| 4pm-6pm Sunday, June 28 |
Opening reception of the Castine Historical Society's Summer Exhibit "Castine's Art from the Past." On display will be oil paintings, watercolors, sketches, line drawings, pastels, lithographs, sculptures, carvings, metal work and folk art by deceased artists who had connections to Castine or the Bagaduce River area. Free and open to the public. Read the full press release >> | ||
| 7:30pm Wednesday, July 22 |
Author Lee Smith will examine the perils and pleasures of writing historical fiction in a talk entitled "Stepping into History." The author of twelve works of fiction, Smith's most recent book "On Agate Hill" is a Civil War novel. She is a founding Fellow of the Center of Documentary Studies at Duke University; her non-fiction works have appeared in publications such as the Atlantic and the New York Times. Located at the Castine Historical Society Mitchell Room. Free and open to the public. |
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Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm Sunday 1pm-4pm Closed Mondays |
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Saturday, July 25 1pm-4pm Sunday, July 26 |
"Touring Through Time" a collective open house of ten historical organizations of the Eastern Penobscot Bay area. At the CHS, Curator Paige Lilly will be available 12-4pm on Saturday with items from our collection on display and will be available to answer questions about preserving personal photographs and documents. On Sunday, a walking tour of Castine led by Mike Coughlin will begin at 10am from the CHS Abbott School on the Castine Common. Free and open to the public. Further information is at www.eastpenobscothistory.org. | ||
| 10:00am - 1:00pm Thursday, July 30 |
"You should write a book!" Have people often told You that? This may be your chance. Whether you're interested in writing your own memoir, creative nonfiction narrative, or historical fiction, novelist and oral historian Lee Smith will offer some tricks of the trade to make the past come alive on the page in a workshop entitled "Bringing the Past to Life." Scene development, dialogue, specific detail, and sense imagery are some of the techniques she'll discuss as the workshop participants write together, and share their work and ideas. Free, but limited to 10 participants who are CHS members, first come first serve. Located in the Castine Historical Society Mitchell Room. Call (207) 326-4589 after June 7 to reserve a place. | ||
| 7:30pm Monday, August 10 |
The inaugural Deborah Pulliam Memorial Lecture given by James McPherson. McPherson's book, "Battle Cry of Freedom," won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1988 and remains the best-selling single-volume account of the Civil War era. His most recent biography of Abraham Lincoln, "Trial by War" was published by Oxford University Press in 2008, and has been described as "the best very brief, biography of our sixteenth president ever written." Delano Auditorium on the campus of the Maine Maritime Academy. Free and open to the public. |
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| 5:30-7:30pm Friday, August 14 Opening Reception; 10am-4pm Saturday, August 15; and, 1-4pm Sunday, August 16 |
The Eleventh Castine Historical Society Art Sale of original fine arts media, crafts and photography. Enjoy viewing submissions by professional and amateur artists. All art is available for sale and proceeds in part benefit the Society. Located at the Castine Historical Society Mitchell Room. No entry fee and open to the public. |
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| 7:30pm Wednesday, August 26 |
 Castine Historical Society Annual Meeting in the Mitchell Room of the Abbott School, followed by a talk by University of Maine History Professor Liam Riordan entitled "Loyalism and the Revolution in Maine." Light refreshments. Free and open to the public. Click here to view the poster |
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