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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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Maine Postcard Project

Searsport First Congregational Church 8 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

With USM Professor Libby Bischoff
Saturday, June 25, 10 am to 5 pm
Cost of Maine Postcard Project: Free

Write postcards to friends and family using postcards designed by Libby Bischoff featuring historic and contemporary images of Maine. Libby provides the stamps!
Libby’s Maine Postcard Project is part of the Maine 2014 Anti que Paper Show, 8:30 am to 3:00 pm in the First Congregational Church Vestry, 8 Church Street, admission $2.

The Friendship Sloop

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

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.

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Volcanoes, Iron, and Phytoplankton in the Antarctic

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

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.

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Communicating Maine: Maine Women Authors Of The 1950’S

Waldo County Libraries

At Waldo County libraries throughout the month of August
Admission free.

Penobscot Marine Museum is collaborating with Waldo County libraries offering book discussions for the month of August on Maine Women Authors of the 1950s and how they communicate Maine’s sense of place. Each library will focus on a specific author to read and discuss.

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The Oyster Industry

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

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.

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Why The Ocean Matters: The Once And Future Ocean

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

With Peter Neill
Wednesday, July 20, 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.

This talk provides a persuasive argument for how sustainability and careful use can establish a new paradigm for adaptation to a changing climate, and around which to build a new post-industrial, post-consumption based global community. Peter Neill, author of The Once and Future Ocean, discusses why the ocean matters and the necessity for a new, sustainable paradigm away from unrestricted growth based on fossil fuel-driven consumption.  Neill will discuss new solutions, emerging recommendations for change, and specific ideas for preserving the health of the ocean.   Peter Neill is founder and director of the World Ocean Observatory (worldoceanobservatory.org) and served 20 years as President of the South Street Seaport Museum, New York. 
Cost: $8; $5 Members

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Historic Maine: A Postcard View

Main Street Gallery 40 East Main Street, Searsport, United States

With PMM Photo Archivist Kevin Johnson  
Thursday, July 21, 2 pm, Main Street Gallery
Admission free with museum admission.

Hear fascinating behind-the-scenes stories about our postcard collection in this in-depth look at our exhibit.  The postcard craze in America, roughly 1905 to 1915, prompted the founding of many postcard companies.  In Maine photographers shot otherwise overlooked small towns and rural life, creating a highly personal and intimate portrait of our state.

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 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.

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2016 Gala & Auction

The Board of Trustees and the Gala Committee request the pleasure of your company at the 2016 Penobscot Marine Museum Gala, Saturday, July 30 in Northport at Point Lookout's Hedge's Hall.

We are delighted to honor Hodgdon Yachts and the Hodgdon Family in their 200th year of boat building in East Boothbay. The five generations of Hodgdon boat builders is the longest history of a family of boat builders in the USA. 

Cocktails and the silent auction start at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner and the live auction at 7:00 p.m. The event is dinner attire with limited reservations.

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Tugboats

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

With Captain John Worth
Thursday, August 4, 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.
Cost: $8; $5 Members

Captain John Worth of Maine Maritime Academy has worked and taught students aboard tugs on Penobscot Bay over the course of his exciting career. He will share his experiences and discuss the history of assisting cargo ships in the navigation of the Penobscot Bay and River.

PMM’s Maine Maritime Icons Series

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