Events at Member Institutions

Beer, beer, beer! You can never know too much when it comes to beer and ale in the 18^th century. Come join our Tate House Museum docents on October 14 as they take you on an afternoon of education and entertainment surrounding the making of beer in colonial times. This all-new tour will enlighten our guests as to the role of servants in brewing and other kitchen duties. Learn what “pounded cheese” was, how to make it, and enjoy a sample. What did the colonials learn from Indigenous people that impacted their foods and its preparation? Cocktails from beer? You’ll be introduced to beverages you may want to try.

ColoniAle consists of a one-hour beer-centric house tour followed with a social time in the backyard of the Tate House where you will be given a Tate House pint glass and 2 pints of Mast Landing ale. Mast Landing Brewing is the generous sponsor of our event and is providing guests with their signature ale. Imbibing is encouraged!!!

Tours are on the hour at 3:00 and 4:00 PM with a social hour following from 4:00- 6:00 PM. General admission is $25 and $20 for Tate House Museum members. Timed tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coloniale-2023-tickets-718448898997 or by visiting our website at tatehouse.org.

FMI:

Holly K Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Tate House Museum is having a fundraiser on the evening of September 26, 2023 from 5:30 to 8:30 PM to benefit preservation of the historic Tate House. The event is generously hosted by the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. Guests will have the opportunity to privately view rare historic maps and globes from the library’s collections guided by Professor Matthew Edney, Osher Chair in the History of Cartography. Professor Edney will cap off the evening with an entertaining and informative talk, “Mapping Colonial New England in Manuscript and Print.” This illustrated lecture will explore the complex interplay involved in the mapping of colonial New England among politicians, administrators, military officers, scholars, land owners, and the public on both sides of the Atlantic.

The event features a wine and cheese reception with expansive views of Portland from the 7th floor of the Glickman library followed by map and globe viewing, and culminates with the mapping lecture and a dessert reception.

In describing the evening, Tate House Museum Executive Director Holly K. Hurd says “This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to view the exquisite space and impressive collection of rare maps at Maine’s premier map library while supporting preservation of the 1755 Tate House. We are excited to partner with the Osher Map Library to bring colonial mapping history to life for the Greater Portland community!”

A special auction and raffle of reproduction prints from Tate House Museum’s collections offer guests the chance to take home their very own piece of history. Supporters can participate in the auction or raffle without being present at the event. Map lovers seeking a framed facsimile of a rare 1720 map of Casco Bay by English cartographer Cyprian Southack can bid online until 7:00 pm the night of the event. Supporters can buy raffle tickets online or in person to win one of two reproduction prints. The first is A Plan of Ancient Portland (then known as Falmouth) ~ Circa 1688 ~ With Additions of Later Points of Historic Interest by Ray Gailey. Engraved by James H. Gallagher and published by R. H. Gailey in 1946, this map comes in a handsome period-style frame and depicts early Portland, South Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and the island of Casco Bay. The second is “Night,” a charming and whimsical engraving by William Hogarth. First published in 1738 as part of a four-part series, The Four Times of Day, “Night” is a caricature depicting the chaos-filled city streets of London after dark. This print comes with a $100 gift certificate that can be used toward framing.

In addition to the Osher Map Library, our generous sponsors include: The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maine, Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine, Grapheteria Custom Framing, Matrix Absence Management, Preservation Timber Framing, Barba & Wheelock Architects,and Casco Bay Frames & Gallery.

The event will take place at the Osher Map Library, 314 Forest Avenue in Portland, with registration and wine/cheese reception starting at 5:30 pm. Fundraiser tickets are limited and offered at $75 per person. They may be purchased online at  www.tatehouse.org. Parking is available nearby at the University of Southern Maine garage for $4/hr.

FMI: contact Holly K Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

The Inuit Art Society Conference Opening Ceremony

Welcome Dance and Song by Inuk Performer

JENNIE WILLIAMS

Keynote Address by Inuit Art Expert

NELSON GRABURN

Thursday, September 28, 2023  |  7:00 PM  |  Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College

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A Roundtable Discussion with Inuit Photographers

BRIAN ADAMS & JENNIE WILLIAMS

Friday, September 29, 2023  |  4:00 PM  |  Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall, Bowdoin College

Both events are FREE and open to the public. Call (207) 725-3416 for more information.

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

The Suffrage Movement in Maine - A Talk by Author Anne Gass 
October 25, 2023, 6:30 PM

CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY—The year 2020 was the 100^th anniversary of a woman’s universal right to vote in the US.  In recognition of that landmark anniversary, the Canton Historical Society is hosting a talk on the suffrage movement that proceeded that change.  It will be on Wednesday, October 25, at 6:30 p.m., at 25 Turner Street.  The speaker will be Anne Gass.

