Page 10. MAINE COASTAL NEWS June 2015 Waterfront News PMM NEWS: JUST LAUNCHED, PHOTO EXHIBIT, BIZARRE CHAIR
Searsport High School Students Launch Boats at Town Dock
SEARSPORT – At noon on Thursday, May 21, two Shellback Dinghies made by stu- dents at Searsport District High School will be launched into Searsport Harbor at the Town Dock. The students have spent the past eighteen weeks building the dinghies with master boat builder Greg Rossel for their class Building a Shellback Dinghy: An Integrated Field Approach to Core Math & Science Standard. As they build the boats, the students explore marine physics and engineering concepts, Newton’s laws of mo- tion, traditional and modern wood working, chemical reactions, and navigation.
The
class is in its fourth year and is a collabora- tion between the Penobscot Marine Museum and the Searsport District High School. It is held at Museum’s Hamilton Learning Center in Searsport. The Shellback Dinghy which the students build is a small sail boat designed by E.B. White’s son Joel White. After the launch the boats are sold and the proceeds used to fund the next year’s class. Greg Rossel, who has been teaching boat building at WoodenBoat School for over twenty years, has help each week from community volunteers Fred Kircheis, Fred Schmidt, Bruce Brown, Rick Fitzsim- mons, Rob Giffi n, David Lawrence, Gerry Saunders, Pete Jenkins, and Dan Merrill. Wayne Hamilton, owner of Hamilton Ma- rine, teaches a navigation class, and the students travel to Camden to work with sailmaker Grant Gambell to make sails for the dinghies.
The class would not be pos-
sible without local businesses who donate time and materials: Gambell and Hunter Sailmakers, Hamilton Marine, Epifanes, Maine Coast Lumber, WoodenBoat Store, Chesapeake Light Craft, George Kirby Jr Paint Company.
Photography Exhibit Brings History to Life
Penobscot Marine Museum opens its 2015 season on May 23 with four major exhibitions of historic photography under the umbrella title Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light.
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campus will be fi lled with hands-on activi- ties. Museum visitors will be able to walk into a huge camera, step inside an historic
darkroom, watch a tintype being made, make a cyanotype photograph, make a pin-hole camera, take a photograph with a pin-hole camera, take photographs of them- selves standing beside images of people from the 1880’s, add their own photographs to an online museum exhibit, and add their selfi es to the museum’s “Wall of Selfi es”. Audio clips of interviews, biographies, and commentaries by historians, curators and professional photographers will be available to visitors on their mobile devices through QR codes, and on tablets in the exhibits. The four exhibits in Exploring the Magic of Photography are Through Her Lens: Women Photographers of Mid-Coast Maine, 1890-1920; Twenty Best; Evolution of the Photographic Snapshot: 1888-2015; and The Carters and the Lukes - Selections from the Red Boutilier Collection. On Fri- day, May 22nd from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm the public is invited to the opening reception for the 2015 season, which will be held in the newly renovated Visitors Center on the Crescent, 2 Church Street, Searsport. Through Her Lens: Women Photog- raphers of Mid-Coast Maine, 1890-1920 explores the pioneering work of fi ve women photographers who excelled in a fi eld domi- nated by men. Ruth Montgomery and Joan- na Colcord grew up sailing around the world with their sea captain fathers.
While on
board ship they taught themselves the craft of photography and documented life at sea and life in the countries to which they sailed. Evie Barbour’s photographer husband had a business producing photographic postcards. She helped him with the business, and when he died in 1907 she was able to take it over and support herself and her children. Ida Crie photographed her native city of Rock- land, creating a loving portrait and important historic document of the way Rockland was at the turn of the century. Harriet Hitchborn grew up in Stockton Springs and developed her own successful postcard business. Twenty Best, an exhibit of the twenty most fascinating photographs in the Penob- scot Marine Museum collection, includes a photograph of the Great Bangor Fire of 1911 which destroyed much of the city, the earliest known photograph of Searsport, and an unusual ambrotype circa 1870 of a Chinese steward. Also included are photo- graphs by the legendary Finnish-American photo-journalist Kosti Rhuohoma, who shot iconic portraits of working Americans which appeared in LIFE, National Geo- graphic and other publications from 1940 to 1960.
