House Museum — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:50:57 GMT

It’s Museum Store Sunday on November 28^th at the Tate House Museum Store. Come in between 12 to 4 PM to start your holiday shopping. Members usually get 10% off when shopping at the store but on the 28^th a 20% discount is being offered to all shoppers

Drop by and share a drink of hot chocolate. Perhaps you can pick up some stocking stuffers that you wouldn’t find anywhere else, or that favorite book for you or your loved one. All purchases support the Tate House Museum.

TOWARDS A MAINE UNION MANUSCRIPT CATALOG

University of Southern Maine — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:44:26 GMT

Apologies for multiple postings, but we need as many responses as possible.

At the 2020 Maine Archives and Manuscripts conference, a session of the same title presented current projects to create access to manuscript collections at multiple repositories. Can Maine build such a system which will cater to the different resources of repositories at historical societies, public libraries, academic institutions, and government agencies?

A Maine union manuscript catalog would benefit both users and repositories. The very fact that 23 states have created shared systems proves their value.

The Maine Union Catalog Survey seeks information on repositories in Maine (where, type), existing access systems, and what description elements they want in a shared system. Using this data, we can build a shared access system that will serve repositories as they exist now.

Please fill out the survey form below. It only takes 5 minutes. If you have trouble accessing google form, please contact susie.bock@maine.edu.

https://forms.gle/bhtGoLW4vJaSAed86

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum is Open by Reservation!

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 19:20:28 GMT

We are excited to announce that the Arctic Museum galleries are now open Tuesday-Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and a reservation is required.

To make a reservation, contact the outreach coordinator, at least one working day before the time you want to visit. Email pmam@bowdoin.edu or call (207) 725-3416.
Because of staffing schedules, we regret that drop-ins cannot be accommodated
A proof of vaccination is required of all visitors age 5 and older (and booster for age 12 and older). Please follow the directions on this link to upload your vaccination card to the CLEAR app and get a health pass.
If you do not want to use the CLEAR app, please arrive ready to show us your vaccination card [photos of the front and back of the card will suffice] and a valid federal or state ID.
We are allowing outside groups (maximum 10), using reservation requirements.
Unvaccinated children ages 2-4 must wear masks while visiting the museum.
All visitors are encouraged to wear masks within the museum.
Bowdoin College faculty, staff and students should make a reservation and arrive with your college ID.
You can find a list of exhibits currently on view in the galleries here.
A large selection of online exhibits are found here.

Tate House Museum Presents ColoniAle 2021

Tate House Museum — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:52:35 GMT

Tate House Presents ColoniAle 2021

Portland__ Due to concerns about Covid exposure to our guests the Tate House Museum and Mast Landing Brewing Company are offering a scaled down version of ColoniAle on September 25^th. This will be a beer focused event with a presentation by our docents and speaker outside in the back yard of the Tate House overlooking the Stroudwater River. The evening starts at 6:30PM with an overview of beer related activities in the 18^th century presented by our docents. This is followed by a talk by Ben Lisle entitled “Ale for Invalids: Brewing and Drinking Beer Under the Maine Law in 19^th Century Portland.”

Ben is an assistant professor in American Studies at Colby College. He is the author of Modern Coliseums: Stadiums and American Culture published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2017.

His current research investigates the way craft beer has reshaped urban landscapes since the 1980s. Lisle also manages the Maine Beer Project (https://mainebeerproject.com/) and writes a bi-weekly beer column for the Portland Press Herald. He is on Twitter at @bdlisle.

Tickets for the event are $25 General Admission, $20 Members and can be purchased by going to the Tate House website, www.tatehouse.org. Membership purchases are also available at that website. Admission includes a Tate House pint glass and a 16 ounce can of Mast Landing Brewing Company ale. Rain date is September 26^th.

This is an outdoor lecture so please bring a lawn chair or blanket for open seating. The backyard

can be cooler or breezy in the evenings so please plan accordingly.

For more information contact Director Holly K. Hurd, hkhurd@tatehouse.org or 207-774-6177

Summer Lecture Series at Tate House Museum

Tate House Museum — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:51:12 GMT

– Tate House Museum is pleased to announce our third illustrated Outdoor Summer Lecture to be held on Wednesday, September 15 at 7:30 pm on the beautiful lawn behind the Tate House. Rain date is Thursday, September 16.

Andrew Vietze is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books. He splits his time between the coast of Maine and the deep North Woods serving as a ranger for half the year at Baxter State Park. His books include bestseller “Boon Island” and “Becoming Teddy Roosevelt,” which won a silver Independent Publishers Book Award, was a finalist for the Book of the Year Award, and was honored by the Maine State Legislature. As a freelance journalist, Vietze has published in a number of online and print magazines and other publications. His talk will focus on his book “White Pine: American History and the Tree that Made a Nation” with a special focus on the mast trade in the Portland area that was central to the lives of the Tate family.

Tickets are $15 per person for the general public and $12 for Tate House Museum members. New member sign-ups will receive a free “Tate Tote” bag as part of our promotional Summer Membership Drive. Tickets are available in advance at the Tate House Gift Shop during open hours (Thurs-Sat 10-4) or starting at 7:00 PM on the day of the lecture.

This is an outdoor lecture so please bring a lawn chair or blanket for open seating. The backyard can be cooler or breezy in the evenings so please plan accordingly.

Located at 1270 Westbrook Street in the historic Stroudwater Neighborhood, the 1755 Tate House was constructed for Captain George Tate, Senior Mast Agent for the British Royal Navy. The Tate House Museum is the only Pre-Revolutionary home in Greater Portland open to the public and offers an insightful glimpse at the 18th century and life in Colonial Maine through impressive period furnishings, beautiful grounds, herb gardens, and unique architecture.

For more information contact Director Holly K. Hurd, hkhurd@tatehouse.org or 207-774-6177

www.tatehouse.org

Greenhorns' Historic Preservation Weekend Workshop in Downeast Maine, August 14-15

Maine Archives and Museums — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:49:37 GMT

Join Les Fossel of Old House Restoration, Jonathan Hall of Maine Preservation, and the Greenhorns team for a weekend intensive workshop to learn traditional skills and methods of historic preservation in Pembroke, ME. Washington County has some of the finest 18th and 19th century architecture on the Atlantic seaboard, much of it imperiled by our cold winters, shrinking population and thin economic base. The civic buildings, churches and halls of Downeast were built during the age of sail, lumber, ship building and early industrial development of our rivers. Now the rivers are being restored—but what about the buildings! There is a critical need for farmers and skilled tradespersons in Washington County. With the rest of the Atlantic coast increasingly out of reach, this is a place where a person willing to swing a hammer can actually get some equity going! This is the topic of a strategic session on historic preservation, led by Les, a tireless advocate of the practice and one of New England's foremost preservation contractors. Join us for walkabouts, networking lunches, and skill-building hands-on workshops as we contend with the reality all around us, including the 1896-built Oddfellows Hall, now "Reversing Hall", that is the home of Greenhorns. We will visit other great buildings, talk about triage and approaches, review the existing learning opportunities, and bust out the hammers ourselves. Meals provided by Smithereen Farm, donations appreciated. For more information contact development@greenhorns.org or 603 381 1115. Sign up here.

Maine Country Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 8/8/21 - Mechanics Falls

Maine Archives and Museums — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:19:06 GMT

Induction Ceremony August 8^that the Silver Spur

All are invited to attend The Maine Country Music Hall of Fame Annual Induction Ceremony on Sunday, August 8^th, 2021 at the Silver Spur 272 Lewiston Street, Rt. 121, Mechanic Falls, Maine. Doors will open at 11 AM and the ceremony and musical show will begin at 12 noon. Admission is $15 and tickets may be purchased by calling Nancy Crosby at 207-645-2472. The snack counter will be open to purchase a lunch.

This year we will be honoring both the 2020 and 2021 inductees. 2020 inductees include Bucky Mitchell, Don Nickerson and Paul Main. Promoter inductees are Sue Baker, Wagon Wheel Ranch; Pati Crooker, Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival; Greg and Sandy Cormier, Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival; Norm Poulin, Country Music Pioneer Shows; and Dick Stacey, Dick Stacey’s Jamboree. 2021 inductees include Jeff Dustin, Phil and Ellen LaClaire, and Pard Letellier, as well as Hall of Fame co-founder Gini Huntington.

There will be raffles and prizes including a handmade quilt and a pair of tickets to the Maine State Music Theatre production of “Ring of Fire,” a Johnny Cash musical presented at the Portland Stage Theatre, Forest Ave, Portland through the month of August.

Hidden Historic Houses of 1820 Trolley Tour 8/1/21 - Hiram Historical Society

Maine Archives and Museums — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:16:32 GMT

Hiram Historical Society

presents

A special trolley tour of

Hidden Historic Houses of 1820

A Maine State Bicentennial Event

Sunday August 1, 2021 at 2:00pm

Great Ossipee Museum

20 Historical Ridge, Hiram 04041

The Museum will be open 1 hour before and after the tour

Trolley departs precisely at 2pm from the Museum

Tour is expected to last 1 ½ hours

SEATS ARE LIMITED TO 35

YOU MUST RESERVE A SEAT IN ADVANCE

Tickets are $25.00 or $20 each for two

Send check payable to Hiram Historical Society

To Donna Ward, PO Box 35, Hiram 04041

FMI 207-625-4790 or 207-615-4390

Tate House Museum Opens for Season on July 1st

Tate House Museum — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 19:41:28 GMT

Tate House Museum will be opening for the season on July 1st. Tours are Thursday through Saturday with first tour at 10AM on the hour until the last tour at 3PM. Tickets are online only at www.tatehouse.org and masks are required regardless of vaccination status. Tidkets are $15 adults, $12 seniors and $7 children under 12. FMI: hkhurd@tatehouse.org or 774-6177

The Kerck Kelsey Research Room Dedication

Maine Archives and Museums — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:55:39 GMT

The Kerck Kelsey Research Room Dedication

Friday, August 13th 1:00-3:00

Norlands Living History Center, Livermore, Maine

Albert (Kerck) Van Boskerck Kelsey, 1933–2020

Have you ever wondered about the granite, gothic building on the grounds of the Norlands Living History Center in Livermore, Maine? This is your chance to see the inside as we pay tribute to Albert “Kerck” Kelsey and dedicate the Research Room to his memory.

Kerck Kelsey had deep roots in the Norlands. He was the sixth-generation descendant of Israel Washburn, through son Cadwallader. Using the Washburn Memorial Library resources, he researched and wrote three histories of the Washburn Family: Prairie Lightning: The Rise and Fall of William Drew Washburn, Israel Washburn Jr.: Maine’s Little-Known Giant of the Civil War and Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family. A successful businessman, historian and lecturer, he never tried of extoling the accomplishments of the Washburn family.

On Friday, August 13^th a dedication ceremony will be held on the lawn of the library from 1:00-3:00. Library tours will take place an hour before the ceremony. Come and tour the library, listen in to the ceremony, view the research displays and see the renovations made to the Norlands’ archive.

VIRTUAL: Banning Foreign Involvement in Maine Referendums?

First Amendment Museum at the Gannett House — Mon, 24 May 2021 14:07:48 GMT

Join us for a free Zoom discussion on Wednesday, May 26th at 12 pm for a discussion on whether proposed bills to ban foreign involvement in Maine election referendums violate our First Amendment rights, or are they a sensible extension of federal precedent? You be the judge!

Connecticut River Valley Talk and Tour Oct 1

Maine Archives and Museums — Mon, 17 May 2021 18:39:28 GMT

Friday Oct 1, 2021 the Center for Painted Wall Preservation is hosting a Connecticut River Valley Talk and Tour of homes with painted murals and overmantels! These residences are not normally open to the public. The Talk will begin at 9:30 AM at the Lyme Center Academy Building and box lunches and maps will be distributed after the talk for those registered for the event. Pre-registration $50/person including box lunch is necessary at www.pwpcenter.org and will open Aug. 1. We look forward to meeting you and sharing this rare opportunity to view these marvelous painted folk art murals and their history. Masks and proof of Covid vaccination will be required.

At Home and Abroad: the Maine National Guard in World War II, 1941-1945

Monhegan Museum of Art & History — Tue, 04 May 2021 17:59:37 GMT

Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 5:30 pm

Via Zoom. Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ubLu3KWMT-icgoK0xtz8tw

While approximately 95,000 Mainers served in World War II, many do not know that entire units of Mainers were activated even before the nation was at war. Soldiers in Maine’s National Guard saw service all across the globe, from the Pacific to Europe – and even at home. This presentation will highlight the role of Maine’s citizen-soldiers during World War II.

Captain Jonathan Bratten, presenting. Captain Jonathan Bratten is the Command Historian for the Maine National Guard. In this capacity, he has produced multiple articles on the history of Maine's soldiers, appearing in such publications as “The New York Times,” “The Washington Post,” and “Army History.” He has also appeared in the Smithsonian Channel documentary, “Americans Underground: Secret Cities of World War I” and served as a historian in France for the Army’s World War I Centennial commemorations. His book To the Last Man: A National Guard Regiment in the Great War, 1917-1919 was published in the summer of 2020 from Army University Press. Captain Bratten has been selected as the Army Center of Military History’s Scholar in Residence at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and will report there in June of 2021.

Historic Houses for Contemporary Lives

Tate House Museum — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 20:03:31 GMT

Join the Tate House Museum for a Zoom lecture on Thursday, May 13 at 6:00 p.m. with noted architectural historian Scott T. Hanson as he presents an illustrated talk about how to restore your historic house in a way that preserves its most important features and makes it livable for the 21st century. Scott will take us through several case studies of sensitive renovations as well as practical information about planning your project and the ups and downs you might encounter along the way.

Scott T. Hanson is an author, architectural historian and preservation consultant. His most recent book, Restoring Your Historic House, was released in December 2019 and won the 2020 Excellence in Publishing award from Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.

This online lecture, presented by the Tate House Museum in partnership with the Stroudwater Neighborhood Association, is $5 for THM and SNA members and $10 for the general public. Visit our website www.tatehouse.org to purchase tickets.

Tate House Museum Plant and Herb Sale

Tate House Museum — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 18:06:00 GMT

Annual Herb and Plant Sale at the Tate House Museum on Saturday, May 22, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. featuring perennials divided from the Tate House Museum garden and members’ gardens. And if you have no room for perennials in your garden, there will also be a variety of annual flowers, vegetable seedlings and hanging baskets to choose from.

Tate House Museum is located at 1267 Westbrook Street in the Stroudwater Historic District of Portland.

For more information, please call 207-774-6177 or email info@tatehouse.org.

Lesbian Invisibility: from AIDS, to Civil Rights, to Marriage Equality

University of Southern Maine — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:08:20 GMT

April 29, 5:30 - 6:30

Join speakers Holly Valero, author of Tales of an American Lesbian, and Clare Forstie, whose research has examined lesbian invisibility in Maine and beyond, to discuss how and why lesbians have not shared the spotlight in recent events.

Click the "Register Now" button in order to receive a Zoom link and password.

This virtual event will be recorded and made available on our Digital Commons at a later date.

This virtual event will be closed captioned. There will be space in the registration form for you to let us know if you have any accessibility requests. We will accommodate your request to the best of our abilities within the format of this presentation.

Holly Valero

Born in Miami, Florida in the early 1960s, Holly Valero grew up on a 100-acre, Pennsylvania sheep farm and halfway house for psychiatrically labeled chickens. The only lesbian in a one-lesbian town she spent several years as the night shift DJ at WTTC Radio, a 500-watt AM/FM station with an audience largely comprised of dairy cattle.

Radio took her to Concord, New Hampshire, where she became involved in early efforts to change the laws regarding gay and lesbian rights. It was there she began writing a regular series for the local gay and lesbian community newspapers.

A move to Portland, Maine and a change in careers (newspaper, then publishing) led her eventually to the World Wide Web where she established her own web and graphic design business in 2000, called HollyWorks, and more recently, a digital publishing company.

Holly Valero is a writer, artist, programmer and publisher living in Southern Maine with her partner, Janet McKenney.

Clare Forstie

Clare is a teaching consultant at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Educational Innovation. In addition to her programming and consulting work, she has published widely on sexuality, gender, and pedagogy topics with a focus on LGBTQ communities in small cities. Her forthcoming book, Same Rainbow, Different Raindrops: Ambivalent LGBTQ Community in a Small, Midwestern City, is under contract with NYU Press. Clare earned her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in 2017 and her MA in American and New England Studies from USM in 2010. She lives in Minneapolis but very much misses her Portland, Lewiston, and Brunswick Maine communities!

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Contact Information

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susie.bock@maine.edu

AIDS & COVID

University of Southern Maine — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:15:03 GMT

Join the LGBTQ+ Collection for a Discussion on AIDS and COVID

USM’s LGBTQ+ Collection, of the Jean Byers Sampson Center for diversity in Maine

Presents

A Virtual Panel Featuring:

Crystal Fawn Gamet, an orphan from the AIDS epidemic, and Katie Rutherford, Executive Director of the Frannie Peabody Center will discuss these two pandemics and what we learned from AIDS as we face COVID.

Facilitated by Brody Wood, LGBTQ+ Collection Advisory Committee

This is the first in a series of programs on AIDS & COVID.

Please contact us at usm.specialcollections@maine.edu if you have accessibility needs.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

https://usm.maine.edu/library/specialcollections/aids-and-covid-what-have-we-learned

PLEASE REGISTER AT

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April 1 @ 7 pm: Presentation on Fake News, the First Amendment, and the State of American Media

First Amendment Museum at the Gannett House — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:19:45 GMT

Join us for a free, virtual presentation on Thursday, April 1st at 7 pm.

Former Maine newspaper editor Chet Lunner brings a unique, 360-degree perspective of current affairs and “fake news” as a veteran journalist, 9/11 government spokesman, and crisis communications expert.

We’ll look at the history and impact of misinformation, how Maine’s founders predicted the dangers of “alternative facts,” and some solutions that anyone can employ.

This event is hosted on Zoom, and participants are encouraged to ask questions at the end of Lunner's presentation. Pre-registration is required - register today for free at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pduuurDMtHdKxqDKfTHzsZDsJUmbylw3H

March 28 Maine Maple Sugar Sunday at Camden Rockport Historical Society's Historic Homestead

Maine Archives and Museums — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:02:21 GMT

Planning to enjoy Maine Maple Sunday? How about a little history to boot! In 2021 March 28 is Maine Maple Sugar Sunday and after a year off, the Camden Rockport Historical Society's historic homestead and campus is eager to welcome the public for maple-related festivities.

From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Wendy Pendleton Harvey will be offering maple sugaring demonstrations in the society’s historic 1820 sugar house. Families are invited to participate in this fun, traditional all-ages celebration of spring. Admission is free and a designated board member will be safely serving maple syrup topped ice cream outdoors if the weather allows!

Masking and distancing requirements will be enforced and CHRHS hopes to open some of its buildings to the public with Covid safety in mind. Additionally the beautiful campus offers a wonderful outdoor opportunity to view the buildings and soak up some local history.

The driveway to the museum and historic homestead campus is conveniently located on the Camden-Rockport border, just past Hannaford supermarket, on the right, off Route 1 going South.

Board members and volunteers will be on hand to welcome visitors and discuss the historical society with interested parties. Volunteers interested in working with the historical society over the summer are invited to learn more and express their interest.

For more information, contact the Camden-Rockport Historical Society by email at crhsme@myfairpoint.net.

Please join us for the University of Southern Maine's Annual W.E.B. DuBois Lecture on Race and Democracy with Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste

Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:41:32 GMT

"You and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are on Earth."

- W. E. B. Du Bois, 1909

Please join us via Zoom Webinar on Thursday, March 25th, from 6pm-7:30pm, as we welcome Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In her talk, "W.E.B. DuBois in Our Time: From Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter," which will be followed by a Q and A, Dr. Battle-Baptiste will connect what we describe today as anti-racist scholarship with the incredible and radical legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Register here to receive the Zoom link.

This lecture is sponsored by the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, the Department of History, the Race and Ethnic Studies Program, and the Department of Geography and Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine.

Please note: This event will include live ASL Interpretation.

Questions about the event can be directed to oml-usm@maine.edu

This is How We Name Our Lands: Mapping Penobscot Place Names (Zoom Webinar, 3/10, 6pm)

Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:20:16 GMT

Please join USM's Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education on Wednesday, March 10th, from 6pm-7:30 EST for: "Iyoka Eli-Wihtamakʷ Kətahkinawal--This is How We Name Our Lands: Mapping Penobscot Place Names," a virtual Zoom webinar panel discussion on the making of the 2016 Penobscot Nation Cultural and Historic Preservation Department Map and Gazetteer, as we learn from Language Masters, Historians, Artists, and Cartographers, on the intersections of place, language, art, culture, and cartography.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER (Free and open to all).

The panel features members of the mapmaking team, including:

Carol Dana

James E. Francis, Sr.

Conor M. Quinn

Gabe Paul

Margaret Pearce

According to the mapmakers, "This map is a Penobscot guide to the place names given by our ancestors. On one side are the English translations, and on the other side are the Penobscot names. A separate gazetteer is for your reference for a quick connection between Penobscot and English. The names offer a window into the past and allow us to view the landscape at the heart of our culture. The meanings of the names tell us how we interact with the shape and character of the land and how we interconnect with the rivers, lakes, wetlands, falls, eskers, meadows, and rocks across our traditional territory. They indicate where plants, animals and materials for tools are found. They inform us where and when to plant, tan hides and hold our seasonal gatherings and ceremonies. The canoe routes, gathering places, and stories show us how the place names connect and why they are located where they are. Together, place names, travel routes, and stories reveal a map given to us from the hearts of our ancestors. The last piece of the map, of course, is you."

This event is held in conjunction with USM's 2020-2021 Gloria S. Duclos Convocation, Indigenous Peoples: Recognizing and Repairing Harms of Colonized Systems.

We hope you can join us.

mapping africa american history in maine

University of Southern Maine — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:47:40 GMT

USM African American Collection of the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine celebrates Black History Month ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Special Collections

Mapping African American History in Maine

USM African American Collection of the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine celebrates Black History Month

Feb. 17, 2021, 5:30-6:30

Please join us for a virtual panel discussion on mapping Maine’s African American History

Mapping Maine; Digitizing and Charting Sites Connected to Maine’s Black History Anastasia Azenaro-Moore

Anastasia Azenaro-Moore has worked in historic preservation since graduating with her Masters from Savannah College of Art in Design in 2017. She currently works as the Operations and Communications Administrator at Maine Preservation

Making African American History in Maine Visible: African American Collection Project Susie R. Bock and Ida Santos

Susie R. Bock, Coordinator of USM’s Special Collections, holds Master's degrees in European History and Library Science from Columbia University, and has curated the African American Collection for over 20 years.

Ida Santos, an undergraduate working on a degree, majoring in both Music and Physics, has been gathering the mapping data since September 2020.

Won't You Be My Neighbor?: The Landscape of Anti-Blackness in American Schooling Larissa Malone, Ph.D

Larissa Malone, Ph.D. holds a doctorate in Cultural Foundations of Education from the School of Foundations, Leadership, and Administration at Kent State University. Dr. Larissa Malone is an assistant professor in USM's Teacher Education Department. A critical race theorist, Dr. Malone’s research centers on the minority experience in American schooling, inclusive of students, parents, and teachers, and her aim is towards creating equitable educational spaces for all.

You must register by clicking the button below in order to receive a Zoom link.

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Using Objects of Intolerance to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice: Lessons from the Jim Crow Museum

Maine Archives and Museums — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:06:20 GMT

Wed, Mar 3, 5-6:15PM

Free; donations welcome

Online

The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia is the nation’s largest publicly accessible collection of racist objects that uses items of intolerance to teach tolerance through honest dialogues and examinations of the historical patterns of race relations. Join this virtual conversation with the museum’s founder, Dr. David Pilgrim, to examine its mission, vision, and work.

For more information and to register, visit

HistoricNewEngland.org/Tolerance

Zoom & Facebook Live: To Make a Poet Black: Notes from a Literary-Musician

First Amendment Museum at the Gannett House — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:23:56 GMT

In this hybrid of lecture & performance, Regie Gibson explores the creative power of speech in the modern Black spoken-word tradition.

Literaryperformer, Regie Gibson, has lectured & performed widely in the U.S., Cuba & Europe. Representing the U.S. in Italy, Regie competed for & received both the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone & The Europa in Versi Award in LaGuardia di Como. He’s a Brother Thomas Fellow & has received two Live Arts Boston Grants to develop his first play, The Juke: A Blues Bacchae in which he intersects the ancient Greek tragedy with African-American spiritual & musical culture.

Regie has served as a consultant for the NEA’s “How Art Works” commission & the “Mere Distinction of Color”: a permanent exhibit at James Madison’s Montpelier home focusing on American slavery & the U.S. constitution. He has composed texts for The Boston City Singers, The Mystic Chorale, the Handel+Haydn Society, & has featured with the Lexington Symphony. He’s an actor & creator of The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy— a theatrical, literary-concert focusing on the life & works of William Shakespeare. He serves on the boards of the New England Poetry Club & Grub Street Writers & teaches at Clark University.

This event will be hosted both via Zoom and Facebook Live. Participants are encouraged to ask questions at the end of Regie’s presentation.

Zoom Registration - Link here

Facebook Event - Link here

Learn more about the First Amendment Museum

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Dream Deferred to a Nightmare

First Amendment Museum at the Gannett House — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:58:44 GMT

Join us online on Thursday, January 21st at 7:00 PM for a presentation on MLK.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most prolific and honorable leaders for all time. He is also one of the most complex.

In August 1963, Dr. King was at the height of his popularity with his fight to end racial discrimination in the United States during the Civil Rights Movement. His “I Have a Dream” speech is one of the most celebrated orations in American history. However, Dr. King himself evolved as a leader. His relationships with J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, the militant Black Power movement, his commitment to fighting the war on poverty and his stance on the Vietnam War all pose the question: did Dr. King’s dream result in a nightmare?

Ryan M. Jones, historian and Museum Educator at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN – the site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., will be presenting on the life of MLK and the civil rights movement.

We will be hosting this free event on both Zoom and Facebook Live and encourage participants to take part in our Q&A at the end of Jones’ presentation.

More information - www.firstamendmentmuseum.org/ryan

Facebook: www.facebook.com/firstamendmentmuseum

Zoom & Facebook Live: "From the Constitution to COVID: Religious Freedom in America"

First Amendment Museum at the Gannett House — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:57:30 GMT

Join the First Amendment Museum online on Thursday, January 14th, 2021 at 7 pm EST as we speak to Micheal Meyerson for his presentation “From the Constitution to COVID: Religious Freedom in America.”

