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Maine Environmental Research Institute – Ocean Environment Lecture Series

On Thursday March 11 at 7:00pm - MERI Ocean Environment Lecture Series presents an evening with marine ecologist, Dr. Ann Cleveland, as she presents Conservation Highlights from "Finding Nemo," an exploration into the vital interactions between the species that sustain one of the most diverse ecosystems on earth - coral reefs.  With over half of the world's coral reefs now in decline, new pressures on clownfish populations have scientists concerned.  What can be done to protect them?  Dr. Cleveland takes the audience on an underwater adventure to investigate the links between Marine Protected Areas - the National Parks of our oceans - clownfish populations, and the survival of coral reefs.  A reception in honor of the speaker will take place preceding the lecture at 6pm....374-2135.

Maine Environmental Research Institute – Ocean Video Series: March 5, "Tiger Shark: Predator Revealed"

Infamous for its unmistakable stripes and voracious appetite, the tiger shark is one of the most ferocious sharks in the sea. Now, get a closer-than-ever look at this fearsome, yet fascinating predator.

 

Ocean Video Night is part of MERI’s 20th anniversary celebration and its campaign to save the world’s most crucial natural resource – the living ocean – while there is still time.  Each film will run approximately one hour. Popcorn and beverages are provided.  A suggested $3 donation per person will help cover costs.  For more information, please contact MERI’s Education Department at 374-2135 or www.meriresearch.org.

 

Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors - Maritime Film Fest

  In Our Wake: Maine’s Maritime Heritage on Film

presented by Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors and Northeast Historic Film

 

ROCKLAND, Maine - Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, in collaboration with Northeast Historic Film, is pleased to announce its first-ever maritime film program, designed to highlight the state’s rich coastal culture.

 

In Our Wake: Maine’s Maritime Heritage on Film, will consist of two screenings of historic films in two coastal cities – Bucksport and Rockland – that have strong maritime heritages. From lobster pots and four-masted schooners to rescues at sea and fishing for tuna, the films step back in time to 1902 and then travel through the decades to explore Maine’s nautical past. Through the use of home movies, travelogues, silents, and talkies, these moving pictures examine our state’s boats, harbors and people, with live commentary provided and lively audience participation encouraged.

“I love historic still photography, but these movies are really magic. Seeing our ancestors in motion at work and at play is both humbling and inspiring,” said John Hanson, publisher of Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors magazine.

 

The showings of In Our Wake will be on Thursday, March 4, at the Alamo Theatre in Bucksport, Maine, and Thursday, March 11, at Atlantic Challenge in Rockland, Maine. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. for the 7:00 showings.

 

The program will include Drawing a Lobster Pot from March 1901, which is the oldest film shot in the state of Maine that NHF has found to date. The film Launching of the Doris Hamlin shows the launch of a four-masted schooner in Harrington in 1919. The credits mention a man named Frye and describe him as the youngest ship builder in the world at the time. From Stump to Ship was shot in Machias in the 1930s, and documents the logging operations of the era, from felling trees in winter to shipping finished wood products to market.

 

David Weiss, Executive Director of Northeast Historic Film, said, “These are just a few of the pieces that will be shown during this on-screen journey. We are thrilled to work with MBH&H and know that this collaboration will lead to more great adventures. Please join us and lend your expertise -- the audience will be invited to tell us what they know about the boats and locations shown in the film clips.”

 

The March 4 program is at the Alamo Theatre on Main Street in Bucksport. Admission is free. The March 11 program, to be held at Atlantic Challenge, 643 Main Street, Rockland, is part of Atlantic Challenge’s winter lecture series. Admission to the Rockland event is $5 and will go to support the programs of Atlantic Challenge. For both showings, the doors will open at 6:45 p.m., with the films beginning at 7:00 p.m.

 

Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors has published the premier magazine about life on the Maine coast since 1987. The magazine is noted for its eclectic award-winning coverage of all aspects of coastal living. As the name implies, it covers Maine’s fine boats, homes, art, food, people, natural world, and history five times per year. The company also produces the award-winning MaineBoats.com website, and the annual Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show on the waterfront in Rockland (August 13-15, 2010). Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors: In Print. Online. In Person.

