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Page 10. MAINE COASTAL NEWS December 2011 Waterfront News


volunteers contributed almost 22,500 hours of service to support all areas of the Museum’s operations -from maintenance to greeting visitors to providing guided tours to distributing brochures to preparing food for events. Using widely used standard methods of measure, the value of all those hours is estimated at almost $500,000. Last night, the Museum showed its appreciation for all the work the volunteers do by hosting a party in their honor. Staff members and scouts from Sea Scout Troop 243 did all the prep work, serving and cleaning-up after the party - much of which would be accomplished by the volunteers themselves for other events. Ex- ecutive Director Amy Lent told the attend- ees, “Without our wonderful volunteers, the Museum would have to close. Your service means so much and you have our deep appre- ciation.”


Woolwich students return, thanks to The Bank of Maine


Fourteen 7th and 8th grade students from Woolwich Central School are attending the 2011-2012 Discovery Boat Building pro- gram at MMM. Woolwich’s continuing par- ticipation in the program, its 4th consecutive year, was made possible only through the generous support of The Bank of Maine and the Town of Woolwich. The 7 girls and 7 boys will spend one entire day each week during the school year in the Museum Boatshop learning such things as shop safety, wood planning and lofting a boat. They’ll also hone their math skills and develop life success habits such as teamwork and perseverance. You can watch the progress of the Woolwich students, as well as students from South


Theft and recovery of stolen lobster boat valued between $225 and $250.


Person Arrested for Stealing Lobster Boat FIRST TEAM


On October 14, 2011, the Maine Marine Patrol and the Searsport Police Department made an arrest for the theft of a lobster boat from Searsport. Dakota O’Brien, 18 years old, of Searsport, was arrested for the theft of the lobster boat FIRST TEAM, owned by Travis Otis, also of Searsport. The investigating officer, Sgt. Marlowe Sonksen, states that the value of the boat is between $225,000 and $250,000. The boat was stolen from Searsport Harbor during the night of August 18, and recovered by the Marine Patrol un- damaged in Sedgwick Harbor during the evening of August 19.


The investigation was assisted by the Maine State Police who recovered evidence from the boat the night it was recovered and the S.P. Crime Lab for processing the evi-


Museum News: Maine Maritime and Penobscot Marine Museums architecture.


Bristol who also attend the Discovery Boat Building program, by checking out the Boatshop blog on a regular basis.


Call for Presenters - 40th Annual Maritime History Symposium The History and Future of the Maritime Experience


On Saturday, April 28, 2012 as part of the celebration of its 50th anniversary, MMM will host a broad exploration of the maritime experience, to be discovered by looking at the present, comparing it with the past, to extrapolate its future. We will consider pa- pers, presentations or panel discussions on historical subjects, on historiography, on change happening today, and from personal experience. Possible topics might include (but are not limited to): boatbuilding, ship- building, changes in use of sail/wind power, Coast Guard role changes, coastal develop- ment, environmental changes in waterways, fisheries, life at sea, Maine windjammers and other nautical tourism (cruise ships), marine education, maritime museums, maritime his- tory, nautical antiques, naval subjects, women at sea, yachting and yacht clubs. Presentations related to Portland, Maine’s largest port, are particularly sought. Mail proposals to Senior Curator Nathan R. Lipfert, Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Wash- ington Street, Bath ME 04530, USA or email them to lipfert@maritimeme.org.


PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM PMM PLACES COLLECTIONS ONLINE Free Searchable Database is a “Virtual Museum”


PMM has opened a “virtual museum” –


an online visual database to make its collec- tions available to anyone, anywhere. Access to the database is free and no registration is required. Only a web browser is needed to view information and photographs of New England and elsewhere, many more than 100 years old. The database may be accessed via the museum’s website at www.PenobscotMarineMuseum.org. “In Penobscot Marine Museum’s 75th year, we have created a new ‘museum without walls’ that enables people everywhere to explore our collections for research, educa- tion, or just plain fun,” said Executive Direc- tor Liz Lodge. “It’s an extraordinary achieve- ment for a small regional museum – one that will boost our stature nationally and world- wide.”


