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  • Designing Plastic Out of the Ocean Economy feat. Abby Barrows (Schoodic Institute’s Summer Lecture Series)

    Schoodic Institute 9 Atterbury Cir, Winter Harbor, ME, United States

    Join us in person at Schoodic Institute or online via Zoom on Tuesday, July 21 at 7:00pm for Designing Plastic Out of the Ocean Economy, featuring Abby Barrows, Principal Investigator for the Global Microplastics Initiative with Adventure Scientists and marine scientist, researcher, and oyster farmer. After years documenting microplastic pollution worldwide, marine researcher Abigail Barrows...

    Free

  • Lecture with Jerry Magnifico: “Lost Architectural Gems of Old Castine”

    Castine Historical Society 17 School St, Castine, ME, United States

    Lecture: "Lost Architectural Gems of Old Castine", Thursday, July 23, 6-7:30 pm at Emerson Hall, 67 Court Street, Castine This talk with historian, Jerry Magnifico, will be a photographic journey back to 19th and early 20th century Castine, featuring a series of once cherished homes and landmark buildings that have since disappeared from the landscape....

  • Author Talk with Children’s Author/Illustrator Will Hillenbrand

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Award-winning author and illustrator Will Hillenbrand will shares insights and inspiration from his decades of creating stories for children in this special presentation that is a joint program with the Southwest Harbor Public Library as part of the occasional series Reading with Wings. Copies of his new book Light as a Feather: Fifteen Phenomenal North...

    Free

  • The Designed Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth: Farnsworth Museum Art Lecture

    Northeast Harbor Library 1 Joy Rd, Northeast Harbor, ME, United States

    In connection with the current exhibition and new book By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth, a collaboration between the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Colby College Museum of Art, and the Brandywine Museum of Art, the director of the Farnsworth’s Wyeth Study Center, Dr. William L. Coleman shares new discoveries about the often overlooked...

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  • Lecture/Demo with Andy Akiho, steel pan

    Skidompha Public Library 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United States

    A free and informal talk with musical demonstration featuring composer and steel pannist Andy Akiho. Event photo by Da Ping Luo

    Free

  • Trees of Acadia: The Past, Present, and Future of Park Forests feat. Catherine Schmitt and Panel (Schoodic Institute’s Summer Lecture Series)

    Schoodic Institute 9 Atterbury Cir, Winter Harbor, ME, United States

    Join us in person at Schoodic Institute or online via Zoom on Tuesday, August 11 at 7:00pm for Trees of Acadia: The Past, Present, and Future of Park Forests feat. Catherine Schmitt and Panel, featuring author and Science Communication Specialist Catherine Schmitt with Matthew Duveneck (forest ecologist and Schoodic Institute Second Century Stewardship Fellow), Kate...

    Free

  • Lecture/Demo with Karen Ouzounian, cello

    Rutherford Public Library 2000 State Route 129, South Bristol, ME, United States

    A free and informal talk with musical demonstration featuring composer and cellist Karen Ouzounian. Event photo by Ebru Yildiz

    Free

  • 17th Annual Deborah Pulliam Lecture with Carl Little

    Delano Auditorium Pleasant Street, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME, United States

    The 17th Annual Pulliam Lecture with curator of Francis Hamabe’s Maine: A Life in Art, Carl Little will explore Hamabe’s life and career in Downeast Maine and his connections to Castine. This event will take place at the Delano Auditorium at Maine Maritime Academy. Please RSVP at castinehistoricalsociety.org. This event will be livestreamed on our...

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  • Archaeology Then and Now: Exploring Wabanaki Heritage in and around Frenchman Bay

    Hancock Historical Society Museum 11 Captain Bill Rd, Hancock, ME, United States

    The Frenchman Bay region has a long history of archaeological research that offers deep-time insights into Wabanaki lifeways. In this talk, Dr. Bonnie Newsom explores the archaeological heritage of Wabanaki peoples in and around Frenchman Bay, considering early researchers, their methods and interpretations, alongside more recent work that gives greater attention to Wabanaki perspectives. Together,...

    Free

  • Violin Masterclass with Sean Lee

    Skidompha Public Library 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United States

    Get an insider’s sneak peek into how professional musicians approach training the next generation of gifted artists. Watch and listen to talented young Maine violinists perform for and be coached by master violinist Sean Lee in a one-on-one masterclass. This event is open to the public and free of charge. Photo by Dario Acosta

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  • Swordfish in Wabanaki Homeland

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    Archaeological sites along the Maine coast show that swordfish existed in the Gulf of Maine between approximately 5,500 and 3,700 years ago. Excavations at multiple Maine sites have produced swordfish rostra, vertebrae, and other remains, indicating that Wabanaki ancestors harvested and processed these large fish for millennia. In this presentation, Dr. Bonnie Newsom will discuss...

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  • People-Nature-Art with Painter Sean Murtha

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Throughout his life, Sean Murtha’s interest in science and nature never waned, even as he pursued a degree in art. In fact, science and nature usually formed the basis for his artwork. In 1995, five years after he earned an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., he found the perfect marriage of...

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