Sunday: October 12, 2000

Menhaden-Whalemen:  How fishermen from the Gulf of Maine Pioneered Modern Whaling

Robert Webb, Maritime Museum Curator/Consultant

How an innovation in steam power was used to chase and kill whales and render them in companion on-shore plants.

Sunday: November 19, 2000

The Penobscot Expedition of 1779:  Its History and Archaeology

Warren Riess, University of Maine Maritime Historian and Archaeologist

Revolutionary War expedition against the British in Castine and the search for and archaelolgical study of its remains.

Sunday: January 14, 2001

Spies Ashore

The World War II German Landing in Maine

Mason Philip Smith author of the book by the same name.

The 1994 landing in Maine by a German intelligence officer and an Amnerican traitor

Additional lectures are scheduled for February, March and April, 2001.  Subjects and speakers will be announced.

All lectures start at 2:00 pm.

Admission: $5.00  (Members: $3.00)     Free museum admission is included.

Portland Harbor Museum  is located on the campus of Southern Maine Technical College at the foot of Fort Road in South Portland.  For more information, please call 799-6337.

Made possible by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council