This event has been rescheduled to Tuesday, April 30 at 4:00 .  Please join us at Yarmouth History Center for a free public reading and presentation on Tuesday, April 30 at 4:00 as participants in our spring writing workshop share their work. This 5-week workshop, led by local author Steve Langan, guided participants in exploring their personal history through the lens … [Read more...]

Wednesday, October 18 at 7:00 pm ~ Join us at Yarmouth History Center for our Annual Meeting and Lecture on October 18 at 7:00 pm. We will begin the evening with a brief business meeting for members to elect new and renewing board members. Following the business meeting, Executive Director Katie Worthing will speak about our newest collections acquisition, a wonderful 1844 … [Read more...]

We are excited to partner with Yarmouth’s Merrill Memorial Library to offer an exciting slate of classic film screenings throughout the winter and spring. We wrap up this series on Wednesday, April 10 with the 1941 film noir The Maltese Falcon. Due to some changes in this series, this will be a digital screening, not 16mm as originally planned. These screenings begin at … [Read more...]

Thanks to Yarmouth Municipal TV, this program is now available online! Yarmouth History Center welcomes Maine poet Jeri Theriault to the Fall Lecture Series at 7:00pm on Thursday, September 28. She will read from her new collection, Self-Portrait as Homestead (Deerbrook Editions), and discuss the process of mapping a personal history through poetry. The poems in this … [Read more...]

Joshua M. Smith, Director of the American Merchant Marine Museum, joins us on Wednesday, June 28 at 7:00 pm to speak about his new book, Making Maine: Statehood and the War of 1812. In his talk, he will explore the reasons Mainers sought separation from a large, prosperous, and important state like Massachusetts and will look closely at North Yarmouth, a … [Read more...]