Museums

Weapons of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Starts: Jul 23 2011 - 1:00pm
Ends: Jul 23 2011 - 4:30pm

Jul 23 2011 - 1:00pm
Jul 23 2011 - 4:30pm
Contact Name: 
Friends of Colonial Pemaquid
Price: 
Free
Phone: 
207-677-2423

P.O. Box 304
New Harbor, ME 04554

Demonstrations of weapons including a three-pound cannon and matchlock and flintlock muskets.

Eighteenth-Century Fort Economy

Starts: Jul 18 2011 - 7:30pm
Ends: Jul 18 2011 - 8:30pm

Jul 18 2011 - 7:30pm
Jul 18 2011 - 8:30pm
Contact Name: 
Friends of Colonial Pemaquid
Price: 
$5
Phone: 
207-677-2423

P.O. Box 304
New Harbor, ME 04554

Presentation by historic interpreter Roger Collins of Old Fort Western.

Early Fisheries in Northern New England

Starts: Jul 11 2011 - 7:30pm
Ends: Jul 11 2011 - 8:30pm

Jul 11 2011 - 7:30pm
Jul 11 2011 - 8:30pm
Contact Name: 
Friends of Colonial Pemaquid
Price: 
$5
Phone: 
207-677-2423

New Harbor, ME 04554

Evening lecture by Dr. Bill Leavenworth, Gulf of Maine Cod Project.

Gone: the Mystery of the Don Disaster

Starts: Mar 5 2011 - 6:30pm
Ends: Mar 5 2011 - 9:00pm

Mar 5 2011 - 6:30pm
Mar 5 2011 - 9:00pm
Contact Name: 
Dave Garrison
Price: 
$8-$10
Phone: 
207-443-1316

243 Washington St.
Bath, ME 04530

"Gone" explores the puzzling disappearance in 1941 of the pleasure craft Don with thirty-four people on board. No wreckage was ever found and only fourteen bodies were recovered. For more than sixty-eight years, the sea off the rocky coast of Maine has held its secrets about this terrible loss of life. This film reveals a personal look at the thirty-four people who vanished.

Marine History Conference

Oct 21 2011 - 5:30pm
Oct 22 2011 - 4:00pm
Contact Name: 
Bob Holtzman
Phone: 
207-548-2529

40 E. Main St.
Route One
Searsport, ME 04974

 The development of Maine's distinctive boat and ship types will be explored in an evening and a full day of lectures, presentations, and exhibits.

Penobscot Bay Day

Starts: Jul 23 2011 - 10:00am
Ends: Jul 23 2011 - 5:00pm

Jul 23 2011 - 10:00am
Jul 23 2011 - 5:00pm
Contact Name: 
Bob Holtzman
Phone: 
207-548-2529

40 E. Main St.
Searsport, ME 04974

Free museum admission, cakes, crafts, music, balloons, presentations, demonstrations, exhibits, and more.

Waldo County Through Eastern’s Eye

Apr 24 2011 - 9:00am
Apr 30 2011 - 7:33pm
Contact Name: 
Kevin Johnson
Phone: 
207-548-2529

80 Belmont Ave.
Belfast, ME 04915

 An exhibit of early photography from the Penobscot Marine Museum's Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company glass plate negative archive.

Living History Days

Oct 2 2010 - 12:32pm
Oct 3 2010 - 12:32pm
Price: 
$4-$8
Phone: 
207-974-6278

Rte. 178
Bradley

Experience Maine’s foliage and travel back in time to the 1790s with a bateau or wagon ride, cedar shakes, and fresh-pressed cider.

Foreign Auto Festival & Antique Aeroplane Show

Oct 9 2010 - 11:21am
Oct 10 2010 - 11:21am
Price: 
$12
Phone: 
207-594-4418

Rte. 73

Get ready for rubber and wings as the Owls Head Transportation Museum fires up its engines for the Foreign Auto Festival & Antique Aeroplane Show. The event features an autocross, the Rootes Group vehicles, a collection of British-made cars, and those wonderful flying machines.

Book Signing

Starts: Sep 18 2010 - 2:00pm
Ends: Sep 18 2010 - 8:00pm

Sep 18 2010 - 2:00pm
Sep 18 2010 - 8:00pm
Contact Name: 
Paul Conlin
Price: 
Donations accepted
Phone: 
207-594-3301

One Park Dr.
Rockland, ME 04841

Stop by the Maine Lighthouse Museum for a book signing with Tim Harrison, publisher of Lighthouse Digest magazine and noted children's author Angeli Perrow.

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