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Special Events at PMM


Lectures, Workshops, Events
For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or [email protected].


Peek into Paintings

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Lumber Schooners
March 12th at noon on Facebook

Fitz Henry Lane painted a schooner carrying lumber from Maine to Massachusetts around 1850.  We hear adventurous stories about a couple of lumber schooners that wrecked and a rescue attempt that goes very wrong.

Maritime Trivia Nights! On Zoom

Zoom

Tuesday, March 16th
7pm
Free

Fight the midwinter cabin fever! Test your knowledge of the people, places, and things in some of the most popular maritime books and movies at our Maritime Media Trivia Night! Trivia will be Tuesdays February 23rd through March 23rd starting at 7PM, and each week’s session will be dedicated to either maritime literature or maritime film. The game and instructions will be offered through Zoom, so make sure you’ve got your laptop, smartphone, or tablet all charged up. We hope you can join us for a weekly dose of trivia fun. Dust off that copy of Moby Dick and look around for that Jaws VHS – you have some studying to do!

Maritime Trivia Nights! On Zoom

Zoom

Tuesday, March 23rd
7pm
Free

Fight the midwinter cabin fever! Test your knowledge of the people, places, and things in some of the most popular maritime books and movies at our Maritime Media Trivia Night! Trivia will be Tuesdays February 23rd through March 23rd starting at 7PM, and each week’s session will be dedicated to either maritime literature or maritime film. The game and instructions will be offered through Zoom, so make sure you’ve got your laptop, smartphone, or tablet all charged up. We hope you can join us for a weekly dose of trivia fun. Dust off that copy of Moby Dick and look around for that Jaws VHS – you have some studying to do!

Peek into Paintings

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Bark JOHN CARVER & Looking Back
March 26th at noon on Facebook

We will examine Waldo Pierce’s 1960 painting “Carver Yard with the JOHN CARVER on the ways” and explore how twentieth-century artists, authors, and families remembered Searsport’s shipbuilding heyday.

Peek into Paintings – Belfast

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April 9th at noon
Free on Facebook

Belfast in the 19th century- Fires, Treason, and Whist parties?  We look closely at a lithograph of Belfast from 1877, find buildings that are still here today, and explore some of daily life in the second half of the 19th century in Penobscot Bay, Maine.

Member Mondays

Zoom

April 12th at noon
Free for members on Zoom

The ship S.F. HERSEY had a colorful history, most notably losing three Searsport captains in less than three years. Even the delivery of the ship's planking and spars for building ended in disaster, with the delivery vessel sinking in a gale and the captain Forrest Treat losing appendages to frostbite.  He is pictured above with two of his canes.  Come learn more at April's Member Monday on April 12 at noon.

Museum by Mail – Hello!

Zoom

April 21st at 11am on Zoom or on your own anytime
$10/kit (up to 3 kids) including shipping, Register here.
Register by April 15th to ensure materials arrive before Zoom workshop.

Peek into Paintings

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April 23rd at noon
Free on Facebook

The oil painting of the schooner NANCY HANKS was created by Antonio Jacobsen in 1918, soon after it was launched. Most of the ship’s portraits we have explored during Peek into Paintings are from the mid to late 1800s. Why was there a brief resurgence in wooden shipbuilding in the late 1910s? Find out more by joining us on Facebook Live at noon!

Member Mondays

Zoom

May 10th at Noon on Zoom
Free for members

Join PMM Digital Curator Matt Wheeler as we return to an interview with Jeff Dworsky. In this conversation, Dworsky talks about his foresightful photographic document of the Maine fishing village where he landed as a teenager and which became his home.