CALENDAR of EVENTS 2006

Opening the Book—A History of Literary Castine 1776-1976

This summer exhibit highlights Castine’s rich literary tradition and includes information and displays on Abraham Lincoln biographer Noah Brooks, poets Philip Booth and Robert Lowell, authors Mary McCarthy and Katherine Butler Hathaway, among others.

Feather Mysteries: A Feather Identification Workshop

Advance registration required. (207) 326-9247
Children (9-12) will be paired with an adult.
Saturday, July 1 – 10:00 a.m. – Noon; Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street

Whether a new admirer of our feathered friends or an advanced “birder,” this workshop will forever change the way you look at birds! Take on the role of a forensic ornithologist — a feather detective! — and investigate the mysteries behind the feathers left at the scene.

Laura Sebastianelli is an experienced educator of students of all ages. She is the Adult and Family Program Coordinator at Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center. In addition, Ms. Sebastianelli is a serious and passionate animal tracker who continues to conduct periodic survey work in search of gray wolf for National Wildlife Federation. Her interest in feathers developed from her tracking perspective, and she has come to know birds in the field in a different way than most with an interest in birds.

Chautauqua - An Idea for all Seasons

Saturday, July 1 – 1:00 p.m.; Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street

Founded in 1874 on Chautauqua Lake in western New York, the Chautauqua Institution grew into an intellectual center with scenic grounds and fine buildings. Committed to programs intended to nurture the full potential and values in each individual, the Chautauqua Community fosters open inquiry, religious tolerance and shared cultural experiences.

Today, a Chautauqua participant can hear stimulating lectures on a wide range of topics, listen to world-class music, attend plays and religious services; share ideas, literary and otherwise, with intelligent listeners; visit art galleries or watch a movie. Exercise is also a focus; golf, tennis, walking, biking and water sports are readily available to all and enjoyed by many at Chautauqua.

We have been privileged to spend time, usually a week, at Chautauqua Lake for a number of summers – few places can draw us away from Castine in summertime – and now Castine has caught the spirit of Chautauqua!

~ Don and Sally Hoople

Philip Booth’s Seasons: A Poetry Reading

Saturday, July 1 – 4:00 p.m.; The Mitchell Room of the Abbott School
Home of the Castine Historical Society, 17 School Street
Sponsored by the Witherle Memorial Library

Philip Booth, one of Robert Frost’s last students, has written for more than four decades poems both prized and treasured for their clarity and depth. As Maine’s clearest poetic voice he has lived in a house handed down through five generations of his mother’s family in Castine. His poetry is known for its sense of place and feeling for nature. New England, Maine, Castine all are that place. His relation to natural surroundings throughout the seasons in that place reveals the influence of Henry David Thoreau. Mr. Booth is author of nine books of poetry, founder of Syracuse University Creative Writing Program, and has been honored by Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets.

Paula Dunfee is a retired educator from middle schools and high schools in Michigan and her native Maine. A mother and grandmother, she currently lives with three Maine coon cats. She has lived in Castine for thirty-six years.

Redpath Circuit Bohemian Band of Castine

Saturday, July 1 – 5:30 p.m.
Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street

The newly-formed Redpath Circuit Bohemian Band of Castine will present an outdoor concert at the Wilson Museum. The band is a successor to the original Chautauqua Redpath Circuit Band of 1900 led by Bohumir Kryl, a protégé of John Philip Sousa. Typical chautauqua band music, such as Sousa and R.B. Hall marches, as well as American folk tunes will be performed. The feature presentation will be an arrangement of “The Anvil Chorus” (from Il Trovatore) — a trademark of the original Redpath Circuit Band, with a special guest as the "anvil player."

~ Dick (Bohumir Kryl) Starke

Sunday, July 2 – 2:00 p.m.; Trinitarian Congregational Parish, 68 Main Street
Sponsored by the Witherle Memorial Library

Billy Sunday, who was until Billy Graham this country’s most successful evangelist, found the Lord while playing professional baseball in the 1880s. In the days before radio, Sunday used newspaper coverage and baseball to become the most famous preacher America had ever known. His sermons reached hundreds of thousands of people, and he was widely quoted and admired. He was an influential social leader who supported and popularized conservative causes, and he was an ardent champion of prohibition. He was a regular on chautauqua programs for many years, and he was in demand as a speaker and a preacher until his death in 1935.