 

Northeast Historic Film collects, preserves, and makes accessible the moving-image history of northern New England. The non-profit organization is known for representing the world of film to local and regional communities through screenings of culturally and historically significant film and video as well as of titles that are in commercial release. NHF runs a community cinema in the 1916 Alamo Theatre in Bucksport, and maintains cold-storage vaults that hold thousands of hours of videotape and more than 10 million feet of film. Visit NHF online at oldfilm.org or in person on Main Street in Bucksport.

 

Media Contact: 

Leila Murphy or Jennifer McIntosh

email: news@maineboats.com

Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, P.O. Box 566, Rockland, ME 04841; 207-594-8622; 800-565-4951. www.maineboats.com

Jessica Hosford

email: jessica@oldfilm.org

Northeast Historic Film, P.O. Box 900, Bucksport, ME  04416; 207-469-0924. www.oldfilm.org

Maine Environmental Research Institute - Ocean Video Night Series

February 26: The Fish Belong to the People

7:00 PM, MERI Center for Marine Services, 55 Main St., Blue Hill Maine, 207-374-2135. The last remaining fleet of family ground fishermen in Port Clyde, Maine look for a sustainable solution to their struggle against counter productive government regulations and growing market pressures. Check this out, www.meriresearch.org.

Blue Hill Library - "Great Decisions" - Foriegn Affairs Discussion Series

Great Decisions at Blue Hill Library

Great Decisions, a nation-wide foreign affairs discussion series created by the Foreign Policy Association, is coming for the fifth consecutive year to the Blue Hill Public Library.  Starting March 2nd at 7pm, a series of eight weekly facilitated discussions will be held in the Wilder Room of the Library on Tuesday evenings through April 20th.  The purpose of this very popular series is for people to explore foreighn policy issues in a structured but informal setting.

 

The discussion series is sponsored by Friends of Blue Hill Public Library and will be facilitated by Suzanne and Don Carmichael.  Selected by the Foreign Policy Association, the topics are: Special Envoys, Kenya & R2P, Global Crime, U.S.-China Security Relations, Global Financial Crisis, Russia and its Neighbors, The Persian Gulf, Peace Building and Conflict Resolution.

 

Each participant will be issued a briefing book providing a short background on each topic to be discussed.  Sessions start with a short informal video presentation followed by a lively discussion ending at about 9pm.  All materials are furnished free of charge by the Friends of the Library.  Donations to offset the costs are welcome, but not required to participate.

 

Enrollment begins February 11th and is limited to the first 20 participants.  You may register online using the events calendar at www.bhpl.net or by calling the library at 374-5515.

 

 

 

MERI - Maine Environmental Research Institute, Ocean Video Series: "Devils of the Deep:Jumbo Squid"

Friday, February 19 at 7:00pm - MERI Ocean Video Night Series continues with Devils of the Deep: Jumbo Squid.  Explore the mystery and power of the large Humboldt squid where, In California and Mexico, these predators are more feared than sharks....374-2135

 

 

Maine Environmental Research Institute - Ocean Video Night Series

On Friday February 12 at 7:00pm - MERI Ocean Video Night Series continues with Addicted to Plastic.  Filmmaker Ian Connacher embarks on an international odyssey to reveal the disturbing accumulation and long-term effects of plastic in our ecosystems....374-2135

Blue Hill Peninsula - Opera, Theatre, Book Readings, Lots of Culture

On Tuesday, Feb. 2, 7:00pm - Blue Hill Public Library hosts local author Susan Hand Shetterly reading from her new book, Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town.  This new collection of essays focuses on the nature around her home, her observations and experiences.  According to Shetterly, "I live on land that has not surrendered the last of its wildness.  It keeps secrets, and those secrets prompt us to pay attention, to look for more."....374-5515

 

On Thursday Feb. 4, 3:00pm - Blue HIll Public Library hosts an opera preview of Giuseppe Verdi's Simone Boccanegra which comes to The Grand on Saturday, February 6th by live simulcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.  To help music lovers prepare to this event, the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and Friends of the Blue Hill Pubic Library join together to introduce and study this political thriller.  The legendary tenor Placido Domingo, who is in his fourth decade of his Met career, will make history by singing the title role which is written for a baritone....374-5515

