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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]