Billy Sunday was in Bangor from May 29-July 3, 1927. This presentation will be a “staged visit” from Sunday to Castine’s Chautauqua Days – July 2006. “Billy Sunday” will deliver one of his stirring trademark speeches on a Sunday afternoon.

Wendy Knickerbocker is the author of Sunday at the Ballpark: Billy Sunday’s Professional Career, 1883-1890 (Scarecrow Press, 2000).

Free Drawing for a Cruise on the Schooner Bowdoin

Sunday, July 2 – 4:00 p.m.; Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street
Sponsored by the Maine Maritime Academy

Sign up for a free drawing at the Wilson Museum between May 27th and July 2nd. The drawing will be held at the Museum on July 2nd at 4:00 p.m. Thirty lucky winners will be treated to a four-hour cruise on Penobscot Bay on July 7th beginning at Noon. Should the weather not cooperate, the cruise will be postponed for noontime on the following day.

The Schooner Bowdoin was built in East Boothbay, Maine, and outfitted in South Portland in 1921. Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan envisioned a small vessel, strong, maneuverable, and with a shallow draft for navigating in the icy waters of the far north. Sails and engine together provided speed and nimbleness. The Bowdoin carried scientists researching the Arctic as well as supplies and medical aid to remote communities. The Bowdoin is celebrating her 85th anniversary. Today, the Bowdoin is owned by Maine Maritime Academy, a college of engineering, nautical and ocean sciences, business, and transportation.

In Concert:
Pianist Alan Feinberg, Violinist Curtis Macomber,
Percussionist Bill Friederich

Sunday, July 2 – 7:30 p.m.; Trinitarian Congregational Parish, 68 Main Street
Tickets at the Wilson Museum, or at the door: $20
Sponsored by the Wilson Museum

The program includes works of Beethoven, Gershwin, Grainger, Copland and Schoenfield, and is an unusual mix of classical and American selections. The American works feature pieces of the 1920s and make use of American and colonial themes: folk songs, cowboy songs and country fiddle music.

Alan Feinberg, pianist, has performed as soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Montreal Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the American Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the New World Symphony, and many others. A summer resident of Castine, Alan Feinberg lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Curtis Macomber, Doctor of Musical Arts, has performed as first violinist of the award-winning New World String Quartet, the Apollo Piano Trio, and Speculum Musicae. As a member of the Quartet, he served as artist-in-residence at Harvard. He is a member of the chamber music faculty of Juilliard and violin faculty of Manhattan School of Music. CRI has just released his third solo recording, Castine Ecstatic.

Bill Friederich, percussionist, aka The Reverend William J Friederich, received his first master’s degree from Wheaton Graduate School, Wheaton, IL. In 1997, he went on to complete a Master of Divinity degree at Bangor Theological Seminary. He has played with U.S. Army bands in Colorado and Europe. His musical repertoire now includes jazz, blues, as well as band music.

The International Croquet Game

July 3 – 10:00 a.m.; The Manor Inn, 15 Manor Drive off Battle Avenue
Advance registration suggested: (207) 326-9247
Sponsored by the Wilson Museum

Everyone is familiar with the game played with mallets, knocking wooden balls through wickets. Many have experienced the delight of smacking one’s opponent’s ball off the field. International Croquet differs from backyard croquet in the size of the lawn on which it is played and the number and complexity of the rules. Join the fun! Register as an individual or as a team of two.

Castine Historical Society Walking Tours

Monday & Thursday, July 3 & 6 – 2:00 p.m.
Participants will meet at Fort George
Sponsored by the Castine Historical Society

Walking tours of Castine will be led by Jim Stone, and others. Groups and individuals will meet at Fort George. The tour will take approximately one and a half hours, ending at the Abbott School on School Street.

Castine Revue: The Twenties Revisited

Monday, July 3 –7:30 p.m.; 2nd floor Emerson Hall, 67 Court Street
Sponsored by the Wilson Museum

We will perform a one-night-only retrospective of life in 1920s America as viewed through architecture, music, dance, literature and theater. Songs will be sung, dances danced, poetry and monologues read, and short lectures/demonstrations given.

