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The 40th annual Albert Reed and Thelma Walker Maritime History Symposium is scheduled to run from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 28 at the Maine Maritime Museum on Washington Street. The theme for this year’s presentations is “The History and Future of the Maritime Experience.”
“The theme was chosen to reflect upon and recognize that Maine Maritime Museum is commemorating its 50th anniversary year during 2012 and that the museum’s collections represent the spectrum of activities that comprise the maritime world,” a release from the museum states. “The topic also encouraged speakers from many areas within the maritime realm to present at the symposium, ranging from academic historians and museum professionals to mariners, boat builders, and military sailors.”
Registration fees for the symposium are $60 for museum members, $70 for nonmembers and $35 for students. The fee includes all lectures, breakfast, lunch, dessert, beverages and a concluding reception.
For details and schedule of events, visit www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org. Tickets can be purchased online or by phone at 443-1316.
‘The History and Future of the Maritime Experience’
Schedule of speakers
• Capt. Sean S. Bercaw: “100,000 Miles of Traditional Vessels and Modern Education: From Sailing the Freedom Schooner Amistad into Cuba to Cutting- Edge Science under Sail”
• Molly Bolster: “Building the Gundalow Piscataqua: A Celebration of Maine and New Hamphire Rivers”
• Michael Connolly: “Portland, Maine’s Irish Longshoremen in their own words”
• Ernest G. DeRaps: “Automation and Preservation of Lighthouses”
• Glenn M. Grasso: “The Maritime Revival and Writing New Histories of Seafaring”
• Brothers Jaime and Joe Lowell: “History of the Maine Lobster in the Frost and Lowell Families”
• James Millinger: “Portland’s Ever Changing Harbor”
• Annie Tock Morrisette: “Eighteenth- Century Merchant Ship Construction: A Historiography”
• Larry Spencer: “The Gulf of Maine, The RV Albatross and H. B. Bigelow: The Genesis of The Fishes of the Gulf of Maine”
• Mark Wilkins: “Cape Cod’s Oldest Shipwreck: The Desperate Crossing of the Sparrow-hawk”
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