This winter five Searsport District High School seniors, Connor Fraser, Dylon Grant, Kevin Keniston, Anthony Powers, and Bartley Santos, curated an exhibit, Memoirs of War: A Soldier’s Seabag, which opened this spring at the Penobscot Marine Museum. Working with PMM assistant curator Cipperly Good and SDHS teacher Kathleen Jenkins, the students chose objects from Penobscot Marine Museum’s collection, researched the objects, researched the wars, and interviewed Maine veterans about their war experiences. Using objects the veterans took with them to war and objects they brought back home, this exhibit tells the story of ten Maine veterans’ wartime experiences from WW II to the present. On Wednesday, June 17, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, the students, two of whom are joining the Army National Guard this summer, will share with the public the moving stories they discovered while curating the exhibit.

CANCELLED
Thursday, August 24, 7 pm
PMM’s Visitors Center, 2 Church St.
Cost: $8, $5 Members
The culminating event of the Waldo County Reads program, join a panel of fisheries scientists, journalists and policymakers to discuss the slate of fisheries non-fiction books. Bring questions and observations about how the books address today’s current issues in the fishing industry. For a complete list of books, please visit our website.