I managed Cold Comfort Productions for over 20 years here in Castine and although I have been away from the area for more than a decade I went right back to my Castine friends for help. And there they all were: Louise, Charlene, Joan, Paula, Sue, Susan and many more, all ready to take up where we left off!

One of the great delights, although not planned, was that when we went to find “experts” to cover these cultural areas, we found the experts were most often graduates of the Adams School or the original Castine High School. Some still live here while others are from all over the globe, but they will be back here on July 3 to talk about their town, their expertise and the twenties. And we have a surprise guest to open the program who will be a delight to see and hear and who can bring unquestioned authenticity to the program.

I thank the Wilson Museum for the opportunity to once again work in our beautiful little town.

~ Aynne Ames

Director Aynne Ames was born and brought up in Falmouth Foreside and spent most of her life as a resident of Castine. Here, she and a friend founded Cold Comfort Productions, stock company active for over twenty years. A coordinated resident youth theater camp had two week sessions for more than fourteen years.

Belfast Maskers recruited Aynne to serve as their Artistic and Managing Director in 2004. Working with the Maskers, she has helped to develop teen and outreach programs and has directed several productions each year. Aynne plans to stay in this area for several years and upon retirement join her children and grandchildren, wherever they may be.

Flag Tournament

July 4 – All day
Sponsored by and held at the Castine Golf Club, 200 Battle Avenue
Registration and green fees required at the door.

A nine-hole event will run throughout the day. First come, first served.

Town of Castine – July 4th Events

Annual Parade: 10:00 a.m. Main Street
Annual Concert on the Common: 6:00 p.m. Court Street
Annual Fireworks: Commencing at dusk from Castine Harbor

Children’s Literature in the 1920s

Wednesday, July 5 – 1:00 p.m.
Sponsored by and held at the Witherle Memorial Library, School Street

The program is an illustrated discussion of the golden age of children’s literature in the United States and Great Britain. Whenever possible, copies of the books discussed will be displayed.

Margery Read is a longtime resident of Castine. She has done storytelling for both adults and children in schools and libraries in Maine. Dr. Read holds a Master of Library Science Degree with a specialty in children’s literature from Columbia University, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in American history from the University of Maine, and a Master of Arts Degree in literature from NYU. She is presently chair of the Board of Trustees of the Witherle Memorial Library.

In Concert: The Bagaduce Chamber Players

Wednesday, July 5 – 7:30 p.m.
Donations accepted; sponsored by and held at
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Castine, 86 Court Street

The Bagaduce Chamber Players was formed in 1999 and performs music for flute, violin, and piano in various combinations—solos, duos, and trios. Its repertory includes baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary works. This repertory is occasionally enlarged with the participation of guest artists.

Members of The Bagaduce Chamber Players are Penelope Wheeler, flute, from Penobscot; Albert Stwertka, violin, from Verona Island; and Arnold Berleant, piano, from Castine. Since 2003 members of the BCP have been artists-in-residence at the Castine Unitarian Church and perform throughout the year in Castine and neighboring communities.

Guest Musicians

Marcia Gronewold, mezzo-soprano, is a versatile artist whose repertoire extends from the Renaissance to the avant-garde in opera, oratorio, and chamber music. She has appeared as soloist with many organizations and in premiere performances and recordings of numerous works. A graduate of San Francisco Conservatory of Music who began studying music and theater at University of Illinois, Ms. Gronewold also hold a degree in Interdisciplinary Creative Arts from San Francisco State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Music Performance and Literature from Mills College.

Juan Condori, cello, studied guitar and cello in his native city of La Paz, Bolivia. He was a member of the Bolivian National Orchestra and toured South America with the Bolivian Youth Orchestra. He met the Portland String Quartet in Caracas, Venezuela, and was invited to study with them in Portland. He came to the US in 1978 and completed his Bachelor of Music in cello performance in 1985. After several years performing and touring with Mexican orchestras he returned to the US. He completed his masters in cello performance at Syracuse University in 1988 under a fellowship with the Syracuse Symphony. He currently lives in Blue Hill, performs with the Bangor Symphony, local chamber groups, and teaches cello privately.

