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...]
Student Presentation: Holocaust Education in Maine
Yarmouth History Center is pleased to host NYA senior Nathanel Peretz's final presentation of his independent study on Holocaust education in Maine. The presentation will take place on Thursday, April 14 at 4:00 on Zoom. The talk is free and open to all. Please email Katie Worthing (kworthing@yarmouthmehistory.org) for the Zoom link. In November 2021, Peretz's earlier work on … [Read more...]
Spring 2022 Lecture Series
Join us for a lecture this spring! All lectures are free and open to the public. The lecture series is generously sponsored by the Leon and Lisa Gorman Fund. March 22, 7:00, Zoom Speaker: Anne Gass, author Subject: We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip Click here for the video! April 21, 7:00, Zoom Speaker: Luke Gates-Milardo, educator … [Read more...]
Lecture: Suffrage Road Trip
This talk is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bgGKvSZNFw8 Yarmouth History Center welcomes Maine author Anne B. Gass to the Spring Lecture Series via Zoom at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, March 22. Gass will join us on Zoom to discuss her new book, We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip, a historical fiction novel that is based on the true story of an epic 1915 road trip for the … [Read more...]
