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Good Grit: Black Sailors of Lincoln County
OnlineThis online program is free and open to the public. Preregistration is required. Click here to sign up. Learn about the lives of a few of the incredible Black men— free and enslaved— who worked the waters of the Kennebec and helped shape Lincoln County. This talk will span the decades from the 1700s to the late 1800s. Korinne Tanzer ...
Samoset of Pemaquid: Online Lecture with author Jody Bachelder
OnlineThis talk is free and open to the public, registration is required. Click here to register. Suggested donation to support LCHA programs: $5 On March 16, 1621, Samoset cemented his place in history when he boldly walked into Plymouth Plantation and greeted the settlers in English. And that's where most history books leave him. They never hint at ...
****RESCHEDULED for March 14th**** Good Grit: Black Sailors of Lincoln County
OnlineThis online program is free and open to the public. Preregistration is required. Click here to sign up. Learn about the lives of a few of the incredible Black men— free and enslaved— who worked the waters of the Kennebec and helped shape Lincoln County. This talk will span the decades from the 1700s to the late 1800s. Korinne Tanzer ...
Getting to know Rachel Carson: best-selling author, scientist, conservationist, advocate
OnlineBiologist/author Rachel Carson standing seaside, examining specimen in jar. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) Rachel Carson was famously one of the essential sparks in the environmental movement and, although lacking the usual scientific credentials, a major force in national scientific debates. Yet she was a shy, retiring and humble person. How did she come to ...
Online Talk: Along Route One with author Susan Bregman
OnlineAuthor, writer, and photographer Susan Mara Bregman presents the story of Route One from her new book, Along Route One, in an online talk for Lincoln County Historical Association on September 28th at 5:30 pm. Advance registration required to attend this talk being held using Zoom. Registration is free and open to the public. Your donations help us continue to ...
Amy Truesdell encore!
OnlineWe hosted Civil War author Amy Truesdell for an in-person lecture that was so good that we are bringing her back for our online audience! Don't miss this talk! Registration Click here Local author Amy Truesdell will discuss her new book, From Binghamton to the Battlefield: The Civil War Letters of Rollin B. Truesdell, which traces the Civil War experiences of ...
Enslavement in Maine
OnlinePreregistration (below) is required to receive the Zoom link for this program. Learn some of the lesser told stories of our past with an overview of enslavement in Maine, beginning in the 17th century and describing its expansion in the state over two hundred years. She'll share stories of individual enslaved people, and bring to light some of the people ...
Malaga Island with Kate McBrien
Onlinehttps://youtu.be/mIeqJndS9zs Courtesy of Peter K. Roberts Maine State Archivist Kate McBrien explores the true history of the community who lived on Malaga Island, off the coast of Phippsburg, Maine, in the late 1800s with an engaging presentation and discussion. This program examines the individuals who were part of this community and the State’s actions to evict them from their ...
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Uncovering the Life of Quash, a Black Man in Eighteenth-Century Lincoln County
OnlinePre-registration required to receive Zoom Link In the spring of 2020, while working on a genealogy project in the history of a local white family in Lincoln County, Maine, independent researcher James Tanzer came across a digital copy of the will of a formerly enslaved Black man named Quash, who lived in Topsham, Maine during the eighteenth century. Eager to ...