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Upcoming events
October 7, 2023 9am-1pm
Fiber Day
Maine Craft Weekend
Bath Autumn Fest
Details
October 7, 2023
Public sailing and deck tours of
Virginia
Bath Community Involvment Day
Details
October 7, 2023 4pm
Midcoast Youth Center
Chili Chowder Fest
Bath Autumn Fest
Details and buy tickets
October 16-21, 2023
Window Dressers
Bath Freight Shed
Details
October 31-Nov 2, 2023
Basic Metal Workshop
Mike Foster
Details and Registration
Past Events
2023 Lecture Series
Wabanaki Warriors of WWII
We did not ask; they did not tell
Talk: Harald E.L. Prins
Details and rrecording
Recorded
2023 Lecture Series
Bateaux to Canada
Rob Stevens - Shipwright
Details and recording
Recorded
2023 Lecture Series
Construction and Operation of Jamestown's Godspeed
Eric Speth
Details and recording
Recorded
2023 Lecture Series
Sail Training Experiences on Tall Ships
Getting kids off their phones and out to sea
Alex Agnew
Details and recording
Recorded
2023 Lecture Series
Period Music of the 1600's
Lecture and Demonstration
Julia Lane - Castlebay
Details and recording
Recorded
2023 Lecture Series
Popham History 1
Early Navigators 1497-1583
Dan Wood
Details and recording
Recorded
2023 Lecture Series
Popham History 2
Later Navigators and Colony Preparations 1584-1607
Dan Wood
Details and video
Recorded
Summer Feast for the Sturgeon Moon
Local food with a contemporary Italian flare
Mollie Jellison of Long Reach Kitchen
Details
Complete
Full Moon Dinner
Chinese Hot Pot
Chris Toy and Jeff Mao, chefs
Music by Kat Logan
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Sold out
Launch
Virginia
Join us to celebrate the launch of the pinnace
Virginia
at the Bath Freight Shed.
Details and Videos
Recorded
Workshops
Paid workshops for families in nautical arts and crafts: navigation, model boats, metalwork, and photography
Details and registration
Complete
for 2023
Virginia's First Voyage
Virginia
goes to Wiscasset
Details and Images
Complete
17th Century Foodways
Free demonstration of 17 Century cooking
Outside the Bath Freight Shed
Details
Complete
Annual Meeting 2023
View Annual Report and MFS video
Annual Report and Video
Complete
Windjammer Days
Virginia
visits Boothbay Harbor
Details and photos
Complete
Maine's First People
Women Who Paddled the Waterways
Bunny McBride, author
Details and video
Recorded
Samoset the Wawenock: Indigenous-Settler Relations in the 17th Century
Jody Bachelder, author
Details and video
Recorded
Picturing Maine's Indigenous Context
Colonialism and the Penobscot
Liam Riordan, Professor of History, U Maine
Details and video
Recorded
Tribes and their Interactions with the Ship Builders
John Bear Mitchell, Wabanaki Confederacy
Details and video
Recorded
Tall Ships America
50 Years of Education at Sea
Nick Hardisty, historian
Details and video
Recorded
The Nature Conservancy
History, Justice, and Collaborative Conservation
Kate Dempsey
Details and video
Recorded
Early English Voyages to the New World
Margaret J. Wilson, author of Norembega Navigators
Details and video
Recorded
The Popham Colony
Where Fact Meets Fiction
Richard deVillers Seymour, author
Details and video
Recorded
English and Wabanaki Watercraft
Tools of Trade, Diplomacy, and War
Neill DePaoli
Details and video
Recorded
The 500 million year geologic history of Casco Bay
David West, Department of Geology, Middlebury College
Details and Video
Recorded
The Diseased Ship: New England Sea Captains and the Slave Trade
Meadow Dibble, Maine Humanities Council Sponsored Speaker
Details and Video
Recorded
Founding Fish - 17th Century Cod Fishing
Mike Dekker, Author and Historian
Details and Video
Recorded
The Conservation of Fort St George Artifacts
Molly O'Ginness Carlson, Objects Conservator
Details and Video
Recorded
Fiber Day Talk
Connecting with the Modern Maya
Lori Benson
Maine Craft Weekend
Details and video
Recorded