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40 E Main Street | P.O. Box 498
Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529

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

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Sea Shanties & Maritime Demonstrations

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

With the Duckback Farm Worksongers
Saturday, Aug 6, concerts every hour on the hour from 10 am to 1 pm
Admission free with museum admission.

Sing rousing sea shanties, see capstan and halyard demonstrations, and learn about fo’c’sle songs and shipboard fiddle tunes with Edith Gawler, Bennett Konesni, and the Duckback Farm Worksongers. Edith & Bennett are musicians and worksong scholars who play old-time fiddle and banjo tunes and hollers with musician friends. Edith Gawler grew up in Maine as a member of the legendary Gawler Family Band. A Searsport Heritage Day event.

Sea Captains’ House Tour

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

Saturday, Aug 6, 1 pm to 4 pm, Fowler-True-Ross Sea Captain’s House & throughout Searsport
Tickets $10, $5 for members.

Searsport is famous for shipbuilding and ship captains. In collaboration with PMM, the owners of the historic houses built by the Captains and shipbuilders between 1860 and 1900 are opening their homes to the public for this very special Historic House Tour. Hear stories about the houses and the captains from the owners themselves. A Searsport Heritage Day event.

For more information and to buy tickets, call Museum Store at 548-0334.

Create Your Own Tintype

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

With AgNO3 Lab
Saturday, Aug 13, tintypes taken between 10 am and 4 pm.

Create your own beautiful family heirloom by having your “antique” tintype taken.
Tintype portraits are $40 per tintype, which includes a 2-for-1 museum admission. Space limited, call 207-548-0334 to reserve a time.

How To Research Your Genealogy

PMM’s Stephen Phillips Memorial Library 11 Church St, Searsport, United States

With Betsy Paradis, Reference and Special Collections Librarian, Belfast Free Library
Tuesday, August 9 postponed to August 16, 2 pm to 5 pm, Museum Library, 11 Church St.
Cost: $8; $5 Members

Using PMM genealogical reference materials, you will learn how to research your own family history. Betsy Paradis is the Reference and Special Collections Librarian at the Belfast Free Library and has taught genealogy courses and presented on the topic at libraries around the state and at genealogy conferences.

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Maine Women Authors Of The 1950’S

Penobscot Marine Museum’s Douglas and Margaret Carver Memorial Art Gallery 11 Church St., Searsport, United States

With Cathleen Miller, and Melissa Hayes
Thursday, August 18, 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.
Cost: $8; $5 Members

Cathleen Miller, Curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection at UNE, Elizabeth Ogilvie biographer, Melissa Hayes, Ruth Moore Days organizers, Muriel Davisson and Miram Colwell, and devotee Jane O'Rourke will discuss how the novels of Mary Ellen Chase, Elisabeth Ogilvie, Ruth Moore, Miriam Colwell and Louise Dickinson Rich provide different portraits of the people and the state of Maine. This is the culminating event of Book Talks on Communicating Maine: Maine Women Authors Of The 1950’​s​.

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Maine Memories: A Vintage Picture Postcard Tour, Book Signing & Talk

Penobscot Marine Museum’s Douglas and Margaret Carver Memorial Art Gallery 11 Church St., Searsport, United States

With authors Michael Closen and John Brunkowski
Thursday, August 25, 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.
Admission free.

Hear the fascinating story of this impressive collection of over 350 postcards of the lighthouses, harbors, ships, railroads, wildlife, forests and lakes of Maine.

Free

Maine On Glass, Book Signing & Talk

Penobscot Marine Museum’s Douglas and Margaret Carver Memorial Art Gallery 11 Church St., Searsport, United States

With authors Earle Shettleworth, Jr., William H. Bunting, and Kevin Johnson
Thursday, September 22, 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.
Admission free.

Hear fascinating in-depth historical commentary on the Maine photographs from Penobscot Marine Museum’s Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection. Maine State Historian Earle Shettleworth, Jr., Maine historian and author William H. Bunting, and Penobscot Marine Museum Photo Archivist Kevin Johnson collaborated on this book about the unique Belfast-based postcard company of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Maine On Glass is published by Tilbury House.

Free

Framing II: And How Am I Going To Frame This?

PMM’s Stephen Phillips Memorial Library 11 Church St, Searsport, United States

With Museum Framer Lin Calista
CANCELED
Saturday, October 1, 9 am to noon, Museum Library, 11 Church St.
Cost: $20, $10 for members.

A demonstration, with some hands-on examples, on how to frame delicate and three-dimensional items, best ways to mount needlework, and framing with front and back exposure. Limited to 15, please register or purchase advance tickets in the Museum Store, online at www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org, or by phone at 207-548-0334 or 207-548-2529.

Last Night At The Museum

Merithew and Fowler True Ross Houses Church St., Searsport, United States

Sat, Oct 15, 5 pm to 7 pm, tours every 15 minutes, Fowler-True-Ross Sea Captain’s House
Tickets $5 adults, $3 children.

Bring your flashlight for a family-friendly spooky good time. Hear the hair-raising stories and meet the spirits of sea captains lost at sea, the widows waiting for the husbands to return, and young boys who left as crew never to return. Walk through the Sea Captain’s House one last time before the night watchmen close it up for the winter.

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2016 History Conference

University of Maine Hutchinson Center 80 Belmont Avenue, Belfast, United States

The Net Result: Our Evolving Fisheries
2016 History Conference
Saturday, November 5, 2016
8:00 a.m. registration 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. conference
Postponed to a date to be determined
University of Maine Hutchinson Center
80 Belmont Ave., Belfast, Maine

This year's History Conference delves into statement: Human innovation and technology have proven to be too successful for the health of our fisheries and out local ecosystem.  Our line-up of scientists, historians, journalists, activists, consumers and fishermen will answer the question: How did this happen and what do we do now?

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