Meyerson is a Professor of Law and the Piper & Marbury Faculty Fellow at the University of Baltimore, specializing in constitutional law and American legal history. As the author of Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America (Yale University Press, 2012), Meyerson has also written three other books and published numerous articles on constitutional law, contracts law, and the First Amendment, some of which have appeared in the Stanford Journal of International Law, Indiana Law Review, Nebraska Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Miami Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. He is a member of the New York Bar.

Be sure to tune into this presentation with Meyerson, a gifted storyteller and animated speaker, who will explore the themes and history of religious freedom in the United States, from the founding fathers to present-day issues surrounding COVID.

Our lecture will be hosted both via Facebook Live and Zoom. Participants are encouraged to take part in a Q&A session with Meyerson at the conclusion of his presentation.

The First Amendment Museum's mission is to inspire Americans to live and love their five freedoms - freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble, and freedom to petition. Learn more about us on our website!

For more information including the Zoom link for this free, online event, check out our event listing here or visit our Facebook at www.facebook.com/firstamendmentmuseum

Please call the Museum with any questions about the presentation at 207-557-2290

Kennebec Historical Society’s January Facebook Live Presentation: “Find a Way or Make One: New Perspectives on Peary’s North Pole Quest”

Kennebec Historical Society — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:30:36 GMT

For over a decade, staff members at Bowdoin College’s Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center have studied original journals, artifacts, and photographs related to Robert Peary’s efforts to be the first person to reach the North Pole. They have visited museums and archives, traveled to sites in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes with connections to the expeditions, and contacted descendants of expedition members. In addition, Arctic archaeologists Genevieve LeMoine and Susan A. Kaplan traveled to the edge of the Polar Sea to investigate one of Peary’s camps. In this illustrated lecture, Kaplan will discuss new insights they have reached about how Peary worked and the interpersonal dynamics on his last two expeditions. Also, she will explain ways in which the Arctic of today differs from the Arctic of Peary’s time.

KHS speaker Kaplan, an Arctic anthropologist and archaeologist, is a professor of anthropology and director of the museum at Bowdoin. She has studied some of the ways Inuit have responded to environmental change and contact with the West, as well as the history of Arctic exploration.

To view this presentation, head to the KHS Facebook page at 6:30 p.m. January 20, and the video will air live. Due to copyright concerns, the January presentation will not be available for future viewing. If you have a question, please submit it in the comments during the live video presentation. Here is the link to the KHS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KHS1891.

If you have any questions about the program, please call Scott Wood, executive director, at 622-7718

Tate House Museum Hosts 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower

Tate House Museum — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:18:26 GMT

The Tate House Museum and the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Maine invite you to celebrate the 400 th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival at Plymouth on December 18, 1620 with speaker Captain Whit Perry, Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations at Plimoth Patuxet (PP), formerly Plimoth Plantation. Captain Perry recently oversaw a three-year restoration project of MAYFLOWER II, the Mayflower replica that received over 25 million visitors from the time of its docking at PP in 1957 and 2016. Perry also commanded the restored vessel from Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut (site of the restoration work) on her voyage home to Plymouth last year. He will show brand new video and documentary photographs taken by the restoration crew while describing the challenges of historic restoration, sharing the exhilaration of sailing MayflowerII, and highlighting the role of the Mayflower in America’s colonial history.

Speaker: Captain Whit Perry, Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations, Plimoth Patuxet

Format: Zoom

Date: Wed December 9, 2020 at 6:00 PM (program will last ~75 minutes with Q &A)Admission: $10.00 members of Tate House Museum, $15.00 general public If you are interested in becoming a member please check our website www.tatehouse.org, email info@tatehouse.org, or call 774-6177.

Register: To register, please email info@tatehouse.org and leave your phone number. A Tate House Museum representative will call to take your credit card information for payment.

Registrants will receive a Zoom link by email the day before the event, Dec 8th

Buried Voices Presented by the Tate House Museum

Tate House Museum — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:01:19 GMT

Come hear voices buried for centuries, forgotten by history, stories of ordinary people coming to light for one historic night in October.

Come to the Stroudwater Burial Ground

(1300 Westbrook Street) on Saturday October 24 at dusk 5:00 PM (rain date Oct 25) Bring your own chairs and/or blanket for seating

Groups will be socially-distanced and program limited to 50 people/pods Masks Required

$10 /person

$5 /children under 12

$20 family

Prepayment ONLY and registration required. NO WALK-ONS

Email info@tatehouse.org with reservation request and leave phone number.

Please park on the street near the Tate House (1270 Westbrook St or on Waldo St) and cross Congress St to cemetery. No parking at cemetery, but chairs can be dropped off there if necessary

Tate House Hosts Outside Lecture

Tate House Museum — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:06:27 GMT

Tate House Presents…Behind the Best Rooms:Exploring the Lives of Domestic Servants in 18th Century New England

As one of Stroudwater’s most prosperous 18th-century households, the Tate family relied on domestic servants for their comfort and to assert social status. This lecture combines evidence garnered from family history and the building’s architecture with records of other elite families within the Tates’ social circle and throughout wider New England to build a picture of service in a prosperous 18 th century Maine home.

Tate family legend has given us a single, tantalizing mention of an enslaved Black servant named Bette. The role of servants and circumstances that contributed to a life of servitude will be discussed including the underappreciated, yet significant contribution of Black servants to America’s domestic service history. This talk will explore specific spaces within and around Tate House used by servants, creating a richer picture of individual household dynamics in one of Maine’s most iconic historic homes.

An Outdoor Illustrated Lecture by Aimee Keithan, Ph.D.in the beautiful backyard of the 1755 Tate House overlooking the Stroudwater River and our Historic Garden

7:00 PM Saturday Sept 19 (rain date Sept 20)

Check-in beginning at 6:30 PM in the front yard of Tate House

1270 Westbrook Street, Portland

$15/person $25/couple

Social Distancing and Face Coverings Required

All seating is reserved and limited to 50 people

Registration and Pre-payment ONLY

info@tatehouse.org or 207-774-6177

Open until Tickets are Sold Out

If you are not currently a Tate House Museum member,

join today and enjoy FREE entry to this not-to-be-missed event!

Free Virtual Workshop on Applying for NEH Grants

Maine Archives and Museums — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:31:40 GMT

On Friday, September 25, 2020, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will offer a FREE virtual workshop on applying for NEH grants. It will be conducted by Mark Silver, Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshop is open to the public. Anyone interested in learning about NEH funding opportunities and application strategies is invited to attend, although space is limited and priority will be given to those in the Mid-Coast, Downeast and Highlands regions of Maine. The workshop will run from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Although the event is free, you must register in advance. Information and registration: https://umaine.edu/mhc/2020/07/27/neh-workshop/

McGillicuddy Humanities Center DH Pop In Series

Maine Archives and Museums — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:30:44 GMT

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be continuing their DH Pop In series throughout the year to show the potential and accessibility of the digital humanities, including digital mapping, interactive timelines, text analysis and more. The next DH Pop In will be Monday, August 3, at 1PM. MHC Humanities Specialist and DH creator Karen Sieber will show virtual attendees how to build quick, easy, free interactive timelines using the tool TimelineJS. No skill is necessary. We swear. Learning this easy-to-use tool will allow your institution to build virtual timelines showcasing material in a collection, or highlighting moment's in a place's history in a dynamic and interactive way. Email mhc@maine.edu to get the link to register for the DH Pop In.

Rangeley Lakes Historical Society Calendar

Rangeley Lakes Historical Society — Mon, 18 May 2020 21:46:13 GMT

Rangeley Lakes Historical Society Calendar & Events

Proudly Offering the Outdoor Heritage Museum & Rangeley History Museum

(All Events are Subject to Change due to the National Emergency)

Admission for Outdoor Heritage Museum at the corner of Routes 4 & 17 in Oquossoc is as follows:

Adults $5.00 Children 12 and under, active duty military and veterans are Free

No admission at Rangeley History Museum, located on main St. in Downtown Rangeley

Event Info as Follows

Thursday, May 28^th

Historical Society Bean Supper at Bald Mountain Camps

5:30 AM to 7:30 PM

Bald Mountain Camps, Bald Mt Rd. Oquossoc

The Rangeley Lakes Historical Society will host a bean supper at Bald Mountain Camps on the annual event at BMC will begin with a cocktail hour at 5:30 pm. The evening will also feature live music by the Sandy River Ramblers a popular five-piece ensemble playing their original songs as well as some old favorites. There will also be a silent auction, door prizes, and a cash bar. Those planning to attend are encouraged to bring a favorite dessert to share for the always popular “Potluck Dessert”. A hearty meal of baked beans, hot dogs, biscuits, and coleslaw will be offered and a $7.00 donation per person in support is appreciated. The meal will be complimentary for seniors 65 and older. Those wishing to attend this fun community event are encouraged to RSVP by calling 864-3091, by 4 pm May 20th as seating is limited.

Friday, May 22, 2020

Outdoor Heritage Museum Opens for 2020 Season

10am-4:00pm

(Weds. -Sun. in May, June, Sept. & Oct. and 7 days a week in July & August)

Corner of Rtes. 4 & 17, Oquossoc

Rangeley’s rich outdoor history, traditions and personalities come alive in this museum located in the charming village of Oquossoc. The museum, named "Best Sporting Museum in New England" by Yankee Magazine (May 2014), is a “can’t be missed destination for visitors of Western Maine. The enchanting stories of icons like Carrie Stevens, Herb Welch, Fly Rod Crosby, Ed Grant, the Famous Rangeley Boat and so much more beckon. The art, adventures, lure and lore of the great outdoors is captured here!

The museum gift shop features books, apparel, art, glassware and a wide variety of gifts.

Friday, June 5^th

New Exhibit Opens at OHM - “Vintage Maps of Maine, A Bicentennial Celebration”.

10:00 AM – 4pm (Weds-Sun. in May, June, Sept. & Oct. and 7 days a week in July & August)

Outdoor Heritage Museum, Corner of Rtes. 4 & 17, Oquossoc

This exhibit will share an impressive collection of maps featuring Rangeley, Franklin & Oxford Counties and the State. The premiere artifact for this exhibit will be the rare map printed on linen cloth by Moses Greenleaf Esq. titled "Map of the District of Maine: From the Latest and Best Authorities (1822)". the twenty plus maps range from a 1798 Map of Maine to the first auto maps of the region from 1905. All in celebration of Maine's 200th Birthday. This Exhibit continues through October 12, 2020

Sat., June 13, 2020

Fly Tier Nate Wight at Outdoor Heritage Museum

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Corner of Rtes. 4 & 17, Oquossoc

Nate Wight founded North Woods Fly Co. in 2015. He is well known for his innate ability to tie high-quality, innovative flies. Come to OHM and learn some techniques and learn from this excellent tier, guide and angler!

June 20, 2020 10-4pm

Master Fly Tier Selene Dumaine @ Outdoor Heritage Museum

Corner of Rtes. 4 & 17, Oquossoc

Celebrated Fly-tier Selene Dumaine will be displaying her skills in a live fly-tying demonstration during the Lupine Festival. Dumaine is a widely recognized and accomplished tier known for her mastery of Carrie Stevens' techniques and patterns. She ties without a vise just as Carrie did. She has compiled an impressive collection of her unique original patterns, including "Don's Legacy" in honor of OSHM's Founder, Don Palmer. Her presentation-quality streamers and flies will be available for purchase at the museum and she is always happy to help others with their technique and skill development. Call (207) 864-3091 for more information

Friday, June 26, 2020

Rangeley History Museum Opens

2472 Main Street, Rangeley

11:00am-4:00pm (Tues.-Sunday (opens at Noon on Sunday) until August 30

Sat. & Sunday only in Sept.

This beautiful little museum located in the center of town is housed in the old Rangeley Trust Co. and operated by the Rangeley Lakes Historical Society. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and once served as the Town Office and Jail. The Jail cell is now an exhibit in the basement. The museum features town history including agricultural, railroad, steamship, business and family history to name just a few of many subjects. In 2020 we will open new exhibits highlighting the Narrow-Gauge Railroad and Rangeley's 1st Airmail Service in 1938. Vintage film, photos, 3D stereograph images, documents and antique artifacts all share the charming & colorful stories of old Rangeley and the surrounding townships. Admission is Free and Donations are Welcome

http://www.rangeleyhistoricalsociety.org

June 27, 2020

Fly Tier Peter Simonson at Outdoor Heritage Museum

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Corner of Rtes. 4 & 17, Oquossoc

Peter Simonson has been fly tying for about 13 years, initially just creating flies needed for fishing. He enjoys tying Rangeley style streamers. He became interested in tying these flies in about 2006. Peter has tied at the International Fly-Tying Symposium and many of the Largest Fly Fishing Shows up and down the East Coast. Peter has studied streamer tying under Jack Pangburn and Mike Martinek and is a master in his craft. Come learn tips from one of the best and purchase some of his beautiful flies for framing or fishing. Call (207) 864-3091 for more information

July 9 at 6:30 pm

Historical Society Annual Meeting and Film Presentation of “Maine at 200”

at Lakeside Theatre in downtown Rangeley.

Join the Board of Directors of RLHS for a brief meeting to elect officers and share the status and plans of your Historical Society. Come enjoy cake and ice cream in celebration of Maine’s 200^th Birthday! Intermission will be followed by a film presentation of “Maine at 200”, a documentary of the history of Maine since its founding in 1820 will be shown in celebration of our State’s Bicentennial. This unique film shares the state’s story in a comprehensive decade-by-decade timeline. Admission in support of the Historical Society is just $5.00 per person. Concessions will be provided by the RFA.

June 11, 2020

Expert Fly Tier Jim Dionne at Outdoor Heritage Museum

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Corner of Rtes. 4 & 17, Oquossoc

Come learn to tie Flies and explore proven techniques to tie better flies that catch fish with Expert Tier, Jim Dionne. Jim will share his expertise and will have some of his great flies available for purchase. Call (207) 864-3091 for more information

July 11, 2020

International Fly-Fishing Film Festival

Lakeside Theater, Rangeley

Film Starts at 7:00pm, Doors open 6:30pm for Silent Auction, Raffle and Cocktails

All new films for 2020! You don't have to be an angler to enjoy this collection of short films and breathtaking cinematography. This event will also feature a raffle and silent auction offering art, gear, trips and more. Adult refreshments and theatre munchies will be available at the concession stand in support of Rangeley Friends of the Arts. Come support two great non-profits!

This fun event supports the efforts and programs of the Outdoor Heritage Museum. Tickets $12.00 in advance ($15.00 at the door if not already sold out) available at the Outdoor Heritage Museum in Oquossoc, at Rangeley History Museum in Downtown Rangeley OR Online now at:

https://www.showclix.com/event/if42020rangeleyme/tag/widget

July 17, 2020 7PM

19^thCentury Rangeley in 3D

Lakeside Theatre in Rangeley

This is an all new presentation for 2020 …of the very popular program the Historical Society has presented for the last 3 years.

This unique show premiered on features an entirely new collection of stereoviews not shared in 2019 nearly sold-out event. This new collection of 19^thCentury “Stereoview” images has been converted by the Historical Society to now share on the big screen by using modern 3D glasses. The fun evening will also feature a collection of rare regional short films as well. The Stereoviews, Vintage Photos and Films will be accompanied by Live Music by the Sandy River Ramblers and narration by Executive Director, Bill Pierce. Please join us and step back in time to view the Rangeley region as it was 130 years ago! There will be a cash bar and the popcorn will be poppin’ in support of the Rangeley Friends of the Arts.

Tickets are just $10.00 in support of the museums and programs of the Rangeley Lakes Historical Society and are available in advance at the Outdoor Heritage Museum, in Oquossoc, or the Rangeley History Museum in downtown Rangeley. Come step back in time and support the efforts of your Historical Society at this fun and entertaining evening!

August 6th

The Historical Society invites you to a Bicentennial screening of “Maine at 200”

Lakeside Theatre, Rangeley at 7pm

“Maine at 200” is an interesting documentary film covering the history of Maine since its founding in 1820 in celebration of our State’s Bicentennial. This is the full-length feature version shares the state’s story in a Comprehensive decade-by-decade timeline. A Q&A session with the producer will follow the screening. Admission in support of the Historical Society is just $5.00 per person. Concessions will be provided by the RFA. Advance Tickets will be available at the Outdoor Heritage Museum, in Oquossoc, or the Rangeley History Museum in downtown Rangeley or at the door.

August 14, 2020

19^thCentury Rangeley in 3D

Lakeside Theatre in Rangeley

This is an encore performance of an all new presentation for 2020.

(1st Screening was on July 17)

This unique show features an entirely new collection of stereoviews not shared in 2019 nearly sold-out event. This collection of 19^th Century “Stereoview” images has been converted by the Historical Society to now share on the big screen by using modern 3D glasses. The fun evening will also feature a collection of rare regional short films as well. The Stereoviews, Vintage Photos and Films will be accompanied by Live Music by the Sandy River Ramblers and narration by Executive Director, Bill Pierce. Please join us and step back in time to view the Rangeley region as it was 130 years ago! There will be a cash bar and the popcorn will be poppin’ in support of the Rangeley Friends of the Arts. Tickets are just $10.00 and support the museums and programs of the Rangeley Lakes Historical Society and are available in advance at the Outdoor Heritage Museum, in Oquossoc, or the Rangeley History Museum in downtown Rangeley. Come step back in time and support the efforts of your Historical Society at this fun and entertaining evening!

August 15, 2020

Oquossoc Day

On the Grounds of the Outdoor Heritage Museum

10:00am-4:00pm

The Village of Oquossoc Celebrates! Over 35 Vendors will fill the grounds of the Outdoor Heritage Museum for an Annual Art, Crafts & Antique Show. Many other events take place throughout the day and around the village including a waterski show, "Sink the Bismarck" Seaplane event, First Responders Challenge Cup featuring Rangeley Boat Rowing races, kayak & blind canoe races! There will also be boat parade, food and more!! A great family fun day.

August 15, 2020

Fly Tier Scott Biron at Outdoor Heritage Museum

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Corner of Rtes. 4 & 17, Oquossoc

Join expert Fly Tier Scott Biron to learn his secrets and techniques for tying awesome flies that catch big Trout and Salmon! Call (207) 864-3091 for more information

September 5, 2020

Fly Tier Justin Crouse at Outdoor Heritage Museum

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Corner of Rtes. 4 & 17, Oquossoc

Justin Crouse of Guide's Choice Flies is an avid angler and superb tier of flies. He is a regular featured tier at Fly Fishing Shows and exhibitions throughout New England. Justin focuses on traditional patterns effective for Northern New England waters. He is very helpful and is happy to share tips and techniques with accomplished and novice tiers. Call (207) 864-3091 for more information

6th Annual Rangeley Regatta

September 25, 2020

12:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Outdoor Heritage Museum, Corner of Rtes. 4 & 17, Oquossoc

The Rangeley Regatta features teams of students from Stratton, Kingfield, Strong, Phillips, Mt Blue and Rangeley middle school in a fun day of learning and competition. The Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society will host the 6th edition of the Rangeley Regatta at its Outdoor Heritage Museum and the nearby Oquossoc Cove on Rangeley Lake. Events include: Canoe Relay, Kayak Relay, Boys and Girls Crew style races in the museum's fleet of classic Rangeley boats. Other events include Art, Poetry, Public Speaking, Outdoor Team Trivia, Fly Casting, Fly Tying and boys & girls One Mile Road Race. Medals are awarded as well as points towards the Rangeley Regatta Cup. High schools from the central Maine also compete in all water events and then mentor and coach the Middle School Teams. Come cheer on these great kids. Call (207) 864-3091 for more information

Virtual Pop-Up Museum!

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center — Thu, 07 May 2020 14:48:10 GMT

These Strange and Unusual Times:
Sharing Our Experiences Through Objects

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum invites you
to participate in a virtual Pop-Up Museum!

Submissions accepted May 7 – May 12, 2020

Email a photograph of an object, along with a 100-word description to pmam@bowdoin.edu

Ten years from now, what object do you imagine you will associate with this strange and extraordinary time? Something that reminds you of a person, event, or activity? Perhaps something that by its feel, scent, or even taste will evoke memories of COVID-19-dominated spring 2020?

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum invites you to contribute a photograph of your chosen object to our first-ever virtual Pop-Up Museum. A Pop-Up Museum is a temporary exhibit created by people who come together to display special objects and share stories about them. Usually, a Pop-Up Museum lasts a few hours in a physical space and then it is gone! This one will be different because, well, these are unusual times!

Once you have selected an item, send us a photograph of it, along with a short explanation of why this object has meaning to you. Submissions should be sent to pmam@bowdoin.edu by May 12, 2020.

The museum will compile contributions and create a Pop-Up exhibition on the Arctic Museum’s website. We will send you a link to the exhibit once it is posted so you can participate in an opening event and share the exhibit with family and friends.

Guidelines:

• It will be hard, but select one item only!

• Email us a photograph of the item (jpeg format, please).

• Include a short explanation in the body of your email, no more than 100 words.

• Provide your name and that of your community. Also, tell us whether we can associate your name with your object, or whether you wish to remain anonymous.

Arctic Museum’s Very Convenient Hours • Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week online Free participation Open to people of all ages

www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/

Abbe Museum Online Event - Digital AMIM

Abbe Museum — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:53:34 GMT

Join us for Digital AMIM on Saturday, May 16 from 2 to 8 pm (EST)!

The Abbe is bringing it's annual Abbe Museum Indian Market to a virtual stage. Digital AMIM will be a one-day online event scheduled from 2-8 pm on Saturday, May 16, 2020. Event-goers will have the chance to meet some of the 2020 Abbe Museum Indian Market artists, learning more about them, their process, and their body of work. Allowing artists to connect directly with the community to educate and also sell their wares. In addition to spotlighting artists, Digital AMIM will include performances (ranging from dancers to singers, and everything in between) and educational programming. At the end of the evening, there will also be a film screening and panel discussion.

“We are extremely excited about Digital AMIM. The Abbe Museum's mission is ‘Inspiring new learning about the Wabanaki Nations with every visit.’ The health crisis created a situation where the public can't come to visit us, so with Digital AMIM we're bringing our mission into your homes. We invite you to join us throughout the event both to support the AMIM artists and engage in the opportunity to learn about Native arts from the artists themselves.” - Chris Newell, Executive Director & Senior Partner to Wabanaki Nations

Learn more about Digital AMIM and meet the artists here >

Kajak! - Exhibit Opening

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:35:54 GMT

Opens April 9, 2020 at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum located on the Bowdoin College campus.

This exhibit explores the traditional skin-on-frame watercraft used by Inuit across the Arctic for hunting, fishing, traveling, and recreation. From Alaska to Greenland and Labrador, Inuit customized these versatile vessels to suit the various water and ice conditions they expected to encounter.

A kajak, more commonly spelled kayak in English, is the quintessential watercraft of the Arctic. Now familiar to boaters around the world, this versatile craft was developed thousands of years ago by the ancestors of the contemporary Inuit for hunting and traveling in icy waters. For most hunters it was an essential component of their equipment, most importantly for hunting and fishing, but also as transport and even racing and rolling competitions.

Traditional kayaks are made from a light framework of wood covered in waterproof skins. They are completely covered, with only a person-sized hole in the top for the paddler to sit in. They may appear simple, but making and using kayaks requires complex skills that that take years to perfect. Across the Arctic hunters adjusted this basic design to build vessels suited for their particular needs and the conditions they expected to encounter.

Kayaks and their equipment are marvels of engineering and craftsmanship that for generations were critical to the survival of Inuit families across the Arctic. By the middle of the twentieth century traditional kayak use and construction had almost disappeared in the wake of colonial disruptions. Efforts by both Inuit and Western researchers and kayakers beginning in the 1970s has preserved knowledge and revived interest in these remarkable boats. These efforts continue today.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s November Public Presentation: “Foe to Friend: German POWs on Lunn Farm in Littleton, Maine”

Kennebec Historical Society — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:35:04 GMT

1944, the U.S. Army Air Base in Houlton, Maine in Aroostook, County, became the site of a Prisoner of War (POW) internment camp for German soldiers captured in North Africa and France. The POW’s could not be forced to work, but they could volunteer. Those who wanted to work helped the local farmers harvest peas and pick potatoes and cut wood in the forest after harvest time during the winter. In September of 1945, Aroostook County farmers decided to take advantage of this opportunity. My dad requested some prisoners to help with our potato harvest. When harvest time rolled around, eight young Germans would arrive by truck each morning about 7 o’clock to help us harvest our crop…with ONE guard. As a 13-year old boy, the arrival of German soldiers, was fearsome. My young mind was not too sure it was a good idea to have the “enemy” right here on our farm.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s November speaker, Henry (Hank) D. Lunn has been a resident of Camden, Maine since 1958 and a student of Maine history since his birth on a potato farm in Aroostook County. He graduated from the University of Maine with a major in history and government and has a M.Ed. in Counseling and School Administration. Mr. Lunn retired from public education with over 40 years of experience as a teacher, counselor and educational consultant in the schools of Maine. For the past several years, he has been delivering his “Living History” presentations to schools, historical societies, libraries, and community organizations.

The Kennebec Historical Society November presentation is co-sponsored by the Maine State Library and is free to the public (donations gladly accepted). The presentation will be followed by some light refreshments and take place on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library, located at 230 State Street in Augusta.

Down East Heritage Day

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:27:10 GMT

https://www.facebook.com/events/461915737778400/

The Clara M. Southworth Lecture at Colby College: "Preserving the Guilded Age: The Care and Conservation of Newport's Architectural Heritage"

Colby College Museum of Art — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 15:42:37 GMT

SAVE THE DATE - November 13, 2019

Please join Colby College in welcoming Patricia Miller, Chief Conservator at the Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, RI for the annual Clara M. Southworth Lecture, "Preserving the Guilded Age: The Care and Conservation of Newport's Architectural Heritage"

Patricia Miller will present a behind-the-scenes look at ongoing efforts to preserve the Society's 11 historic properties and landscapes – including Hunter House and The Breakers - as well as care for the vast decorative arts collection inside and out.

Lecture: Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 6:00 p.m. in Given Auditorium (Bixler Arts Building, Colby College).

The Clara M. Southworth Lecture is cosponsored by The Clara M. Southworth Lecture Fund and the Colby College Department of Art

The lecture is free and open to the public.