Botanicals: A Focus on Mushrooms

Thursday, July 6 – 9:00 a.m.
Advance registration required: (207)326-8433.
Sponsors: Castine Arts Association, Castine Garden Club, and the Wilson Museum

Participants will meet at the Doudiet House, 120 Perkins Street, to view the botanical paintings of Alice McLaughlin. Alice was a summer resident of Castine in the late 1800s and spent much time painting watercolors. She collected local mushrooms which became subjects of numerous exquisite botanical sketches.

Liddy Fitz-Gerald, artist and amateur naturalist, will talk about local mushrooms. She has had an interest in wildflowers, birds, sea life, and nature in general from early childhood. After marriage to Clark B. Fitz-Gerald, she became interested in the many varieties of mushrooms in and around Castine, eating some and avoiding many!

Artist Lyn Mayewski, artist, will lead a painting workshop. Participants will walk to Trinity Episcopal Church where Lyn will demonstrate the technique of using gouache and colored pencil in botanical paintings. This is a hands-on workshop and all participants will have a chance to do their own paintings. While we will focus on mushrooms as subject matter, you are welcome to bring flowers or other botanical materials. Materials will be provided for the workshop.

Vintage Fashion Show and Luncheon

Thursday, July 6 – Noon; The Manor Inn, 15 Manor Drive off Battle Avenue
Reservations by June 28, limited seating: (207) 326-9247 $25/person.
Sponsored by the Wilson Museum

From the closets and treasure chests of Castine residents and the Vintage Finery in Orrington come cherished memories of the past. The Vintage Fashion Show will transport you back in time to a most exciting era. Clothing and accessories will delight your senses. There will be boaters, knickers, garters, middy blouses, bathing suits, teddies and other items considered haute couture at the time.

The Fashion Show is preceded by an elegant luncheon created by Chef Nancy Watson. Cash bar begins at 11:30 a.m., followed by the luncheon and the show. The Manor’s famous Prohibition Punch will be available as well as wine.

The show is choreographed and produced by Jean Miller with piano music by Eddie Madden. The Miller/Madden duo has created other similar shows in Arizona. As a pianist-composer-arranger, Eddie Madden is a multi-dimensional musical personality who has performed with such greats as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Kaye, Vaughn Monroe, Louis Armstrong and Liberace. He is best known internationally as a composer for concert bands and has been a frequent visitor to Castine as guest conductor for the Castine Town Band. His compositions of “The Castine March” and “Kindersong” are frequently played by the band.

Vintage Finery in Orrington, Maine has the largest selection of vintage clothing in New England. Owner Linda Mitchell-Storer has antique clothing dating back to the 1700s. In addition to clothing, Linda has a wide variety of period accessories to complement the outfits available for sale or rental.

Maine Silents: Let’s go to the Movies...1921

Thursday, July 6 – 7:30 p.m.; 2nd floor of Emerson Hall, 67 Court Street
Tickets at the door: $10 (children under 12 free)
Sponsored by the Wilson Museum

Pianist and composer Glenn Jenks will accompany a variety of silent movies made in Maine in 1921, including “Brother of the Bear” and “My Lady o’ the Pines.” Jenks will also speak about Holman Day who wrote and directed these films. A documentary of Holman Day’s life entitled “All But Forgotten” will also be shown, for which Jenks did the soundtrack. Holman Day Productions, producer of two dozen short films and one feature film, was based in Augusta, Maine, from 1920-1921. Many of the locations filmed in 1921 can be recognized today in downtown Augusta.

In addition, as was customary at the time, I will offer up some piano music before and after the showing of the films, and something by way of an explanation of how to put a “soundtrack” together between the two of them.

~ Glenn Jenks

Glenn Jenks graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in music from Earlham College in Richmond, IN. During the 1980s Jenks was frequently associated with the New Vaudeville Revival, serving as official pianist of the New England New Vaudeville Review. He frequently appeared with song and dance team Brian Jones and Susan Boyce, and for eleven years produced the popular annual Harvest Ragtime Review. He currently instructs about two dozen people of all ages in piano and music theory, and tours occasionally with his own lively program of American and New World music.

