November 2012 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 11. Waterfront News NEWS FROM THE MARITIME MUSEUMS
MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM Ahead Full at Fifty: 50 Years of Collecting at Maine Maritime Museum
Exhibit opens November 10
BATH – An exhibit of more than 150 ar- tifacts and documents collected by Maine Maritime Museum over the past half century marks the culminating event of the Muse- um’s 50th
sition by the Museum, along with the story of how the Museum came in possession of the object or document. This narrative pres- ents the story of how a Museum’s collection is built over decades through donations, planned purchases and sheer serendipity. The limited-run soft-cover book will be available at the Museum store or online through the Museum website.
anniversary celebration. Ahead Full at Fifty: 50 Years of Col- lecting at Maine Maritime Museum opens November 10 and will be on view through May 26, 2013. The exhibit will showcase objects that are historically important, rare in beauty, or have an unusual story about how the Museum acquired them. “We’re really excited about mounting this exhibit because it affords us the op- portunity to show the breadth and depth of our collection,” says Nathan Lipfert, senior curator. “Most of our short run exhibits use some borrowed or on-loan objects from other sources to tell the story. This one is all Maine Maritime Museum items. As our curator of exhibits says, ‘We get to strut our stuff’.”
The exhibit will be curated by Museum
Trustee Emeritus Charles E. Burden, with assistance from the entire curatorial staff. Burden is one of the founding members of the Museum and has been an active and involved supporter since 1964. A number of the objects in Ahead Full at Fifty were either donated by Burden or acquired by the Museum through his efforts. An exhibit catalog, titled Maine & the
Sea: 50 Years of Collecting at Maine Mar- itime Museum, has been published. All the objects in the exhibit will be pictured in the catalog in chronological order of their acqui-
PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM Gingerbread Lighthouses! 4 pm to 7:30, Friday, November 30th Make a Gingerbread House with a nautical theme, and bring it to the Penobscot Marine Museum’s Main Street Gallery on November 30th
for a holiday kick-off party!
Or simply come to the Museum’s Maine Street Gallery for the party and to admire the display of Gingerbread Lighthouses. There will be Gingerbread Lighthouses, boat barns and more, made by individuals (such as you!) as well as by local restaurants. The Chocolate Drop Shoppe from Belfast will be on hand with holiday candies. The Gingerbread Lighthouses will be on display one day only, in the Museum’s Main Street Gallery and Store. For more information call Lin Calista, Penobscot Marine Museum Framer, at 548- 0334.
The Chocolate Drop Shoppe from Bel- fast has a Gingerbread House competition. If you’d like to access their patterns and join their competition, there will be a new category for nautical entries! Their $5 fee goes to the Belfast Rotary 100 Fund, which provides holiday gifts for struggling fami- lies in Waldo County.
Or you can bring your Gingerbread
Lighthouse to The Inn at French’s Point for the Stockton Springs Holiday Gala on
Sunday, December 2nd. Also on November 30th
is the Searsport
Holiday Tree Lighting on the Crescent and their annual holiday concert. Call the Sear- sport Town Offi ce at 548-6372 for more information.
Keeping Warm Exhibition
Penobscot Marine Museum will open its winter exhibition season on December 15th
with Keeping Warm. This exhibit showcases Penobscot Marine Museum’s collection of beautiful 19th and include 19th
and early 20th
century quilts, century win-
ter clothing, fi ber art tools and crafts, toys, sports equipment, and historic photos Maine in winter. It explores how Mainers worked and played in the harsher winters of our past. This exhibit is co-curated by members of the Friendship Sampler Quilters chapter of the Pine Tree Quilters, and includes quilts by their members. There will be a resident quilter from the group working on her own quilt during the exhibit, plus there will be an opportunity for adults and children to
learn a bit of quilting and work on a quilt in progress. Those who work on the quilt may put their names into a raffl e for the fi nished quilt.
Join the Museum for an opening party! Saturday, December 15th from 11 am to 4 pm.
We will have ice boats on display on the Museum crescent. In the Museum Gallery and Store, cookbook author Sandra Oliver will be talking about her new book Maine Home Cooking: 175 Recipes From Down East Kitchens and children’s book author and knitting author Robin Hansen will be signing her children’s book Ice Harbor Mittens.
Keeping Warm is in the Museum Gal- lery on Route One, 40 E. Main St., Searsport. It is open Saturday, December 15, and every Saturday and Sunday through February 24th. It will also be open Thursday and Fri- day December 27 and 28, and February 21 and 22. Hours: 11 am to 4 pm. For more information call 207-548-2529 or 207-548- 0334.
What is missing? This is a view of South Bristol harbor and the yard in the background is Gamage's Shipyard, and where is the big building? It was torn down this summer.
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