History Convergence: Preparing for Maine's Bicentennial

Wilson Museum — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 19:32:53 GMT

History Convergence: Preparing for Maine's Bicentennial

Wednesday, October 30, 9 am - 2:30 pm

Wilson Museum, Hutchins Education Center, 112 Perkins St., Castine

Let’s celebrate 200 years of Maine statehood! Downeast Acadia Regional Tourism, Abbe Museum, and Castine History Partners will host a planning workshop at the Wilson Museum in Castine geared to nonprofits in Hancock and Washington counties.

Learn more about Maine's official entry into the United States, how to better interpret Native history, share what you may already be planning for the Bicentennial, brainstorm new possibilities for the occasion, and discover how we can collaborate.

Registration required by October 24

Cost is $10 per person to help defray lunch expenses

To register or for more information: (207) 326-9247 or info@wilsonmuseum.org, or register and pay online here.

You may also send a check payable to the Wilson Museum, P.O. Box 196, Castine, ME 04421. Be sure to include name(s) of attendees and the organization you represent.

Maine in World War I - A History Talk

Canton Historical Society — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:16:36 GMT

The Canton Historical Society is hosting a talk on “Maine in World War I” on Wednesday, October 16, at 6:30 p.m., in its building at 25 Turner Street. The speaker will be Capt. Jonathan D. Bratten of the Maine Army National Guard.

In 1917, 2,000 Mainers left their homes and families to “make the world safe for democracy.” Their travels took them directly into the heart of the Great War, where they proved that the best of the German Army was no match for the boys from Maine. Capt. Bratten will be discussing how the actions of Maine’s soldiers changed the course of World War I.

Capt. Bratten is an engineer officer in the Maine Army National Guard where he commands the 251st Engineer Company and serves as command historian. He holds a B.A. in history from Franciscan University of Steubenville (Ohio) and an M.A. in history from the University of New Hampshire. Capt. Bratten is a veteran of Afghanistan.

This event is free of admission and open to the public. The venue is handicap accessible. Refreshments will be served. Doors open at 6 p.m.

The Canton Historical Society is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization devoted to the preservation and celebration of Canton’s heritage and history.

If you would like more information about this event, please email cantonmehistorical@gmail.com.

Canton Historical Society
25 Turner Street
Canton, Maine
www.cantonmehistory.org

Grants Workshop

Maine Humanities Council — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:24:05 GMT

9:00 - 11:00 AM
Osher Map Library, Portland

Are you a Maine cultural organization looking to learn more about funding opportunities?

This free workshop will provide guidance and feedback for organizations who are interested in applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maine Community Foundation, and the Maine Humanities Council. Discussion will include an overview of programs and the steps involved in the submission and review of applications. Space is limited; register now.

Featuring

Jeff Hardwick
Deputy Director of Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities

Stephanie Eglinton
Senior Program Officer, Maine Community Foundation

Jerome Bennett
Program Officer, Maine Humanities Council

Offered in partnership with the Maine Community Foundation and Maine Humanities Council.

Preserving Our History: Caring for Our Cemeteries - September 25

Canton Historical Society — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 20:50:50 GMT

CANTON—The Canton Historical Society is hosting a talk on “Preserving Our History: Caring for Our Cemeteries” on Wednesday, September 25, at 6:30 p.m., in its building at 25 Turner Street. The speaker will be Cheryl Willis Patten of the Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) and the Maine Old Cemetery Association (MOGA).

Cemeteries are delicate outdoor museums that contain history on individuals and towns. They provide a wealth of information that may not be available elsewhere. In her talk on “Preserving Our History: Caring for Our Cemeteries,” Ms. Patten will explain how to decipher information found on gravestones and discuss the steps one can take to conserve this valuable historical record. She will also address some basic information used to evaluate and conserve cemeteries and describe best practices for caring for gravestones.

Cheryl Willis Patten has been an advocate for cemeteries for many years. She chaired the 2011 AGS Annual National Conference and has held various offices with MOCA—including serving as chair of the MOCA Workshop Committee for eight years. Retired from teaching and state employment, Ms. Patten now has more time for exploring cemeteries in Maine and various other states and countries.

Information on AGS can be found at www.gravestonestudies.org and information on MOCA can be found at www.moca-me.org.

This event is free of admission and open to the public. The venue is handicap accessible. Refreshments will be served. Doors open at 6 p.m.

The Canton Historical Society is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization devoted to the preservation and celebration of Canton’s heritage and history.

If you would like more information about this event, please email cantonmehistorical@gmail.com.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s September Public Presentation: “Thomas Holt, Architect and Chief Engineer of the Maine Central Railroad”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:48:27 GMT

Born in Bethel in 1835, Thomas Holt was active as an architect in Central and Western Maine from 1859 to 1870. In 1865 he designed the Portland and Kennebec Railroad Station in Augusta, which burned while under construction in the city's Great Fire that year. Between 1871 and 1876, Holt served as Chief Engineer of the Maine Central Railroad, designing railroad buildings and bridges as well as conducting surveys for new rail lines. In 1876, he moved to California, where he pursued careers in architecture, railroading, mining, and lumbering. He died in 1889 from pneumonia contracted in a blizzard in Nevada.

Our KHS September speaker, a native of Portland, Maine, Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., attended Deering High School, Colby College, and Boston University and was the recipient of honorary doctorates from Bowdoin College and the Maine College of Art. At the age of thirteen, Shettleworth became interested in historic preservation through the destruction of Portland’s Union Station in 1961. In 1971 he was appointed by Governor Curtis to serve on the first board of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, for which he became architectural historian in 1973 and director in 1976. He retired from that position in 2015. Mr. Shettleworth has lectured and written extensively on Maine history and architecture and served as State Historian since 2004.

The Kennebec Historical Society September Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted). The presentation will take place on Wednesday, September 18, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hope Baptist Church located at 726 Western Avenue in Manchester. The program will be preceded at 4:30pm by a potluck supper and at 6pm by the society’s annual meeting and election of officers and directors. For details about the potluck supper, please contact Anne Cough, either by email at acough60@aol.com or by phone at 582-2823.

Tate House Museum Presents Dr Richard Kahn

Tate House Museum — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:03:28 GMT

On Thursday, September 19^th the Tate House Museum welcomes Dr Richard Kahn as he presents “Stroudwater’s own Dr. Jeremiah Barker (1752-1835)”, the last of the Tate House Summer Lecture Series. Dr Barker was a Revolutionary War veteran and lived at 1168 Westbrook Street just down the road from the Tate House where he practiced medicine.

Dr. Kahn’s book is titled History of Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820: The Unpublished work of a Rural Physician in New England and is due to be published later this year. The lecture will be an overview and will focus on the contents of his book.

The lecture takes place in the Means House parlor, across the street from the Tate House Museum 1267 Westbrook St. Portland, ME. Admission is $15 and $12 for members and volunteers. Seating for the lecture is limited, so please call the museum at 207-774-6177 for reservations.

Tate House Museum Presents Third Annual ColoniALE

Tate House Museum — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:16:21 GMT

A reliable drinking source, liquid sustenance and promoter of sociability, beer and ale played an important role in colonial New England society. Archaeologists know this through the thousand of artifacts related to ale and tavern culture that litter our sites. What was the difference between a beer and an ale? Why did the Mayflower end its voyage when it ran out of beer? Why would anyone brew ale with molasses, sassafras and wormwood? Join us as we answer these questions and explore history on tap.

On Saturday, September 14, the Tate House Museum and Mast Landing Brewing Co in Westbrook present an afternoon of education and entertainment surrounding beer in the 18th and 19th century. The event starts with a beer centered tour of the Tate House Museum. Follow that up with a tasting of 4 beers at Mast Landing Brewing Company and a talk by Dr. Emerson "Tad" Baker, Professor of History, Salem State University.

The event begins at 3 PM with a tour of the Tate House Museum, followed by the brewery portion of the program beginning at 4:30. There are 2 types of tickets you can purchase, at 2 different price points.

$35 (or $30 for THM members) Full Event - Museum & Brewery– includes a beer-focused tour of the Tate House, a complimentary THM pint glass & an 18th century beer recipe for you to try at home. Immediately afterward, at Mast Landing Brewing Co., enjoy a tasting of 4 of their delicious brews, an interesting presentation by Dr. Baker.

$25 Partial Event - Brewery Only - you may purchase a ticket for just the portion of the event which takes place at the brewery (no house tour, no pint glass and no recipe).

This event is a fundraiser for the Tate House Museum in the Historic Stroudwater District of Portland. FMI go to www.tatehouse.org and click on events or call the museum at 774-6177.

Tate House Presents Noted Author Patricia Q Wall

Tate House Museum — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:45:50 GMT

Portland__ On Thursday, July 18 the Tate House Museum will host noted author, Patricia Q Wall, in the 3^rd of it’s Summer Guest Lectures at the Means House in Portland. The title of Mrs Wall’s lecture is “Still Hidden Everywhere: Enslaved Blacks in the Massachusetts Province of Maine”. She is the author of Lives of Consequence: Blacks in Early Kittery and Berwick in the Massachusetts Province of Maine and several children’s books which focused on slavery and the lives of blacks in Maine. For over 48 years she has been involved with colonial history through professional museum work, research, teaching and writing.

Based on nearly six years of research, Mrs. Wall’s findings refute the old myth of slavery’s scarcity in this region in the 17^th and 18^th centuries, and point to the significant impact of the labor and skills of enslaved Africans, Native Americans and people of mixed heritage on the economic development of some of Maine’s earliest coastal towns.

Lectures take place starting at 6:30 PM in the Means House, across the street from the Tate House. Admission is $15 and $12 for members and volunteers. Seating is limited, so please call the Museum at 207-774-6177 for reservations.

FMI:

Contact

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

info@tatehouse.org

Tate House Presents the Return of the Marquis de Lafayette

Tate House Museum — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 19:55:01 GMT

Portland __ On Thursday, July 11^th at 6:30 PM the Tate House Museum will be holding the 2^nd in its series of guest lectures with a presentation by Herb Adams. Adams, a SMCC Professor, former Maine State legislator, author and noted Portland historian, will help us relive the fanfare of the 1825 visit to Portland of the Marquis de Lafayette.

Guests attending the lecture in the Means House parlor will be entertained by Professor Adams talk entitled “Hail the Hero of Two Worlds: Lafayette Returns to America – and Maine”. Of interest is the fact that Lafayette knew the owner of the Means House and is believed to have visited the home of his friend, James Means, in 1825.

Lectures take place in the Means House, across the street from the Tate House. Admission is $15 and $12 for members and volunteers. Seating is limited, so please call the Museum at 207-774-6177 for reservations.

FMI:

Contact

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

info@tatehouse.org

Wellcome Prize for Student Historians

Yarmouth Historical Society — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:58:38 GMT

The Trustees and staff of Yarmouth Historical Society are pleased to present The Wellcome Prize, a history competition 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 about their findings. Papers will be judged on the quality of writing and research. The writers of the three winning papers will be asked to present a talk about their project on November 19, 2019. The first prize winner will receive $1000, second prize $500, and third prize $250. Visit our website for more information: www.yarmouthmehistory.org/the-wellcome-prize/

Ding ding! Seashore Trolly Museum Celebrates 80th Anniversary!

Colby College Museum of Art — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:54:16 GMT

80^th Anniversary Year for the World’s Oldest, Largest Historical Trolley Museum

The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport has officially opened for the 2019 season. The Museum will be open from 10AM-5PM every weekend in May, and daily starting on Memorial Day. A year-long celebration is planned for the Seashore Trolley Museum this season as it turns 80. Founded in 1939, the trolley museum is the oldest historic transportation organization of its kind in the world and curates the largest streetcar collection.

The museum features a three-mile round trip on its heritage railway, a 330-unit collection of trolleys, buses and more transit history than you can absorb in one day. Seashore Trolley Museum offers attractions for every member of your family. The museum’s docents are only too glad to unravel the mysteries of the last century’s transit modes.

All of this activity began eighty years ago, when a group of Boston area college students visited Maine, to ride the dwindling number of streetcar lines. While enjoying an outing, they learned that The Biddeford and Saco Railroad had ordered replacement buses for its weary trolleys. One open-sided car, No. 31, was a favorite with the group. On the spot, they agreed to save the little car. In doing so, the college students made history.

This was the first time a non-company group saved a street railway or railroad car for historic purposes. Armed with this idea, other groups sprang up in New England and around the U.S. Today, this local rolling endeavor covers the country from coast to coast.

Over the years, Seashore Trolley Museum has added to its collection streetcars from Los Angeles, New Orleans, Chicago, and to Maine’s northernmost county – Aroostook. Besides rail cars, the collection includes diesel and gas buses. There are 19 electrically powered trackless trolleys, like those running around Cambridge’s Harvard Square. Its Canadian collection is the largest outside of that country. If you are not satisfied with a North American assortment, transit equipment from: Australia, France, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and New Zealand may be viewed or ridden.

Bostonians will enjoy refreshing their memories of familiar rapid transit cars. All four subway lines: Red, Green, Blue and Orange are represented. In fact, Seashore prides itself on displaying the comprehensive “Boston Collection” of trolleys, trains and buses. The oldest piece of equipment in the museum is a Suffolk County Sheriff’s prisoner wagon, circa 1830. Although it is not a passenger vehicle, it represents the omnibuses, which clattered over the Hub’s cobblestone streets, until horse cars arrived.

The birthday celebration weekend of July 5-8 will see hidden trolleys out in the sunshine for the first time in years. There will be other special activities taking place as well. For more information about the streetcar preservation movement, the Seashore Trolley Museum and its collection, as well as a calendar of events for the 2019 season, please visit www.trolleymuseum.org or contact 207-967-2800 x101.

Join Museum L-A on June 14 to Celebrate "The First Shoe Collection"

Colby College Museum of Art — Fri, 31 May 2019 22:10:42 GMT

Museum exhibit asks: Can shoes be artful objects?

Inspired by the success of its most recent Bates bedspread exhibit, Museum L-A began the process of curating their newest gallery exhibit featuring shoes over one year ago. The plan for the exhibit was three-fold: highlight Auburn’s historic shoe industry, explore the techniques and terms that accompany shoes, and acknowledge the aesthetic beauty of shoe designs.

In response to a call for donations of shoes that the museum sent to local news outlets, Marilynn G. Barr, an artist from North Carolina, contacted the museum’s Collections and Exhibits coordinator to see if the museum would be interested in showcasing her astounding collection of ceramic shoes. One year later, Museum L-A is thrilled to announce that her shoes will be on display in the gallery for three months this summer.

Barr’s collection, “The First Shoe Collection,” is made up of 60 ceramic shoes fashioned using vintage shoe lasts from the 1940s and ‘50s. All of the shoes are singles (reminiscent of Cinderella’s abandoned shoe), are vastly different in design and color, and were recently part of an exhibition in New York City. The collection begs the question: Can shoes be artful objects?

“At the beginning of this curation process, we had always flirted with ideas of how to infuse this exhibit about an everyday object with art and design, so when Marilynn reached out to us we jumped at the chance to include her collection at some point during this exhibition,” explained Emma Sieh, Collections and Exhibits coordinator.

The public is invited to attend a free event from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 14, to view these beautiful shoes and meet their ingenious creator. Travelling from Greensboro, North Carolina, Barr will lead the evening in an artist’s talk and answer questions about the process of crafting these works of art. Light refreshments will be served and the public will have a chance to tour the rest of the “Footwear: From Function to Fashion” exhibition.

“The First Shoe Collection” will be on display in the Museum L-A gallery until mid-September.

Museum L-A is located in the Bates Mill Complex at 35 Canal Street in Lewiston, Maine. Its hours of operation are Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Special tour requests and large group tours outside of these hours are available by appointment. Call 207-333-3881 or email info@museumla.org for more information.

Our Stories Have to Be Told: HHRC Artifacts from the Holocaust

Colby College Museum of Art — Fri, 31 May 2019 22:06:30 GMT

Our Stories Have to Be Told: HHRC Artifacts from the Holocaust

The latest exhibit at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine will feature a collection of the artifacts that have been given to the HHRC over the years and compiled in a way that tells the story of the years leading up to the Holocaust through liberation.

Our Stories Have to Be Told: HHRC Artifacts from the Holocaust brings together a powerful collection of items that have been donated or loaned to the HHRC over the years.

The exhibit will open on Wednesday, June 5^th from 5 to 7 p.m. with a program beginning at 5:30 p.m. featuring educator Suzi Ring, whose late husband Dennis donated a collection of items from concentration camps. In addition, speakers will include Noel March, who will share the story of his father Leonard, who was a liberator. Lee D. Mitgang will speak about his father Herbert who wrote for the Stars and Stripes and went on to have a successful career as a journalist. The exhibit was put together by HHRC Associate Director David Greenham and recent University of Southern Maine graduate Justin Dyer of Bath. Both will speak about the process of creating the exhibit.

The title comes from a quote by Holocaust survivor Jerry Slivka (July 11, 1915 – January 10, 2013). He is one of several survivors whose quotes and reflections are included in the exhibit.

Jerry Slivka was born in the Ukraine, but his village was destroyed during WWI. The family moved to the Jewish section of another town nearby named Povursk. When Hitler came to power, Jerry was out of school and decided to move to Lodz, Poland. He worked making sweaters and then returned to Povursk in 1937. Four years later, Jerry was drafted into the Soviet army. During his time of service, he lost contact with his family. In 1943, Jerry was sent to a work camp in Siberia where he remained until the end of the war. At that time, the Soviet Union had an agreement that those who were Polish citizens prior to 1939 could go back to Poland. Jerry qualified, submitted his application, and a year later returned to Poland. He learned that his parents, sister and one brother were killed. Jerry was able to find his surviving brother and the two traveled to Italy before arriving to the US in 1948. Soon after, he met and married his wife Rochelle. The couple moved to Maine and helped found the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine. At the time of his death, he was survived by two daughters, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Our Stories Have to Be Told: HHRC Artifacts from the Holocaust will be open from June 5^th through September 13^th. The HHRC, located at the Michael Klahr Center on the campus of the University of Maine at Augusta is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or on weekends and evenings by appointment.

If you have any questions about the exhibit please contact David Greenham at David.greenham@maine.edu or 207-621-3531.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s June Public Presentation: “Risking Lives and Fortunes, Maine’s Underground Railroad”

Kennebec Historical Society — Tue, 28 May 2019 18:13:18 GMT

The Kennebec Historical Society’s June Public Presentation: “Risking Lives and Fortunes, Maine’s Underground Railroad”

With America embroiled in the Civil War and the issue of slavery tearing apart friends and neighbors, many Mainers, including families Kennebec County, put their lives and fortunes at risk by helping escaping slaves get to Canada in the 1860s. From Kittery to Fort Fairfield, like-minded abolitionists formed an extensive “underground railroad” connection that broke the law, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Jail time and heavy fines faced anyone caught in this endeavor, but brave families from the Nasons to the Farwells and Lambs refused to buckle to the dangers. The result was thousands of slaves, often chased by slave hunters, made the treacherous trip to freedom.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s speaker and winner of six national magazine writing awards, Mark Alan Leslie began his career as a journalist, reporting for the then-Waterville Morning Sentinel and then as an editor for the Lewiston Sun, Portland Press Herald and Sunday Telegram. He was the founding editor for Golf Course News, a publication that shot to the top of golf industry publications. Leslie has written 11 books, including three historical novels, four modern-day mystery/thrillers, two golf books, a devotional and a Christian self-help book.

At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, at South Parish Congregational Church at 9 Church Street, Augusta, author Mark Alan Leslie will weave this story, complete with photographs and narratives, that helped him write the Publishers Weekly Featured Book, True North: Tice’s Story. The Kennebec Historical Society June Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will be followed by some light refreshments.

Strawberry and Cream Tea in the Tate House Gardens

Tate House Museum — Sun, 26 May 2019 21:39:08 GMT

The Tate House Museum at 1267 Westbrook Street, Portland announces their 7thAnnual Tate House Tea in the Garden on Sunday, June 9^thfrom 1 until 4PM. The garden which overlooks the Stroudwater River will be the location for various hot and iced teas prepared and served by Nellie's Teas of South Portland. To accompany your tea numerous other sweet confections and savory appetizers will be served and ofcourse there will be strawberry shortcake to enjoy. This is a great opportunity to spend an afternoon with friends or family enjoying this civilized British activity while supporting the museum.

The Tate House will be open for tours for those who have never seen this special Georgian Colonial house. The charge for this event is $15 for members and $18 for non-members. Reservations are requested and can be made by calling the Tate House at

774-6177 or e-mailing the museum at assistant@tatehouse.org. Links to Eventbrite will be found on the website of www.tatehouse.org

FMI:

Peg Puza

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

Tel: 774-6177

assistant@tatehouse.org

Tate House Welcomes Pulitzer Prize Winner Alan Shaw Taylor

Tate House Museum — Wed, 15 May 2019 21:45:13 GMT

Portland – The Tate House Museum welcomes noted author and historian, Alan Taylor, to an evening lecture on the events leading up to Maine's statehood entitled Bicentennial Reflections: Maine& the Crisis of the Union in 1820.Dr. Taylor is the author of eight books and numerous scholarly articles on American history and is a two time Pulitzer Prize winner. Currently the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville he will be sharing his perspective on the politics which led to Maine being admitted to the Union as a free state in 1820.

Please join us at 5PM on May 29th to meet the author and enjoy light refreshments at the Stroudwater Village Church, 1729 Congress Street, Portland, across the street from the Tate House. The lecture will follow at 6PM. This event supports the Tate House Museum in its continuing mission to share history with the public.

Copies of some of Dr. Taylor's books will be available for purchase and signing before the lecture begins, supplied by Print: A Bookstore.

Tickets are available through Eventbrite, by linking to the event at www.tatehouse.orgor by calling the Tate House at 207-774-6177.

FMI: Contact Peg Puza.

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

assistant@tatehouse.org

Preserving Your Family History Through Storytelling

Canton Historical Society — Wed, 15 May 2019 10:18:59 GMT

Wednesday, May 22, 6:30 PM

Jane Woodman and Rob Lively of Western Maine Storytelling will talk about the importance of storytelling--particularly as it pertains to preserving history. They will discuss how to get started with storytelling and suggest some techniques. You will hear their stories—and some from willing audience participants as well.

Canton Historical Society
25 Turner Street
Canton, Maine
Questions? cantonmehistorical@gmail.com, 207-500-9893
www.cantonmehistory.org

What They Carried on D-Day: An Interactive Talk and Exhibit in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of D-Day

Canton Historical Society — Sat, 11 May 2019 14:36:23 GMT

On Thursday, June 6, 2019, the 75^th anniversary of D-Day, the Canton Historical Society hosts an interactive program, What They Carried on D-Day: A WWII History Presentation and Exhibit. Doug Culver presents the history of D-Day, using original artifacts to tell the story of the day that changed the course of WWII – the day that ultimately changed the world. The program includes a presentation and interactive exhibit.

This is not just an ordinary history talk – you will learn about D-Day through vivid stories about ordinary men and their extraordinary achievements, made even more vivid by a first-hand view of the uniforms they wore, and the equipment and supplies they carried. You will gain a new understanding of WWII and the events of D-Day, and you will be sure to come away, saying, “I didn’t know that!”

Doug Culver has presented free WWII programs for the past 30 years for high school history students, veterans’ groups, museums, historical societies, and other organizations. He has consulted with countless individuals on the identification of military artifacts in family collections. For more information on Doug’s programs, visit: www.wwiiconsulting.com

This program is great for anyone interested in history, high school students, young adults, and those who want to learn more about how the events of WWII shaped our nation and the world as we know it today. Admission is free and open to the public. Program times: 6:30-8:30 PM. Doors open at 6 PM. Seating is limited. Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Not recommended for very young children.

For more information, contact the Canton Historical Society:
Email - cantonmehistorical@gmail.com, or call 207-500-9893.

Tate House Museum Annual Plant and Herb Sale

Tate House Museum — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:08:28 GMT

May 18^thfrom 9 am to 2 pm will be the annual Tate House Museum Herb and Plant Sale. The sale will be located at the museum on 1267 Westbrook St., Portland. The Museum garden contains heirloom plants that would have been found in an 18^thcentury garden for medicinal, culinary and fragrant uses. The sale will include perennials thinned from the historical garden. There will also be herbs and annual flowers supplied by Broadway Gardens as well as plants from the museum volunteers.

This year there will also be a used book sale so come and check out these greatly reduced volumes.

FMI

Peg Puza

Tate House Museum

207-774-6177

info@tatehouse.org

Antiques Appraisal Day in Yarmouth

Yarmouth Historical Society — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:10:25 GMT

Join Yarmouth History Center for Antiques Appraisal Day on Saturday, May 4, from 10:00-2:00! This long-standing fundraiser returns this spring with appraisers Colleen Donovan and Christopher Considine from Foreside Antiques in Falmouth.

Prices: $10 for 1 item; $18 for 2 items; $25 for 3 items. The first item is free for members of Yarmouth Historical Society. Limit of 3 items per person. Single items only; please no large collections.

Yarmouth History Center is located at 118 East Elm Street in Yarmouth. Please visit www.yarmouthmehistory.org or call 207-846-6259 for more information.

New Senior Arts Program Coming to Museum L-A

Colby College Museum of Art — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 17:30:12 GMT

New Senior Arts Program Coming to Museum L-A

Museum L-A is thrilled to invite you to participate in its first senior arts workshop program! For the first installment of a three part workshop series, the museum will be hosting a free poetry workshop called “Seeing with the Heart’s Ear” lead by guest teaching artist Martin Steingesser. Martin is Portland Maine’ first Poet Laureate, an accomplished author, a performance poet, and a teacher. He will be guiding our workshop members on their poetry journey over the course of an 8 week session.

This poetry workshop offers inspiration and opportunity for participants to learn new writing tools to serve their consciousness in expressive ways. The aim is to encourage and nurture stronger, clearer, and more expressive writing and poetry. The museum is looking for 12 willing participants over the age of 50 to join us on this poetry journey from April 13 to June 1, 2019. The workshops will happen at Museum L-A every Saturday from 10:30 am – 12:30 pm. After the 8 week session has ended, the poets, their friends and family, and the general public will be invited to attend a poetry reading event on June 7 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm to celebrate the amazing work they have accomplished.

