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].
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.
Netmaking with Mike Dassatt
Saturday, August 5, 1 pm to 4 pm
Free with admission
Belfast lobsterman Mike Dassatt still makes his own net heads for his lobster traps. Join him to learn about net head making and the net head’s function in a lobster trap.
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.
CANCELLED
Thursday, August 24, 7 pm
PMM’s Visitors Center, 2 Church St.
Cost: $8, $5 Members
The culminating event of the Waldo County Reads program, join a panel of fisheries scientists, journalists and policymakers to discuss the slate of fisheries non-fiction books. Bring questions and observations about how the books address today’s current issues in the fishing industry. For a complete list of books, please visit our website.
Visitors Center, 2 Church St.
Cost: $8, $5 Members
Ralph Stanley, historian and boatbuilder, will present a talk on the mackerel schooner AUGUSTA E. HERRICK. The Swans Island schooner "had the distinction of being the only centerboard schooner ever to be employed in the North American fisheries" according to historian Howard Chappelle. The Swans Island fishermen, like owner William P. Herrick, led the Atlantic coast mackerel fisheries in catch rates. Come learn more about the vigorous and hardy men and schooners of Swan's Island.
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.
Saturday, September 9 and Sunday, September 10
Maine Marine Fare will celebrate all the foods from the abundant waters of coastal Maine. The two day program will include talks, panel discussions and educational tastings, featuring fishermen, food producers, aquaculturists, researchers and scientists, and members of the food and hospitality trades. It will end with a dinner called “Food from our Seas,” prepared by chef Sam Hayward with the assistance of Ladleah Dunn. Hayward, named “Best Chef in the Northeast” by the James Beard Association, co-owner and executive chef of Fore Street Restaurant in Portland, has been called “Maine’s Food Hero” for his promotion and innovative use of Maine food products from the land, the sea, and everywhere in between. Dunn is a chef, gardener, food consultant, and boat-builder in Lincolnville.
Dinner tickets are limited. Please call 207-548-2529 for availability.
Friday, September 29 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 30 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
PMM Visitors Center
2 Church Street
Items for sale will include books, posters and postcards. Friday evening wine and cheese will be served. For more information call 207-548-2529.
Friday, September 29 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 30 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
PMM Visitors Center
2 Church Street
Items for sale will include books, posters and postcards. Friday evening wine and cheese will be served. For more information call 207-548-2529.
Saturday, October 14 5 pm to 7 pm
Fowler-True-Ross House, 1 Church St.
Tickets $5 adults, $3 children, $12 families
Join the Nightwatch as they put the Museum to bed for the season and the portraits come alive to tell their stories. Family-friendly and all in good “spirit”. Tours leave every 15 minutes and last half an hour.
