2001 History Lecture Series
October 22:
"Menhaden-Whalemen: How Fishermen from the Gulf of Maine
Pioneered Modern Whaling"
Robert Webb, Maritime Museum Curator
How an innovative application of steam power was used at sea
to kill whales, and render them in companion on-shore plants.
November 19:
"The Penobscot Expedition of 1779: Its History and Archaeology"
Warren Riess, University of Maine Maritime Historian &
Archaeologist Revolutionary War expedition against the
British in Castine - the search for and archaeological
study of its remains.
January 14:
"Spies Ashore - The World War II German Landing in Maine"
Mason Philips Smith, Author of Book by Same Title
The 1944 landing in Maine by a German intelligence officer
and an American traitor.
February 11:
"Days of Joy & Fear: 19th Century Maine Women at Sea"
Mary Ann Wallace, Historian
The daily lives of Maine women who sailed aboard their
husbands' ships.
. March 18:
Eileen Eagan and Patricia Finn of University of Southern Maine
History Department will present
"Irish Families on the Portland Waterfront."
April 22:
"The New England Lightships"
Fred Thompson, Maritime Historian
The history and heroic folklore of the lightships which
played a major role in guiding mariners of an earlier time.
All lectures start at 2:00 p.m.
Admission is $5.00 (Members $3.00)
Free museum admission is included