Go Lobstering with Linda Greenlaw

A lobstering trip with Linda Greenlaw is one of the many exciting items in the Penobscot Marine Museum fundraising Gala & Auction at Point Lookout in Northport, Maine on July 19th. You can also bid on a chance to spend a day on Penobscot Bay with Hamilton Marine owner Wayne Hamilton in his 36’ pilot boat, or take a ride in one of the Penobscot Bay Tractor Tugboats with Capt. Doug Fournier. The Shellback Dinghy, designed by Joel White and built by Searsport District High School students this spring is in the auction, as well as a handbag designed by Stella McCartney, trips on the Schooner American Eagle and the Schooner Heritage, antiques, jewelry, paintings, and much more.

Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Publisher John K. Hanson, Jr. and the magazine’s Editor in Chief Polly Saltonstall are being honored by the Penobscot Marine Museum at this year’s Gala, for their many years of work promoting and supporting Maine’s maritime culture. Hanson started Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Magazine in 1987, founded the website USHarbors, is an active part of Maine Built Boats and the Maine Marine Trades Association, and served more than eight years as a trustee of the Penobscot Marine Museum. Saltonstall has been editor in chief at Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors since last July. Previously she wrote about the state’s waterfront for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Cooking Light Magazine and WoodenBoat. She has served as trustee at the Penobscot Marine Museum for almost 20 years.

Penobscot Marine Museum’s biennial Gala & Auction fundraiser provides support for an array of exhibitions, programs and educational initiatives, including 2014’s seven new exhibits and over fifty programs and events. The museum has a three acre, ten building campus on Route One in Searsport, and is open Monday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm, and Sunday noon to 5:00 pm through Sunday, October 19.

The Gala & Auction begin at 5:30 pm and includes cocktails, Silent Auction, dinner, Live Auction, dancing, music by Interplay. Online bidding on items in the Silent Auction opens Friday, July 4, at 6:00 am at www.biddingforgood.com. To bid on items in the Live Auction, you may attend the Gala & Auction or arrange to call in on the night of the Gala & Auction. To buy tickets for the Penobscot Marine Museum Gala & Auction at Point Lookout in Northport, Maine on Saturday, July 19th go to our Gala & Auction page or call 207-548-2529.