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Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529

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Edith & Bennett To Sing At Penobscot Marine Museum Members Opening

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

Edith Gawler and Bennett Konesni, who play banjo and fiddle and sing old-time music from Maine and beyond, will be playing at Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine for a Members Reception in Main Street Gallery on Friday, May 20, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Edith grew up in Belgrade, Maine as a member of the legendary Gawler Family Band. Together Edith & Bennett have played Maine music across the U.S. and around the world. This event is free to Penobscot Marine Museum members. Museum membership is available online or by calling 207-548-0334 or 2529.

Wish You Were Here: Communicating Maine

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

Friday, May 27, 5 pm to 7 pm, Main Street Gallery and Museum Store
Admission free.

Free

Framing Tips And Tricks: From Photo To Finish!

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

With Museum Framer Lin Calista
Saturday, June 11, 9 am to noon, Museum Library, 11 Church St.
Materials Cost: $30, $20 for members.

Participants will be given a PMM postcard of their choice, and matting and frame materials. Using these preservation framing materials, learn how to mat and frame like the professionals! Beginners welcome. Limited to 15, please register or purchase advance tickets in the Museum Store, online, or by phone at 207-548-0334 or 207-548-2529.

Historic Maine: A Postcard View

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

With PMM Photo Archivist Kevin Johnson  
Thursday, June 16, 2 pm, Main Street Gallery
Admission free with museum admission.

Learn interesting behind the scenes stories about our postcard collection in this in-depth look at Historic Maine: A Postcard View.  The postcard craze in America, roughly 1905 to 1915, prompted the founding of many postcard companies.  In Maine, photographers sought out small towns and rural life, creating a highly personal and intimate portrait of our state.

Maine Photography: A History, 1840-2015

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

With authors Libby Bischof, Susan Danly, and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
Thursday, June 23, 5:30 pm to 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.
Admission free.

Meet the historians behind the book Maine Photography: A History, 1840-2015 and explore with them the origins of Maine's rich photographic traditions; the rise of a fine-art photographic tradition; and the evolution of a thriving contemporary photo scene. Maine Photography: A History, 1840-2015 is part of the Maine Photo Project.

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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.

Free

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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