Special Events at PMM

Lectures, Workshops, Events
You’re invited to join us at Penobscot Marine Museum for our ongoing series of special events! For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or jganskop@pmm-maine.org.

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  • Waldo County Reads: Fisheries Non-Fiction Panel Discussion

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    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.

  • The Mackerel Schooner AUGUSTA E. HERRICK

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    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.

  • Paul Molyneaux: A Doryman’s Reflection

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    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.

    Free

  • Maine Marine Fare

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    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.

    Buy Tickets Online

  • Library Sale

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    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.

  • Library Sale

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    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.

  • Last Night at the Museum

    Merithew and Fowler True Ross Houses Church St., Searsport, United States

    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.

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  • The Home Road

    Colonial Theater 163 High St, Belfast, ME, United States

    Monday, November 13 at 6:30 p.m.
    Colonial Theatre
    163 High St, Belfast
    $12 members, children and students
    $15 non-members

    We are excited to bring Portland based filmmaker Tonya Shevenell to the Colonial theatre to screen her film The Home Road.

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  • Cooking with Sea Veggies

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Join Micah Woodcock of Atlantic Holdfast Seaweed Company for a talk about sea vegetables available in the Gulf of Maine and demonstration of cooking techniques.  Hint, it is not just about Asian-inspired salads.  If you loved the conversation started at Maine Marine Fare, you will not want to miss this free event! For more information call 207-548-2529.

  • Globalization Is Not New: Maine’s Merchant Marine in 19th Century World Trade

    University of Maine Hutchinson Center 80 Belmont Avenue, Belfast, United States

    The topic of the 31st Annual Camden Conference is New World Disorder and America’s Future.  PMM's curator, Cipperly Good, will speak at a Camden Conference-affiliated event about how she understands today's economic globalist from a historic view. 

    This presentation will use primary source material, artifacts and images from the Penobscot Marine Museum to track the Maine merchant marine in the global market, when Downeasters were the global shippers. For more information call 207-548-2529.