Evolution of the Photographic Snap- shot: 1888-2015 explores the snapshot as a self-portrait of our culture. In the 1800’s cameras were expensive and photography was the work of professionals, but when Eastman Kodak introduced the inexpensive
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Brownie camera in 1900 suddenly everyone had a camera in their hand. What do we pho- tograph and why, and what do the snapshots we take tell us about ourselves? This exhibit is guest curated by retired Beloit College professor Michael Simon.
The Carters and the Lukes - Selections
from the Red Boutilier Collection is an inti- mate portrait of two families of boat builders whose lives and careers saw the change from wooden sailing vessels to Kevlar.
These
photographs, taken during the 1960s and 1970s, celebrate the uniquely Maine way of life of the Luke family in East Boothbay and the Carter family in Waldoboro. Photogra- pher Red Boutilier captured an era in Maine boat building which set the standards for today’s Maine boat builders’ international reputation for excellence.
Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light is part of the Maine Photo Project, a year-long statewide cele- bration of photography in Maine in 2015. This collaboration of twenty-six cultural organizations offers exhibitions, a major publication, and a variety of programs exploring the state’s role as inspiration for photographers. Two additional exhibits round out the
2015 season. Disorganized and Defeated: The Battle for Penobscot Bay 1779 displays for the fi rst time the Museum’s newly ac- quired court-martial papers of Commodore Dudley Saltonstall. The exhibit examines the effects of the Revolutionary War on the citizens of Penobscot Bay.
This exhibit
complements the replica of the Revolution- ary War period frigate L’HERMIONE’s arrival in Castine Harbor. Memoirs of War: A Soldier’s Seabag tells the story through their mementos and souvenirs of ten Maine veterans’ wartime experiences from WW II to the present. This exhibit was designed and curated by the Senior Class of Searsport District High School.
Penobscot Marine Museum is grateful to the following individuals and organi- zations, without whose support Exploring the Magic of Photography would not have been possible: John Bielenberg for de- signing and building, with Richard Mann, the camera obscura; Maine Humanities Council for their grant funding Through Her Lens; Maine Humanities Council and Maine Arts Commission for funding The Maine Frontier and Make a Cyano- type; Alice Knight and Stockton Springs
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Historical Society for loans of photographs for Through Her Lens; Libby Bischoff and Maizie Hough for consulting on Through Her Lens; Liz Fitzsimmons for researching and interviewing The Carters and the Lukes; Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Britta Konau, Brenton Hamilton, and Maynard Bray for commentary on Twenty Best; Alice Knight, Silvia Wardwell, Betty Schopmeyer, Dan Harrison and Beverly Mann for commentary on Through Her Lens; and Betty Shopmeyer for scene painting. A special thank you for construction and painting to Paul Jean, Jeff Dorr, John Ward, Brian Marquis and to Tom Preble for making it happen.
Bizarre Chair on Exhibit at PMM A bizarre cage-chair on wheels, built in 1896 as a deterrent to Maine’s hobos, will be on display as part of Penobscot Ma- rine Museum’s 2015 exhibit Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light. The chair, which is on loan to the Penobscot Marine Museum from the Bangor Historical Society, was designed and apparently used by Oakland, Maine deputy sheriff Sanford J. Baker, but he failed to get the Maine Legislature to adopt it state-wide. The chair was then exhibited during parades as a side- show. Around 1920 a photograph was taken of the chair with a bystander posing inside. This photograph and the chair will both be on exhibit at Penobscot Marine Museum this summer. “We are grateful to the Bangor Histor- ical Society for the loan of this unusual ob- ject, said Kevin Johnson, Penobscot Marine Museum’s photo archivist.
“It is exciting
to have the real object to exhibit next to the photograph.” The chair currently resides at the Bangor Police Department. It weighs 800 pounds and is being transported by spe- cial arrangement with American Concrete Industries in Veazie.
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The Hobo Chair and photograph are one of many unusual exhibits in Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light. Museum visitors will be able to walk into a huge camera, step inside an historic dark- room, watch a tintype being made, make a cyanotype photograph, make a pin-hole camera, take a photograph with a pin-hole camera, take photographs of themselves standing beside images of people from the 1880’s, add their own photographs to an on- line museum exhibit, and add their selfi es to the museum’s “Wall of Selfi es”. On Friday, May 22nd from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm the pub- lic is invited to the opening reception for the 2015 season, which will be held in the newly renovated Visitors Center on the Crescent, 2 Church Street, Searsport. Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light is at Penobscot Marine Museum May 23 through October 18.
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