Museums
Weapons of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Starts: Jul 23 2011 - 1:00pm
Ends: Jul 23 2011 - 4:30pm
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
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
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
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
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
Searsport, ME 04974
Free museum admission, cakes, crafts, music, balloons, presentations, demonstrations, exhibits, and more.
Waldo County Through Eastern’s Eye
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
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
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
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.