More than 45,000 records are online, almost 29,000 of them with photographs. The records are from six of the museum’s collec- tions of historic photographs, dating from the 1880s to the 1950s. Most of the photos are of Maine scenes, but there are also images from other New England and East Coast states, China and the Caribbean. More records will be added in the coming weeks. “Our goal is to have all of the museum’s collections online,” said Ben Fuller, the museum’s curator. “We are almost ready to upload another 30,000 photo records with images, and the museum’s artifact collection will follow as time and money permit.” Fuller said that the effort to place the collections online has taken a group of volunteers and staff over five years.


“A museum is no longer just a place to store and display artifacts,” said Fuller. “It’s a resource for gathering and distributing in- formation and knowledge. By making our artifacts and historic records available online, Penobscot Marine Museum is pro- viding a resource that’s free and available to all.” He added that the database has a feed- back feature that allows users to comment on images and add information.


dence to make a positive identification of the suspect.


Sgt. Sonksen also wishes to thank the members of the public for coming forward with the information vital to the successful conclusion of this investigation. Dakota O’Brien was arraigned on Mon- day, October 17.


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Collections now online in the database are: The Atlantic Fisherman Collection: pho- tographs from the fishing industry’s most important newspaper, from 1919 to the 1950s, The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. Collection: This postcard publisher, based in Belfast, Maine, took tens of thousands of photographs throughout New England and upstate New York from 1909 into the 1950s, concentrating mainly on small towns. The Joanna Colcord and Ruth Montgomery col- lections: Two sea captains’ daughters who went to sea and took hundreds of photo- graphs documenting life on sailing ships in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Elmer Montgomery and Charles Coombs collections: Two photographers from the Penobscot Bay region of Maine recorded their towns and neighborhoods, including social gatherings, waterfront scenes, and


In addition to conducting research or browsing old photos for fun, users may order prints of photographic images through the website and request licensing or permission for commercial uses.


Celebrate the Holidays at PMM PMM and the Town of Searsport are teaming up again this year for the Yule Revel holiday celebration, Friday, December 9, from 4:30 to 7:15. Several downtown merchants plan to stay open late, and there’s plenty going on at the museum:


Free Refreshments: warm up in the Mu- seum Shop with some hot chocolate Book Signing: great authors to meet, great books to buy as gifts: Gerry Boyle, Port City Black and White and Port City Shake- down (mystery series set in Portland); Nancy Griffin, Making Whoopies (whoopie pie cookbook); Fran Hodgkins, Andre the Fa- mous Harbor Seal and Between the Tides (juvenile);


Loretta Krupinski, Looking Astern: An Artist’s View of Maine’s Historic Working Waterfront (art); Jim Nichols, Hull Creek (fic- tion); Angeli Perrow, Captain’s Castaway and Lighthouse Dog to the Rescue (juve- nile); Capt. Ray Williamson, Keeping the Tradition Alive (coffee table book). Tree Lighting on the Crescent at 6:30 Caroling


Concert: Penobscot Bay Singers at the Congregational Church, 7:00 p.m.


The Circus is Coming to Searsport For years, museum supporters have urged us to “stay open” during the winter. And although we never really close (we’re here year-round, doing work in educa- tion, collections, administration, and prepar- ing for the next season’s exhibits), we have always wanted to maintain more of a public presence even after the tourists have gone home. This year, we’re doing it!


The Circus Comes to Town will open in December in the Main Street Gallery, featur- ing the intricate models of Les Bex, art by Waldo Peirce, photography from our ar- chives, and circus artifacts from Mr. Bex. Although the dates and times of the exhibit are yet to be established, we will hold an opening reception Saturday, December 17, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., featuring popular children’s author and illustrator Chris Van Dusen. Chris will read and sign his book The Circus Ship, a comic reimagining of a true event that was anything but funny at the time. In 1836, the steamship Royal Tar, carrying a full circus aboard, ran into a gale, caught fire, and sank near Vinalhaven. Legends grew around the possible survival of some of the exotic animals, and The Circus Ship takes those tales and runs with them in delightful and antic fashion.


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Maine Maritime Academy Regimental Honor Guard


Maine Maritime Academy Alumni Casco Bay Chapter members are out to help the Academy undergraduates by selling used sail or power marine equipment of any type and description at the 2012 Maine Boat Builders Show. Here is how to donate: Contacts:


Captain Dave Fenderson '56 USNR (207) 781-4240 davidoilman@yahoo.com Captain Dave Witherall '76 USMS (207) 829-3046 penbaydw@maine.rr.com


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