Forgotten Archaeology of the 1920s

Friday, July 7 – 1:30 p.m.
Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street

Archaeological work was conducted in Maine in the 1920s, but much of it missed the 1922 publication of Warren K. Moorehead's Archaeology of the Maine. The Twenties were a roaring time but, with the Depression and the passing of an older generation of archaeologists, exciting discoveries faded from memory without ever being published. I began tracking down some of these sites in 1985, finding old records and sometimes the remarkable memories of old "expedition" members.

~ Brian Robinson

Professor Robinson, Ph.D., Brown University, 2001, is an archaeologist specializing in northern and coastal hunter-gatherers, the culture history of northeastern North America, cultural and natural boundary conditions, mortuary ritual and anthropological theory. His dissertation was on groups and boundaries in the Gulf of Maine between 9000 – 4000 years ago, based on reanalysis of the Moorehead burial tradition. He has worked with Dr. Frederick West on the analysis of Pleistocene and Early Holocene lithic assemblages from central Alaska. Currently, Dr. Robinson has a National Science Foundation grant to document and evaluate the ring-shaped settlement pattern of the Bull Brook Paleoindian site in Ipswich, MA, which is composed of 40 activity areas. The project involves the original excavators of the site, the Peabody Essex Museum, and geologists, archaeologists, and students from the University of Maine and other institutions. The site may represent one of the largest structured settlement plans in Pleistocene North America.

Dr. Robinson has excavated in a wide variety of conditions including deeply stratified fluvial deposits, shell middens, and saturated freshwater and marine sites with organic preservation. His interests in material analysis include lithic and bone technology, faunal analysis (particularly fish) and organic preservation in wet sites. He is widely published in the field of archaeology and is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine in Orono.

Castine Town Band

Friday, July 7 – 6:00 p.m.
Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street

One of the highlights of the Bicentennial Celebration of the Town of Castine was a display of photographs of the citizenry from the first centennial of 1897, including pictures of musicians resplendent in their band uniforms. Dick Starke, a recent transplant to Castine, gazed at the photos and pondered, “Why isn’t there a town band now?” There was no good answer and only one thing to do — create a new town band.

Admittedly, the first concerts performed in 1998 were a bit ragged. By 2004, the band was recognized as one of the top four municipal bands in Maine. Dick Starke passed the baton to its present director, Si Yates, and returned to his first love — playing the French horn. Charlie Ulrich of Castine as band president.

Membership in the band is open to players of all ages and talent. Presently, the oldest player is 88 years old; the youngest performer has been as young as eight years old. It is a fine blend of locals, retirees and summer people who have one common interest — playing in the town band. Practices are held every Wednesday afternoon at the Trinitarian Congregational Parish; new players and visitors are always welcome.

The Castine Town Band leads the annual Memorial Day Parade and offers a summer concert series on alternate Friday nights on the Town Common. It has also become a tradition to play one concert each season on the beautiful grounds of the Wilson Museum. As always, the concerts are offered with never a fee or solicitation.

Restoration of Wilson Museum Artwork

Saturday, July 8 – 10:30 a.m.
Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street

Bonnie and Domenico Mattozzi will discuss the restoration process using as examples seven paintings in the Wilson Museum’s collection. In addition, the team will offer surface evaluations of paintings brought in by the public.

Bonnie and Domenico Mattozzi as BD Mattozzi, Inc. of Portland, Maine, specialize in the “Conservation and Restoration of Paintings” with completed projects – the collections of Senator Olympia Snowe, the Milliken Estate, the Henshaw Estate, the Merchant Estate, the Maine State Museum, the Maine Historical Society, the Southport Historical Society, the Museum of African Tribal Art, and the Rufus Porter Mural of Cape Elizabeth as a partial listing. Projects from collections of New York City include WPA Williamsburg, Brooklyn Murals, NYC Housing Authority, Yale Club Collection, Hispanic Society of America, and the Marlborough Gallery Collection.

