40 E Main Street | P.O. Box 498
Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529
Lectures, Workshops, Events
For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or [email protected].
Friday, December 2, 4 pm to 6 pm, and Saturday, December 3, 10 am to 4 pm,
Fowler-True-Ross Sea Captain’s House
Admission is free.
Our Ship Captain’s house is beautifully decorated for the holidays and filled with live music and holiday-themed readings. Town of Searsport’s Tree Lighting And Carol Sing are on Friday night.
Saturday, December 3, 1 pm to 4 pm, Fowler-True-Ross Sea Captain’s House & throughout Searsport
See Searsport’s beautiful homes lovingly decorated for the holidays. Tour includes Penobscot Marine Museum’s Ship Captain’s House.
Tickets $10, and are sold at Searsport Antique Mall, and participating homes.
Fascinating historic photographs taken from 1909 to 1950 of a Maine which has almost completely disappeared are the subject of the new book Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography by Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Penobscot Marine Museum Photo Archivist Kevin Johnson, and historian Bill Bunting. The photographs were originally taken to be made into postcards during the postcard craze of the early 1900s when billions of postcards were mailed world-wide. The photographs show Mainers at work and at play everywhere from lobster shacks and wilderness hunting camps, to steam and sailing ships and grand hotels. On Sunday, January 29th at 2:00 pm, Boothbay Railway Village presents an illustrated talk about Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography with authors Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Kevin Johnson, and Bill Bunting. The talk will take place inside the Museum’s 1847 Boothbay Town Hall. Admission is free, suggested donation of $5 appreciated.
Cipperly Good, curator at the Penobscot Marine Museum, will discuss locally built and captained vessels that were involved in the migration of Chinese Coolies to Cuba to work in the sugar industry in the 1860s. This program is offered as a free community event in anticipation of the 30th Annual Camden Conference. The 30th Anniversary Camden Conference Community Events Series is supported in part by the Maine Humanities Council. At Witherle Memorial Library.
Event postponed due to weather. A new date is yet to be determined.
Kevin Johnson, photo archivist for the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine will present Brooksville Maine: The Postcard View; Selections from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company” at 5:30pm on Wednesday, February 15 at the Brooksville Free Public Library. The slide show and talk will consist of a short film about the postcard company as well as the historical views of Brooksville and surrounding towns.
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.
History Conference
Saturday, April 8, 2017
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
University of Maine Hutchinson Center
80 Belmont Ave., Belfast, Maine
Student: $30
Museum Members: $50
Teacher/Non-Profit Employee: $50
Non-members: $60
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 our local ecosystem. Our line-up of scientists, historians, journalists, activists, consumers and fishermen will answer the question:
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.
"Brooksville, Maine: The Postcard View"
Wednesday, April 26 at 5:30 p.m.
Brooksville Public Library
1 Town House Rd, Brooksville, ME 04617
Free
Photo Archivist, Kevin Johnson, will present Brooksville Maine: The Postcard View; Selections from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company” at the Brooksville Free Public Library. The slide show and talk will consist of a short film about the postcard company as well as the historical views of Brooksville and surrounding towns.
Ocean Frontiers III is a powerful film that chronicles efforts to plan for the healthy, safe, and sustainable future of our oceans. It explores the intersection of national security, maritime commerce, fishing, and recreation, plus expanding industries such as offshore wind energy and aquaculture, coupled with scientific discovery, and tells the story of how ocean planning helps us manage and balance all the uses of our ocean to keep it thriving for generations to come.
The evening will begin with a light reception, followed by the film and post-film Q&A with a panel of local experts.
