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Searsport High School Students Launch Boats at Town Dock
At noon on Thursday, May 21, two Shellback Dinghies made by students at Searsport District High School will be launched into Searsport Harbor at the Town Dock. The students have spent the past eighteen weeks building the dinghies with master boat builder Greg Rossel...
Maine’s Largest Pinhole Camera
Photos and Text by Gabor Degre of The Bangor Daily News Did you ever wonder how cameras work? With the marvel of digital equipment, it seems almost like magic. You push a button and the image appears instantly. Photo archivists with the Penobscot Marine MuseumKevin...
Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light
May 23 through October 18, 2015
Loraine Hamilton
Loraine Hamilton was a good friend and a long-time supporter of Penobscot Marine Museum's educational programs. Thank you all so much for your donations to the Hamilton Learning Center in memory of Loraine Hamilton. The Hamilton Learning Center enables Penobscot...
Salted Tales: Stories From the Sea Told Live at Colonial Theater
Salted Tales: Stories From the Sea Told Live at Colonial Theater was presented on March 29, 2015, but if you missed it you can watch the video or listen to the audio at WERU, Part 1, Part 2. Coastal Maine’s rich maritime heritage has produced a lot of sailors and you...
Gigantic Walk-in Camera Planned for Penobscot Marine Museum’s 2015 Season
A huge walk-in camera, designed by John Bielenberg and built by John Bielenberg and Richard Mann, is one of the many inter-active exhibits planned By Penobscot Marine Museum for this summer’s Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light. This is the first...
Boat Builders of East Penobscot Bay at Maine Boatbuilders Forum, Penobscot Marine Museum
Boat Builders of East Penobscot Bay is the topic of this month’s Maine Boatbuilders Forum at Penobscot Marine Museum’s Main Street Gallery on Thursday, October 9, 2014 at 7:00 pm with Peter Buxton of Buxton Boats, Stonington, Maine. Buxton Boats is a wooden boat...
“Whoop and Drive ’er” – Growing up in Aroostook County, Maine by David Estey, Book Signing and Talk at Penobscot Marine Museum
On Thursday, October 16 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., David Estey will be at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport to discuss and sign “Whoop and Drive ’er” – Growing up in Aroostook County, Maine. “A humorous labor of love,” is how Estey describes his new...
Searsport Challenges Stockton Springs to a Chili Cook-off at Fling Into Fall
This year at Searsport’s annual Fling Into Fall celebration on Friday and Saturday, October 10th and 11th, the public will be asked to taste and vote on whether the police, firemen and EMTs of Searsport can make a better chili than their counterparts in Stockton...
Searsport Launches 2014 Tonka Truck Restoration Project for Fling Into Fall Celebration
As part of Searsport’s annual Fling Into Fall celebration on October 10 and 11, Searsport resident Joe Plummer has scheduled Tonka truck repair workshops with for children who would like to fix up a truck. The restored trucks will be displayed in Mosman Park at Fling...
University of Maine Scientist Speaks About Floating Offshore Wind: Becoming a Reality? at Penobscot Marine Museum
Can off-shore wind power reduce our dependence on fossil fuels? On Thursday, September 25, at 7:00 pm, Dr. Andrew Goupee of University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center will talk about the exciting research and the projects at University of Maine...
The Photography of Antonia Small at Penobscot Marine Museum
Antonia Small grew up fishing with her uncle on Mobile Bay, so she is happy to now live in Port Clyde, Maine within earshot of the sea and walking distance to a wharf or a beach. She discovered photography as a young adult, then combined her love of both photography...
Jason Constantine at Penobscot Marine Museum’s Maine Boatbuilders Forum
Jason Constantine, President of North End Composites and Back Cove Yachts in Rockland, Maine, is the featured boat builder on Penobscot Marine Museum’s Maine Boatbuilder’s Forum, Thursday, September 11, at 7:00 pm. Back Cove Yachts and its sister company of Sabre...
Benefit in Memory of Mike Stein
In memory of Penobscot Marine Museum's beloved Board Member Dr. Mike Stein, and to celebrate his love of the water and boating, Jerri Finch has donated her beautiful painting West Fork to raise funds in his memory. The painting is oil on board, 9 1/2" x 14 1/2", and...
Three for the road: Art shows worth abandoning the beach for
Story By Kathleen Pierce in the Bangor Daily News Besides the line at Red’s and mounting traffic on Route 1, there is another Maine mainstay in overdrive this summer — art shows. It’s tough to wade through the onslaught of openings between trips to the beach, but here...
‘Shells, fish, shellfish’ inspire art Eric Hopkins draws on a life by the water
Story by Carl Little in The Working Waterfront Let's get the punning out of the way, pronto: Eric Hopkins is a shellfish artist. To be more precise, he is a renderer, in many mediums, of shells and fish and shellfish, as the title of his show at the Penobscot Marine...
art current: Gee’s Bend Quilts at the Penobscot Marine Museum
Story by Britta Konau in The Free Press The story of Gee's Bend quilts is a complicated, sad and happy one. Gee's Bend, a remote, historically African-American village on a peninsula formed by the Alabama River, originated in the early 1800s from slave cabins of...
Talk and Book Signing for 1816: The Year That Summer Never Came, at Penobscot Marine Museum
1816 is called “The Year Without A Summer”. During that summer wild temperature swings produced snow and frost which killed crops and caused famines and food shortages world-wide. On Saturday, August 23rd at 2:00 pm, Penobscot Marine Museum hosts author Mayra...
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