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.

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=

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. 

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. 

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. 

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!

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.

www./bradfordfuller.com

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.

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.

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

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