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The Friends of Colonial Pemaquid sponsor a number of activities including lectures, workshops, and special events. Here is the schedule for the 2008 season. Be sure to bookmark our web site and come back often to see future updates!

Please show a print out of this web page to admit you and your family or guests to one of our lectures without charge.

Offer is limited to one event per group per season.

Schedule of Events for 2008

(Events Subject to Change)

Date Event  Cost
Saturday, May 24

First Special Event of the Season

Performance of traditional tunes of the British Isles by Maine St.Andrew’s Pipes and Drums of Corinth, Maine.

2:00pm

Donations welcome
Sunday, June 1

Evening Lantern Walk

including tour of 17th century excavated village by candle light and meeting with an 18th century soldier at Fort William Henry. (Rain date June 2)

8:00pm

Donations welcome
Saturday, June 7
Sunday, June 8

18th Century Crafts and Pastimes Weekend

including demonstrations of blacksmithing and woodworking and presentations on Colonial childrens’ games.

1:00pm-4:00pm each day
Donations welcome
Saturday, June 21

Quicker Than the Eye.

Living history interpreter Robert Olson will demonstrate 18th century magic and conjuring at 1:30 PM and 3:30 PM. (Rain date June 22)

1:30pm-4:00pm

Donations welcome
Friday, July 4

232nd Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

Public reading, with commentary, by living history interpreter.

2:00pm

Donations welcome
Saturday, July 5

Evening Lantern Walk

including tour of 17th century excavated village by candle light and meeting with an 18th century soldier at Fort William Henry. (Rain date July 6)

8:00pm

Donations welcome
Sunday, July 6

Archaeology Discovery Day at Colonial Pemaquid

with activities for both youth and adults and featuring archaeologist Dr. Neill DePaoli.

1:00pm-5:00pm (rain date: Sunday, July 20)

Donations welcome
Monday, July 7

‘To Brass iron pewter Wood & other Ware for Housewifry’: Outfitting a Kitchen in Colonial New England

by Dr. Andrea Hawkes, Tate House Museum.

7:30pm

Free to FOCP members; others $3.00
Saturday, July 12
Sunday July 13

Frontier Outpost. Military Encampment of Benjamin Church’s Company

featuring uniformed men-at-arms demonstrating period weapons and military exercises.

1:00pm-4:00pm each day

Donations welcome
Monday, July 14

Wabanaki Homeland, Mapping and Cross-Cultural Collaboration: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat

by Micah Pawling, University of Maine, Orono.

7:30pm

Free to FOCP members; others $3.00
Monday, July 21

Down to the Sea in Something…Ships and Shipping in 17th and 18th Century Pemaquid

by historian James Nelson.

7:30PM

Free to FOCP members; others $3.00
Saturday, July 26

The Age of Pirates

featuring historian Jim Nelson as the notorious swashbuckler Dixie Bull. (Rain date July 27)

1:00pm and 3:00pm

Donations welcome
Monday, July 28

Guns, Iron and Pathogens: European-Indigenous Communities’ First Contact

by H. G. “Skip” Brack, Davistown Museum. [This is the final event in the Pemaquid region’s Wabanaki Days Celebration].

7:30pm

Free to FOCP members; others $3.00
Saturday, August 2

Evening Lantern Walk

including tour of excavated 17th century village by candle light and meeting with 18th century soldier at Fort William Henry. (Rain date August 3)

7:00pm

Donations welcome
Monday, August 4

New England and the China Trade

by independent historian Miriam Butts.

7:30PM

Free to FOCP members; others $3.00
Monday, August 11

Natives of Pemaquid: Adventure and Misadventure in 1605

with independent historian David Morey.

7:30 pm

Free to FOCP members; others $3.00
Saturday, August 16
Sunday, August 17

Native American Weekend

with living history interpreter Ken Hamilton presenting a new perspective on 17th century trade in coastal Maine.

1:00pm-4:00pm each day

Donations welcome
Monday, August 18

Who Is at Rest in the Olde Fort Burial Ground?

by Colonial Pemaquid board member Bill Kerr

7:30 pm

Free to FOCP members; others $3.00
Monday, August 25

"Medockawando arrived at Fort Charles": Pemaquid’s Role in Anglo-Indian Diplomacy in Early Maine

by historical archaeologist Dr. Neill De Paoli.

7:30pm

Free to FOCP members; others $3.00
Saturday, August 30

Castlebay in Concert

with local musicians Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee. (Rain date August 31)

1:00pm and 3:00pm

Donations welcome
 
 

 

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 Friends of Colonial Pemaquid
Post Office Box 304
New Harbor, Maine 04554-0304
 
Telephone: (207) 677-2423 (April-October)
(207) 624-6075 (off-season)
 
 

 
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