In addition to “Seeing with the Heart’s Ear”, Museum L-A will be hosting two more senior arts programs over the next year through a grant program called Seeding Vitality Arts in Museum. This initiative is funded by Aroha Philanthropies and was designed to support the development and expansion of successful creative aging programs. The goal is to inspire and enable older adults to learn, make, and share the arts in ways that are novel, complex, and socially engaging. This work is driven by teaching artists whose creative process and understanding of older adults bring joy, connection, improved health and well-being, and a renewed sense of purpose to older adults. Museum L-A was chosen as one of only 20 museums throughout the United States to receive this grant and although this is one of Museum L-A’s first dedicated senior arts programs, they are looking towards being able to continue this practice for many years to come.

If you’re interested in registering for this poetry workshop, please call Museum L-A at 207-333-3881. Emma Sieh, Museum L-A’s Collection and Exhibits Coordinator, will be fielding all registration queries. For more information about the program, please visit www.museumla.org.

Tate House Museum Kicks Off 2019 Lecture Series with Norm Buttrick

Tate House Museum — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:18:16 GMT

Come join the Tate House Museum on April 11 as we welcome Maine Historic Preservation Level 1 Archaeologist Norman Buttrick as he discusses the Zachariah Stevens’ Tavern site with an eye towards what it can tell us archaeologically. Buttrick studied history and archaeology at the University of Southern Maine and University of New Hampshire and received his master’s degree from the University of Maine. He is certified as a historical archaeologist by the Maine Historical Preservation Commission and taught for 38 years at Freeport High School. Buttrick received one of three historic preservation awards in 1993 for teaching archaeology to secondary students.

Norm will be exploring this 18^th century site on Stevens Avenue which was built in 1767-69 and was run as a tavern during the Revolutionary War by Sarah Brackett and continued as such into the 19^th century under the proprietorship of her son, William. The excavation of this site is being conducted this Spring under a Portland Adult Education class and with volunteers from the Deering Center Neighborhood Association. Norm will be providing information on that project.

This lecture will take place at 6:30PM at the Means House across the street from the Tate House Museum, 1267 Westbrook Street, Portland ME. Seating is limited so please call the museum at 207-774-6177 for reservations. Tickets are $15 ($12 for members and volunteers).

The Kennebec Historical Society’s April Public Presentation: “Stagecoaches on the Kennebec”

Kennebec Historical Society — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:12:53 GMT

Travel from Portland to the Kennebec Valley by stagecoach had begun long before Augusta had been selected for the Capitol site. As early as 1792, Caleb Graffam rode the post and conveyed newspapers from Portland to Hallowell. By December of 1793, he carried passengers from Portland to Hallowell in a sleigh. This was just once every two weeks, but it made a good start. Up until the advent of the railroads in Maine, stagecoaches carried visitors, politicians and business men between Portland, Maine’s interim capital, and Augusta. Stage owners were frequently tavern owners as well. What better business model than being able to physically carry your customers to your tavern’s front door! The presentation will cover the roads, stage lines, and taverns used to convey and accommodate travelers from Portland to Augusta and include stories of actual travelers who braved the winter snows, summer storms and some reckless stage drivers.

KHS speaker, western history author, entrepreneur and inventor, Leland J. Hanchett, Jr., has now published his first book on Maine’s history and his ninth book overall. After sixteen years in computer design and manufacturing, Leland started his own manufacturing company, founding Hanchett Entry Systems, Inc. A Swedish company bought him out in 1998. Lee then wrote six books about Arizona followed by one on Montana. During his engineering career, he patented thirty electronic, optical and mechanical devices.

The Kennebec Historical Society April Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted). The presentation will take place on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hope Baptist Church, located at 726 Western Avenue in Manchester.

Ski Museum of Maine's Skee Spree Silent Auction April 20 - Barker Lodge, Sunday River

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:58:35 GMT

SMOM's Skee Spree will take place on April 20th at Barker Lodge - Sunday River. This event is a fundraising silent auction - with Spring and Summer as its focus! Items include - white river rafting trips, gold outings, home décor, items of jewelry and much more! Bidding starts at 10am and closes at 3pm.

The Kennebec Historical Society Presents: Our Point of View -- Fourteen Years at a Maine Lighthouse

Kennebec Historical Society — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:32:36 GMT

Augusta, ME. — Imagine living in a century-old lightkeeper’s house on the coast of Maine. It sounds like a fantasy, but for Tom and Lee Ann Szelog, dream became reality when they settled into the keeper’s quarters at the Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde, Maine. Join the Szelog’s to experience what it’s like to live in an authentic and operating lighthouse on the Maine coast on Wednesday, March 20th at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library. In a narrated photography presentation based on the Szelog’s book, Our Point of View – Fourteen Years at a Maine Lighthouse, witness the ever changing tide of emotion and drama through compelling stories and extraordinary photographs. Published by Down East Books, Our Point of View has been honored as one of the Best Photo Books by Shutterbug magazine and was the winner of Best Maine-Themed Book in the Maine Literary Awards from the Maine Writers and Publishers Association. The book also is a Gold Medal winner from the Independent Publishers Association.

The Szelog’s home was remote by most people’s standards, yet relatively accessible for a lighthouse station. Sometimes they had only wildlife and passing boats for company, but not for long, because the spell of the lighthouse drew pilgrims in all seasons. People came to rest, to play, to marry, to meditate, and to celebrate – all within view of the keeper’s house and the lenses of Tom’s camera.

Thomas Mark Szelog has spent his entire life observing, writing and/or photographing wildlife. He has been a full-time professional photographer for 40 years, specializing in photographing wildlife, nature, and landscapes. He has earned the reputation and is often described as “one of Maine’s most renowned wildlife photographers,” and is a recipient of the Philip Hyde Award, presented annually to a photographer who is working to preserve the condition of the natural environment through the art of photography. Lee Ann is the President of Simply Put, LLC, specializing in presentations on communication, attitude, and human relations. As passionate wildlife advocates, they also work collaboratively, sharing their words and photographs in narrated photography presentations and books to educate and inspire people about the important role our natural world plays in our lives. Their most recent book, By a Maine River explores the natural beauty found in their own backyard.

The Kennebec Historical Society March Presentation is co-sponsored by the Maine State Library and free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library located at 230 State Street in Augusta.

John Christie Heritage Classic Fundraiser

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:11:20 GMT

John Christie Heritage Classic

FREE ADMISSION!

Formerly know as the Heritage Classic Auction, this newly named and organized event will include a Silent Auction from noon to 4:45, an exciting Historical/Entertainment program on "Early Sugarloaf Nightlife" followed by a Live Auction at 5:30. There are many great items to bid on from 2 night - all-inclusive stay at Sugarloaf to many Gift Cards to local establishments! A great event to support our mission - to celebrate, preserve and share the history and heritage of Maine skiing.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s February Public Presentation: “A History of Camp Keyes”

Kennebec Historical Society — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:06:15 GMT

For over one hundred years, Camp Keyes has been known as the headquarters for the Maine National Guard in Augusta. But how did that site on the hill come to be chosen? Who is it named for? Who trained there, and why? Come listen as Captain Jonathan Bratten (historian for the Maine National Guard) answers those questions and describes the role that Camp Keyes has played in five different conflicts and for generations of Maine soldiers and airmen.

Our February speaker, Captain Jonathan Bratten is the Command Historian for the Maine National Guard. In this capacity, he has produced multiple articles on the history of Maine's soldiers, appearing in such publications as “The New York Times,” “The Washington Post,” “Army History,” “On Point,” and “Army Magazine.” He has also appeared in the Smithsonian Channel documentary, “Americans Underground: Secret Cities of World War I” and served as a historian in France for the Army’s World War I Centennial commemorations. Additionally, Captain Bratten is the commander of the 251st Engineer Company and a veteran of Afghanistan. He and his wife live in Portland, Maine.

The Kennebec Historical Society February Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted). The presentation will take place on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hope Baptist Church, located at 726 Western Avenue in Manchester.

Two-day Workshop: Preservation Management and Collections Care

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:40:28 GMT

February 25 & 26,2019
New Hampshire Historical Society
Concord, NH

Presented by NEDCC, this two-day in-person workshop provides a basic introduction to the concepts and standards used to build an effective preservation program. The course covers preservation policies, environmental and storage conditions, care and handling of collections materials, reformatting, emergency preparedness, and program assessment. The instructors will discuss realistic approaches to preservation at small and medium sized organizations, and small group work will encourage participants to discuss their own preservation goals together.

The program is a beginner to intermediate workshop intended for staff and volunteers at historical societies, libraries with local history collections, town clerk's offices, and other organizations that care for collections.

For complete information on this and other training programs to help you care for your collections: www.nedcc.org/prestr

Lecture: "Resistance and Reprisal: The Scots-Irish of Midcoast Maine During the French and Indian War"

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:54:55 GMT

Lincoln County Historical Association

Contact: Bill Danielson

207-607-2301 or psdm061364@gmail.com

For immediate release

Michael Dekker to Speak on “Resistance and Reprisal: The Scots-Irish of Midcoast Maine During the French and Indian War”

Wiscasset, Maine, January 31, 2019.

The second presentation of the Lincoln County Historical Association’s 2019 Winter Lecture Series will commence at 1:00 pm on Sunday, February 10^th, in the Communications (“911”) Building behind the Lincoln County Court House in Wiscasset. Author, teacher, historian and reenactor Michael Dekker will discuss Scots-Irish involvement in our region during the French and Indian War of 1754-1763. During the conflict, Scots-Irish residents of the mid-coast prosecuted a war against their native neighbors while simultaneously defying the government of Massachusetts and its representatives living in their midst.

An avid student of early American history and material culture, Michael Dekker presents educational programs for historical societies, museums, historic sites, schools and the public. Mike is author of the book “The French and Indian Wars in Maine”, and is a former trustee on the Lincoln County Historical Association and a member of the Boothbay Region Historical Society.

The Lincoln County Historical Association is a non-profit organization providing stewardship for the 1754 Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, the 1761 Pownalborough Court House in Dresden, and the 1811 Old Jail and Museum in Wiscasset. For more information, please visit our website at www.lincolncountyhistory.org or on Facebook at Lincoln County Historical Association Maine.

The public is encouraged to attend the Winter Series Lectures and enjoy their warm conviviality.

Coffee and pastries will be served. Suggested donation is $5.00.

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Lecture: "Early Lincoln County Paintworks, and the Stories Behind Them"

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:55:04 GMT

The Lincoln County Historical Association launches its 2019 Winter Lecture Series at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 3^rd, in the Communications (“911”) Building behind the Lincoln County Court House in Wiscasset. Artist and photographer Doreen Conboy will give a visual tour of decorative wall treatments such as stenciling, mural painting, trompe l’oeil and grain painting used in early 19^th century Maine. Ms. Conboy’s presentation highlights her 18 years of research and photography on the subject.

Coffee and pastries will be served. Suggested donation is $5.00.

Please Join Us for a Maine Photography Collections Digital Curation Summit, March 1st at USM

Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:28:38 GMT

You are invited to participate in the upcoming Maine Photography Collections Digital Curation Summit. To be held at the University of Southern Maine, Glickman Family Library, University Events Room (7th floor), on Friday, March 1st, 2019, from 9am to 2pm.

Sponsored by the University of Southern Maine, the Maine Historical Society and the Penobscot Marine Museum.

Is your organization struggling with best practices for archiving, digitizing, preserving, and/or making your photography collections available to the public? Do you have advice on grants appropriate to this work? Has your organization recently digitized and/or made accessible a new collection of photographic materials? Do you have upcoming exhibitions you would like to share or promote? Join archivists, curators, librarians, digitization professionals, directors, and other interested parties for a day of lightning talks, networking, and roundtable discussions about these topics and more!

Please RSVP here.

There is no cost to attend the summit, and breakfast and lunch will be provided.

The summit is funded by a grant from the Maine Economic Improvement fund. Attendees may park in USM's Bedford Street parking garage free of charge.

Agenda:

Check in and breakfast: 9-9:30am

Welcome and Introductions: 9:30am-9:45am

Lightning Talks: 9:45am-11:45am

Lunch: 11:45am-12:45pm

Topic Based Roundtable Discussions: 12:45pm-1:45pm

Closing Remarks/Next Steps: 1:45pm-2pm

We hope you can join us!

Libby Bischof (USM), Jamie Rice (MHS), Kevin Johnson (PMM) and Matt Wheeler (PMM)

Questions? Contact Libby Bischof at elizabeth.bischof@maine.edu

Special Workshop on Caring for Photographic Materials

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:13:58 GMT

Special NEDCC Workshop on Preservation of Photographs – Andover, MA

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Two-day, In-person Workshop:

IDENTIFICATION AND CARE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS: Daguerreotypes to Inkjet Prints

DATE: March 14 and 15, 2019

LOCATION: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

The two-day workshop is a beginner to intermediate program intended for individuals who want to learn how to care for photographic materials including curators, collection managers, exhibit preparations, catalogers, archivists , photographers, and collectors.

This hands-on workshop offers an in-depth introduction to the preservation of photographic materials, including their identification, deterioration, and care. Participants will learn how to recognize various photographic processes ranging from daguerreotypes to inkjet prints. Preservation problems associated with specific processes will also be studied. The workshop will address storage concerns and preservation priorities, including environmental guidelines, enclosures, and proper care and handling. Participants are encouraged to bring photographs for examination and discussion.

COMPLETE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION: www.nedcc.org/prestr19

Presented by:
NEDCC | Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
www.nedcc.org

Museum L-A's Kids As Curators Exhibit Opening

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 19:31:09 GMT

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Museum L-A

35 Canal Street

Lewiston, ME 04240

You're invited to Museum L-A's upcoming exhibit featuring Edward Little High School students who will share about their experience with curating, designing, and installing in Museum L-A’s gallery space. The exhibit--focusing on the history of music in the local community--is titled “Nights at the PAL Hop: How Music Can Change History”. Please join us at Museum L-A's Gallery to show your support of the hard work done by the ELHS students and to find out about the history of music in L-A!

Visit museumla.org for more information!

The Kennebec Historical Society’s January Public Presentation: “A Tale of Three Privies”

Kennebec Historical Society — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:49:14 GMT

A Tale of Three Privies looks at the archaeological excavation of privies on three diverse sites, an 18th-century fort, a 19th-century farmstead, and a 19th-century urban house. From the large quantity of nearly complete artifacts from these privies, a picture of the lifestyles of the sites’ occupants can be developed along with an understanding of the material culture of the time. We can also determine when these privies were filled in and even speculate as to why they were filled.

Our speaker, Leon (Lee) Cranmer, is an historical archaeologist who retired in August 2010 from the staff of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. He has a BS from Stockton University, and a BA in anthropology and MA in history/historical archaeology from the University of Maine. Lee has worked in archaeology in Maine for over 35 years and has conducted archaeology for the state of Maine for well over 25 years. Prior to that he spent two seasons in England doing archaeology. He has written one book and numerous articles on Maine historical archaeology and is currently working on another book on Fort Halifax, a French and Indian War period fort in Winslow, Maine. He has excavated hundreds of Maine sites for which he has written or co-authored site reports. Prior to his archaeology career, Lee spent 7 years in the Navy and is a Vietnam veteran. He lives in Somerville, Maine, with his wife Liz.

The Kennebec Historical Society January Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted). The presentation will take place on Wednesday, January 16, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hope Baptist Church, located at 726 Western Avenue in Manchester.

Kennebec Historical Society Hosts A Tea Party

Kennebec Historical Society — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:18:14 GMT

The Kennebec Historical Society will host a Victorian Tea Party at its headquarters, 107 Winthrop Street in Augusta. Please come and join us as we celebrate the holiday season on Sunday, December 9 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and if the weather does not cooperate, we’ll host the tea party the following Sunday, December 16 at the same time.

There will be a variety of goodies to sample including cookies, snacks, coffee and of course tea! Enjoy the festive decorations and holiday musical selections by Christopher Faris. Anyone interested in decorating, serving or who would like to bring in some tasty treats are asked to contact Anne Cough, either by email at acough60@aol.com or by phone at 582-2823. Hope to see you there!

Colonial Christmas at Tate House Museum

Tate House Museum — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 16:35:51 GMT

Tate House Museum Hosts A Colonial Christmas

Portland, Maine – Stroudwater’s historic Tate House Museum is hosting a Colonial Christmas Open House on Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9, from noon until 4:00 pm. Come and see how an affluent mast agent’s family may have celebrated the holidays in the 18^th century.

Docents donned in period attire will greet visitors as they make their way from room to room in the 1755 home of Captain George Tate and his wife Mary. They will explain the prevailing traditions and customs of the time, including: Why did the Tates celebrate Christmas while many of their neighbors did not? How did decorations differ from those of today? What types of food and drink would be served? What kind of games and gifts might the children have enjoyed? What types of leisure activities did the adults pursue during the winter months? What was the music of the mid 18^th century like? And be prepared to be delighted by a very special surprise or two along the way, as well.

Delectable sweet and savory treats will also be served across the street at the Means House. So please join us for the sights, sounds, and tastes of a Colonial Christmas at the only pre-Revolutionary home in Greater Portland open to the public. Admission is $15 for adults and $12 for children 12 to 16 and free for children under 12.

Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite or on the day of the event.

For more information contact:

Betty Janus

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, ME 04012

774-6177

info@tatehouse.org

www.tatehouse.org

Kennebec Historical Society’s November Public Presentation: “Our World of Animals in Photographs and Stories”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 23:30:00 GMT

Join two sisters as they share their passion for travel and photographing wildlife around the world and share enlightening and often humorous stories of their adventures. Their first book, Can I Carry Your Luggage? introduces the reader to the multitudes and variety of animals living on all seven continents and their new book, Upside Down and Backwards, focuses on their two favorite continents, Africa and Antarctica. Whether being bush piloted into a tented camp to view the great migration in Kenya and Tanzania, trying to sleep with lions resting against their tent, following a young leopard as she hunts or climbing up the side of a dormant volcano in Uganda to photograph the mountain gorillas, Africa is an overwhelming assault on one’s senses. The remoteness and beauty of the icebergs, crystal clear water and countless numbers of penguins, whales and sea birds in Antarctica drew them back to the continent for the sixth time, earlier this year. Their photographs of the wildlife that enrich our lives bring their stories to life in their engaging presentation.

Our KHS speakers, Shelley Lance-Fulk and Jacklyn Amtower, are sisters living in Beaver Cove, a few miles north of Greenville, Maine. They have been traveling and photographing wildlife around the world since their teens. They have visited all seven continents on multiple occasions and their passports have stamps from more than 135 countries. Their experiences of adventure, enlightenment and respect for animals are shared in tales and stories with accompanying photographs in their two books, Can I Carry Your Luggage? and Upside Down and Backwards. Their time throughout the year is divided between traveling, sharing their photographs and stories at artisan fairs and in speaking engagements. The sisters enjoy the experience of meeting new people and observing other cultures and wildlife but their appreciation for the state of Maine always draws them home to the animals and splendor of their beautiful community.

The Kennebec Historical Society November Presentation is co-sponsored by the Maine State Library and free to the public (donations gladly accepted). The presentation will take place on Wednesday, November 14, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library, located at 230 State Street in Augusta.

Museum L-A's One of a Kind "Treasures & Trinkets" Sale

Sun, 11 Nov 2018 15:00:00 GMT

Museum L-A is excited to invite you to a one of kind “Treasures and Trinkets” Sale to be held on November 11, 2018, from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm in the Bates Mill Atrium, Lewiston, Maine. The sale will help Museum L-A make room for its collections artifacts, benefit Museum programming, education, collections, and preservation efforts, as well as give our visitors the opportunity to do some unique Christmas gift shopping! Although the Museum will be pulling together some one of a kind items for the sale, no artifacts from the permanent museum collections will be included in the sale.

The sale will include an array of items from exhibit and display materials, posters and prints, antique toys, furniture, textile manufacturing components from the mills, and many other hidden gems. Lucky visitors might be able to take home an antique Murray red wagon, an antique wooden crate advertising Coca-Cola and Sun Disk, framed art, Victorian furniture, or heritage Fenton Art Glass. A sure to be sought after item will be the uniquely crafted wood and iron hall coat racks that were originally located in St. Peter’s School before its demolition. The racks come with multiple hooks and brackets and are available in their original lengths or cut to size. During the event, you will be able to peruse our vast number of interesting offerings to find the perfect treasure.

There is something for everyone at this sale! Artists will find unique and curious objects that could be included in or inspire freshly imagined creations. Someone setting up an office or workspace could pick up some distinctive decorations with a historic flair to give your space a unique conversation starter. The general public will be able to find the perfect gift for their friends and family that they wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else.

ArchivesSpace Workshop Announcement – November 13, 2018 – University of Maine, Orono

University of Maine — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 15:04:12 GMT

The Special Collections Department at the University of Maine in Orono is pleased to announce we are hosting a training workshop by ArchivesSpace on using Digital Objects.

This one-day workshop, on November 13^th, will be held at the Raymond H. Fogler Library on the Orono campus and is open to all ArchivesSpace member institutions. The workshop will be from 9:00 to 4:30.

The instructors are Mark Custer from Yale University and Stacie Williams from the University of Chicago. The learning objectives and agenda can be found using this link:

http://archivesspace.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Workshop-Agenda-DO.pdf

Cost

The cost of participation is $25 per person. Please contact Susan Clement (sclement@maine.edu) if you require an invoice.

Please make check payments payable to:

University of Maine

Return to: University of Maine

Attn: Susan Clement

5729 Fogler Library

Orono, ME 04469-5729

Please RSVP to Beth Russell to reserve your space. Seating is limited based on room size and will be first come, first served.

Other Details

Participants are asked to bring a laptop, if feasible, although we do have some that can be borrowed. Everyone will receive a test instance of ArchivesSpace for training purposes.

Lunch will be on your own – the Bear’s Den is right next door in the Union and offers an array of choices in a food court setting. There is also a pub in the same location.

https://umaine.edu/dining/locations/bearsden/

Parking passes will be required to park on campus. Let us know if you need one and we’ll send it along. The interactive campus and parking map can be found here:

https://umaine.edu/campus-map/

Contact Us

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Beth Russell (elizabeth.russell1@maine.edu) or Matthew Revitt (matthew.revitt@maine.edu).

Trash Can Turkey Roast

Hiram Historical Society — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:30:00 GMT

October 20 – Back by popular demand - Trash Can Turkey Roast, 12 noon. Turkey, barbecue pork, baked beans, cole slaw, corn bread, cider, apple pie. Roasters Nathan and Michelle Bliss of West Baldwin, ME. $8.00. Served at Hiram Community Center, 14 Historical Ridge, Hiram, ME 04041. Great Ossipee Museum Open House, 20 Historical Ridge, Hiram, ME 04041. FMI 2076254762

Museum L-A's Chills at the Mill

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:00:00 GMT

Join Museum L-A for “Chills at the Mill” on Thursday, October 18^th and Friday, October 19^th, an unforgettable behind-the-scenes spooky tour of the Bates Mill! We'll travel into some forgotten parts of the building and share some stories of the more gruesome and creepy history about the mills that you have probably never heard.

Tours will last approximately 45 minutes and will start and end at Baxter Brewing Co, 130 Mill St. There is parking in the Lincoln Street parking garage, free after 5 pm. Tours are $10 per person and include $2 off the cost of a pint of Baxter beer (21+).

On each night, the tours leave every half hour and only have room for 20 people so make sure you reserve your time slot ahead of time by calling Museum L-A! You can also pay when you arrive. Tours leave every half hour and have a maximum capacity of 20 people.

Museum L-A's Chills at the Mill

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 22:00:00 GMT

The Kennebec Historical Society’s October Public Presentation: “An Uncommon Cape: Researching the Histories and Mysteries of a Property”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:30:00 GMT

Join Eleanor Phillips Brackbill as she presents an illustrated talk about An Uncommon Cape: Researching the Histories and Mysteries of a Property. When she bought her house, three mysteries precipitated an investigation into an otherwise ordinary property. Intent upon finding the facts, she peeled back layers of history, allowing the house and the land to tell their stories, while uncovering a past inextricably woven into four centuries of American history. As she unraveled the mysteries, it occurred to her that everyone’s home has a story to tell. At her small Cape there is no historic marker out front, no designation as a historic site. It’s not even very old, and George Washington certainly never slept there. But stories she did find. At the same time, she found 32 owners, across 350 years, who had just one thing in common: ownership of a particular parcel of land. Through material presented in 22 sidebars, the book offers readers insights and guidelines on how to find the stories behind their own homes.

Our speaker, Eleanor Phillips Brackbill, earned an MA in art history at Boston University and studied in the art history doctoral program at City University of New York. Following twenty-five years as a curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, she embarked on a second career writing about history. She lives in Westbrook.

The Kennebec Historical Society October Presentation is co-sponsored by the Maine State Library and free to the public (donations gladly accepted). The presentation will take place on Wednesday, October 17, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library, located at 230 State Street in Augusta.

Dick Folsom: Bush Pilot - A Legend Reflects

Hiram Historical Society — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:30:00 GMT

October 13 – Jake Morrell, author of “Dick Folsom : Bush Pilot - A Legend Reflects”. A presentation of Hiram Historical Society held at Soldiers Memorial Library, 85 Main Street, Hiram, ME 04041. FMI 20076254762

Museum L-A's Story Tellers Unhinged

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 23:30:00 GMT

Join Museum L-A and Mainely Improv for a frightfully funny night on Friday, October 12th!

Mainely Improv is set to perform “Story Tellers Unhinged” and a taste of improv comedy at a Museum L-A fundraiser at the historic Bates Mill. Story Tellers Unhinged features actors, Julie Poulin, Amanda Kinsey, Brian Files, and Dan Marois acting out a variety of stories with zany comic antics included.

“We take interesting stories and act them out with improvised comedy using any idea that comes to mind in the moment," says Dan Marois. "Our stories can be light hearted, serious, spooky, and outrageous as we add our own spontaneous mix of humor. We guarantee that our stories are nothing like the ones your parents read to you.”

After performing Story Tellers Unhinged, the troupe will perform some of their regular improv routines that have made them one of the most popular improv comedy troupes in the state.

Tickets are $15 and advance reservation is recommended. Cider and donuts will be provided. All proceeds benefit Museum L-A.

