December 2011 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 9. Waterfront News


MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM Port of Portland: A Ship-Shaped History Exhibit opens in Portland Dec. 2; in Bath Dec. 17


Museum News: Maine Maritime and Penobscot Marine Museums the entire region.


BATH – As a result of a June 2010 merger, Maine Maritime Museum is carrying on the educational mission of Portland Harbor Mu- seum, offering maritime-related programming and activities in the greater Portland area. Over the past 15 months the Museum has conducted lectures and historic tours in Portland, but now the premier opening of a new exhibit, suitably titled Port of Portland: A Ship-Shaped History, marks the first large scale event the Museum has mounted in the city.


Port of Portland will be on view in the Lewis Gallery of the Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, beginning


Friday, December 2 and will remain through Tuesday, January 3, 2012. The Portland opening will feature a Directors Remarks and Meet the Curator event beginning at 5 p.m. on December 2. Admission to the exhibit in Port- land is free.


A more extensive and longer run Port of Portland exhibit will open for public viewing at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Satur- day, December 17, and will remain on view through May 13, 2012.


Port of Portland presents a vision of the city’s history as portrayed by the ships that have transited Portland Head to clear Spring Point Ledge, a series of vessels as diverse as the different eras they represent; vessels that have brought hope, grief, sustenance, out- rage, prosperity, disappointment, amuse- ment, and a good day’s work to the people of


Richard Stanley Given Maine Art's Commission's 2012 Traditional Arts Fellow


From the 18th century sloop PORT- LAND PACKET to the 19th


century steamer


PORTLAND (New England’s Titanic) to the 20th century AfraMax tanker OVERSEAS PORTLAND, an interplay of floating ton- nage has defined this same 2000+ acres of deep-water anchorage for more than 350 years.


From the 1775 bombardment of HMS CANCEAUX (that burned then-Falmouth to the ground) to the fireworks welcoming the world’s largest passenger liner RMS QUEEN MARY 2, Portland has launched, courted and sheltered legions of ships, both the famous and the work-a-day clippers, schooners, de- stroyers, Liberty ships, seiners, tugs, box- boats and bulkers.


Come - feel the maritime pulse and con- sider the ever-changing parade of ships that has brought this waterfront into being and continues to shape its present and future: Port of Portland: A Ship-Shaped History.


Shake Up your gift giving with Shaker


Box Making Workshop - Wednesdays, Dec. 7 & 14, 5 to 8 pm


By popular demand, the Museum Boatshop will once again conduct its popular Shaker Box Making workshop just in time for holiday gift giving. Instead of picking up something at the mall, give that special some- one a gift you made yourself - a beautiful stacking set of wooden oval Shaker storage boxes. Of course, you can always make them for yourself as they are a wonderful addition to your holiday decor.


The workshop runs two Wednesdays, Dec. 7 & 14, 5pm to 8pm. No woodworking experience is necessary and all materials are included in the fee. Workshop fees are $70 for nonmembers and $60 for Museum members. Register early as enrollment is limited. The deadline is November 25.


Volunteers recognized at Appreciation Party


During the past year, more than 240 Continued on Page 10.


2011 LOBSTER BOAT RACE CD


About 1,500 photographs from all eleven 2011 lobster boat races. Just $12.50, which includes postage and handling.


Richard Stanley is visited by Governor Paul LePage and teaches him the art of caulking.


Richard Stanley of Manset is the Maine Arts Commission’s 2012 Traditional Arts Fellow. He is a wooden boatbuilder, who learned his skills from his father Ralph W. Stanley, who was the 1999 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Fellowship; this is the nation’s highest form of recognition for folk and traditional artists. Richard worked for his father and eventually took over the business in 2009. He is now teaching his own apprentice and together they are working on a new 19-foot Friendship-Sloop influenced open sailboat.


Richard and his wife Lorraine own Great Harbor Boatworks in Manset, the only wooden boat yard left in a town known for wooden boatbuilding.


“I want to keep this knowledge alive and pass it on. The way I build boats has worked for hundreds of years and is the culmination of generations of experience. It also adds


beauty to the community,” said Richard. “I’m continuing a family tradition begun by my ancestors and lived by my father Ralph Stanley. I build a strong, sturdy, seaworthy, sea kindly, beautiful traditional wooden boat… they are beautiful to look at on land or in the water, versatile and comfortable to use. During my time in my father’s shop, I learned from working on lots of different boats that were built by lots of different builders: Wilbur Morse, Charles Morse, Bobby Rich, Ronald Rich, Nevins, Herreshoff, Bob Derecktor, Raymond Bunker, The Hinckley Company and E. Farnham Butler, as well as my father. I learned how they did things – how they put things together, what worked and what didn’t. From each job, I’d incorporate what I learned into my new work. Even sanding bottoms you get a sense of different hull shapes: you can see what works and doesn’t, what looks good and what doesn’t.”


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