Maritime Month 2015

Maritime Month 2015 Events throughout April at the Camden Public Library

The Camden Public Library will again celebrate our maritime history and cultural heritage during “Maritime Month” by hosting exhibits and speakers throughout the month of April. Speakers will include a wide offering of scientists, historians, adventurers, and musicians. Maritime Month 2015 is sponsored by The First.

On exhibit in the Picker Room throughout the month of April will be vintage photographs from the collection of the Penobscot Marine Museum. Join Matt Wheeler of the Penobscot Marine Museum, Maynard Bray, and Don Merchant for a gallery talk on Tuesday, April 7 at 7:00pm, for a slide show entitled “Kids, Cameras, and Post-war Waterfronts” with photos and commentary. Merchant and Bray took the B&W photographs of the midcoast in the late 1940s.

Other events in Maritime Month will include a performance by Brian Robbins at the Library Coffeehouse on Thursday, April 2, at 7:00 pm; “A History of Megunticook Lake from Prehistory to the 20th Century,” presented by Paul Leeper of the Megunticook Lake Association on Thursday, April 9, 7:00 pm; and a film presentation by Ben and Teresa Carey, “One Simple Question,” about their quest to sail north until they find an iceberg at 4:00 pm on Saturday, April 11. The Careys found they would need to sail over 1600 miles before the first sign of ice, off Newfoundland. What they didn’t anticipate was that they would find a massive piece of the Petermann Ice Island, the record-breaking iceberg that drew the attention of climate scientists worldwide.

The series will continue on Tuesday, April 14, 7:00 pm with a slide talk by Lou Sapienza, photographer and team leader of the group that recovered WWII aircraft from deep in a Greenland glacier in 2010, in “Frozen in Time.” On Thursday, April 16, 7:00 pm, Dr. Paty Matrai will present her work in the arctic, “Climate Change & the Biology of the Arctic.” Matrai is a Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. The topic of on Tuesday, April 21, 7:00 pm by SEA (Sea Education Association in Woods Hole) is still TBD. On Tuesday, April 28, 7:00 pm, Dr. Stephen Hornsby, editor, will give an illustrated talk on “The Historical Atlas of Maine,” published by the University of Maine after more than a decade of extensive research. The book presents in cartographic form the historical geography of Maine from the end of the last ice age to the year 2000. The final talk in the series will be on Thursday, April 30, 7:00 pm; Dr. Erin Bishop will present “Titanic: A Century of Myth and Memory.” Now 100 years old, the story of Titanic, as riveting today as it was in 1912, cannot break its hold on our collective psyche.

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