 

On Thursday Feb. 4, 7:00pm - Opera House Arts presents Brilliant Traces, live theater with stars from NYC.  This dramatic, dark comedy is set during a blizzard in Alaska and will give your Maine "cabin fever" a whole new look!  Starring your favorite Shakespeare in Stonington comedian Tommy Piper, last see as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream....367-2788

 

 

 

 

 

MERI Ocean Environment Lecture Series presents Captain Charles Moore, "A Sea of Plastic"

 

Friday January 8 at 7:00pm - MERI Ocean Environment Lecture Series presents Captain Charles Moore, renowned explorer and ocean advocate, with A Sea of Plastic.  Widely recognized for his 1997 discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating mass of plastic debris twice the size of Texas, Moore has pioneered the research and remediation of the oceans' plastic burden.  Plastic debris has infiltrated all levels of the ocean food web, killing 100,000 marine mammals and one million seabirds annually, and treatening human health.  Moore will explore the challenges of our"throw away culture" and our role in a solution.  A reception in honor of the speaker will precede the presentation at 6pm.  This lecture is sponsored by Blue Hill Co-op and The Blue Hill Inn....374-2135

 

 

Abraham Lincoln Traveling Exhibit in Castine, Maine

November 6-25 at the Castine Historical Society, the Abraham Lincoln: Self-made in America travleing exhibit will be on display 1-4 pm daily or by appointment.  Castine in one of only 40 location across the United States to host this exhibit and 1 of 2 in New England.  This 200th birthday celebration of our 16th president is free of charge and open to the public.

 

The exhibit covers Lincoln's childhood, education, careers, family life, election, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation and assassination.  The reproduction artifacts on display are all modeled from originals in the Presidential Museum.  Some of the artifacts on display include: books, toys, nameplate from his home, his hat, a presidential campaign banner, an axe, his gloves and other items.

 

For other details please visit the castine site http://site.castinehome.com/Abraham_Lincoln_Exhibit.html

the Historical Society site

http://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/

or The Wilson Museum

http://wilsonmuseum.org/

Castine Maine - Castine Historical Society, Art Sale Opening Reception August 14

Castine Maine - Pentagoet Garden Tour & Tea every Wednesday through August 26

Castine Maine - Holbrook Island Sanctuary - Map & Compass Class Today

Led by park interns, you will learn to walk safely in the woods using a map and compass. Copies of maps and compasses will be provided. Class will last 1.5 to 2 hours. Meet at the backshore trail parking lot at 2:00 PM.

Castine Maine Historical Society - Guest Lecturer - James McPherson, "We Cannot Escape History" Abraham Lincoln as War Leader

Please join us August 10 at 7:30 PM at the Delano Auditorium, Maine Maritime Academy. McPherson’s book, “Battle Cry of Freedom,” won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1988 and remains the best-selling single volume account of the Civil War era. His most recent biography of Abraham Lincoln, “Trial by War” was published by Oxford University Press in 2008, and has been described as “the best very brief biography of our sixteenth president ever written.”  Free and open to the public.

Castine Maine - Classic Yacht Celebration - Today - Maine Boatbuilder's Symposium Hosted By Gary Jobson, World Class Sailor, Author & TV Announcer

Castine, Me. To launch its annual classic yacht celebration, the Castine Yacht Club will host on Tuesday, July 28th a symposium featuring many of Maine’s leading boatbuilders.  The symposium, chaired by Gary Jobson, the renowned sailor, author and TV commentator, will include representatives from Hodgdon Yachts, The Hinckley Company, John M. Williams Company, Brooklin Boat Yard, John’s Bay Boat Company, Lyman Morse Boatbuilders, Morris Yachts, Rockport Marine and Sabre Yachts. The symposium will start at 4:30PM at Maine Maritime Academy’s Delano auditorium.  The public is invited.

