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Abandon ship!
Don Wagner of McMillan Offshore Survival Training climbs into an immersion suit. Photo by Tom Groening SEARSPORT — At 2 a.m., 35 miles out to sea, with winter winds howling and water temperatures...
View ArticlePMM Photo Archivist Kevin Johnson on K-Love Radio
Listen to PMM Photo Archivist Kevin Johnson talk about the museum’s exciting historic photography collection in a K-LOVE Radio interview.
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Students build boats in new museum learning center
SEARSPORT, Maine (NEWS CENTER)– A Searsport District High School course is teaching students problem solving skills and maintaining the tradition of boat budiling in Seasport. “To have a new...
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Penobscot Marine Museum photography archive in Yankee Magazine
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art current: Gee’s Bend Quilts at the Penobscot Marine Museum
Story by Britta Konau in The Free Press Crazy Quilt by Lucy MongoThe story of Gee’s Bend quilts is a complicated, sad and happy one. Gee’s Bend, a remote, historically African-American village on a...
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‘Shells, fish, shellfish’ inspire art Eric Hopkins draws on a life by the water
Story by Carl Little in The Working Waterfront Broken Shell Form #1, by Eric Hopkins Let’s get the punning out of the way, pronto: Eric Hopkins is a shellfish artist. To be more precise, he is a...
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Three for the road: Art shows worth abandoning the beach for
Story By Kathleen Pierce in the Bangor Daily News Blue Fish, 1988, painted wood, 48″x56″x30″ Besides the line at Red’s and mounting traffic on Route 1, there is another Maine mainstay in overdrive this...
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Maine’s Largest Pinhole Camera
People check out the giant camera obsura constructed on at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport. When the camera is complete, several people will be able to go inside to experience how the image is...
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Postcards From Maine
In 1916 Maine Governor Oakley C. Curtis proclaimed April 19 “Post Card Day” and issued a proclamation requesting all Maine citizens send a postcard of Maine to friends and family outside the state...
View ArticleThe Maritime Spirit of Searsport
Salts and Water Podcast Series Grand sea captain’s houses, intriguing gravestones, and the Penobscot Marine Museum… feel the spirit of maritime history in Searsport.
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