40 E Main Street | P.O. Box 498
Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529
Lectures, Workshops, Events
For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or [email protected].
Organized by Brewster Harding
Saturday, June 15, 8:30am-2pm
$2/person
The Brewster Harding Vintage Postcard Show includes thousands of vintage postcards, old maps, historic photographs, sheet music, and paper ephemera. Free appraisals for your paper collectibles will be available from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm.
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.
A moving glimpse of the people and families who carved out a life a hundred years ago in isolated northern Maine. This multi-media presentation combining film, photography, oral history, and live music is based on a recently discovered collection of rare early photographs taken in northern Maine by Isaac Simpson. Made possible by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council and the Maine Arts Commission.
Filmmaker Sumner McKane is also a composer, musician, historian, and photographer.
Penobscot Marine Museum historic photographs and over forty exhibitors, thousands of vintage postcards, old maps, and paper ephemera. For more information call 207-749-1717.
Wednesday, September 3, 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Dinner and Forum: An Evening of Song & Quilts with Gee's Bend Quilters
Generously sponsored by Fiber College of Maine and the Emily and William Muir Community Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.
5:00 pm dinner is prepared and served by the Women's Fellowship of the Searsport Congregational Church. Profits from the evening will support the Interfaith Fuel Fund and the Searsport Congregational/Methodist Food Cupboard.
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm, an evening of Songs and Stories shared by China Pettway, Lucy Mingo, Stella Mae Pettway and Revil Mosely of Gee's Bend, hosted by Suzette McAvoy, director of the Maine Center of Contemporary Art. The evening of gospel singing (during which two quilts will be raffled) at the Searsport Congregational Church.
For tickets and more information call 548-6059 or go to www.fibercollege.org