Collecting the Stone Age in the Early Twentieth Century:
J. Howard Wilson and the Paleolithic Tool Collection in the Wilson Museum

Saturday, July 8 – 1:30 p.m.
Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street

The collection of Paleolithic or Old Stone Age tools in the Wilson Museum is a small-scale representation of such collections in United States museums. Dr. Wilson acquired some of his Old Stone Age materials from his own excavations, but many more came by purchase from museum curators and archaeological collections in Europe. Fortunately, the Wilson Museum has preserved the correspondence between Dr. Wilson and his suppliers. This lecture, given in conjunction with the special exhibition in the museum, uses his correspondence to reconstruct the story of Dr. Wilson’s acquisition of his Paleolithic materials. It is a story that is both unique in and at the same time representative of the way that American museums collected the Old Stone Age from the beginning of the last century into the 1920s. It also describes the context in which European, and especially French museums were willing and often compelled to disperse and sell what we would now see as cultural heritage or patrimony. The story of how these collections were gathered and brought to the United States is an important part of the history of American museums and of the history of Paleolithic studies.

~ Riva Berleant

Riva Berleant, Ph.D. is Professor of Anthropology (emerita) at the University of Connecticut. History and theory in anthropology are among her teaching specialties. Paleolithic prehistory has intrigued her ever since, at the age of nine, she read The Cave Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins, and became a “museum kid” at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Much later she joined the staff of the Nassau County (New York) Museum of Natural History to organize an archaeology and geology library. She has studied the representation of the Paleolithic in fiction, and thanks the Wilson Museum and its staff for the opportunity to study its presentation in museums. Berleant lives in Castine.

What Were They Thinking? Piano Music from the 1920s

Saturday, July 8 – 4:00 p.m.; Trinitarian Congregational Parish, 68 Main Street
Tickets at the Wilson Museum, or at the door: $20
Sponsored by the Wilson Museum

Stephanie Wendt, accomplished performer and winner of numerous competitions as well as writer, radio producer and announcer, has created a musical program especially for Chautauqua Days.

Through her expertly researched commentary and exquisite performance we will learn of what led to and influenced American music in the 1920s from other countries and composers, i.e. France – Poulenc, Russia – Stravinsky, etc., and other times as far back as the 1700s.

Although jazz was really the great new sound of the 1920s, here we will discover what led up to the ragtime era and hear other examples of American music of the times in the works of such composers as Amy Beach, Aaron Copland, and possibly Gershwin.

Raised in Australia, Stephanie Wendt began her piano studies at the age of five. She went on to earn degrees in piano performance from The Curtis Institute of Music, Indiana University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Minnesota, studying with illustrious teachers including Jorge Bolet, Gary Graffman, and Enrica Cavallo-Gulli. She has performed as chamber musician and soloist on five continents in venues ranging from Avery Fisher Hall in New York City to a maximum security prison. She has held teaching positions at the University of Indianapolis, Bethel College in St. Paul, and the University of Minnesota. On the radio, she has worked as producer and host for Minnesota Public Radio and WCAL.

In 2003, Stephanie Wendt launched “Clara’s Visitor,” her one-woman play about Clara Schumann, and received the 2003-2004 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Performing Musicians, as well as the Gracie Allen Award for Best Radio Portrait from American Women in Radio and Television. She debuted on CPRN in August 2005, as evening announcer and host of the Sunday morning show, “Sacred Classics.”

1920s Era Four-Course Dinner

Saturday, July 8– 7:00 p.m.; Castine Harbor Lodge, 147 Perkins Street
Reservations: (207) 326-4335; prix fixe $30

Castine Harbor Lodge celebrates Chautauqua Days – July 2006 with a four-course dinner based on menus from Castine’s old summer hotels at the turn-of-the-century. This Inn is Castine’s only waterfront hotel. Built in 1893 by Col. A. K. Bolan of New York City, it was later owned by Clarence Wooley, President of American Radiator Company of New York. The porches overlooking Penobscot Bay and distant Camden Hills offer a peaceful waterfront setting to enjoy a favorite book, to paint or to simply take in views of seals, osprey, boats, or a star-filled sky. There are sixteen guest accommodations and a Honeymoon Oceanfront cottage. Ample dock space for yachts of any size and guest moorings are available.