Anne Gass’s great-grandmother, Florence Brooks Whitehouse, was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons.  In 1914, she joined the movement that helped move suffrage forward in Maine.   Ms. Gass will talk about Florence’s leadership in that movement that resulted in the Maine legislature ratifying the 19^th Amendment, giving women the right to vote.   Slides of historic photos will accompany this lively talk.  

Learn more about Ms. Gass at www.mainesuffragecentennial.org/anne-b-gass.

This talk is free admission and open to the public.  The venue is handicap accessible.  Refreshments will be served.  Doors open at 6 p.m.

If you would like more information about this event, please email cantonmehistorical@gmail.com, or go to www.cantonmehistory.org or the “Canton Maine Historical Society” Facebook page.

Canton Historical Society
25 Turner Street
Canton, Maine

The Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society and the Granite Art Garden present an afternoon outdoor concert by noted Nipmuc musician and flute maker Hawk Henries on Saturday, September 9th at 1:30pm.

Hawk has performed all over the country to great acclaim and calls Sullivan home. He'll play the flute and tell stories among whimsical granite sculptures by Obadiah Buell at the site of the historic Robertson Quarry, now the Granite Garden Gallery/Granite Art Garden.

This event is free to the public with donations welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Bring your chairs and bug spray just in case.

We hope to see you there!

Come celebrate all things COLONIAL at Tate House Museum on Labor Day

weekend, September 2 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (rain date Sunday or Monday, Sept 3 or 4). We’ll have lots of fun colonial activities for the whole family. Our special guest is Colonial Reenactor Michael Dekker who will describe Native-Colonist trade in the 17th and 18th centuries with his Living History Mobile Museum. Michael is the author of French and Indian Wars in Maine and he will be engaging folks all day with his extensive knowledge of the time period. Colonial games and activities for children will be offered from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM while one-hour docent-led tours of the Tate House will commence at 10 AM, 11 AM and 12 noon. There will be a backyard performance of colonial-dressed characters-- Tate Family & Neighbors--from 1:00 to 2:00 PM. Other exhibits include Herbs and Plants of the Colonial Garden and Herbal Tea Tasting from 10:00-12 noon. Historic textile aficionado Vivian Cunningham will be demonstrating 18th century clothing throughout the day. Special tours in the afternoon will highlight NEW collections and tour narratives, including Native baskets and the work of a domestic servant who was probably enslaved. These tours will occur every half hour from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. We will also offer an Architectural Tour at 2:30 PM that provides a look at the Tate House attic and cellar not included on a regular tour (a $25 value!)

The cost for the day’s activities is $18 for adults, $7 for children under 12 years and $35 for families with children. Member prices are $15 adults, $5 children, and $30 for families. Tickets available at the door.

Come join in the fun and experience this unique museum with its colonial trappings LIVE! Tate House Museum is open for regular guided house tours Wednesdays- Saturdays through Oct 14. Please visit our website for advance tickets and information: www.tatehouse.org.

FMI: Holly K Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

On August 30^th at 7:15 PM Tate House Museum welcomes audiences to another Backyard Lecture beginning at sunset. Seth Goldstein has spent the last several years researching Maine and the West Indies Trade. He will provide details of the significant economic exchange in which Maine provided food that fed enslaved Africans and materials that built plantations in Caribbean locations such as Barbados, Haiti, and Cuba. Maine merchants exchanged these goods for what were considered luxury commodities at the time: sugar, rum, molasses, cocoa and exotic spices. Goldstein will exhibit how this trade provided a significant source of financial return for merchants from Portland specifically, and Maine generally. He will describe how the urban topography and architecture of Portland was shaped by this economic relationship and the horrid conditions that enslaved Africans endured to produce that wealth.

Seth Goldstein grew up on Cape Cod where he developed his passion for maritime history. He received his bachelor’s degree in European History from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his master’s degree in World History from Northeastern University. His research interests include the historic North Atlantic fishery, global piracy, New England shipwrecks and lighthouses, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Vietnam War era counter culture. He has worked for Greater Portland Landmarks and The Portland Harbor Museum and taught at the University of New England and Southern Maine Community College. Goldstein currently teaches at The Maine College of Art and Design. He is a member of the Atlantic Black Project-- a grass roots non-profit that examines Maine and New England’s marginalized history and the region’s complicity with the economics of enslavement. He is the Director of the Cushing’s Point Museum at Bug Light Park and is the Director of Development for the South Portland Historical Society.

