Special Events at PMM

With Harold Burnham
Monday, June 27, 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.
Cost: $8; $5 Members

Friendship Sloop builder Harold Burnham and members of the Friendship Sloop Society discuss the evolution of this iconic sloop design from the workhorse of the Maine lobstering fleet to a beloved recreational sloop prized by traditionalists. PMM’s Maine Maritime Icons Series.

Cost: $8; $5 Members

Phytoplankton in the ocean produce half of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere. Iron supply limits the growth of phytoplankton in Antarctic waters. Hydrothermal systems cooling active submarine volcanoes may be adding iron to the Southern Ocean. Oceanographer, Maine native, and University of Tasmania (Australia) Professor Mike Coffin will present initial findings arising from a two-month Antarctic research voyage he led earlier this year, including a 15-minute documentary film featuring an erupting volcano.

With Smokey McKeen
Thursday, July 14, 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.
Cost: $8; $5 Members

Smokey McKeen founded Pemaquid Oyster Company on the Damariscotta River in 1986 and now raises over a million oysters a year. He has been written up in the New York Times and Yankee Magazine, and is featured in Mario Batali’s America Farm to Table: Simple, Delicious Recipes Celebrating Local Farmers. PMM’s Maine Maritime Icons Series.

With Sandy Phippen
Thursday, July 28, 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.
Cost: $8; $5 Members

What do the novels of Mary Ellen Chase, Elizabeth Ogilvie, Ruth Moore, Miriam Colwell, and Louise Dickinson Rich tell us about Maine’s sense of place? Author and University of Maine lecturer Sandy Phippen will look at these authors and their rich portraits of Maine’s landscape and way of life. This is the keynote talk for a series of book discussions taking place at five Waldo County Libraries, which will culminate in a panel discussion at PMM on August 18.