Event Recordings

Launch Virginia
Join us to celebrate the launch of the pinnace Virginia at the Bath Freight Shed.
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2024 Lecture Series
The Making of Virginia

Jim Parmentier
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2025 Lecture Series
Coastal Impacts of Ocean Storms

Joe Sienkiewicz
Meteorologist, retired from NOAA Ocean Prediction Center
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2025 Lecture Series
Maine's Lobster Industry
From the Indigenous Period to the Present

Seth Goldstein
South Portland Historical Society
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2025 Lecture Series
Bateaux to the Brits
Arnold's 1775 Expedition to Quebec

Rob Stevens
Shipwright, Maine's First Ship
Details and Recording
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2024 Lecture Series
Designing Virginia

David B Wyman
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2024 Lecture Series
Stability and Safety of Wooden Ships

Capt. Iver Franzen, SNAME
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2024 Lecture Series
Global Winds and the History of Human Exploration

Capt. Elliot Rapaport
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2024 Lecture Series
Chasing the Stars with Hokule'a

Reg Elwell
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2023 Lecture Series
Construction and Operation of Jamestown's Godspeed

Eric Speth
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2023 Lecture Series
Bateaux to Canada

Rob Stevens - Shipwright
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2023 Lecture Series
Period Music of the 1600's
Lecture and Demonstration

Julia Lane - Castlebay
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2024 Lecture Series
Pirates! ... Privateers! ... Lawyers!

John J Smith
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2023 Lecture Series
Popham History 1
Early Navigators 1497-1583

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

Dan Wood
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2022 Lecture Series
Maine's First People
Women Who Paddled the Waterways

Bunny McBride, author
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2022 Lecture Series
Samoset the Wawenock
Indigenous-Settler Relations in the 17th Century

Jody Bachelder, author
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2022 Lecture Series
Picturing Maine's Indigenous Context
Colonialism and the Penobscot

Liam Riordan, Professor of History, U Maine
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2022 Lecture Series
Tribes and their Interactions with the Ship Builders

John Bear Mitchell, Wabanaki Confederacy
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2023 Lecture Series
Wabanaki Warriors of WWII
We did not ask; they did not tell

Talk: Harald E.L. Prins
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2022 Lecture Series
The Nature Conservancy
History, Justice, and Collaborative Conservation

Kate Dempsey
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2022 Lecture Series
Early English Voyages to the New World

Margaret J. Wilson, author of Norembega Navigators
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2022 Lecture Series
The Popham Colony
Where Fact Meets Fiction

Richard deVillers Seymour, author
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2022 Lecture Series
English and Wabanaki Watercraft
Tools of Trade, Diplomacy, and War

Neill DePaoli
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2021 Lecture Series
The 500 million year geologic history of Casco Bay

David West, Department of Geology, Middlebury College
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2021 Lecture Series
The Diseased Ship
New England Sea Captains and the Slave Trade

Meadow Dibble, Maine Humanities Council Sponsored Speaker
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2021 Lecture Series
Founding Fish
17th Century Cod Fishing

Mike Dekker, Author and Historian
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2022 Lecture Series
The Conservation of Fort St George Artifacts

Molly O'Ginness Carlson, Objects Conservator
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Fiber Day Talk
Connecting with the Modern Maya

Lori Benson
Maine Craft Weekend
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Virginia's First Voyage

Virginia goes to Wiscasset
Details and Images
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2023 Lecture Series
Sail Training Experiences on Tall Ships
Getting kids off their phones and out to sea

Alex Agnew
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2022 Lecture Series
Tall Ships America
50 Years of Education at Sea

Nick Hardisty, historian
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