Advance tickets are $12 for the general public, $10 for Tate House members and can be purchased on our website www.tatehouse.org or in our gift shop. At the door tickets are $15 for the general public and $12 for Tate House members. Bring your own blanket or chair. The Tate House ell will be open for a sneak peek at the house from 6:30-7:15 pm. If it rains the lecture will move to the Stroudwater Village Church at 1729 Congress St Portland.

FMI: Holly Hurd

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook St

Portland ME 04102

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

207-774-6177

Skowhegan Falls History Walk in Celebration of Skowhegan’s Bicentennial

Date: Thursday, August 24, 2023

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Benedict Arnold Park behind the Federated Church, Island Avenue, Skowhegan, Me.

In celebration of Skowhegan’s Bicentennial Melvin Burnham, local historian, will lead a history walk at Skowhegan Falls Thursday, August 24^th 10:00 am, beginning at the Benedict Arnold Park behind the Federated Church, Island Avenue, Skowhegan.

This history walk offers participants in-depth information with vintage images that illustrate what role Skowhegan Island and Skowhegan Falls played in the development of industry and culture on the Kennebec River during the 19^th century.  Participants will learn what it was like to live and work in this era; how the power of moving water can shape the destiny of a community.  This island once could only be accessed by rowboat, canoe, or bateaux. Native Americans used it for fishing, resting, growing crops, and gathering mineral resources for their weapons. Now thousands of vehicles cross this 12-acre island every day.

The old Spinning Mill, built in 1922, is currently being repurposed as housing units, a hotel, and a brewery. If the conditions are right tour participants will be offered a chance to look inside this project to see how an historic structure can be reconstructed and continue to serve the community.

Many of the photos shared in this walk originated from the H. A. Wyman Collection assembled by Roland Taylor Patten (1864 - 1913), an early editor/owner of the Independent- Reporter and avid cyclist.  Prior to his involvement in the Independent-Reporter photos used in the paper were discarded after use.  Mr. Patten, realizing their value, decided to save them and over the years collected numerous photos depicting early Skowhegan history.  Upon selling his interest in the newspaper and moving away, Mr. Patten secured funds from H. A. Wyman to assemble his image collection in binders and labeled each with valuable information.  The Wyman Collection is now housed at the Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center.

The ninety-minute walk will be tailored to participants’ needs and interests.  Participants are welcome to bring and use lightweight folding chairs for their comfort and use their cameras along the way.

Join the tour and take a step back in time to see why Skowhegan Falls was and continues to be an important historic district in this community.

Portland--- Tate House Museum is offering a Folk-Pop concert in our beautiful backyard featuring the Wortzelini Brothers on Saturday August 5 from 5:00 -7:00 PM. Come hear classic tunes by CSNY, the Band, Eagles, and Grateful Dead, as well as some original songs by this talented family band that includes two generations of brothers. Their instruments are guitars,mandolin, ukulele, harmonica, and percussion. The concert will have two sets with a short break in between.

The Wortzelini Brothers consist of brothers Rick and Rob Wortzel, and special guests Jeremy and Josh Wortzel from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Boston, and Providence. They have been playing, singing, and writing music together for decades and their wonderful music includes harmonies and instrumental jams.

The 1755 Tate House will be open from 4:15-5:00 pm for a sneak peek inside and all attendees will receive a coupon for 50% off a Tate House guided tour that can be used during our regular open season. Come meet and hear these wonderful musicians and enjoy a relaxing evening of music and sing-alongs.

Tickets are $5 in advance for Tate House Museum members, $8 for the general public, and can be purchased on our website tatehouse.org or in the Gift Shop during open hours. At-the-Door tickets are $8 for members and $10 for the general public. Please bring your own chair or blanket to 1270 Westbrook Street in Portland. Refreshments will be available for sale.

Please check our website and SM for updates if it rains.

FMI: Holly Hurd

hkhurd@tatehouse.org

Tate House Museum

1267 Westbrook Street

Portland ME 04102

207-774-6177

On Saturday, September 16, 2023 from 1-4:30 pm the Bucksport Historical Society will be hosting tours of six historical homes built in the 1800’s and 1900’s, including for the first time a house located in the “townsite” a housing development built by the owners of the paper mill for its workers in the 1930’s and 40’s. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the Bucksport Historical Museum, 92 Main Street, which is open to the public from 1-4 pm Wednesdays through Saturdays in July and August.  Starting on September 1 tickets can be purchased from Bookstacks at 71 Main Street.