Annual Appeal

Donate to the 2025 Annual Appeal

 

How do you invest for your future?  Many of you have retirement or savings accounts. Or perhaps you’ve put aside funds for your loved ones’ college education. No matter what you do, you invest in what you value the most.

Last year, thanks to your generous Annual Appeal gift, you helped us raise over $43,000 for this year-end fund. These donations have allowed us to offer a record number of programs this year while continuing to support the second year of our exhibition “A History of Castine in 40 Objects.” Your donation also supported our upcoming 2026-2027 exhibition on local Japanese American artist Francis Hamabe, which will open in late May 2026. Donations to our Annual Appeal this year will support exciting programs for learners of all ages in our 2026 season.

Your contribution supported innovative and thought-provoking programs this season. We welcomed Penobscot Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation and Tribal Historian James Eric Francis, Sr. to Castine for our annual Pulliam Lecture in August to speak on Penobscot sense of place in the Castine and Bagaduce area. We also were treated to talks from Drs. Stephen Hornsby and Liam Riordan who spoke about the histories of cod fishing and the year 1776, respectively.

Your donations also supported our weekend of events in October with our colleagues in the Castine History Partners and Atlantic Black Box for a weekend of performances, talks, and a community walk and gathering that recentered the Wabanaki and African and African American histories of Castine. These community-based projects will continue in 2026 as we look for ways to connect our local to national and global histories. We will continue to seek ways to honor hour commitment to examining our past to foster a more inclusive, empathetic, and informed society.

Your contribution also supported our ongoing effort to archive, preserve, and share our collection. This year, we added significant collections including a collection from the Rusticator cottage, Moss Acre, and the Hooke-Booth family donation. We continue our ongoing work to digitize
these collections, so they are accessible to all.

We hope you will continue to invest in what is meaningful to you by contributing to the 2025 Annual Appeal.  Your donation will serve as a catalyst to enrich and inspire both the young and the young at heart in the town we all love – Castine.

Please join us by giving generously to the 2025 Annual Appeal.