On Tuesday, June 5 at 10 a.m., Skidompha Library’s Chats With Champions program will feature Bill Cullina, executive director of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG) in Boothbay Harbor. His…
Lectures and Conferences
Jerry Wiles, local historian, will share stories of the life of American suffragist Alice Paul at The Lincoln Home. Paul co-founded the Congressional Union and then formed the National Woman’s…
Belinda Osier, co-president of the Old Bristol Historical Society, will present a slide show of early images from the late 1800s and early 1900s of Bristol and her people. Commentary on Bristol’s…
At The Lincoln Home on Monday, April 30, from 3 to 4 p.m. Helen Shaw, a certified genealogist and past president of the Maine Genealogical Society, will describe how to start a family history by…
The Lincoln County Democratic Committee (LCDC) announced the lineup of speakers for their Frances Perkins Award Dinner on Saturday, May 5 starting at 6 p.m. at the Damariscotta Lake Farm,15 Bunker…
BATH- In the past year, Midcoast Maine residents and visitors have had to deal with multiple wind storms that knocked out power and high waters that flooded coastal roads. How do we help our towns…
Sherri Mitchell, Indigenous rights attorney, teacher and spiritual activist, will speak at Lincoln Theatre in downtown Damariscotta on Tuesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m). “Sacred…
We didn’t call ourselves ghost hunters back in the early ’70s, but we were attracted to old houses, abandoned houses, and houses rumored to be haunted ... I clearly remember telling my friends…
Come to The Lincoln Home Monday, April 16, from 3 to 4 p.m. to hear Louise Miller, education director for the Lincoln County Historical Association, talk about the daily life of Chapman Hall House…
Join us at The Lincoln Home Monday, April 9, from 3 to 4 p.m. to hear Arnold Aho, architectural historian, talk about the rise and fall of the early maple sugarhouses, how they were constructed…
On Thursday, March 29 at 10 a.m. in the Porter Meeting Hall of Skidompha Library, Chats with Champions will present Randall Liberty, warden at the Maine State Prison in Warren. His talk is…
Maine’s First Ship is pleased to announce its second annual lecture series on 17th century maritime and colonial history. Four presentations, beginning March 22, focus on shipbuilding, tides,…
Historian Nancy MacLean from Duke University will speak about her book “Democracy in Chains,” and the Crisis of American Democracy, at a Coastal Senior College event held at the Midcoast Friends…
March is National Reading Month, and at the Lincoln County Historical Association, we are taking a look at one of the book lovers who lived at the Pownalborough Court House, one of the three…
The smelting of iron ore and the craft of blacksmithing have been enormously important to human cultures world-wide for over 3,000 years. Blacksmiths were so essential to ancient peoples that…
LCHA Winter Lecture Series
One of the earliest, accurate maps of the Boothbay, Wiscasset and Westport areas was the topic of Sunday’s installment of the Lincoln County Historical Association’s winter lecture series. The…
Harbor Theater
185 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ~ 633-0438 ~ http://boothbaycinema.org
“The Post” - I…
“Mapping the Coast of Colonial Maine: Local Colonists vs. Imperial Agents” is the topic of the Lincoln County Historical Association’s Winter Lecture Feb. 25.
Dr. Matthew Edney, the Osher…
Lincoln County Historical Association
Castlebay performed to a packed house Sunday, Feb. 11 as part of the Lincoln County Historical Association’s 2018 Winter Lecture Series.
With standing room only, musicians Julia Lane and…
Jerry Wiles, local historian, will share the final chapter of…
Restoring works of art, be they cherished paintings or vintage picture frames, is a labor of love for Fogg Art Restoration’s Teresa and Peter Fogg of Wiscasset. They shared examples of their work…
This evening genealogy program at Skidompha Library in Damariscotta will focus on 19th and 20th century U.S. records, including the use of census, citizenship records, and local histories to…
Artist Jane Dahmen returns once again to Lincoln Theater in downtown Damariscotta to host a new season of “Talking Art…
If you haven't heard about browntail moth — or you dread the end of winter because you see those browntail moth nests in the tops of your trees — come learn the latest information about…
Sandra Neily said an early reader of her novel, “Deadly Trespass,” said he was certain she’d be angry at his comments. “It reads like non-fiction,” he said.
