Cipperly Good, “Maine in the Coolie Trade”
Thursday, August 3, 7 pm
Visitors Center, 2 Church St.
Cost: $8, $5 Members

Maine merchant mariners in the 1850s and 1860s began carrying a new cargo on their China Trade Route: Chinese indentured servants bound for the sugar plantations of Cuba. Come see logbooks and shipping papers that shed light on the voyage to a new plantation economy.

Jeff Dworsky, “A Way of Life: Fishing Families of Stonington”
Thursday, August 10, 7 pm
PMM's Merithew House, 6 Church Street
Cost: $8, $5 Members

Join us for a conversation with photographer Jeff Dworsky as he talks about the changing way of life in Stonington Maine and what inspired him to document it. 

What happens when the oceans are emptied of all their fish? What happens when three hundred years of human knowledge and expertise disappear before the onslaught of the technology-driven world? Author and fisherman Paul Molyneaux will answer these questions during our speaker’s series on September 7 at 7pm in the Museum Admissions Center at 2 Church Street.

Molyneaux wrote The Doryman’s Reflection, an account of what transpired in the New England fisheries over the past half century, as told by the people who lived it, including Molyneaux himself. Fishermen survive as relics, the last hunter-gatherers among us. Their boats, crammed with ropes and nets, carry the mystique of a nearly forgotten world ruled by the elements. Molyneaux as a young man journeyed to Maine with no experience and a dream of working on a boat. This is the story of his apprenticeship with Bernard Raynes, one of Maine’s last independent commercial fishermen. Originally published in 2005, the book has been thoroughly updated to cover the events of the past ten years.

For more information, please call 207-548-2529.

Captain David Gelinas will discuss Maine's State Pilotage System and how it is practiced on Penobscot Bay. The talk will cover State Law requirements for foreign flag ships, the role of the State Pilots, Training, and local practices.

What does it take to race a lobster boat? How do Maine lobster boat races work? In this presentation, Jon Johansen, Penobscot Marine Museum Board President and President of the Maine Lobster Boat Racing Association, will discuss the logistics of the races and exciting stories and photographs.

In this Member Monday program, join PMM Curator Emeritus Benjamin A.G. Fuller as he discusses the work of Harold “Dynamite” Payson and takes a close look at some of his model boats.

we’ll hear from Tim Clark of Clark & Eisele Traditional Boat Building who will share the AJ Meerwald’s restoration progress with tons of fascinating photos in this behind-the-scenes tour. AJ Meerwald has been under their watchful eyes since 2018.

Penobscot Marine Museum’s Fog & Ice Speaker Series kicks off with Maine's connection to the famous ship that struck an iceberg and went down. Mainers on the Titanic traces the stories of passengers on that fateful ship who had ties to Maine. Many of them were wealthy summer visitors to Mount Desert Island, but there... (Read More »)

The Maine coast is renowned for both its beauty and its lobster, but did you know it also holds the title as one of the foggiest places in the country? A unique combination of geography, rugged coastline, and local water temperatures combine to produce a high frequency of foggy days along the coastline. Meteorologist Mike... (Read More »)

Fog on Dodge Mountain; Kosti Ruohomaa c. 1960 It will come as no surprise that Maine is one of the foggiest states in the country. In fact, Mistake Island, off of Jonesport, is the 5th foggiest spot in the US, with more than 1,600 hours of fog per year. The science of fog states it... (Read More »)