Upcoming events

June and July

Workshops

Paid workshops for families in nautical arts and crafts: navigation, model boats, metalwork, and photography
Details and registration

June 6, 2023 7-9pm

Virginia Homecoming Dinner at
JR Maxwell & Co

And before the dinner, see an exhibit by Keith Spiro at Patten Free Library 5-6:30pm
Details
Sold out

June 7, 2023 7-8pm

2023 Lecture Series
Wabanaki Warriors of WWII
We did not ask; they did not tell

Talk: Harald E.L. Prins
Details and registration

June 14, 2023 7-8pm

2023 Lecture Series
Bateaux to Canada

Rob Stevens - Shipwright
Details and registration

June 21, 2023 7-8pm

2023 Lecture Series
Construction and Operation of Jamestown's Godspeed

Eric Speth
Details and registration

June 27-29 2023

Windjammer Days

Virginia visits Boothbay Harbor
Details soon

June 28, 2023 7-8pm

2023 Lecture Series
Sail Training Experiences on Tall Ships
Getting kids off their phones and out to sea

Alex Agnew
Details and registration

July 12, 2023 7-8pm

2023 Lecture Series
We Fed the Pilgrims
Cod Fisheries and Early European Settlement of New England

Mike Dekker
Details and registration

July 19, 2023 7-8pm

2023 Lecture Series
Period Music of the 1600's
Lecture and Demonstration

Julia Lane - Castlebay
Details and registration

July 26, 2023 7-8pm

2023 Lecture Series
Popham History 1
Early Navigators 1497-1583

Dan Wood
Details and registration

August 2, 2023 7-8pm

2023 Lecture Series
Popham History 2
Later Navigators and Colony Preparations 1584-1607

Dan Wood
Details and registration

Past Events

Launch Virginia

Join us to celebrate the launch of the pinnace Virginia at the Bath Freight Shed.
Details and Videos
Recorded

Virginia's First Voyage

Virginia goes to Wiscasset
Details and Images
Complete

Virginia returns to Bath

Virginia travels at first light from Wiscasset to the Maine Maritime Museum
Compete

Annual Meeting 2023

View Annual Report and MFS video
Annual Report and Video
Complete

17th Century Foodways

Free demonstration of 17 Century cooking
Outside the Bath Freight Shed
Details
Complete

Full Moon Dinner

Chinese Hot Pots with fresh local produce
Chris Toy and Jeff Mao
Details
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

Women's Shipbuilding Day

Join our shipwright Rob Stevens for a day of fun with tools and friends.
Details
Complete

Fiber Day

Maine Craft Weekend
Details
Complete

Fiber Day Talk
Connecting with the Modern Maya

Lori Benson
Maine Craft Weekend
Details and video
Recorded