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Winter events! All events take place in Penobscot Marine Museum’s Main Street Gallery, 40 East Main Street, Searsport. Events free with $5 Gallery admission. Gallery admission is free for museum members and Searsport residents.

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Lisa-Marie Haugmoen

Saturday, December 14: Sock-making workshop with Lisa-Marie Haugmoen, 9:00 am to noon.

From Lisa-Marie: For knitters new to knitting socks, I will be showing several types of items to wear on the foot. Folks should bring a work in progress or a skein of sock yarn with dbl pointed needles in the size the yarn label suggests, or 2 circular needles for the magic loop knitting, those who wish to make slippers I suggest bulky yarn or 2 skeins (balls) of yarn and 2 knitting needles in size LARGER than the label suggests. I will show how to turn a heel, cast on for toe-up and heel up socks, pompoms on pompom maker, on a fork, and add non-slip rubber to the bottom of slippers. The course is for all levels of knitting for all forms of knitted items to wear on the foot!

Lisa-Marie Haugmoen is currently working on designs for Real Shetland Wool/Jamieson & Smith. She knits samples for the pages of Vogue Knitting and for knitwear designers. She has been knitting since the age of four.

Sarah Nickerson

Sarah Nickerson

Saturday, December 21: Rug-hooking demonstration with Sarah Nickerson, 11:00 am to 1:00pm. Sarah Nickerson comes from a family of talented rug hookers, and hooks her rugs in Searsport.

Stacy Van Dyne

Stacy Van Dyne

Saturday, January 18: Rug-hooking demonstration with Stacey Van Dyne, 11:00 am to 1:00pm Stacey Van Dyne has been hooking rugs since 1974 and hooked two rugs for Jamie Wyeth based on his paintings. She is the President of the Northern McGown Teacher’s Workshop, 2nd Vice President of the National Guild of Pearl K. McGown Hookrafters, and Director at Large of the North American Rug Hooking Museum.

Talk by Kevin Johnson

Talk by Kevin Johnson

Thursday, January 23, 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm: Talk by Kevin Johnson on historic photos of Hancock County at MDI High School. Baked Bean Supper! For more information go to The Mount Desert Island Historical Society. The Society is hosting Penobscot Marine Museum’s exhibit “Hancock County through Eastern’s Eye,” which will be on display at the Sound School House, 373 Sound Drive/Route 198, Mount Desert, Maine. For more information call Kevin Johnson, PMM Photography Department, 207-548-2529 ext. 210

Bonnie Lynn

Earl and Bonnie MacKenzie

Saturday, January 25: “Living on the Schooner Bonnie Lynn” talk by Captains Earl and Bonnie MacKenzie about life below decks, 11:00 am. In 2005 Captains Earl and Bonnie MacKenzie did a trans-Atlantic crossing in the Bonnie Lynn from the Virgin Islands, via the Azores to Ireland and Scotland, then south along the coast of Portugal. On the return trip to the Caribbean they stopped in Madeira and the Canaries before returning to the Grenadines. Their homeport is Islesboro, Maine.

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Susan Barnard

Saturday, February 1: Rug-hooking demonstration with Susan Barnard, 11:00 am to 1:00pm. Susan Barnard has been hooking rugs since 2008. Prior to hooking, Susan was a painter and so she thinks of rug hooking as painting with wool. She designs all of her own rugs, and uses recycled fabric and non-toxic dyes.

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Saturday, February 8, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm: All at Sea: Twenty Years at the Helm of Tall Ships. Reading and book signing with author Dominick Jones at PMM.

This true story, which receives rave reviews on Amazon, is the tale of falling in love with a woman who has five children and buying a square-rigged sailing barge for family vacations along the coast of England and France. The author recounts twenty years of hilarious, and sometimes dangerous, adventures learning to sail the vessel and keep her afloat, and they sail in and out of beautiful, charming European harbors.