For more information, contact kwebber@museumla.org or call 207-333-3881

Living History Day at Tate House Museum

Tate House Museum — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 20:54:18 GMT

Tate House Museum Presents a Living History Event

Portland ---- On Saturday, October 6, from 9AM to 4PM the Tate House Museum will host a living history day at the museum in historic Stroudwater. The event will showcase a “curated” living history display about the Indian wars here in Maine. These displays incorporate written and pictorial images including period maps, deeds and documents and museum quality reproduction items. These displays are interactive where visitors will get to learn the story of the eighty years of conflicts as told from the perspective of a soldier in the 1750’s and also from a farmer/settler on the Maine frontier in the 1670’s. These stories will be told by re-enactors in period dress and will tell tales that don’t make the textbooks.

This presentation is designed to tell the history of the Casco Bay region from both the Native and English perspective and is designed to be a see, touch, feel history for people of all ages. The event is FREE to the public and will run from 9AM until 4PM.

FMI Contact

Betty Janus

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland Maine 04102

Tel 207-774-6177

info@tatehouse.org

Museum L-A's Exhibit Opening of Beau-frog: The Art of Peter Archambault

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:30:00 GMT

Museum L-A is thrilled to announce a new gallery exhibit opening this fall that explores the Franco-American experience through a new medium: cartoons. The exhibit, "Beau-frog: The Art of Peter Archambault," will display the artwork and political cartoons of Peter Archambault, a native of Madawaska, Maine. His artwork, featured monthly in a Franco-American publication at the University of Maine at Orono, Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum, provided rich political commentary, an investigation into immigration practices, and an exploration of the Franco-american culture in Maine and New England.

Archambault created a character called "Beau-frog" as a way to reclaim the common slur generally directed toward francophone and French heritage people during this era. The daily exploits of the frog truly illustrate the trials and tribulations of a minority figure coming to terms with their personal and cultural identity while surrounded by the pressures of an Anglophone majority. Despite this work being created for the Franco-American students on the Orono campus, the cultural exploration found in Archambault's cartoon drawings can speak to the experiences of the people in our community of Lewiston-Auburn, a place deeply affected by French-Canadian immigration since the 1850s. While on display in the Museum L-A gallery, his work gives visitors the chance to explore these themes of immigration and cultural identity through the unique medium of cartoons, and allows them to come up with their own interpretations and conclusions about the meaning behind the art.

"Hiram Hometown" videos

Hiram Historical Society — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:30:00 GMT

September 8 –.”Hiram Hometown” and other vintage videos of Hiram life, including Raymond Cotton's movies of the 1930s -blueberry farming, fire dept., logging, coon hunt, school plays and more. Great Ossipee Museum of Hiram Historical Society, 20 Historical Ridge (off Main Street, rte 117), Hiram ME 04041. FMI 2076254762

September 8-9: Friends of Castine Fortifications Present, 1779-1783 Fort George - Disputed Territory: Encampment and Events

Castine Historical Society — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:29:54 GMT

Volunteer reenactors at Castine's historic Fort George will demonstrate what life was like when British Crown troops protected the American Loyalists. Visit FriendsofCastineForts.com for information on events and entertainment.

Museum L-A's Dance Party Under the Stars II

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Are Your Ready to Dance?

Imagine a beautiful evening under a starry, moonlit sky, and you and your guests are rockin’ with the music of the locally renowned GOOD & PLENTY band with the sounds of the 70’s and 80’s to enjoy! Band members include: Denny Breau, Billy Belskis, Kathy Haley, Benny Rae Jones, David Kelly, Debbie Morin, Larry Peterson, and Bette Sanborn.

Start the evening by enjoying fine dining at local restaurants that are partnering with Museum L-A to offer discounts or themed specialty drinks or meals to enhance your Dance Party experience. At the Dance Party, follow your fabulous dinner with scrumptious desserts crafted by culinary arts students from The Green Ladle!

Stay tuned as details of this big, bold and audacious event unfold!

REGISTER TODAY! Visit www.museumla.org or call 207-333-3881!

Museum L-A's Family Heirloom Preservation Workshop

Sat, 25 Aug 2018 14:00:00 GMT

Do you have any heirlooms that have been passed down in your family from generation to generation? Perhaps you have your grandmother’s wedding dress, or your great-uncle’s scrapbooks, or your mother’s baby pictures. Items like these can be decades old and hold a precious place in your heart and in your home. After they have been passed to you, it is your responsibility to protect them so they can be enjoyed by further generations. Do you know how to care for them?

Museum L-A is hosting the “Family Heirloom Preservation Workshop” to teach the general public about the ways that they can care for their precious documents, photos, or objects and stop the damage caused by common environmental threats. Emma Sieh, Collections and Exhibits Coordinator for Museum L-A, will be joined by conservation experts from the Northeast Document Conservation Center and the Maine State Museum to provide information and tips on how to maintain and store your own collections.

This event will be held in the Museum L-A gallery on Saturday, August 25^th from 10:00 – 3:00. Tickets are $50 per person and include access to the full day of activities, free catalogs and informational booklets, as well as a lunch catered by Fishbones American Grill. When you purchase your tickets, your name will also be entered into a raffle to win a door prize of preservation supplies donated by Gaylord Archival and University Products valued at $100! There are only 40 spots available for this workshop, so please visit Museum L-A’s website at www.museumla.org to register!

August 22: Castine Historical Society Presents Annual Meeting and Program, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Castine Historical Society — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:00:00 GMT

This meeting followed by a talk and light refreshments is free and open to the public. Castine summer resident and well-known writer, Lee Smith, will give a talk entitled "Believe It or Not! Fact...or Fiction?" The event takes place in the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at 86 Court St., Castine. For further information, please visit castinehistoricalsociety.org or call the Castine Historical Society at (207) 326-4118.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s August Public Presentation: “Blazing Ahead: Rivalry That Built the Appalachian Trail”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:30:00 GMT

Few know the story of how the Appalachian Trail was envisioned and built. The most famous footpath in the world could easily have been an unfulfilled vision lost to the ages in an architectural journal if not for a number of fortunate events. The idea proposed by Benton MacKaye in 1921 had lost steam by 1928. It took the irrepressible drive of a young man from Maine named Myron Avery to see the project to completion. The story is a fascinating study of personalities set against the financial challenges posed by The Great Depression, the unprecedented rise of automobile ownership and the need to build a network of trail advocates through 14 states and beyond. Yet the completion of the trail also caused an irreparable rift between MacKaye (the dreamer) and Avery (the doer).

The KHS presenter, Jeffrey Ryan, is a Maine based author, speaker and photographer, and has a contagious passion for exploring the outdoors, particularly on foot. Jeff has hiked thousands of miles including his first “trip of a lifetime”, a 6-month hike on the Pacific Crest Trail. In 1985, he began “section hiking” the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend (a journey that would take years to complete and inspired his first book, Appalachian Odyssey: A 28-year hike on America’s trail). His AT experiences inspired him to learn about the dynamic relationship between Benton MacKaye and Myron Avery that culminated in the creation and completion of the legendary trail. His second book, Blazing Ahead: Benton MacKaye, Myron Avery and the Rivalry that Built the Appalachian Trail (published by Appalachian Mountain Club Books) was released in 2018.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s August Presentation is co-sponsored by the Maine State Library and free to the public (donations gladly accepted). The presentation will take place on Wednesday, August 15, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library located at 230 State Street in Augusta.

August 14: Exhibit Talk, 5:00 p.m.

Castine Historical Society — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 21:00:00 GMT

Tour and discussion led by curator Paige Lilly in the Castine Historical Society's Abbott School Gallery. Free with light refreshments served. For further information, please visit castinehistoricalsociety.org or call the Castine Historical Society at (207) 326-4118.

Every Heirloom Apple has a Story

Hiram Historical Society — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 17:30:00 GMT

August 1 – Sean Turley, apple columnist for the Portland Press Herald, says every heirloom apple has a story. Great Ossipee Museum of Hiram Historical Society, 20 Historical Ridge, Hiram ME (off Main Street, Rte 117) FMI 2076254762

Museum L-A's August Craft n' Sip

Thu, 09 Aug 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Easy and awesome DIY projects from Museum L-A and tasty beer from Baxter Brewing Co.

Make your own DIY Alcohol Ink Plates

$30 fee includes four dessert-size glass plates, tutorial, and a free beer!

Reserve your spot at www.museumla.org!

Museum L-A's Craft Adventures Day Camp

Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:00:00 GMT

Get your hands on some fun crafts this summer with Museum L-A!

On Tuesday, July 24th, Museum L-A is offering a Craft Adventures Day Camp from 9 am to 2 pm. The camp is open to kids age 8-13. The camp is limited to the first 20 kids who sign up.

What can you expect from the day? Museum L-A's educators will lead children through three separate hands-on craft activities throughout the day: make your own glove stuffed animal, create origami creatures, and weave your own bracelet or bookmark! All projects can be taken home, including origami instruction booklets so that kids can share what they've learned with family and friends.

In addition to craft activities, Museum educators will also lead kids through guided explorations of the summer exhibit, The Lost Art of Handiwork, and Museum L-A's permanent exhibit in the historic Bates Mill. They will learn how crafts and handiwork shaped the cities and experience the history first-hand!

$55 per child program fee includes materials and a choice of lunch provided by E. Claire & Pastries.

LUNCH OPTIONS:

Baked Mac & Cheese

Chicken Tenders with Waffle Fries

Peanut Butter & Jelly

Contact Kate Webber, Director of Education & Outreach, at 207-333-3881 or email kwebber@museumla.org.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s July Public Presentation: “The Wall That Heals”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 22:30:00 GMT

The Wall That Heals, a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, along with a mobile Education Center, is coming to Gardiner, Maine and will be open 24 hours a day and is free to the public. The Wall That Heals honors the more than three million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed forces in the Vietnam War and bears the names of the more than 58,000 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam.

Gardiner will be among the first to host the new, larger exhibit which includes a three-quarter scale Wall replica that is 375 feet in length and stands 7.5 feet high at its tallest point. With the new replica at this size, visitors will be able to experience The Wall rising above them as they walk towards the apex, a key feature of the design of The Wall in D.C. For the first time in the history of The Wall That Heals, visitors will be able to do name rubbings of individual service member’s names on The Wall.

“We are thrilled to share the new The Wall That Heals exhibit with the public this year. Through The Wall That Heals, we are able to return the names home to communities across the country and allow Vietnam veterans and their family members who cannot make it to Washington, D.C. the opportunity to see The Wall. It gives communities a teaching moment for younger generations on why we should honor those who have served and sacrificed so much,” said Jim Knotts, president and CEO of Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Fund (VVMF).

Billie Ellis, our presenter, has been promoting and making presentations about The Wall That Heals since September 2017. She and her husband, Robert Egloff, are committed to educating the public about The Wall and the Vietnam war era. They believe that bringing The Wall to those unable to make the trip to Washington D.C. is extremely important. Billie and her husband reside in Chelsea.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s July Presentation is co-sponsored by the Christ Episcopal Church and free to the public. Billie Ellis will be presenting The Wall That Heals on Wednesday, July 18, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at the Christ Episcopal Church located at 2 Dresden Avenue in Gardiner.

July 17: Exhibit Talk, 5:00 p.m.

Castine Historical Society — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:00:00 GMT

The dramatic story of the Barker family of Barker Pond, Hiram, ME

Hiram Historical Society — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 17:30:00 GMT

July 14 – Sally Williams tells the dramatic untold story of the Barker family of Barker Pond – success, tragedy, adventure, crime. Hear about twin daughter Mary Jane Barker who married at 16 and went from finishing school to log cabin in the west. Great Ossipee Museum of Hiram Historical Society, 20 Historical Ridge, Hiram, ME 04041. FMI 2076254762

July 12: Castine Historical Society Presents The 10th Annual Deborah Pulliam Memorial Lecture, 7:00 p.m.

Castine Historical Society — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Tomlin Coggeshall, grandson of former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, will deliver a lecture entitled "Molly Dewson and Frances Perkins: Two Powerful Women." This free lecture will take place at the Delano Auditorium on the campus of Maine Maritime Academy, Castine. For further information, please visit castinehistoricalsociety.org or call the Castine Historical Society at (207) 326-4118.

Brew with a View, Castle Tucker, July 12

Castle Tucker — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:00:00 GMT

Join the party at Brew with a View, Historic New England’s first fundraiser for Wiscasset’s own Castle Tucker. Enjoy a summer evening of local beer and spectacular river views, and help save one of Maine's historical treasures. Sample American farmhouse beers from Maine's own Oxbow Brewing Company, along with wine and soft drinks. Sarah's Cafe will provide delicious hors d'oeuvres featuring local ingredients, including lobster. Take an after-hours look inside one of the best examples of a Victorian home in the United States. Your support will go directly to preserving and maintaining this beloved Wiscasset landmark. Tickets range from $30 - $100 with increased tax-deductible contributions at each level. Buy online at http://shop.historicnewengland.org/CAT-BREW-MTX-30-11006/or call 207-882-7169. Advance ticket purchase is recommended.

June 24: Open House Reception, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Castine Historical Society — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:00:00 GMT

Join the Historical Society as it kicks off the season, tour the exhibits, and enjoy light refreshments. This free event will be held at the Castine Historical Society's Abbott School Gallery. For further information, please visit castinehistoricalsociety.org or call the Castine Historical Society at (207) 326-4118.

June 21: Treasures In Our Own Backyards, 7:00 p.m.

Castine Historical Society — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:00:00 GMT

A show and tell on the treasures owned by area historical societies, the Wilson Museum and the Castine Historical Society. This free event will be held at the Castine Historical Society's Mitchell Room in the Abbott School. For further information on the event, please visit castinehistoricalsociety.org or call the Castine Historical Society at (207) 326-4118.

Museum L-A's Peter, Paul and Noel: Why Lewiston's Basilica is Bent Lecture 6/19/2018

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:30:00 GMT

Did you know that Lewiston’s famous Basilica is crooked? Once you hear this talk, you’ll never see the basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in the same way!

Alice Bisson-Barnes is returning to her hometown of Lewiston to share the hidden story of the Basilica’s construction, focusing on the contributions of architect Noel Coumont who has been blamed for the bend in the building.

Her talk, "Peter, Paul and Noel: Why Lewiston's Basilica is Bent," will be held at Museum L-A on Tuesday, June 19th, 6:30-7:30 pm. It is free and open to the public.

“Who else do you know built a crooked church?” Bisson-Barnes asks. “I know a genius who did right there in Lewiston. The man was maligned but he was a genius.” She will share stories about how the Dominicans worked, their battles with the bishops, their humanity, and their enormous contributions to the Twin Cities.

Bisson-Barnes now lives in California and has retired from her career as a civilian contracting officer with the United States Navy. She is thrilled to come back to her hometown and share a story that means so much to her. “Historians continuously erroneously write that he was fired because the church is bent,” she says. “I show, using historic photos, how Noel built the church precisely where it is now because that was where the Dominicans wanted it way back in 1906.”

Bisson-Barnes will offer a lively and informative presentation with a playful spirit. “I am bringing with me from California something that has never been seen before by humans anywhere—not even by myself!” she says. Join us on June 19th to figure out the mystery.

Museum L-A is located in the Bates Mill Complex at 35 Canal Street in Lewiston, Maine. Its hours of operation are Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm and Saturdays from 10 am to 3 pm. Special tour requests and large group tours outside of these hours are available by appointment.

For more information, please contact info@museumla.org or call 207-333-3881.

Museum L-A's Lost Art of Handiwork Exhibit 6/14 - 9/15/2018

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:39:30 GMT

This summer, Museum L-A is honoring artisans throughout Maine in its new gallery exhibit “The Lost Art of Handiwork”. For years, Museum L-A has been collecting the history of the ancestors of our community, preserving the mementos of their hard work, ingenuity, and creativity. Many of the pieces in the collection are handcrafted items, including an embroidered baptism set, hand forged golf clubs as well as personally designed wood, stone and metal weaving hooks. These represent a traditional history of making things in our community that has almost been forgotten.

The public is invited to attend the free opening reception for the exhibit on Wednesday, June 13 from 5:30-7:00 pm. Throughout the evening, visitors will be able to meet and talk with the crafters about their work that is on display as well as watch demonstrations of real-time weaving and embroidery by local groups and community members.

“The Lost Art of Handiwork” will be on display in the Museum L-A gallery from June 14 – September 15. Throughout the duration of the exhibit, crafting events and workshops hosted by Museum L-A will be available for the public to attend.

June 11 - October 8: Castine's Devoted Women: Social Change and Public Service.

Castine Historical Society — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:27:36 GMT

The Castine Historical Society 2018 season's exhibit focuses on Mary W. (Molly) Dewson and Mary G. (Polly) Porter and their 50-year partnership that spanned an era of progressive change. Their causes reverberate in the daily news today. The exhibit explores Molly's role in 1930's American politics and looks at other Castine women who devoted their lives to public service, politics, and marriage equality. Exhibit schedule and hours can be found at castinehistoricalsociety.org.

"Out Watering Horses" by author Peter Hagerty

Hiram Historical Society — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 17:30:00 GMT

June 9 –Peter Hagerty, Porter, farms with horses - tilling, haying, logging. He is author of “Out Watering Horses”. Joint with Soldiers Memorial Library at Great Ossipee Museum of Hiram Historical Society, 20 Historical Ridge, Hiram, ME 04041. FMI 2076254762.

Museum L-A's Maine Innovation Expo May 19, 2018

Sat, 19 May 2018 14:00:00 GMT

The Maine Innovation Expo celebrates creativity, spirit, ingenuity and innovation in Maine. It brings local and state-wide businesses together with talented students to showcase the wide range of innovative work and play across the state. 2018 will be second year of this event, following a successful and well-attended pilot year in 2017.

Exhibitors and entertainers come to the Bates Mill to show their inspiring work. The event is both fun and educational, with interactive activities and exhibits for all ages. There is no cost to attend, though we will have online registration available in advance.

The Expo provides a platform to connect generations, inspiring our young to explore careers that will strengthen our community and state. Many Mainers believe that their children need to leave the state to get a good education and a good job in the fields of science, technology, design and manufacturing. The Maine Innovation Expo shows families the organizations, schools, and businesses who do exciting work right here in Maine.

LOCATION: Museum L-A, Bates Mill Complex, 35 Canal Street, Lewiston, Maine

TIME: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

COST: Free admission

CONTACT INFO: 207-333-3881 or info@museumla.org

Visit www.museumla.org for more information!

The Kennebec Historical Society’s May Public Presentation: “Go and Set the World on Fire: The Tragic Story of How a Jesuit Mission to the Abenakis of Maine Went Up in Flames”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 16 May 2018 22:30:00 GMT

"Go and set the world on fire" was St. Ignatius of Loyola's famous call to the Jesuits to preach the gospel to the far corners of the world. Fr. Sebastian Rale followed the call of his order's founder and left France in 1689 to give his life to caring for the souls of native Americans. This he did for thirty years in a small mission village amidst the Abenaki people far up the Kennebec River. The village was called Narantsouack (i.e. Norridgewock.)

But this peaceful mission was not to last. In those few decades, Fr. Rale’s little village got caught in a blaze of controversy that ended in the mission being burned by a Massachusetts militia and its pastor being shot. Joseph Moreshead, a seminarian for the Roman Catholic diocese of Portland, will discuss the origins of this conflict between Fr. Rale, the New England colonists, and the Abenaki people and how competing interests among the three parties led to such a tragic end.

Joseph Moreshead is a native of South Portland, Maine and a current student at the Catholic University of America, studying to be a Catholic priest in Maine. A graduate of Cheverus High School and Fordham University, Moreshead was educated for eight years by Jesuits like Fr. Rale. After extensive research on the Jesuit Relations, he led a pilgrimage to Fr. Rale’s grave last August. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and classical language.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s May Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church located at 41 Western Avenue in Augusta.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s April Public Presentation: “Augusta, the Best Little City in New England. Seriously.”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 22:30:00 GMT

When it comes to quirky energy, Augusta has it in spades! A capital city with a schizophrenic personality, this little town by the Kennebec sits in one of the most beautiful valleys in all of Maine. Filled with gossipy neighbors, charming merchants, down and out vagabonds and smartly dressed bureaucrats, there’s no other place in the state that can quite match it. A small town with big city issues, and hearts bigger than the sturgeons that splash along its waterfront; it’s a place both simultaneously confident and insecure. Self-aware enough to know its limitations, but clueless enough to fully realize its potential, it remains the last place in Maine that has yet to be claimed by hipster and tourist, alike. This book is your guide to everything that makes Augusta so …Augusta. From a calendar of local holidays to a profile on area neighborhoods to really weird history, as well as personal stories from local movers and shakers, this is your glimpse into one of the most intriguing places around. So welcome to Augusta, the best little city in New England. Seriously.

Michael Hall is the Executive Director for the Augusta Downtown Alliance, a member of the Main Street Maine program. A native of Florida, Michael moved up to Augusta in the winter of 2016 to realize his goal of working in a historic, urban setting. With a Bachelors in History from Centre College, a Masters in Communications from Rutgers University and a Masters in Architectural Conservation from the University of Edinburgh, Michael feels fortunate to live and work in an environment where he gets to utilize all three of his degrees.

A big fan of Maine, and an even bigger fan of Augusta, Michael takes full advantage of everything both places have to offer including the mountains, coast, rivers and lakes. In his spare time, Michael enjoys reading Stephen King novels, getting out on the water, working with his Board of Directors and volunteers and socializing over a beer.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s April Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at the Viles Arboretum located at 153 Hospital Street in Augusta.

How to Digitize and Scan Historical Documents, April 11, in Dennysville

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:00:00 GMT

Have you ever wanted to learn how to digitize and scan historical documents, but were not sure how to go about it? This is the subject of workshop being offered at the Lincoln Memorial Public Library in Dennysville on Wednesday, April 11 from 10 a.m. to twelve noon. Al Churchill, Esq., will be demonstrating how he has preserved thousands of documents and images for the St. Croix Historical Society using a simple flatbed scanner and portable computer. In addition to preserving a digital copy, using simple Adobe applications, older texts have been rendered legible and searchable. “The process is relatively simple,” says Churchill, “it is largely a matter of getting used to it.” While the seminar is designed for local historical societies and archivists, the public is welcome to participate, space permitting.

The workshop is free, but participants are asked to register by Friday, April 6^th, by contacting Colin Windhorst at cjcw@myfairpoint.net, or calling 726-3905 with any questions

ALHFAM in Central Maine - April 13, 14, 15

Self-Employed — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:06:23 GMT

Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums

New England Regional Conference, Spring 2018

Sharing Preservation and Presentation of New England History

April 13, 14, 15^th -- Central Maine

at Freeport Historical Society's Pettengill Farm, the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore, and the Vaughan Homestead in Hallowell

To Register and for the Conference Schedule: visit

http://www.alhfam.org/event-2779123

For more information email:ashellenbean@strawberybanke.org

Poetry Reading and Conversation: An Evening With Richard Blanco

Colby College Museum of Art — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:00:00 GMT

Poetry Reading and Conversation: An Evening With Richard Blanco at Colby College

Join us on Tuesday, February 27 at Colby College!

5:00pm, Public Reception, Colby College Museum of Art, Williams D. Adams Gallery

6:00pm, Poetry Reading, Bixler Art Building, Given Auditorium

The Colby College Museum of Art's Lunder Institute of American Art welcomes Richard Blanco, artist-in-residence and presidential inaugural poet. Blanco will read and discuss selections of his work centered on the meaning of home, including poems from his latest book, Boundaries, a collaboration with landscape photographer Jacob Bond Hessler. The poems and photographs investigate the boundaries of race, gender, class, and ethnicity and challenge the dividing lines - both historic and current - that shadow America.

For more information please visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1810109582386797/ or contact Jordia Benjamin, Mirken Coordinator of Academic and Public Programs, jordia.benjamin@colby.edu, 207.859.5613

The Kennebec Historical Society’s February Public Presentation: “The Life and Mysterious Death of Maine-Born Millionaire Sir Harry Oakes”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:30:00 GMT

Born in Sangerville, Maine in 1879, Harry Oakes's life experiences took him to six continents, earned him a knighthood as well as a personal fortune rivaling all others, but also tragically ended in a brutal 1943 murder that remains unsolved. Portrayed by Gene Hackman in one of the actor's least memorable endeavors, Sir Harry's actual career, fortune and death garnered world-wide attention, even though he never forgot his Maine roots. He is buried in the bucolic beauty of the East Dover Cemetery.

KHS Speaker David Leigh's career in Maine education spanned 31 years as a teacher, high school principal and community college instructor. In retirement, Leigh has continued to direct the TIME/NEWSWEEK Cover Project. Begun with his students in 1972, the collection now includes over 1,100 autographed news magazine covers, some dating as far back as 1938. In addition, he has presented enrichment lectures on cruise ships to the Canadian Maritimes, the Caribbean and to Great Britain. He and his wife Ann own and manage a 62-acre tree farm in Belgrade.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s February Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at the Emmanuel Lutheran Episcopal Church located at 209 Eastern Avenue in Augusta.

Spring Open House and "Palentine's Day" at the Colby College Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:30:00 GMT

Spring Open House
Thursday, February 15, 4:30- 6:30 p.m.

Join us for a celebration of our spring exhibitions with a reception, guided tours, and hands-on activities for families!
Opening Exhibitions:
Hernan Bas: The Paper Crown Prince and Other Works (February 13 to May 3)
City of Ambition: Photography from the Collection (February 15 to August 26)
Yoshua Okón: Oracle (February 15 to May 1)

https://www.facebook.com/events/1818974874840245/

Followed by...

Palentine's Day at the Museum

Thursday, February 15, 6:30-8:30p.m.

Bring a pal and enjoy drinks and snacks while participating in partner-oriented crafts and activities around the Museum. Open to the student body as well as members of the Maine community. Cosponsored by the Museum's Student Advisory Board.

https://www.facebook.com/events/163622497736645/

For more information visit the Facebook links above or contact Jordia Benjamin, Mirken Coordinator of Academic and Public Programs, jordia.benjamin@colby.edu or 207.859.5613

The Kennebec Historical Society’s January Public Presentation: “150 years of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:30:00 GMT

Come for a ride through 150 years of history in Waldo County. Chartered in 1867, the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad has survived two world wars, the construction of highways, the collapse of the poultry industry in Waldo County and survives today as a tourist railroad and historic relic of days gone by. This presentation by author and railroad historian Joey Kelley outlines the history of this unique railroad and gives you a summary of his book on the subject - the very first book ever written on the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad.

Our speaker, Joseph T. “Joey” Kelley, is a railroad historian, photographer and volunteer with the Brooks Preservation Society. He has been involved with the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad on and off since 2004 and was once a paid employee of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad Preservation Society. His other passions include photography, motorcycles and restoring antique equipment.

