Friday, September 23, 2022 at 7:00 pm ~ In collaboration with The KISMET Foundation, we are pleased to host Susan Bickford, a Yarmouth daughter and founder of the (stillness) project, a place-based, collaborative, interdisciplinary, improvisational annual retreat, as she shares several short videos created as part of the group's residency at the KISMET Foundation in June … [Read more...]
Lecture: Maine’s Newspapers
Now available to view online! Yarmouth History Center welcomed Candace Kanes, historian and former newspaper reporter and editor, to the Fall Lecture Series via Zoom on Tuesday, September 20 at 7:00pm. For this talk, Kanes shared her knowledge about the rich and evolving history of Maine’s newspapers. We offered this program as a complement to our new, and growing, online … [Read more...]
Fall 2022 Lecture Series
Join us for a lecture this fall! All lectures are free and open to the public. The lecture series is generously sponsored by the Leon and Lisa Gorman Fund. September 20, 7:00, Zoom Speaker: Candace Kanes, historian and journalist Subject: History of Newspapers in Maine Historian and former newspaper reporter and editor Candace Kanes will share her knowledge … [Read more...]
Cemetery Talk and Walk
Thanks to Yarmouth Municipal Television, this program is now available to watch on demand! Historian Ron Romano joined us on June 25, 2022 to share his extensive knowledge about Maine's billboard markers. We began the program in the old Meetinghouse on Hillside Street and continued in the cemetery for a walking tour. An interesting collection of nineteenth-century … [Read more...]
New video: Maine’s Economic Connections to Slavery
Yarmouth History Center welcomed Luke Gates-Milardo, Education and Community Engagement Specialist at Maine Maritime Museum, to the Spring Lecture Series on Thursday, April 21. In his program, Gates-Milardo presented documents and artifacts from Maine Maritime Museum's collection to shed light on Maine's role in the Atlantic slave economy. He discussed the research … [Read more...]