Far from being insulted, Neily…
On Feb. 8, Maine Maritime Museum in Bath will introduce a new winter educational program series, “On Deck.” The hour-long programs, which will run Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. from…
Lincoln Theater
Lincoln Theater is pleased to host two free conversations, captured live from the 92nd Street Y in New York City in 2017, in which General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus talks with two leading…
Harbor Theater
185 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ~ 633-0438 ~ http://boothbaycinema.org
“Lady Bird” - …
After a recent trip to North Korea, New York Times reporter Nick Kristof asserted that war between the U.S. and North Korea is much closer than we may be willing to imagine. The streets and the…
Imagine living in a century-old lightkeeper’s house on the coast of Maine. It sounds like a fantasy, but for Tom and Lee Ann Szelog, dream became reality when they settled into the keeper’s…
Chats with Champions
Television situation comedies--sitcoms--have been a staple of TV culture since its beginning. On Thursday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. in the Porter Meeting Hall of Skidompha Library, Chats with…
The Lincoln Home invites the public to hear Steve Gifford present a program entitled “The Finnish Imprint” on Monday, Nov. 13, from 3 to 4 p.m.
Gifford has been interested in all things…
Wiscasset Public Library
In recognition of Veterans Day, the Wiscasset Public Library will present a program by Peggy Konitzsky, site manager in Wiscasset for Historic New England, on Wednesday, Nov. 8 from 5 to 6:30 p.m…
Matthew Edney from the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine will be Skidompha Library's “Chats with Champions” guest speaker…
An ambitious new program developed by Skidompha Library in partnership with the River Company titled, "Meaning when there is no meaning - an introduction to Theater of the Absurd" will…
Harbor Theater
“Viceroy House” - Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville) is sent to New Delhi to end the British Raj in India (1947). Mountbatten is sympathetic to…
Revisit the building of Davey Bridge linking Wiscasset to Davis Island, Edgecomb in photographs taken by journalist Phil Di Vece of Wiscasset. Costing over $8.5 million to build from 1981 to 1983…
The September S.H.E.D. Talk @ Dusk features owners Jordan Gehman and Mali Mrozinski discussing their collaborative work and their ideas behind the Doublet S.H.E.D. – Space for Handmade Explorative…
Boothbay Railway Village
Author Steven James Hantzis will give an illustrated talk about the harrowing circumstances faced…
During World War II, 2,500 British soldiers were rescued by Canadian Combat Engineers using plywood boats powered by Evinrude outboard motors. The story began when British Field Marshall…
Ever wonder what it felt like to wear a bustle?
Join Peggy Konitzky, Wiscasset site manager and historic costume collector, for an entertaining and informative look at the wild ride of…
Chats with Champions will welcome New York Times bestselling author Lynne Olson on Thursday, Aug. 29 at 10 a.m. in the Porter Meeting Hall of Skidompha Public Library. Olson will speak…
Heavily influenced by her coastal surroundings, artist Nikki Pilgrim immerses herself in the ‘ritual of painting’ using ornate color and pattern as she transfers her environment into her creative…
Paul Doiron, noted author of the Mike Bowditch series of crime novels set in the Maine woods, will be at the Southport Memorial Library on Thursday, Aug. 17 at 7 p.m. to discuss his latest book, “…
Amy Gallant, AARP Maine’s advocacy director, will discuss state laws that impact Midcoast seniors 50 and older at AARP Coffee & Conversation at the Coastal Landing Retirement Community, 142…
John H. Anderson shared the work he had done to transcribe 3o years of his grandfather’s journals and family stories in his recently completed book during the first official event of the Maine…
Why is Maine so beautiful? How was our spectacular coast formed? Our lovely mountains, lakes and rivers, and famous fjord? From continental collisions that thrust up the high Appalachian Mountains…
The first ever Maine Coast Stone Symposium begins on Aug. 1 with a wide variety of programming about the historical and modern stone industry in Maine. Each week there will be new opportunities to…