The Kennebec Historical Society January Presentation is co-sponsored by the Maine State Library and free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, January 24, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library located at 230 State Street in Augusta.

Tate House Celebrates a Musical Christmas

Tate House Museum — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:00:00 GMT

It’s Christmas at the historic Tate House Museum and we’d like to invite you to join us for the sights, sounds, and tastes as we celebrate the season, Colonial style. Captain George Tate, his wife Mary, and their friends celebrated with much food and drink, music, and games. It was a joyous, bright spot in what could turn out to be a long, cold winter, and the Tate family and their friends made the most of it! Come and see how an affluent mast agent’s family may have celebrated the holidays in the 18^th century.Our docents donned in period attire will introduce you to the prevailing traditions and customs of the time as you make your way through the Tate’s 1755 home. Why did the Tates celebrate Christmas while many of their neighbors did not? How did decorations differ from those of today? What types of food and drink would be served? What kind of games and gifts might the children have enjoyed? What is Boxing Day all about? Please join us for this special house tour of the only pre-Revolutionary home in Greater Portland open to the public on Saturday, December 9 and Sunday, December 10 beginning at noon. The last tour will leave at 3:30 PM. Once you’ve completed your tour, you are invited to take some refreshment in the parlor of the Means House across the street. Admission is $15 for Adults and Seniors and $10 for children under 12. Tickets can also be purchased through

Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/tate-house-museum-8364593136

For more information contact:

Betty Janus

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, ME 04012

774-6177

info@tatehouse.org

www.tatehouse.org

Tate House Celebrates a Musical Christmas

Tate House Museum — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 17:00:00 GMT

It’s Christmas at the historic Tate House Museum and we’d like to invite you to join us for the sights, sounds, and tastes as we celebrate the season, Colonial style. Captain George Tate, his wife Mary, and their friends celebrated with much food and drink, music, and games. It was a joyous, bright spot in what could turn out to be a long, cold winter, and the Tate family and their friends made the most of it! Come and see how an affluent mast agent’s family may have celebrated the holidays in the 18^th century.Docents donned in period attire will introduce you to the prevailing traditions and customs of the time as you make your way through the Tate’s 1755 home. Why did the Tates celebrate Christmas while many of their neighbors did not? How did decorations differ from those of today? What types of food and drink would be served? What kind of games and gifts might the children have enjoyed? What is Boxing Day all about? Please join us for this special house tour of the only pre-Revolutionary home in Greater Portland open to the public on Saturday, December 9 and Sunday, December 10 beginning at noon. The last tour will leave at 3:30 PM. Once you’ve completed your tour, you are invited to take some refreshment in the parlor of the Means House across the street. Admission is $15 for Adults and Seniors and $10 for children under 12. Tickets can also be purchased through

Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/tate-house-museum-8364593136

For more information contact:

Betty Janus

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, ME 04012

774-6177

info@tatehouse.org

www.tatehouse.org

The Kennebec Historical Society’s November Public Presentation: "Preserving Your Family Archives"

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:30:00 GMT

Please join us Wednesday, November 15th as Chuck Rand, professional archivist and Old Bristol Historical Society Co-President, discusses the proper care and handling of personal family documents and photos. His talk will focus on the factors that cause deterioration and will offer specific suggestions and materials to help you prolong the life of your family treasures.

Chuck Rand began his professional life as an historical archaeologist in the summer of 1972 following his first year as an undergraduate studying anthropology/archaeology at the University of Maine. After acquiring an M.A. in history, he moved to the Washington, DC area and became affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution and its National Museum of American History where his duties included collections management and photography.

Mr. Rand obtained an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland and moved to Oklahoma where he held a number of positions related to information services including Curator of the Political Commercial Archive at the University of Oklahoma. His tenure as Director of the Dickinson Research Center at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum was rewarding and enabled him to employ all the skills and abilities he had developed to that point and some, such as oral history interviewing, videography and video-editing, that he learned and developed on the job.

The Kennebec Historical Society November Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at the South Parish Congregational Church located at 9 Church Street in Augusta.

Tate House Presents English Paper Piecing Style Quilting

Tate House Museum — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:30:00 GMT

On November 7th at 6:30PM the Tate House Museum will be presenting a lecture and workshop with Beth Maitland on the art of English Paper Piecing. For those interested in quilting or fabric artistry this is a time-honored technique dating back to the first quarter of the 18^th century. It’s a wonderfully simple method for constructing intricate quilts with lots of perfectly matched points. It’s completely done by hand and can be assembled in modular units so you can take it with you.

Beth is a member of the Pine Tree Quilters Guild and an award winning teacher of quilting. Her series of workshops, lectures, and demonstrations are designed to focus on creativity and individual design. Her light-hearted and engaging approach allows quilters of all levels to actively utilize their innate creativity.

This lecture is part of the Tate House Museum Summer Lecture Series. Reservations are suggested by calling 774-6177 or emailing info@tatehouse.org. Tickets are $12 ($10 for members).

Contact:

Betty Janus

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

Tate House Hosts Spooky Tours at Stroudwater Cemetery

Tate House Museum — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:00:00 GMT

The Tate House Museum is hosting cemetery tours of the 18^th Century Stroudwater Burial Ground on Saturday October 21^nd from 12-4 PM. Hear from the ghostly apparitions themselves as they talk about the joys and hardships of colonial life as they knew it. These are the people who shared life in Stroudwater with George and Mary Tate. Gather up your friends and family and get ready for a tour that is a little bit spooky and a little bit educational. An afternoon of ghostly fun and entertainment awaits visitors.

Ticket prices are $12.00 for adults and $6.00 for children 12 and under. Tickets and a “Home Made Pie Sale” will be available at the Tate House gift shop, 1267 Westbrook Street, Portland, ME.

For More Information Contact:

Betty Janus

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland, Maine

207-774-6177

www.tatehouse.org

18th Century Fare at Tate House Museum

Tate House Museum — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:30:00 GMT

On October 10^th at 6:30 PM the Tate House Museum will be hosting Susan McLellan Plaisted as she presents a lecture and demonstration entitled “An 18^th Century Bill of Fare”. Seasonality was the key word in what was placed on the 18^th century table much as it is today.

This program will take the audience through bread baking, cheese making, beer making processes and symmetrically appointed dining experiences. Susan will be sharing these processes and tying them in to the Tate House kitchen. This is a lecture which will be of interest to students of 18^th century foodways and history.

Susan McLellan Plaisted is the proprietress of Heart to Hearth Cookery, a food history business based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and has conducted hands-on-workshops and classes for both children and adults at many historic sites and museums in the Delaware Valley and beyond. She is also the director of foodways at Pennsbury Manor, the recreated 1680 home of Pennsylvania’s founder, William Penn.

This lecture is part of the Tate House’s Summer Lecture Series and is being held at the Mean’s House at 1267 Westbrook Street Portland. The fee for admission is $12 or $10 for members and docents. Please call 774-6177 or email info@tatehouse.org for reservations as space is limited.

FMI: Betty Janus

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

info@tatehouse.org

Kennebec Historical Society’s September Public Presentation: "Intimate Details of Life on a Remote Farm in Maine"

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 22:30:00 GMT

John H. Twomey will speak about his recent book, Retiring To, Not From -- From Massachusetts Professor to Maine Farmer. The discussion will encompass many aspects of life on his farm and his comments will be accompanied by a slide presentation. John and his partner Leigh Norcott live off grid in a 19^th century Maine farmhouse. They raise vegetables, fruits, chickens and brook trout, and enjoy hiking and cross-country skiing on the many trails on the farm. Indeed, their lives include many aspects of life from the 19^th, 20^th, and 21^st centuries. John and Leigh live quietly and very much in touch with the natural world that surrounds them. Since 1978 John has worked on maintaining and improving wildlife habitat on the farm’s 125 acres. He will discuss these efforts, focusing attention on his work in the fields, brushy areas, and woodlands.

After 37 years as a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, John retired in 2009 and moved, with his partner Leigh Norcott, to Montville, Maine. There they live simply and deliberately on the farm that John has owned since 1978. The farm operates on solar power, completely off grid, and John and Leigh work together as they produce almost all of their own food, and all of their own firewood. An avid naturalist, John has for years worked to maintain and improve the wildlife habitat on the farm. He does so by carefully scheduling the mowing of his fields and brushy areas, by planting, transplanting, grafting, and pruning hundreds of apple trees, and by planting thousands of white and chestnut oaks. Having seen farms sold and developed in his hometowns in Connecticut and Massachusetts, John long ago set his sights on owning and nurturing an old New England farm, a traditional home place. He has accomplished that and intends to permanently protect his Montville farm.

The Kennebec Historical Society September Presentation is co-sponsored by the Maine State Library and free to the public (donations gladly accepted). The presentation will take place on Wednesday, September 20, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library, located at 230 State Street in Augusta. The program will be preceded at 4:30pm by a potluck supper and at 6pm by the society’s annual meeting and election of officers and directors.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s August Public Presentation: “Readfield’s Jewel – The Union Meeting House”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:30:00 GMT

The Union Meeting House is on the National Register of Historic Places primarily because of the famous well preserved trompe l’oeil murals by Charles Schumacher of Portland, done in 1866-68. The building was built in 1827-28 and is said to be one of the oldest brick churches in Maine. The presentation will focus on the murals and discuss steps being taken to preserve this historic, artistic and cultural landmark.

Our speaker, Marius B. Peladeau, is the President of the Union Meeting House, director emeritus of the Farnsworth Art Museum, former executive director of the Theater at Monmouth, former exhibition curator at the L.C. Bates Museum, former director of the Maine League of Historical Societies and Museums. He was an accredited White House correspondent and press secretary to a U.S. Congressman. Marius also holds B.A., M.S., and M.A. degrees and is the author of six books on art, history and culture.

The Kennebec Historical Society August Presentation is co-sponsored by the Lithgow Public Library and free to the public (donations gladly accepted). The presentation will take place on Wednesday, August 16, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lithgow Public Library, located at 45 Winthrop Street in Augusta.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s July Public Presentation: “Women at Sea: Maine’s Wives and Daughters Who Went to Sea”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:30:00 GMT

This visual slideshow explores the “herstories” of Penobscot Bay women and daughters who went to sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Despite the old sailors' superstition that women at sea were unlucky, the women accompanied their fathers and husbands on cargo voyages around the world. Some were literally born into the profession and others joined their love ones with initial trepidation. Using letters, manuscripts and newspaper articles from the Penobscot Marine Museum archives and objects from the collection, we will learn about their experiences at sea.

Cipperly Good, Collections Manager and Curator at Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, spent her early museum career just upriver at the L.C. Bates Museum and returned to Maine full-time in 2010 to take her current job at Penobscot Marine Museum. She holds a Masters of Arts in Museum Studies from The George Washington University and is a graduate of Colby College. She regularly presents to senior colleges, public libraries, historical societies, and other historical groups.

The Kennebec Historical Society July Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hope Baptist Church, located at 726 Western Avenue in Manchester.

Reckoning with Nature: Andrew Winter at Monhegan Island opening reception July 2, 2017

Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:00:00 GMT

Reckoning with Nature: Andrew Winter at Monhegan Island

Monhegan, ME. June 24 – September 30, 2017

Museum hours:

July and August: 11:30-3:30 daily

June and September: 1:30-3:30 daily

Admission: $10.00

Catalogue of exhibition: available on-line and at the museum: $20

Opening reception: Sunday, July 2^nd from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.

Website: www.monheganmuseum.org

Andrew Winter was an acclaimed mid-twentieth century artist, born in Estonia, who sailed around the world before immigrating to the United States, establishing himself as a New York artist, and ultimately making Monhegan Island his year round home. Winter’s decision to live on Monhegan shaped his art in ways that distinguish him from the many artists of the island's summer art colony. He painted snow-covered vistas, rough winter seas, and fishermen at work hauling lobster traps. This summer’s art exhibition is a retrospective of Andrew Winter’s Monhegan paintings.

Winter’s love of the sea began during his childhood spent near the northern reaches of the Baltic Sea. Unable to pursue art lessons at an early age, Winter shipped out as a merchant seaman at the age of 20 and traveled the world. In 1920 he settled in New York and became a U.S. citizen. He was then able to enroll in the School of the National Academy of Design, and establish himself as an artist, living in New York’s Tenth Street Studio building. After visiting the island in the 1930s Winter and his wife, Mary gave up their New York apartment and bought a home on Monhegan. Andrew Winter lived and painted there until his death in 1958.

Winter’s early experience as a merchant seaman drew him to paint the island and community as it related to the surrounding sea. He rowed his boat out into heavy seas to gather material for his paintings of working lobstermen and painted many shipwrecks along Monhegan’s shoreline, including the famous wreck of the D.T. Sheridan tugboat of 1948.

Winter’s attraction to this remote island off the Maine coast was not a rejection of the art world. He continued to exhibit his work, including at the international Venice Biennial in 1938, with other noted painters such as Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham Ryder.

The Monhegan Museum of Art & History is located in the historic Monhegan Island Light Station, 12 nautical miles off the coast of Maine and exists to steward and showcase the art and artifacts that represent the collective values of its community and to educate and communicate its meaning. The Monhegan Light Keeper’s House contain exhibits of Monhegan’s history. The Assistant Keeper’s House holds an art gallery that displays annual art exhibitions featuring the museum's art collection which spans more than 150 years. Additionally, the Rockwell Kent/James Fitzgerald Historic Artists’ Home and Studio display a collection of works by Fitzgerald. The museum is open daily from June 24 through September 30 and the Kent/Fitzgerald Home and Studio are open two days a week and by appointment throughout the summer.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s June Public Presentation: “The History of the Popham Colony and the Pinnace Virginia”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:30:00 GMT

The short-lived Popham Colony, established in 1607 in what is now the coastal town of Phippsburg, was the first English settlement in New England. Englishmen set up the colony at the mouth of the Kennebec River. The colony lasted a year, after which they sailed back for England. One of their accomplishments while in Maine was the construction of a “pretty pinnace,” a boat they named Virginia. The small sailing vessel took them back to England in 1608. The Virginia also made an Atlantic crossing in 1609 as part of a fleet.

In this presentation, Rob Stevens and Allison Hepler discuss the history of the colony, and present-day efforts to reconstruct the Virginia in Bath. Rob Stevens is a wooden boatbuilder of 35 years, and is overseeing the reconstruction of Virginia. Allison Hepler is a history professor at the University of Maine at Farmington, and a local historian. Both are active members of Maine’s First Ship, the organization devoted to reconstructing the vessel.

The Kennebec Historical Society June Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at the South Parish Congregational Church, located at 9 Church Street in Augusta.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s May Public Presentation: “Oxford County Gem Bearing Litha Pegmatites”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 17 May 2017 22:30:00 GMT

Oxford County is world-famous for its pegmatites and the spectacular minerals they produce. Granite pegmatites are coarse-grained, igneous rocks that contain exceptionally large crystals of feldspar, mica, quartz, and sometimes a suite of rare earth elements and gem-quality minerals. The most spectacular crystals are found in “pockets”, or open cavities in the rock that allow minerals to grow unimpeded. Minerals here tend to have few flaws.

Three generations of the Perham family have mined the pegmatites of Oxford County from a number of different quarries according to “The Perham Family Quarries,” an article by Sydney D. Eckert in the July 2014 issue of the Maine Geological Survey. In the early 1920s, the nearest feldspar processing mill was in Auburn, Maine. It was not economical to transport the feldspar that far. Alfred Perham, with the help of some local investors, constructed the Oxford Mining and Milling Company plant in 1924 to process the feldspar mined in the area by the Perhams and others. The mill operated into the late 1960’s. Alfred’s son, Stanley, opened his store in West Paris in 1919. It saw visitors from every state in the nation and from countries all over the world. Stanley passed on his love of minerals and business sense to his children, Frank and Jane. Frank, our speaker, was lucky to come from a line of Maine miners but he relied on more than just his luck to make a name for himself in the mineral community. He trained as a geologist at Bates College like his father. Frank has spent a lifetime in the mines and has his own mineral museum, The Mineral Pocket. He has a vast amount of knowledge and the respect from geologists and enthusiasts alike to show for it. Frank is presently 83 years old and still does some summer weekend mining.

The Kennebec Historical Society May Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library, located at 230 State Street in Augusta.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s April Public Presentation: “Maine on Glass”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 22:30:00 GMT

Nineteenth-century Maine―famed for its lumbering, shipbuilding, and seafaring―has attracted copious attention from historians, but early twentieth-century Maine has not. Maine on Glass redresses this imbalance with 190 postcard photos and three of Maine’s foremost historians.

Postcards were the Instagrams of the early twentieth century. On one day in September 1906, 200,000 postcards were mailed from Coney Island. In 1913 some 968,000,000 postcards were sent in the U.S., more than seven per person. The majority of postcards made at the turn of the twentieth century were mass-produced lithograph or letterpress half-tones, but the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company produced “real photo postcards” in the form of silver gelatin prints made by exposing the negative onto photo paper card stock and developing it in a traditional wet darkroom. Eastern was the largest U.S. manufacturer of what it called “genuine” photo postcards. Images selected for the book were from 22,000 glass plate negatives created by the Eastern company between 1909 and World War II. As an archive of early twentieth-century Maine architectural photography, the Eastern collection (now housed at the Penobscot Marine Museum) has no equal, and it gives us many unexpected glimpses of Maine life. Maine residents, expatriates, and visitors will enjoy hours of pleasure in this journey through Maine’s countryside, villages, and towns, guided by three historians who can bring a vista to life with a few well-chosen comments.

Kevin Johnson received his bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph's University in 1989. He worked as a paralegal until 2003 when he decided to leave the “9 to 5” world to pursue a career in fine art photography. He relocated from Vermont to Maine in August 2003 to attend the Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, where he earned a Professional Certificate in Photography. It was at the Workshops that he first began working on the Eastern Illustrating Collection. In 2007, he helped to rescue the collection when the pipes burst in Union Hall where it was stored which prompted its donation to the Penobscot Marine Museum. He followed the collection to Searsport where he currently works as the Photography Archivist. He was a founding member of Aarhus Gallery in Belfast, Maine and teaches photography courses at Maine Media College, Waterfall Arts and Unity College. As museum Photo Archivist, Kevin has created numerous exhibits of historic photography, led student projects, and taught adult courses for the museum, as well as managing the museum’s 200,000+ piece photo archive.

A native of Portland, Maine, Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., attended Deering High School, Colby College, and Boston University and was the recipient of honorary doctorates from Bowdoin College and the Maine College of Art. At the age of thirteen, Shettleworth became interested in historic preservation through the destruction of Portland’s Union Station in 1961. A year later he joined the Sills Committee which founded Greater Portland Landmarks in 1964. In 1971 he was appointed by Governor Curtis to serve on the first board of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, for which he became architectural historian in 1973 and director in 1976. He retired from that position in 2015. Mr. Shettleworth has lectured and written extensively on Maine history and architecture and served as State Historian since 2004.

Bill Bunting lives in Whitefield. When he came home from his first day in school his mother asked him how it had gone. Not well, he said. There was nothing about ships, nothing about olden days, and nothing about how things worked. He has been trying to fill that vacuum ever since. W. H. “BILL” Bunting is the author of several critically acclaimed works of history including Portrait of a Port: Boston 1852-1914; Steamers, Schooners, Cutters, and Sloops: The Marine Photographs of N. L. Stebbins; and The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Sea and Shore in New England; Live Yankees. With Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., he wrote An Eye for the Coast: The Monhegan and Maritime Photographs of Eric Hudson and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography. Bill Bunting shipped as galley boy aboard the brigantine Yankee at age 13 and later completed a 25,000-mile world voyage as first mate of a 132-foot barkentine.

The Kennebec Historical Society April Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library, located at 230 State Street in Augusta.

AASLH Collections Management and Practices Workshop Coming to Portland, Maine!

Castle Tucker — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:39:46 GMT

AASLH Collections Management and Practices Workshop

Early Bird Registration Deadline – May 1

June 5-6 – Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME

http://learn.aaslh.org/event/collections-management-and-practices-2/

Learn about your institution’s responsibility toward its collection, necessary policies and procedures, and the best practices of collection management. Through lively group discussions and hands-on activities, you will become familiar with current issues and trends to better understand how collections fit within the context of history organizations. The workshop will also explore the role of collections in exhibition and interpretation, the basic steps of collections management from acquisition to disposal, professional standards and ethics, conservation on a shoe-string budget, and the many resources available for collections preservation. This workshop is led by Samantha Forsko of the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts and Bethany Hawkins of AASLH.

Who Should Attend:

This workshop is targeted to new professionals and dedicated volunteers with responsibility for collections.

Cost: $280 AASLH members/$405 nonmembers

*Get $40 off registration if you book by May 1, 2017!*

Early-Bird Registration Deadline is May 1! You can register today at http://learn.aaslh.org/event/collections-management-and-practices-2/ .

Please contact Amber Mitchell, Education and Service Coordinator, at Mitchell@aaslh.org or 615-320-3203 if you have any questions about this or other upcoming workshops.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s March Public Presentation: “Les Magasins (The Stores)”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:30:00 GMT

In 1952 there were at least seventy-six grocery stores in Augusta (Mannings). In addition, there were meat markets, fruit and vegetable stores, confectionaries, bakeries, fish stores and several drug stores. Most if not all were independently owned. Sand Hill, Augusta’s Franco-American neighborhood, had a larger concentration of neighborhood grocery stores—Magasins. Depending on the source, from 18 to 27 stores operated on Sand Hill at various times.

This 48-minute documentary explores the history of small, family-owned grocery stores located on Sand Hill in the early to late 20^th century. Several former Sand Hill individuals whose families owned and operated neighborhood stores were interviewed to capture a representative sense of life on The Hill. The documentary uses historical photographs from the Kennebec Historical Society’s digital archive collection, as well as photos provided by the families themselves and St. Michael’s Parish. While the documentary focuses on Sand Hill, the broader story applies to the city as a whole, describing a close-knit community made up of shopkeepers in a time before big-box stores, malls and too many cars.

Our speaker, Norm Rodrigue, was born in Augusta in 1949 and raised on Sand Hill, came from a family of seven children. His father and grandfather were classic Franco-American mill workers who worked at the Bate’s/Edwards Mill. He attended St. Augustine School and graduated from Cony High School. He earned a BA in English and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Maine at Orono and an MBA from Thomas College. After a career in business, Norm retired and pursued his longstanding interest is a still photography. His photos have been exhibited locally and have won several awards and his photo cards are sold at various local businesses. Recently, Norm took up videography and is using it to explore local history, another longstanding interest. Norm has produced two other videos including: Streams in the Seasons, a video depicting the sights and sounds of streams on Kennebec Land Trust properties spanning an entire year; and A Simpler Time, a video about three contemporary Downtown Augusta tradesmen, showcasing early twentieth century trades, including a milliner, cobbler and vintage audio/stereo repairman.

The Kennebec Historical Society March Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at the Club Calumet, located at 334 West River Road in Augusta.

AASLH Workshop: Historic House Museum Issues and Operations

Castle Tucker — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:18:38 GMT

Why are historic houses necessary to their communities? How are historic house museums unique? This workshop focuses on the unique needs, management, and interpretation of historic houses. With a focus on historic house museums, topics covered include collections care, types of research appropriate for historic house museums, exhibition development, interpretive tours, volunteers, and building and landscape maintenance.

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Details:

Date: April 6-7, 2017

Location: Strawbery Banke | Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Cost: $270 members/$385 nonmembers

What Participants Said:

“The ‘notebook’ of articles is a great idea and a tangible helper to take back with us. The faculty’s experiences were invaluable–they will be a great resource, too!”

“The most helpful part was seeing institutions’ actual documents.”

“The enthusiasm & varied backgrounds of the participants was helpful.”

“As a volunteer–gave me a realistic view of the job description of our curators, staff & us as volunteers.”

About the Faculty:

Max A. van Balgooy is the president of Engaging Places, LLC, a design and strategy firm that helps connect people with historic places. He is a national leader in historical interpretation and community engagement, with extensive experience in developing solutions in collaboration with diverse audiences, including volunteers, staff, trustees, residents, scholars, design professionals, business leaders, and elected officials. He has more than 35 years of experience working in museums historic preservation, heritage tourism, and historic sites, including senior positions at the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Workman and Temple Homestead Museum. A recognized researcher, author, speaker, and blogger on the trends, challenges, and opportunities facing museums, historic sites, and cultural organizations, he is a frequently requested facilitator, trainer, and consultant on business strategy, historical interpretation, public programming, marketing, and online media.

He also teaches in the Museum Studies Program at George Washington University, sits on the editorial board of Curator journal, is a MAP Peer Reviewer with the American Alliance of Museums, and served on the AASLH Council. He received his M.A. in history from the University of Delaware as a Hagley Fellow, his B.A. in history from Pomona College, and participated in the Historic Deerfield Summer Program in Early American History and Material Culture and the Attingham Summer School for the Study of Historic Houses and Collections.

George W. McDaniel is President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a company George established after serving 25 years as Executive Director of Drayton Hall, a historic site in Charleston, SC owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. McDaniel Consulting’s tag line, “Building Bridges through History,” is grounded in George’s personal beliefs and his experience in site management, preservation, education, board development, fundraising, and community outreach. Rather than using history to divide us, he strives to help organizations use history, especially local history, to enhance cross-cultural understanding and to support local museums, preservation, and education. As an example, George recently led volunteer efforts with Emanuel AME Church and historical organizations in Charleston to use historic preservation to enhance racial reconciliation and healing.

A native of Atlanta, he holds a B.A. in history from Sewanee, an M.A.T. in history from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in history from Duke University. The author of numerous publications, he has written two essays for 2017 AASLH publications: “Commemorating Tragedy, Healing Wounds: Mother Emanuel AME Church” in Commemoration: An American Association of State and Local History Guide, and “Building Bridges through Local History” in Encyclopedia of Local History. Also due for publication in 2017by the University of Virginia Press is his essay, “Stepping Up and Saving Places: Case Studies in Whole Place Preservation,” in Stewards of Memory: The Past, Present, and Future of Historic Preservation at Mount Vernon. A frequent presenter at workshops, conferences, and public gatherings, he earned in 2015 the South Carolina Environmental Awareness Award and in 2016 the S.C. Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation, the first person in the state to have won the leadership awards in both fields.