Yachts from these Maine builders will be on public exhibition at the Castine Town Dock on Wednesday, July 29th, starting at 1:00PM.  These will include Bequia, a recently launched 90’ yawl from Brooklin Boat Yard; Abigail & Carter, a 43’ gentleman’s lobsterboat from John’s Bay Boat Company; Fairweather, a 52’ sloop from Lyman Morse; Moon Watcher, a 40’ Talaria from Hinckley; and Hokulani, a Stanley 36 lobsteryacht from John M. Williams.  Morris Yachts will have on exhibit the full M-Series of its yachts: M29, M36, M42 and its recently launched first M52, Hope.

 

The tenth annual Castine Classic Yacht Race to Camden will set sail from the Castine Harbor bell at 11:30AM on Thursday, July 30th.  This 18 mile race, which feeds into the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, is expected to attract a magnificent fleet of Classic and Spirit of Tradition yachts, according to David Bicks and Bob Scott, chairmen of these Castine events.  Race notice/entry form and sailing instructions are available on www.castineyachtclub.org.

Castine Maine - Castine Historical Society - "Touring through Time"

 

Please join a collective open house of ten historical organizations of the Eastern Penobscot Bay area. At the Castine Historical Society, curator Paige Lily will be available to answer questions about preserving personal photographs and documents. On Sunday a walking tour of Castine led by Mike Coughlin will begin at 10:00 AM from the CHS Abbott School on the Castine Common. Free and open to the public. Further information is at www.eastpenobscothistory.org.

Blue Hill Maine - "Living at the Edge" Lecture by Deep Sea Explorer and Renowned Woods Hole Oceanographer Dr. David Gallo, Friday July24 @ MERI, Marine Environmental Research Institute

Castine Maine - Novelist & Oral Historian Lee Smith will speak on "Stepping into History" July 22 at 7:30 PM, Castine Historical Society

Castine Maine - Penobscot Bay Chamber Players - Thursday July 23

Come join the Penobscot Bay Chamber Players on Thursday July 23, 7:30 PM at the Trinitarian Church on Maine St. in Castine Maine. This will be an all Brahms Program to benefit the Bagaduce Ambulance Corps. Tickets are 20$ and will be available at the door, the Castine Variety Store or Bente Hartmann at 207-326-4450 and e-mail bente.hartmann@gmail.com.

Castine Maine - Holbrook Island Sanctuary

 

Just a reminder, Tom Seymour plays his bagpipes again today, both Scottish and Highland, 1:00 PM at the picnic shelter. Remember folding chairs and blankets for the lawn!

Castine Maine - Castine to Host Maine Boatbuilders

 

Castine, Me. July 8, 2009—To launch its annual classic yacht celebration, the Castine Yacht Club will host on Tuesday, July 28th a symposium featuring many of Maine’s leading boatbuilders.  The symposium, chaired by Gary Jobson, the renowned sailor, author and TV commentator, will include representatives from Hodgdon Yachts, The Hinckley Company, John M. Williams Company, Brooklin Boat Yard, John’s Bay Boat Company, Lyman Morse Boatbuilders, Morris Yachts, Rockport Marine and Sabre Yachts. The symposium will start at 4:30PM at Maine Maritime Academy’s Delano auditorium.  The public is invited.

Yachts from these Maine builders will be on public exhibition at the Castine Town Dock on Wednesday, July 29th, starting at 1:00PM.  These will include Bequia, a recently launched 90’ yawl from Brooklin Boat Yard; Abigail & Carter, a 43’ gentleman’s lobsterboat from John’s Bay Boat Company; Fairweather, a 52’ sloop from Lyman Morse; Moon Watcher, a 40’ Talaria from Hinckley; and Hokulani, a Stanley 36 lobsteryacht from John M. Williams.  Morris Yachts will have on exhibit the full M-Series of its yachts: M29, M36, M42 and its recently launched first M52, Hope.

The tenth annual Castine Classic Yacht Race to Camden will set sail from the Castine Harbor bell at 11:30AM on Thursday, July 30th.  This 18 mile race, which feeds into the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, is expected to attract a magnificent fleet of Classic and Spirit of Tradition yachts, according to David Bicks and Bob Scott, chairmen of these Castine events.  Race notice/entry form and sailing instructions are available on www.castineyachtclub.org.

 

Contact:  David Bicks                                                                                       

               Castine Yacht Club

               207-326-8607

            Email:  dbicks@aol.com.