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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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Gee’s Bend Quilt-Inspired Painting Workshop Offered at Penobscot Marine Museum

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

Patchwork of Color, a one-day acrylic painting workshop with artist Susan Tobey White at Penobscot Marine Museum will be held on Friday, August 15 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Beginning painters as well as those with experience will enjoy this class using the Gee’s Bend Quilts as inspiration to create colorful acrylic paintings. For a list of materials, please call Susan White at 207-338-8990 or email [email protected]. The workshop fee is $75 which includes museum admission. To register for Patchwork of Color please call Penobscot Marine Museum at 207-548-2529 or 548-0334.

Children’s Program: Art in the Gallery

PMM’s Peapod Church St., Searsport, United States

Friday, August 15, 10:30 am
Children’s Program: Art in the Gallery
Bring your children and join Heather Davis in making an art project based on an object in the PMM collection. PMM’s Peapod. Free with PMM admission.

Free with museum admission

Children’s Program: The Herring Are In!

PMM’s Peapod Church St., Searsport, United States

Wednesday, August 20, 11:00 am
Children’s Program: The Herring Are In!
A hands-on program about weir fishing with Mayra Donnell. Discover the excitement of being woken up at 3:00 am when the moon and the tides are right for the herring to be in.

Free with museum admission

Spinning, weaving and knitting with Alice Seeger.

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

Watch spinning on a traditional 18th century “Great Wheel”, try your hand at weaving. In the 17th and 18th centuries wool was hand-spun and cloth was hand-woven. Sponsored by Knickerbocker Group. Free with PMM admission.

Free with museum admission

The Sea Connects All Things with Peter Neill

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

Thursday, August 21, 7:00 pm
Thursday Night Lecture Series
On Thursday, August 21st at 7:00 pm, Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory will present The Sea Connects All Things, an illustrated talk on the ocean as an integrated global social system. Neill will suggest actions, beyond the predictable conventions, for organizations and individuals to adopt as innovative strategies for the future.

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$8 – $10

Children’s Program: Reading Corner

PMM’s Peapod Church St., Searsport, United States

Friday, August 22, 10:30 pm
Children’s Program: Reading Corner
Come listen to excerpts from the children’s classic One Morning in Maine read out loud. 
PMM’s Peapod. Free with PMM admission.

Free with museum admission

Talk and Book Signing: 1816: The Year That Summer Never Came

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

Saturday, August 23, 2:00 pm
Talk and Book Signing: 1816: The Year That Summer Never Came
This story, by author Mayra Donnell, is of a young girl who records in her diary what Maine life was like in the bizarre weather of the year 1816. In the summer of 1816, instead of scorching summers, they experienced ice and frozen apple blossoms in May and a snow storm in June. Learn the true story of why 1816 was a year of unusual weather. Home Schoolers’ Day PMM’s Main Street Gallery. Admission free.

Free

Children’s Program: Build a Wind Platform

PMM’s Peapod Church St., Searsport, United States

CANCELLED
Wednesday, August 27, 11:00 am to noon
Children’s Program: Build a Wind Platform
A hands-on program with an educator from the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center.  Learn how wind can generate electricity, why the ocean is a great place for a windmill, and how to build your own structure!
PMM’s Peapod. Free with PMM admission.

Free with museum admission

Wooden boatbuilding with Cottrell Boatbuilders

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

CANCELLED
Cottrell Boatbuilding builds traditional small craft. Whitehalls, Wherries,Tenders, Daysailers Dories and excels in traditional plank on frame construction. Sponsored by Knickerbocker Group. Free with PMM admission.

Free with museum admission