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The Kennebec Historical Society’s February Public Presentation: “Forts Along the Kennebec”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 23:30:00 GMT

From 1676 and into the 18^th century, much of Maine, including the Kennebec River region, was abandoned by the English due to a series of colonial Indian wars. In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht afforded a sufficient promise of peace for settlers to return to the frontier of Maine. The lands along the Kennebec were owned by various groups of proprietors who wished to sell these lands to settlers. To secure the frontier and more importantly make the settlers feel secure, a series of four forts were built along the Kennebec between 1720 and 1754. This talk will discuss the history and archaeology of these forts.

Leon (Lee) Cranmer, our speaker, is an historical archaeologist who retired in August 2010 from the staff of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. He has a BS from Stockton University, and a BA in Anthropology and MA in history/historical archaeology from the University of Maine. Lee has worked in archaeology in Maine for almost 30 years and has conducted archaeology for the state of Maine for well over 20 years. Prior to that he spent two seasons in England doing archaeology. He has written one book and numerous articles on Maine historical archaeology and is currently working on another book on Fort Halifax, a French and Indian War period fort in Winslow, Maine. He has excavated hundreds of Maine sites for which he has written or co-authored site reports. Prior to his archaeology career, Lee spent 7 years in the Navy and is a Vietnam veteran. He lives in Somerville, Maine with his wife, Liz.

The Kennebec Historical Society February Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, February 22, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library, located at 230 State Street in Augusta.

Historic New England's Program in New England Studies

Castle Tucker — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:47:52 GMT

Program in New England Studies

Boston - February 2017

Historic New England presents the Program in New England Studies, an intensive week-long learning experience, with lectures by specialists in history, architecture, preservation, and decorative arts; workshops; and specialized tours of Historic New England properties, other museums, and private houses.

Learn about New England culture through artifacts and architecture in a way that no other museum in the Northeast can match. This program is perfect for museum professionals, graduate students, owners of historic houses, collectors, and anyone with a passion for New England history.

New this year: Visits to the Eustis Estate, opening for the first time in 2017, and the newly restored Quincy House. Download a full schedule.

Monday, June 19 - Saturday, June 24, 2017

$1,550 Historic New England members

$1,600 nonmembers

Registration is required. Please call 617-994-6629 or register online.

Scholarships available for Program in New England Studies

Historic New England and a group of generous donors are providing multiple scholarships for Program in New England Studies. The scholarships are available to mid-career museum professionals and graduate students in the fields of architecture, decorative arts, material culture, or public history. Candidates from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Program in New England Studies is an intensive week-long exploration of New England decorative arts and architecture that runs from Monday, June 19 to Saturday, June 24, 2017. Participants travel throughout New England to hear lectures and presentations by some of the country’s leading experts in regional history, architecture, preservation, and decorative arts. There are workshops, visits to Historic New England properties, other museums, and private homes and collections.

Scholarship Applications

Historic New England offers a specific scholarship to encourage the participation of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Applicants must represent a racial or ethnic minority group in the U.S. including but not limited to American Indian or African American or Black, Hispanic or Latino/a, Asian, or Pacific Islander.

Scholarships cover the full registration fee, housing at a local university, and a travel stipend of $200. Applications should include: a resume or curriculum vitae (limit five pages) and a statement (limit two pages) explaining why you’d like to attend Program in New England Studies and how you expect the program to benefit you and your career and the impact that your presence might have upon other participants.

Submission Deadlines: The deadline for the 2017 award is Friday, April 21. Applications must be submitted electronically by 4:30 p.m. Eastern on April 21 to Kturino@historicnewengland.org. Subject line should include “Historic New England Diversity Scholarship Proposal.” Successful applicants will be contacted by April 28, 2017

Historic New England extends its thanks to Ralph Bloom, Decorative Arts Trust, and Tom and Alice Gould for making these scholarships available.

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Hearts for Human Rights Fundraiser

Holocaust and Human Rights Center — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:00:00 GMT

The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine [HHRC] will host its 3rd Annual Hearts for Human Rights Fundraiser on Thursday, February 9th at 6 p.m. at the Brunswick Hotel & Tavern.

The evening will feature live music by Portland, Maine's Pihcintu Multicultural Chorus, a live and silent auction, heavy hors d'oeuvres and more.

Each year, the HHRC reaches as many as 4,000 teachers and students from all over the state with free outreach programs about civil rights, the Holocaust, and civil discourse. All proceeds from the Hearts for Human Rights fundraiser will support the HHRC’s educational programming.

This year the HHRC will be joined by Pihcintu, a multicultural chorus that brings young, immigrant and refugee voices together to sing as one and inspire cultural acceptance. The group has shared its message of unity and peace by performing throughout Maine and at the United Nations in New York City.

Tickets are $40 per person and $300 for a table of 8. RSVP by Friday, January 27th to Jordan Bannister at jordan.bannister@maine.edu or by calling (207) 621-3530.

Event sponsorship opportunities are also available. For more information, email infohhrc@maine.edu.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s January Public Presentation: “Researching the History of Your House”

Kennebec Historical Society — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:26:27 GMT

Did you ever wonder about the history of your house? When was it built and by whom? Did George Washington or Abraham Lincoln sleep there? We will discuss how to utilize existing land and other records to reconstruct the past of your house and learn about past occupants. Included will be an overview of the registry of deeds and other sources, strategies for identifying and extracting pertinent information and tips for dealing with “stone walls” and other problems.

Our speaker, Richard Bridges, is a Maine native and a graduate of the University of Maine and the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. He has been a practicing attorney since 1983, concentrating on real estate and probate law. He also serves as an Adjacent Instructor at Central Maine Community College and as a research consultant for the Augusta Historic Preservation Commission.

The Kennebec Historical Society January Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lithgow Public Library, Community Meeting Room, located at 45 Winthrop Street in Augusta.

Polar Express™ Thanksgiving through Christmas at the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad

Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:26:31 GMT

The Polar Express™ returns for another season of magical memories at the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad! The fun begins at the Ocean Gateway Visitor Center, which serves as our train depot for this event. Holiday decorations inside the train add to the festive atmosphere as guests on board meet the Conductor, enjoy hot chocolate and cookies served by hot chocolate chefs, and listen to a reading of the story as they journey to the “North Pole.” Santa greets children aboard the train while passengers sing along to carols as they travel back to the train station. All tickets for this event are sold through PortTIX (www.porttix.com). Early reservations are strongly encouraged as tickets often sell out.

The Polar Express™ is the largest annual fundraiser for the museum – thank you for your support!

The Kennebec Historical Society’s December Public Presentation: “Maine’s Champion Trees”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 23:30:00 GMT

Most of our birds are migratory. They come and go and you must be on the alert to see them at the right time and place. Most of our flowers have only a brief blooming period. You must look for them at a certain time of year if you wish to find them in all their beauty and fragrance. But the trees we always have with us. With them there is no hurry. They stand there summer and winter, year in and out, in all kinds of weather. Many have been standing for more than a century. This presentation is to introduce them and rouse the observer’s interest to the large, breathtaking trees around us. We are fortunate to have two “National Champions”, the largest of a particular species in all the United States. Maine has more than 160 different kinds of trees.

If you look at a group of 100 trees in a small area, you will see at least 10 different species.

Our presenter, Duane Prugh, graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He is now a semi-retired computer consultant. For the past 15 years, he has been teaching at several of Maine’s Senior Colleges, taking local seniors on field trips to explore dozens of these sites. There is so much to see in our own state, and his goal is to get our senior students out of their homes for day trips to explore sites in Maine that most people don’t know exist.

The Kennebec Historical Society December Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, December 14, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Augusta City Center, located at 16 Cony Street in Augusta.

Pumpkin Train - October 22nd & 23rd and October 29th & 30th

Sun, 30 Oct 2016 16:18:37 GMT

Autumn is a beautiful time of year along the coast of Maine! Enjoy the beauty of the season with a ride aboard the Pumpkin Train at the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum. The Pumpkin Train takes place October 22nd & 23rd and October 29th & 30th. Children can explore the museum and paint a miniature pumpkin to bring home as a souvenir of the day. All visitors are treated to complimentary hot cider and cookies. Regular Admission Fees Apply. The museum is open from 9:30am to 4:00pm with trains on the hour.

"The Trump Card" Reading at the Michael Klahr Center

Holocaust and Human Rights Center — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 18:00:00 GMT

Think America's current political situation is someone else's fault?

Think Again!

On Saturday, October 22nd at 7 pm and Sunday, October 23rd at 2 pm, the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine's program director David Greenham will present a compelling new monologue, written by Mike Daisey, called "The Trump Card" at the Michael Klahr Center.

The show tells the story of Donald Trump's rise from businessman to presidential candidate.

Click Here to get your tickets today!

10/19 - Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine Presents: Black Memorabilia

University of Southern Maine — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:30:00 GMT

A film in progress about the production, consumption, and history of racist collectibles

by Chico Colvard

6;30PM-10:00PM: Reception, film, and live webchat with the filmmaker.

Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 at

SPACE Gallery - 538 Congress Street, Portland

Free to the public, cash bar

Street parking available

Watch the trailer here.

For more information, contact susie.bock@maine.edu

HHRC's Pride Film Festival- Friday, Oct. 7, 14, 21 & 28

Holocaust and Human Rights Center — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 23:00:00 GMT

The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine [HHRC] presents the 2016 Pride Film Festival, scheduled for Fridays in October at 7 p.m. at the Michael Klahr Center.

In honor of LGBT History Month, the Pride Film Festival encourages inclusion, discussion and celebration of the LGBTQ+ community in central Maine. The HHRC will be screening four films that made a unique impact in LGBTQ+ film history and leading an audience discussion after each one.

The festival begins on Friday, October 7^th with the showing of The Boys in the Band (1970). Noted as a milestone for its unbiased focus on the average lives of American gay men, The Boys in the Band features a group of friends enjoying a birthday party until the arrival of some unexpected visitors and a drinking game cause more harm than good. This film is rated R with a run time of 1 hour 59 minutes.

The film slated for Friday, October 14^th is Fire (1996). An Indian-Canadian romantic drama that sparked a dialogue about homosexuality and freedom of speech throughout India, Fire was written and directed by Deepa Mehta. Heavily protested at its release in India in 1998, the movie tells the story of Sita and Radha who find safety from the cruelty of their husbands in each other’s arms. Fire is unrated with a run time of 1 hour 48 minutes.

The film on Friday, October 21^st is the powerful documentary Paragraph 175 (2000). Alongside Jews, gypsies, and other “undesirable” community members, homosexuals were persecuted during the Holocaust. Paragraph 175 features testimony from several gay individuals, arrested for the crime of homosexuality by the Nazis during WWII in accordance with The German Criminal Code. From May 15, 1871 to March 10, 1994, Paragraph 175, also known as Section 175, stood to criminalize homosexual acts between men; the Nazi regime expanded that law, leading to the imprisonment and death of thousands. This film is unrated with a run time of 1 hour 21 minutes.

To conclude the festival, the HHRC will screen The Danish Girl (2015) on Friday, October 29^th. This Academy Award-winning film is based on the true story of Einar Wegener, a young artist who begins the process of transitioning to Lili Elbe after realizing that she has always identified as a woman. Set in the 1930s, The Danish Girl tells the story of one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery. This film is rated R and has a run time of 2 hours.

The HHRC’s Pride Film Festival is free to attend, open to the public and refreshments are provided.

All films will be shown at the Michael Klahr Center, located at 46 University Drive in Augusta. For more information visit www.hhrcmaine.org/pridefilms2016 or call (207) 621-3530.

"Equal Protection of the Laws" Exhibit at the Klahr Center

Holocaust and Human Rights Center — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:25:29 GMT

The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine [HHRC] in partnership with the Kennebec Valley Art Association [KVAA] present Equal Protection of the Laws, an exhibition featuring the work of 17 Maine artists inspired by the rights granted by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The exhibition is the result of a call to artists to respond to the important themes of the 14^th Amendment including: due process, liberty, gender and sexuality, race, legal protections, equality in the workplace, housing, education, law enforcement, rights of the incarcerated, tolerance, and local, state, and federal representation.

Equal Protection of the Laws: America's Fourteenth Amendment, featuring 36 original works, runs through Friday, December 16^th at the Michael Klahr Center on the campus of the University of Maine at Augusta, 46 University Drive, Augusta, Maine 04330. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by appointment. Admission into the Klahr Center is free and it is open to the public.

This exhibit has been made possible with funds from the Maine Humanities Council, the HHRC, and the University of Maine at Augusta. In addition, the project has received support from the KVAA, the Maine Arts Commission, and several individuals.

The Kennebec Historical Society presents: “The Kennebec in History”

Kennebec Historical Society — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:55:48 GMT

In this talk, maritime historian Lincoln Paine will use the history of the Kennebec River as a lens through which to examine Maine and American history since the pre-Columbian period. Examining the different ways that people have approached the Kennebec over time provides us with a new way of reading and understanding the history of the United States and its people. Abenaki culture was deeply informed by the way that people related to the Kennebec, which also helped shape patterns of exploration and settlement by early European settlers and the subsequent commercial and industrial development of the late colonial and post-independence period. While the Kennebec has often been viewed in terms of its importance to navigation—both for shuttling goods and people between the hinterland and the sea, as well as for shipbuilding—it has also been a source of industrial power, a conveyor belt for the lumber industry, a source of harvested ice, and latterly a showcase for environmental restoration. In this respect, the many uses of the Kennebec offer a periodization of history that affords us a more nuanced appreciation of how Maine and the United States developed.

Lincoln Paine is a maritime historian, author, editor, and curator whose books include the award-winning The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (2013), Down East: A Maritime History of Maine (2000), and Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997). He is also an editor of Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction. In 2012, he curated “Triumph of the Passenger Ship: Highlights from the Norman H. Morse Ocean Liner Collection, 1870–2010,” at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Research, University of Southern Maine, in Portland. He has lectured on a wide range of maritime and naval topics in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. A graduate of Columbia College, he spent fourteen years as a non-fiction and reference book editor and currently specializes in editing academic writing by non-native speakers of English. He is a trustee of the Maine Maritime Museum. He and his wife, Allison, live in Portland and have two grown daughters.

The Kennebec Historical Society October Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, October 19, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Augusta City Center, located at 16 Cony Street in Augusta.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s Annual Meeting Program: “Historic Bridges of Maine”

Kennebec Historical Society — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:55:02 GMT

The story of Maine’s Historic Bridges is more faceted than you might think. Why are bridges located where they are? Who built them? Why do they look the way they do? Amanda Taylor, Architectural Historian, will provide a presentation based on the publication Historic Bridges of Maine: 350 Years of Bridge and Roadway Design. She will discuss the unique ways in which Maine’s bridge builders overcame geography and environmental influences to provide travel throughout the state. The talk also showcases several specific historic bridges in Maine and detail how their builders chose creative solutions to difficult crossings and how technology changed design and construction.

Our speaker, Amanda Taylor, is an Architectural Historian for Kleinfelder, an international engineering and architecture firm with an office in Augusta. In recent years, she has documented historic resources related to the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge in Kittery, Masse Saw and Grist Mill in Vassalboro, and Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad Freight House in Belfast. She has spent much of the last four years completing historic resource surveys throughout Maine.

The Kennebec Historical Society Annual Meeting Program is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, September 28, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Viles Arboretum, located at 153 Hospital Street in Augusta. The public program will be preceded at 5pm by a potluck supper and at 6pm by the society’s annual business meeting. Any members that wish to attend the potluck supper are invited to bring a dish to share. Please note that the Annual Meeting program is not the society’s monthly program.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s September Public Presentation: “Cony Flatiron Building and Tour”

Kennebec Historical Society — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:10:51 GMT

Cynthia Milliken Taylor will be speaking on the historic aspects of the Cony Flatiron Building, which was rededicated on July 28, 2015, the restoration efforts and the adaptive re-use for Senior living. Cynthia has an Architectural Degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and 30 years of experience in redeveloping old and new buildings for Seniors in Maine and New Hampshire. With an interest in improving the lives of many older people and an eye for quality design she has developed over 3500 apartments and completed the financing and renovations of numerous historic buildings including the Inn at City Hall and the Cony Flatiron in Augusta. Taking a leadership role in creative financing, construction and community building, she has tried to benefit those who live within and those who value their neighborhoods and cities through economic development. Please join us at Cony Flatiron for an historic presentation on the Old and the New Cony High School.

The Kennebec Historical Society September Public Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Cony Flatiron Building, located at 110 Cony Street in Augusta. Please note this is our monthly program and is separate from the program which will be held at the KHS Annual Meeting.

The Kennebec Historical Society and the Maine State Library’s Public Presentation: “Maine’s German POW Camps in World War II”

Kennebec Historical Society — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:30:39 GMT

Between 1944 and 1946, more than 4,000 German prisoners of war called Maine home. The story of how they arrived, and the lasting impact that they had on the people who encountered them is one of Maine’s most interesting and obscure stories. Using materials and research used to create the 2012 exhibit “Maine Boys Overseas and German Boys in Maine,” Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine Program Director David Greenham shares the lively and surprising story of an interesting chapter of Maine history. It is a story of cooperation, kindness, and enemies who became colleagues, and even friends.

David Greenham is an adjunct professor of Drama at the University of Maine at Augusta, works as a grant writer and Program Manager for the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine (HHRC). He spent 14 years as the Producing Artistic Director of The Theater At Monmouth, and has been a theater artist and arts administrator for more than 25 years. In 2013, David was the creator and performer of Maine at Work, a touring program commissioned by the Maine Humanities Council. He has also been seen as a performer with Everyman Repertory Theater, Bath Shakespeare Festival, Camden Shakespeare Festival, and Capitol City Improv in Augusta. In 2013, David created the exhibit Maine Boys Overseas, and German Boys in Maine for the HHRC. The exhibit and the research to create it was the inspiration for the POW Camps in Maine program that has been presented for several community groups in Maine. He continues to research the project with the goal of writing a book about the topic in partnership with several historians.

The Kennebec Historical Society and the Maine State Library’s Public Presentation will take place on Wednesday, August 24, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maine State Library, 230 State Street in Augusta. This is an encore presentation of the Kennebec Historical Society’s July Public Presentation and refreshments will be served.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s August Public Presentation: “Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage”

Kennebec Historical Society — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:04:51 GMT

Florence Brooks Whitehouse was a Maine suffrage leader from 1914 – 1920. Her support of “radical” tactics, such as picketing President Wilson, earned condemnation from her more conservative suffrage peers in Maine. As a result, she was left out of suffrage histories, although the record plainly shows that she did more than almost anyone in the closing years of the campaign to bring woman suffrage to the state. Through a statewide suffrage referendum, WWI, the 1918 influenza pandemic, and the political machinations of men of both major political parties, Florence and her peers fought for women’s right to vote and to have equality of opportunity with men. This is a story that has really never been told in Maine.

Anne Gass, our August speaker and great-grand-daughter of Whitehouse, has written Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage, which is a lively account of Florence’s suffrage activities during the critical final years of the campaign. Due to the wealth of correspondence, interviews, and other historical documents Gass found in her research, Florence is often able to speak for herself in the pages. William Barry, who reviewed the book for the Portland Press Herald, wrote “The author, Whitehouse’s great-grand-daughter, is never sentimental, for this is a true work of scholarship. Gass depicts not only the work of one Maine suffragist, but also the clash between the Maine Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1874, and the radical National Woman’s Party of 1916.”

The Kennebec Historical Society August Presentation is free to the public (donations gladly accepted) and will take place on Wednesday, August 17, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Augusta City Center, located at 16 Cony Street in Augusta.

“Maine’s German POW Camps in World War II”

Kennebec Historical Society — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:30:00 GMT

The Kennebec Historical Society’s July Public Presentation: “Maine’s German POW Camps in World War II”

The Kennebec Historical Society July Public Presentation will take place on Wednesday, July 20, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Michael Klahr Center at the University of Maine at Augusta, 46 University Drive in Augusta.

A Voyage to Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea Talk

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 23:00:00 GMT

The L.C.Bates Museum has a blue marlin caught by Ernest Hemingway and mounted by Maine taxidermist Fred C. Parke of Bangor. Scholar Susan Beegel will present a talk on Wednesday, June 29 about the marlin and its history and marine life in Hemingway's work Old Man and the Sea. The talk is free and prior to the talk you may visit the museum to see the recently preserved marlin.

The L.C.Bates Museum is located at 14 Easler Road (on route 201) in Hinckley, ME. For more information contact the museum at 207-238-4250 or at lcbates@gwh.org.

Tate House Hosts Poetry in the Garden

Tate House Museum — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:30:00 GMT

The Tate House Museum presents Poetry in the Garden on the Tate House lawn by the Stroudwater River on Tuesday, June 28 from 6:30 - 8:00 PM.

Seeing with the Heart's Ear is a presentation of poems from Martin Steingesser's new book, Yellow Horses, and a garden of poems by several other poets presented as an ensemble work in two voices by Martin, Portland’s first Poet Laureate, and performer Judy Tierney.

Martin Steingesser's poems whisper, shout and occasionally slam. He is author of three books of poems, Yellow Horses; Brothers of Morning; and The Thinking Heart: the Life & Loves of Etty Hillesum, based on Hillesum’s writings, composed and arranged for performance. The Thinking Heart has toured in New England and in Europe, at the International Etty Hillesum Congress (2014). “His poems are ablaze with imagination,” said poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar. “A burning, tender voice,” declared former Maine Poet Laureate Baron Wormser.

Judy Tierney is a performer and member of The Thinking Heart Ensemble that toured New England and Europe, a former radio show host, dancer and Taiji practitioner.

This promises to be an unforgettable evening as Martin and Judy captivate the audience by bringing words to life with their engaging presentation.

This event is part of the Tate House Museum Summer Lecture Series. The admission fee, which supports the museum and its programs, is $10 ($8 for museum members). Light refreshments will be served. For reservations please call 774-6177 or e-mail the museum at info@tatehouse.org.

Strawberry Festival and Craft Fair at Norlands

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 15:00:00 GMT

A Strawberry Festival and Craft Fair will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2016, at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, in Livermore, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Festival features a craft fair with artisans demonstrating handmade craft and selling original artwork. Admission to the craft fair is free. Regular admission applies to all other activities. There are activities for all ages and all buildings will be open for tours. Ongoing activities for the day include horse-drawn hayrides, tours of the 1867 Washburn family mansion, blacksmithing demonstrations, lessons of the past and spelling bees in the one-room schoolhouse, artifact games and living history in the farmer’s cottage, special presentations, storytelling, and old-fashioned outdoor games such as hoops & graces and croquet. Children’s craft activities include making kites, bean bags, and handkerchief dolls. Strawberry Shortcake for sale, made with homemade biscuits, local strawberries, and real whipped cream.

For an enchanted experience and to get inspired about life in 19^th-century Maine and Livermore’s celebrated Washburn Family – visit the Norlands – where history comes to life!

General admission is $10; $6 ages 12 and under; $25 family rate. FMI: 207-897-4366 or norlands@norlands.org.

Workshop: Strengthening the Partnership Between Your Institution's Board and Staff

Maine Archives and Museums — Tue, 17 May 2016 00:07:47 GMT

This June, the New England Museum Association will be presenting a leadership workshop exclusively for directors and trustees called High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team. They will be having a workshop on June 23 at Bowdoin College. Members of Maine Archives and Museums are invited to attend this workshop at the NEMA member rate of $65. They are encouraging the executive director and at least one board member to attend the workshop together. The $65 fee includes up to 6 people.

You can find complete details about the workshop here - http://nemanet.org/conference-events/museum-leadership-workshops/.

Also see this PDF: NEMA Leadership Event Invitation 2016_form.pdf

Educator Evening at Colby College Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art — Thu, 12 May 2016 22:00:00 GMT

Join us for an Educator Evening on Thursday, May 12, 6:00-8:00 pm. Enjoy refreshments, conversation, and networking with fellow educators while learning about current exhibitions, artworks and artists and how to incorporate them into your classroom teaching. Those attending will receive contact hours for certification. For more information, contact Matt Timme, Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs, at mrtimme@colby.edu or visit https://www.colby.edu/museum/

"Open Spaces: Reimagining Pastoral Maine" opens May 6 at L.C. Bates Museum

Fri, 06 May 2016 15:59:41 GMT

Explore the beauty of Maine through the juxtaposition of art and natural history. This exhibition will join the flora and fauna of the surrounding area with an artistic definition of a field as an expansive space. Works in a variety of mediums from contemporary Maine artists depicting fields of land and color will be featured.

The L.C. Bates Museum is proud to announce its new exhibition Open Spaces: Reimagining Pastoral Maine, opening on May 6th 2016. The show, the result of a collaborative effort between the L.C. Bates Museum staff and two Colby College students, Francesca Soriano and Nora Hill, under the supervision of Professor Véronique Plesch, aims to explore the natural beauty of Maine’s fields and the flora and fauna that fill them. Defining fields as an expansive space, the exhibition seeks to combine scientific and artistic methods of looking at fields. Works in a variety of mediums from contemporary Maine artists will be featured. The exhibition gives visitors a broad perspective of how artists view and portray nature.

An opening reception for the exhibition will be held at the L.C. Bates Museum on May 6th from 5-7pm. Throughout the summer there will be various workshops with featured artists and visitors of all ages are encouraged to attend. The L.C. Bates Museum is located in Hinckley, Maine and welcomes visitors to explore Open Spaces: Reimagining Pastoral Maine as well as any objects on display from the Museum’s rich permanent collection.

Educator Evening at Colby College Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 22:00:00 GMT

Join us for an Educator Evening on Thursday, April 14, 6:00-8:00pm. Enjoy refreshments, conversation, and networking with fellow educators while learning about current exhibitions, artworks and artists and how to incorporate them into your classroom teaching. Those attending will receive contact hours for certification. For more information, contact Matt Timme, Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs, at mrtimme@colby.edu or visit https://www.colby.edu/museum/

PANCAKE BREAKFAST and OLD-TIME MAPLE SUGARING at NORLANDS

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:30:00 GMT

March 27, 2016

9:30am to 2pm

$5-$7 for breakfast; otherwise free

Celebrate Maine Maple Sunday at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore. Experience a late winter ritual done the old-fashioned way. Enjoy a hearty breakfast in the historic farmer’s cottage with fresh hot pancakes and sausage drizzled in Norlands’ own maple syrup. Visit the Sap House to see boiling demonstrations and meet the working team of oxen. Journey back to 1853 in the District #7 one-room schoolhouse. The schoolmarm will be ready to teach you the basics reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic using materials of the time. It’s all in fun! Burn calories from breakfast by walking (or snowshoeing) along the tranquil fields and wooded carriage trails on 445 acres at this National Historic Site. Visit the gift shop for Norlands’ own maple syrup and other treats to take home.

