With Ray and Patricia Eastabrook
Saturday, April 30, 11 am & 11:30 am, Museum Library, 11 Church St.
Admission is free. All are welcome.

This Community Learning Event is part of Game Loft’s Coming of Age in America program which teaches Maine and U.S. history to high school students through role-play. These two talks provide historical background for The Game Loft’s two-day Community Learning Event, Issues On Trial: The Court Martial Of General Peleg Wadsworth about the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition of 1779. Events over two days include dinner, dancing, a street fair, discussion groups, and role-play in Belfast and Searsport.

with Meghan Vigeant 
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 6:30 p.m.
PMM’s Stephen Phillips Memorial Library
9 Church Street

Author and personal historian Meghan Vigeant shares stories and plays audio recordings about Maine’s hardscrabble rural life gathered from the elders, larger-than-life characters, and tricksters she has worked with over the years. Stories range from building a cabin in the back woods for only $97 to how to mend a broken leg on a remote island. Touching, funny, and well told – this presentation is sure to entertain as well as inform anyone who wants to save someone's story.

April 12, 2017
6:30-9:30
Freedom Historical Society

Please join PMM photo archivist Matt Wheeler for an informal illustrated talk about Belfast's own real photo postcard company, which opened its doors in 1909 and specialized in familiar views of small town and rural life throughout New England. The presentation will include many historic images of Freedom and surrounding towns; the audience is encouraged to share their knowledge and stories of the village in decades past.

Main Street Gallery
Cost: Free with Museum Admission

In the past models were made of wood and other organic materials. Today we can design models on computers and print them out in 3-D. Students from the Searsport District Middle School will demonstrate how the computer aided design software “TinkerCAD” works and print out their inspirational designs for all to see. Join them on the model pond afterwards to see if their creations float, sail, and who will win the race!

Admissions Center
Cost: $5 for members, $8 for non-members

Rob Eddy, model maker from Camden, Maine, shares his inspiration for building models. Eddy’s models are known for their use of the silver, gold, and precious gems, in addition to traditional wood.

Cost: $5 for members, $8 for non-members

David White, an antiques dealer and model restorer from North Yarmouth, shares what inspires model collectors to acquire their next ship or pond model and the intricate work it takes to restore these boats in miniature.

Admissions Center
Cost: $5 for members, $8 for non-members

Nic Damuck owns BlueJacket Shipcrafters Inc. in Searsport. He will discuss his background as a model maker and what inspires others to build.

This event has been canceled.
July 26; 5:30-6:30pm

Cost: $5 for members, $8 for non-members

The Penobscot Expedition, during the Revolutionary War, was the worst naval disaster in American history until Pearl Harbor. David Middleton, a costumed interpreter, will discuss the failures of the assault on Magabigaduce (Castine) and the consequences to the Mid-coast and Penobscot regions of Maine.

August 1 at 7:00 pm
At Bayside Community Hall
813 Shore Road, Northport

Join Bob Witherill and PMM Photo Archivist, Kevin Johnson, as they explore the steamboat era. Presented by the Bayside Historical Society.

Tuesday, August 21, 2018
5:00 pm
Bangor Public Library
145 Harlow Street, Bangor, Maine

Matt Wheeler will present an overview of the museum's photo collections, focusing on prominent holdings and more recent acquisitions. PMM is committed to digitizing its collections and publishing the images, along with available information, online for free public access.

As with other collections, PMM's photographs--numbering over 300,000--originated in the Penobscot Bay region, but their geographic scope is wide-ranging, since some of our photographers travelled the country and the world. The talk will reveal some of their stories, and of course be accompanied by a generous heap of engaging images.