Installation Service — The Reverend J. Mark Worth

Sunday, July 9–10:30 a.m.; public welcome
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Castine, 86 Court Street

The speaker will be The Reverend Harold Babcock. Rev. Babcock, a native of Castine, serves the First Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts. He was delivered by and is the namesake of Dr. Harold Babcock, who for many years served as Castine's doctor. Rev. Babcock attended elementary school in Castine through the 8th grade, and has a B.A. from the University of Maine in Orono, and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. He was ordained in 1982, and has served Unitarian Universalist churches in Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts. He has served the First Religious Society of Newburyport since 1995, and is married to the former Sabrina Petterson, also a native of Castine. Sabrina teaches elementary education at the Cape Ann Waldorf School in Beverly Farms, MA.

Also speaking will be The Reverend Jill Job Saxby, Executive Director of the Maine Council of Churches.

Society, Politics and Problems in the Twenties

Sunday, July 9 – 3:00 p.m.
1954 Lecture Hall, Alfond Student Center, MMA, Pleasant Street
Sponsored by the Wilson Museum

This is a look at a time in our history when ways of living are changing rapidly. American society is faced with a new set of customs and traditions along with new social values and new patterns of social relationships. It’s a time of growth and development of organized crime which gained untold wealth with the introduction of prohibition. As a result of advancements in technology, many “creature comforts” are now available to most American families, such as the electric refrigerator, the phonograph, the radio and the automobile. It’s an era when the nation seeks a return to normalcy following World War I. It’s a most unusual and interesting decade!

Deale B. Salisbury is a descendent of the earliest settlers in Maine and New England: on his paternal side, he is a fifth great-grandson of Benjamin Milliken, Ellsworth’s first permanent settler; on his maternal side, his ancestry goes back to Thomas Bradbury (an eighth great-grandfather), who, in 1634, was the agent for Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the proprietor of the Province of Maine. Salisbury is a life-long educator, a former state legislator and a former member of the Ellsworth School Board and City Council. He is currently the chairman of the board of the Eastern Maine Development Corporation, and a board member of the Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Ellsworth Historical Society, and the Maine Historic Records Advisory Board. One of Salisbury’s most recent accomplishments is a history entitled “Ellsworth, Crossroads of Downeast Maine: A Pictorial Review,” published in 2005.

Luminaries on the Bay: Full Moon Paddle

Sunday, July 9 – 7:30 p.m.; Castine Kayak Adventures on Dennett’s Wharf
$45/person – kayak/gear provided
$35/person – with own pre-approved kayak/gear

This group paddle on Oakum Bay at dusk brings a finale to Chautauqua Days. Participants will meet at Castine Kayak Adventures on Dennett’s Wharf. A light for each kayak will be provided.

Castine Kayak Adventures offers customized sea kayak explorations and instructional clinics for beginner to experienced kayakers. Its Registered Maine Sea Kayak Guides conduct exciting eco-tours exploring sea life, geology, and the rich history that pervades Castine’s past. Kayakers visit coastal islands and experience dynamic tides while learning the art and skill of kayaking. Karen Francoeur, owner and operator of Castine Kayak Adventures since 1998, is a Master Maine Sea Kayak Guide and American Canoe Association Instructor.

The City of Dalian, China in My View

An illustrated talk
Saturday, August 19 – 3:00 p.m.
Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street

Jun Zhu lives with his wife and daughter in Dalian, a vital and beautiful port city located at the end of the Liaodong Peninsula in northeast China. In an illustrated talk Jun Zhu will acquaint the audience with his city and discuss the changes in the city and region that he has witnessed in his twenty-plus years as a resident. Although its Economic/Technology and Export/Processing zones have spurred rapid economic growth, the city can still boast of open space for its people and visitors with 42% green space within its 100 parks, along with its beaches and nearby mountains.

Jun Zhu holds a master’s degree in engineering from Dalian Marine College and is an Associate Professor at Dalian Maritime University as well as currently being a visiting professor here at the Maine Maritime Academy.

An upcoming event!!