The only charge is $5 - $7 for breakfast; otherwise the event is free. No reservations are necessary. The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center is located at 290 Norlands Road in Livermore.

FMI: call 207-897-4366, email norlands@norlands.org, or visit www.norlands.org.

Apply for an NEH Grant to Create a Disaster Plan

Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:46:05 GMT

Did you want to participate in the Cultural Emergency Resource Coalition's facilitated disaster planning program, but the timing just didn't work out for you? Consider applying for an NEH Preservation Assistance Grant for Smaller Institutions!

Deadline: May 3, 2016 (for projects starting no sooner than January 2017)

Amount: Up to $6,000 (no match required!)

For this round NEH is particularly interested in projects that address disaster planning. If your organization is interested in hiring a consultant to help walk you through CERC's process for writing your own disaster plan, we can help you determine your needs, identify a consultant and develop a budget for a grant application.

Eligibility: Applicants must

care for and have custody of the humanities collections that are the focus of the application;
have at least one staff member or the full-time equivalent, whether paid or unpaid; and
make their collections open and available for the purpose of education, research, and/or public programming, as evidenced by the number of days on which the institution is open to the public, the capacity to support access and use, and the availability of staff for this purpose.

For more information, see the program description:

http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/pres-assist-grants-may-3-2016.pdf

Thursday, April 28, 2016 - The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Exhibit Opening

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:17:01 GMT

Exhibit Opening: Power of Flight: Visions of Birds in Inuit Art

Lecture: "Supporting Art Across the Inuit Region: A Look at the Inuit Art Foundation"

Alysa Procida, Executive Director, Inuit Art Foundation

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College

Sponsored by The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

Exhibition funded by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment

Free and open to the public

Call 207-725-3062 or visit bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum for more information

Educator Evening at Colby College Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 23:00:00 GMT

Join us for an Educator Evening on Thursday, March 10, 6:00-8:00pm. Enjoy refreshments, conversation, and networking with fellow educators while learning about current exhibitions, artworks and artists and how to incorporate them into your classroom teaching. Those attending will receive contact hours for certification. For more information, contact Matt Timme, Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs, at mrtimme@colby.edu or visit https://www.colby.edu/museum/

Educator Evening at Colby College Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 23:00:00 GMT

Join us for an Educator Evening on Thursday, February 11, 6:00-8:00pm. Enjoy refreshments, conversation, and networking with fellow educators while learning about current exhibitions, artworks and artists and how to incorporate them into your classroom teaching. Those attending will receive contact hours for certification. For more information, contact Matt Timme, Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs, at mrtimme@colby.edu or visit https://www.colby.edu/museum/

Noontime Art Talk: Turning Back and Looking Forward: A Curator's Thoughts on the work of Robert Adams

Colby College Museum of Art — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:00:00 GMT

Associate Professor Gary Green, curator of Turning Back, will discuss the work of Robert Adams and how it takes on the subjects of history, landscape, truth, beauty, and hope.

For more information, contact Matt Timme, Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs, at mrtimme@colby.edu or visit https://www.colby.edu/museum/

Workshop: Art to Heart

Colby College Museum of Art — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:00:00 GMT

Learn about prints and the variety of patterns they contain at the Museum, and then create valentine cards in the Mirken Education Center. 10:00am-12:00pm.

For more information, contact Matt Timme, Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs, at mrtimme@colby.edu or visit https://www.colby.edu/museum/

Open For School Vacation Week!

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:58:08 GMT

The museum will be open for train rides during February school vacation week, Saturday, February 13th – Sunday, February 21st, 2016. We’ll be open from 9:30am-4:00pm with train rides on the hour from 10:00am-3:00pm

We’re excited to share that Monson Steam Locomotive #3 will be running for the duration of the week. Monson #3 will only be at the museum for a limited time this spring so if you want to see her in action, don’t delay! Our steam volunteers will be on hand to provide an up-close look at the locomotive between runs. Be sure to visit with the crew in the cab, before or after your ride, to ask questions. To add to the fun, we’ll be serving complimentary hot chocolate and cookies to passengers all week. Shake off the winter blues and join us for some family fun at the museum this February!

Note – In case of mechanical issues, Diesel Engine #1 will be in operation in place of Monson Steam Locomotive #3.

Educator Evening at Colby College Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:00:00 GMT

Join us for an Educator Evening on Thursday, January 14, 6:00-8:00pm. Enjoy refreshments, conversation, and networking with fellow educators while learning about current exhibitions, artworks and artists and how to incorporate them into your classroom teaching. Those attending will receive contact hours for certification. For more information, contact Matt Timme, Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs, at mrtimme@colby.edu or visit https://www.colby.edu/museum/

Annual "Home for the Holidays Reception" and House Tour

Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:00:00 GMT

Ending this very busy year is our annual Home for the Holidays Reception and House Tour. This year the chosen home is located at 7 Hyler Street. This textbook style Queen Anne Victorian house was built in 1890 by Thomaston sea captain Edwin S. Smalley, Master Mariner of ship Manuel Liaguno and owned by family members for the next 87 years. Interesting features include a bold and unconventional color scheme – a trait of the period – along with a Victorian period porch, round tower and decorative gables.

A wine reception with live music, both live and silent auctions will kick off the event at 5 to 7 P.M. on Friday, December 11^th. On Saturday, December 12^th from 10 A.M. until 3 P.M. the house will be available for tours and the silent auction will still be available. The house will be decorated for the holidays in the style appropriate for the time period in which the house was built.

To make reservations for the Friday gala, please call 354-7029. Reservations are not needed for the Saturday event.

For more information please call Eve Anderson at 354-8835 or contact her via e-mail at katsmeow@roadrunner.com

Victorian Christmas Celebrated at Penobscot Marine Museum

Penobscot Marine Museum — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:00:00 GMT

The holiday season will be celebrated with Victorian Christmas at Penobscot Marine Museum this year on Friday, December 4^th and Saturday, December 5^th. The ship captain’s house will be open to the public with each room decorated for a Victorian Christmas by community groups and businesses, including the Congregational Church Women’s Fellowship Group, Searsport Historical Society, Searsport Beautification Committee, Blue Jacket Shipcrafters, Bangor Savings Bank and Searsport Antique Mall. There will be refreshments, music performed by boatbuilder Ralph Stanley and his fiddle group, and volunteers from Searsport’s Carver Library will be reading from 19^th Christmas favorites.

On Friday night the Museum Store will host a “Meet the Maine Authors” party in celebration of the annual Town of Searsport Tree Lighting party on Crescent. The museum’s annual gingerbread competition “Maritime Christmas Gingerbread By the Sea” will be on display and refreshments will be served.

Victorian Christmas at Penobscot Marine Museum, 2 Church Street, Searsport, is Friday, December 4^th, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and Saturday, December 5, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Admission is free.

About Penobscot Marine Museum

Penobscot Marine Museum is twelve buildings on three acres in the historic seacoast village of Searsport, Maine. Check the website for activities and events. Exhibits include hands-on activities for children and adults, as well as a ship captain's house, marine paintings, scrimshaw, 19^th century Chinese and Japanese pottery, paintings and textiles, historic Maine boats, a fisheries exhibit, and an heirloom vegetable garden. The museum is open seven days a week, Memorial Day weekend through the third weekend in October. The Museum Store and Museum Framer have winter hours. For more information go to www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org or call the Visitors Center 207-548-0334 or Administrative Offices at 207-548-2529.

Workshop: Holiday Card Making

Colby College Museum of Art — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:00:00 GMT

All are invited to make holiday cards using printmaking, watercolor, and stenciling.

Attendance to this workshop is limited and preregistration is required. To register, call 207.859.5613.

For more information please contact Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs Matt Timme. (mrtimme@colby.edu | 207.859.5613) or visit colby.edu/museum

Victorian Christmas Celebrated at Penobscot Marine Museum

Penobscot Marine Museum — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 21:00:00 GMT

Victorian Christmas at Penobscot Marine Museum, 2 Church Street, Searsport, is Friday, December 4^th, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and Saturday, December 5, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Admission is free.

About Penobscot Marine Museum

Evening of Ekphrasis at the Colby College Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 23:30:00 GMT

Join faculty and students in Colby’s Creative Writing Program as they read works written in response to works on view in the Museum galleries.

Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Center for the Arts and Humanities, and the Museum.

For more information please contact Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs Matt Timme. (mrtimme@colby.edu | 207.859.5613) or visit colby.edu/museum

Noontime Art Talk at the Colby College Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 17:00:00 GMT

Noontime Art Talk: Icicles on the Nose, Frost in the Studio: Whistler and the Weather

Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies Fellow Justin McCann will discuss how Whistler battled the elements to capture evocative atmospheric conditions in his paintings and pastels of London and Venice.

For more information please contact Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs Matt Timme. (mrtimme@colby.edu | 207.859.5613) or visit colby.edu/museum

Lecture with Chuck Halsey at the Rumford Historical Society

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT

In keeping with the Thanksgiving theme, on November 18, at 7;00 p.m. the Rumford Historical Society will feature Chuck Halsey, Wildlife Biologist from Maine's Dept. of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. He will discuss the history of the demise and recovery of the wild turkey. Program to be held in the Auditorium of the Rumford Town Hall.

Rumford Historical Society

231 Eaton Hill Rd., Rumford, ME

207-369-9288

War of 1812 Soldier Monument Dedication Ceremony

Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:00:00 GMT

A dedication of the monument to Lt. Joseph Bragdon will be held Nov 7, 2015 at 10am at the Herrick Cemetery on Village Drive, near Main St (US 15) in Corinth, Maine. Lt. Bragdon was an early settler in the Mass. township that became Corinth, Maine. Hosts: American Legion Post 115, Corinth Historical Society, and the Corinth Cemetery Trustees. The public is invited.

Stroll Among the Spririts at Stroudwater Burying Ground

Tate House Museum — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 16:00:00 GMT

The Tate House Museum is hosting cemetery tours of the 18^th Century Stroudwater Burying Ground on Saturday, October 17^th and 24^th from noon to 4PM, on the hour, with the last tour starting at 3PM. The picturesque cemetery, located along the Stroudwater River, is the final resting place for many prominent members of the proud Stroudwater community.Museum volunteer “specters” will portray some of the cemetery’s more celebrated residents, telling their colorful historical tales – some quite tragic, and some with a dash of soap opera to them. George and Mary Tate are ready to tell their stories, along with the first woman in Maine to have the flags lowered to half staff upon her death, and many more. Please join the Tate House Museum for an afternoon of spirited fun, entertainment, and education.

Ticket prices are $12.00 for adults and $6.00 for children 12 and under. Tickets and fall bake sale treats will be available in the gift shop, 1267 Westbrook Street, Portland, ME. Proceeds help support the preservation of the Tate House.

The Tate House, built in 1755, was the home of Captain George Tate, senior mast agent to the British Royal Navy. The Tate House, a National Historic Landmark, stands as a physical reminder of the economic importance of the colonial mast trade and its role in the American Revolution.

For More Information Contact the Tate House at 774-6177 or email info@tatehouse.org

Penobscot Marine Museum: 2015 History Conference

Penobscot Marine Museum — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:30:00 GMT

Oldest Film Shot in Maine to be Shown at Penobscot Marine Museum’s Annual History Conference

A clip from the oldest film shot in Maine will be shown during Wish You Were Here: Communicating Maine’s Unique Sense of Place, Penobscot Marine Museum’s 2015 History Conference. The Conference this year brings together Northeast Historic Film, Maine Folklife Center, and historians and writers Jay Davis, David Andrews, William Bunting and Kevin Johnson to discuss Maine’s unusual sense of place and how it has been communicated, preserved or changed over the last one hundred years.

The oldest known film taken in Maine was shot in 1901, and a clip of this historic film will be shown by Northeast Historic Film’s new Executive Director Brook Minner in her talk on preserving Maine’s moving image history. Maine Folklife Center’s Katrina Wynn will present audio clips of stories told by Mainers on topics ranging from logging to Wabanaki culture, and discuss how preserving Maine’s oral histories adds to its sense of place.

The vibrant photographic portrait of Maine created by Peggy McKenna (1947 – 2014) in her work for Down East, Waldo Independent, and Republican Journal will be discussed by former newspaper editor Jay Davis. For more information on the History Conference or to purchase tickets, go to www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org or call 548-2529. Wish You Were Here: Communicating Maine’s Unique Sense of Place will be held at University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast, Maine onSaturday, October 24, 8:00 am to 2:30 pm.

About Penobscot Marine Museum

Penobscot Marine Museum is in the historic seacoast village of Searsport, Maine. Check the website for activities and events. Exhibits include hands-on activities for children and adults, as well as a ship captain's house, marine paintings, scrimshaw, 19^thcentury Chinese and Japanese pottery, paintings and textiles, historic Maine boats, a fisheries exhibit, and an heirloom vegetable garden. The museum is open seven days a week, Memorial Day weekend through the third weekend in October. For more information go to www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org or call the Visitors Center 207-548-0334 or Administrative Offices at 207-548-2529.

Round Table on Local Ferries and Bridges at the Rumford Historical Society, October 21

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:00:00 GMT

On October 21, at 7:00 p.m. in Rumford Town Hall Auditorium, a round-table discussion of the old ferries and bridges which have been a part of the region's transportation history will be held by the Rumford Historical Society. Eight residents from Hanover to Dixfield areas will facilitate the discussion. Map for discussion will be provided, courtesy of the Androscoggin Watershed Council.

Rumford Historical Society

231 Eaton Hill Rd., Rumford, ME

207-369-9288

The Famous Mariners of Deer Isle Discussed at Penobscot Marine Museum

Penobscot Marine Museum — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 23:00:00 GMT

The men of Deer Isle have been famous for their maritime skills for well over a hundred years. In 1895 and 1899 the America’s Cup was won by all-Deer Isle crews, the first and last time in history a single town supplied an entire crew for the race. At Penobscot Marine Museum on Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 pm, anthropologist William Haviland will discuss why the men of Deer Isle developed such an excellent reputation and were sought after as crewmen especially for the big steam yachts of the early 20^th century. Haviland’s book on the subject, Floating Palaces: America's Queens of the Sea which he wrote with Deer Isle native Barbara (Greenlaw) Britton, was published this year. Admission is free.

William Haviland is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. Growing up he spent summers on Deer Isle and is now a full-time resident. He is on the boards of the Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society and the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor.

Floating Palaces: America's Queens of the Sea is part of Penobscot Marine Museum’s Boat Talk Series. The talk will take place onThursday, October 8, 7:00 pm, at Douglas and Margaret Carver Memorial Art Gallery, 11 Church Street, Searsport, Maine. Admission is free.

About Penobscot Marine Museum
Penobscot Marine Museum is in the historic seacoast village of Searsport, Maine. Eight of its twelve exhibit buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. Check the website for daily activities and events. The museum is open seven days a week, Memorial Day weekend through the third weekend in October. For more information go to www.penobscotmarinemuseum.orgor call the Visitors Center 207-548-0334 or Administrative Offices at 207-548-2529.

Focusing on Natural History, A Photograph Exhibition at L.C.Bates Museum

Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:27:17 GMT

As part of the Maine Photo Project (www.mainephotoproject.org), the L.C.Bates Museum will offer an exhibition of Maine artist/photographers who focus on natural history both in the museum setting and out in nature. The exhibition runs from Tuesday, September 15, 2015 and run until December 30, 2015. The exhibition includes artist/photographers Gary Green, Rosamond Purcell, Lauren Shaw, Leslie Bowman, Thomas Birtwhistle, John Stetson, Lisa Ennis, Christian Farnsworth, Jim Nickelson, nataliya slinkoand Michael Grillo. Each artist has created a unique image that depicts their personal vision of nature, but also speaks to the viewer. The artists’ statements on labels express the stories behind their work. What Christian Farnsworth writes of his work speaks for many of the photographers. He writes, “My photographic inquiry explores the various ways we perceive the landscape. I hope to render the photograph in a way that is more aligned with our own visual perceptions, while subsequently satisfying our human penchant to categorize the world through multiple perspectives.” “I employ the camera as a gathering tool, varying position and movement to complement our human response to visual stimuli.”

Image: Thomas Birtwistle, Heron

Extended Hours & Public Tours at Maine State Archives During October 2015

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:50:44 GMT

October is AMERICAN ARCHIVES MONTH and in celebration of that, the Maine State Archives will be offering extended hours and public tours throughout October.

Extended hours for researchers: Every Tuesday in October the Research Room will be open from 9am-7pm and every Saturday from 9am-1pm. (Excluding holidays, the regular business hours for the Research Room are M-F, 9am-4pm.)

Public tours of the Maine State Archives will be offered, free of charge, on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 5:30pm and Saturday, Oct. 31 at 10am. Archivists will discuss the bureau's work and show areas normally closed to the public. Reserve your spot by emailing your full name and phone number to kristen.muszynski@maine.gov or call 626-8404. Tours will be limited to 20 people; no large groups, please.

The Maine State Archives is a bureau of the Department of the Secretary of State. Visit http://www.maine.gov/sos/arc or our Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/MaineStateArchives, for more information and updates about our plans for Archives Month this October.

Contact info: Maine State Archives, Cultural Building, 230 State St., Augusta, ME 04333, 207-287-5795, maine.archives@maine.gov

The Life of LIFE Photographer Kosti Ruohomaa - September 24, 2015

Penobscot Marine Museum — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:00:00 GMT

Many legends surround the Finish-American photographer Kosti Ruohomaa, and it is said his life was “haunted”. Ruohomaa was an award-winning photo journalist who shot iconic portraits of working Americans which appeared in LIFE, National Geographic, and other publications from 1940 to 1960, but Maine was always his favorite subject. Deanna S. Bonner-Ganter, Curator of Photography at the Maine State Museum, has studied Kosti Ruohomaa for twenty years, and her biography of Ruohomaa will soon be published by Down East Books. On Thursday, September 24 at 7:00 pm she will give an illustrated talk Close to the Land & Close to the Sea: The Photography of Kosti Ruohomaa at Penobscot Marine Museum’s Douglas and Margaret Carver Memorial Art Gallery, 11 Church Street, Searsport, Maine. Tickets are $8, or $5 for Museum members and Searsport residents.

Close to the Land & Close to the Sea: The Photography of Kosti Ruohomaa is part of Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light, Penobscot Marine Museum’s first major exhibition of historic photography. It includes four exhibits, a walk-in camera, a wall of selfies taken by museum visitors, an historic darkroom, tintype and cyanotype demonstrations, and workshops on making pin-hole cameras. The four exhibits, Through Her Lens: Women Photographers of Mid-Coast Maine, 1890-1920; Twenty Best; Evolution of the Photographic Snapshot: 1888-2015; and The Carters and the Lukes - Selections from the Red Boutilier Collection are filled with inter-active opportunities for visitors including life-sized photographic cut-outs with which visitors may photograph themselves, an online exhibit of visitor photographs and comments, and QR codes and tablets providing access to audio clips of interviews, biographies, and commentary by historians, curators and professional photographers.

About Penobscot Marine Museum

Penobscot Marine Museum is in the historic seacoast village of Searsport, Maine. Check the website for daily activities and events. Eight of its twelve exhibit buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum is open seven days a week, Memorial Day weekend through the third weekend in October. For more information go to www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org or call the Visitors Center 207-548-0334 or Administrative Offices at 207-548-2529.

"Directors’ Cut: Selections from the Maine Art Museum Trail" at the Portland Museum of Art

Thu, 21 May 2015 15:50:50 GMT

Directors’ Cut: Selections from the Maine Art Museum Trail

May 21 through September 20 at the Portland Museum of Art

Art and culture has defined the identity of Maine since artists began visiting Monhegan Island and trekking up Mount Katahdin before Maine even became a state. This magnificent environment and the art it inspired has captured the public imagination for centuries, and to this day a growing number of visitors from around the world continue to affirm that Maine’s galleries, studios, and art museums are unlike any in the world. The goals of the Trail are to promote public access to the arts, to educate the public about the state’s cultural heritage, to enable the museums to become strong visible partners in the state’s efforts to promote cultural tourism, and to forge new partnerships among businesses, the arts, and education.

FMI: 207-775-6148 | www.portlandmuseum.org

Generously supported by Isabelle and Scott Black. Funded in part by the Maine Humanities Council. Corporate sponsorship is provided by Bank of America and Migis Hotel Group with media sponsorship provided by WCSH 6, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

"Rose Marasco: Index" at the Portland Museum of Art

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:52:59 GMT

Rose Marasco: index

April 24 through December 6 at the Portland Museum of Art

Rose Marasco is perhaps Maine’s most-prolific living photographer, having lived and photographed in Portland and its surrounding communities for more than 35 years.

The photographs in Rose Marasco: index, the latest in the Circa series at the PMA, are stunning and display extraordinary range, encompassing everything from her images of the urban environment to her unexpectedly poetic response to the natural world, and her exhaustive, thought-provoking examination of the domestic world of women, in which she layers historical objects with contemporary materials. It’s this diversity of both subject and technique that has long characterized Marasco’s artistry, and visitors of all interests and backgrounds will find something special to immerse themselves in.

FMI: 207-775-6148 | www.portlandmuseum.org

Circa is a series of exhibitions featuring the work of living artists from Maine and beyond. Generously supported by S. Donald Sussman. Corporate sponsorship is provided by The VIA Agency and The Bear Bookshop, Marlboro, VT.

Maine Archives & Museums Happenings for the Public at MAM Member Institutions

Our Ancestors in the Attic: Stories of Family History

The Abyssinian Meetung House: The Restoration

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FREE Symposium at Maine Maritime Museum

Tate House Museum Presents The Maritime Marauder Captain Henry Mowat

Meet Clara Goodwin at the Goodwin House!

Intro to Digitizing Photos for Cultural Heritage 2/20/2026 10:00am via Zoom

How to Preserve Family Letters, Antiques & Heirlooms 3/20/2025 10:00am via Zoom

Storage of Items in a Historic House 3/6/2026 10:00am via Zoom

Safely Handling Antique Objects 2/13/2026 10:00am via Zoom

Organizing Your Photo Collections 9/5/2025 10:00am via Zoom

North Cemetery Tour

Canton Historical Society's 50th Anniversary Celebration - Join Us!

Tate House Celebrates Flag Day June 14

Kennebec Historical Society Used Book Sale, May 29, May 30 and May 31

Kennebec Historical Society Presents: “Silent Films in Maine, Part III” on June 18, 2026

Explore the Castine Town Cemetery

Does Anything from the Year 1776 Matter Today?

Castine Historical Society Annual Meeting and Program

16th Annual Deborah Pulliam Memorial Lecture: "Penobscot Sense of Place"

Talk and Book Signing: "Castine and the Cultural Landscapes of the Cod Fishery"

Castine Historical Society 2025 Open House, June 21, 4-6 pm

Tate House Museum Plant Sale and Raffle

Two Lights for Tomorrow at Tate House

ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Exhibit at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum!

"It's Summer Somewhere!" Dance Party at the Canton Historical Society

Tate House Celebrates a Colonial Christmas

Free Tours for Veterans on November 11th

ColoniAle 2024 at Tate House

The Colonial Mast Trade: a British Perspective

Botanical Dying Workshop at Tate House

Closing Reception August 16 for Imagining Freedom

Calm Command: US Chief Justice Melville Fuller Book Talk with Douglas Rooks

Calm Command: US Chief Justice Melville Fuller in His Times

Book Talk with Author Douglas Rooks

Wednesday, August 14th at 7:30pm

Sorrento Library, Waukeag Ave., Sorrento, ME 04677

Songs from Way Downeast: Historic Songs from Hancock & Washington Counties

Songs from Way Downeast: Historic Songs from Hancock & Washington Counties

Performed by Stephen Sanfilippo

July 28 at 2pm

Tate House Presents English Country Dancing

Imagining Freedom Cyanotype Workshop: Tate House Museum

The Kennebec Historical Society’s August Presentation: “Silent Films in Maine”

The Kennebec Historical Society and the Maine State Library Presents: “The Maine Roadshow”

The Kennebec Historical Society’s June Presentation: “Logging in Maine”

Colonial Live at Tate House Museum

2024 Mystery Tour - Buildings and Blooms

Exhibition Public Opening Reception - Thursday, June 20th, 4pm - 7pm - Margaret Chase Smith Library

Tate House Museum's Annual Plant & Herb Sale on May 18

A History of the Roberts Funeral Home

Opening Night Reception with Artist Ashley Page on May 10 at Tate House Museum

Northern Nightmares: Monsters in Inuit Art at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum!

Dr. Lydia Moland Presents Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life

Poetry and the Creative Process: A Poetry Reading with Stuart Kestenbaum

A Virtual Lecture with Polly Forcier on Stenciling

Maine Day Open House at Poland Spring Museums

Chili Chowder Cook-off at Canton Historical Society April 6

CANTON, Maine—The Canton Historical Society will hold a Chili and Chowder Cook-off on Saturday, April 6, 12-2 p.m., at their historic grange building, 25 Turner St., Canton

See you there and bring your appetite!

Saturday, September 7: Hidden Legacies: A Walking Tour of Castine’s African American History

Thursday, August 8: The 15th Annual Deborah Pulliam Memorial Lecture,

“A History of Castine in 40 Objects”: An Illustrated Talk

"Art of Penobscot Bay - A Sampler" Saturday, June 29, 4:00 p.m.

Castine Historical Society 2024 Season Open House

"Castine in the Civil War"

Jane's Walk ME

Castine Uncovered Walking Tours - Friday, Saturday and Monday

"A History of Castine in 40 Objects"

A Lecture by Maine Author Darrell Hartman

Sustaining Cultural Heritage: A Practical Primer on Preservation Environments

Poetry and the Creative Process: A Poetry Reading with Stuart Kestenbaum

A Discussion on the Jonathan Poor Murals in Maine with Jane Radcliffe

January History Hour via Zoom! Douaquet: The Early Acadian History of Upper Frenchman Bay

FRYEBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY EXHIBIT AT PACE GALLERY

Canton Historical Society Christmas Craft Fair and Open House

Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series: Tribal Sovereignty Discussion with Ambassador Maulian Bryant and Darren Ranco

Art Of John Bradley Hudson Lecture With Earle Shettleworth

Book Launch

CANTON, Maine—The Canton Historical Society will hold a Chili and Chowder Cook-off on
Saturday, April 6, 12-2 p.m., at their historic grange building, 25 Turner St., Canton