I Love Paris . . . J’aime New York

August 23 – 7:30 p.m.; Trinitarian Congregational Parish, 68 Main Street
Tickets at the Wilson Museum, or at the door: $20
Sponsored by the Wilson Museum

Lyric soprano Amy Burton and composer/pianist John Musto of New York City bring a lively program of French and American music to Castine on August 23rd. The hit program will feature the works of Poulenc, Messager, Hahn, Edith Piaf/Louiguy, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin, and Noel Coward.

Amy Burton, with her flair for acting and keen sense for comedy, enjoys a busy career on stage and in opera, both internationally and at home. Her concerts include performances with Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin, Harry Bicket, Raymond Leppard, Christopher Hogwood, Eduardo Mueller, Richard Bonynge, Stephen Lord, Craig Smith, and Daniel Beckwith. She has been a member of the Voice Faculty, Mannes College of Music since 2002. Amy Burton has recorded for Angel/EMI/Albany Records, Harbinger and CRI.

John Musto, award winning composer and pianist, “is regarded as one of the most versatile musicians before the public today.” A finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, winner of two Emmys and two CINE awards, a Rockefeller Fellow at Bellagio, Italy, and a frequent guest lecturer at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music, Mr. Musto serves as composer-in-residence at the Caramoor Festival for the 2005-06 season. He has recorded extensively.

Amy Burton and John Musto are married and live in New York City with their son, Joshua.

The Geologic Evolution of the Coast of Maine with Special Focus on Castine

Saturday, August 26 - 9:00 a.m.
Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins St., Castine
Geologist Roger LeB. Hooke, Ph.D. presents an illustrated talk, followed by a walk (weather permitting)

The geologic history of the coast of Maine begins some 500 million years ago when a large chunk of Africa broke loose and began to "drift" across an ocean, called Iapetus that separated Africa from North America. (Iapetus was the father of Atlantis in Greek mythology.) This piece of continental crust, called Avalonia, acquired a mantle of volcanic detritus, now called the Castine volcanics, during the early part of its journey. Beneath the Iapetus Ocean, the ocean floor was gradually subducted under the proto North American continent (called Laurentia), thus drawing Avalonia closer and closer to Laurentia until the two collided, about 415 million years ago. During this collision, granites were intruded into Avalonia at depths of a few miles. In the subsequent 400 million years, erosion has stripped away these miles of rock, leaving the granites exposed at the surface in many places. The hills we see around us are underlain by slightly more resistant rock types that did not erode quite as fast as the rocks in the valleys. During the last 1.8 million years glaciers have advanced over Maine many times. The latest such advance culminated about 28,000 years ago. The weight of the ice depressed the crust so much that, when the ice withdrew, the sea flooded coastal Maine. In the Penobscot lowland it reached all the way to Medway. Glacial till deposited by the ice and marine clays deposited during the incursion of the sea are the primary surface materials in coastal Maine.

Roger Hooke is a Research Professor, with the Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine at Orono.

Bagaduce Recollections: An informal sharing of stories of life along the Bagaduce River

Sunday, September 10, 2006, 2:30 p.m.
Wilson Museum, 107 Perkins St., Castine, ME

The Bagaduce Watershed Association will offer an afternoon of informal "Bagaduce Recollections" at the Wilson Museum, Sunday, September 10, at 2:30 p.m. Community members who have lived in the Bagaduce watershed for one or more generations - in Brooksville, Castine, Blue Hill, Sedgwick, and Penobscot - will share stories about what they saw or heard, or what their parents, uncles, aunts or grandparents saw or heard way back when.

The public is invited to come and share or hear some favorite memories about growing up, going to school, hunting, ice skating, having a close call, getting through the hardest winter ever, making unusual job changes over time, or any other stories - facts, legends, or whoppers from the past. People are encouraged to bring old photos as well.

Refreshments will be served, and admission is free.

For more information contact: Wilson Museum 326-9247 or BWA's Nonny Ferriday, 326-0580

Back to Top WILSON MUSEUM Open: May 27 — September 30 Daily, 2 — 5 pm John Perkins House Blacksmith Shop Hearse House July — August, Wednesday & Sunday, 2 — 5 pm Group visits can be arranged by appointment. (207) 326-9247   info@wilsonmuseum.org Admission is free, except for the John Perkins House, where there are guided tours.