Celebrating Penobscot Bay: A retrospective
The Penobscot Marine Museum’s summer show “75 for 75” will showcase 75 items from the museum’s collection, ranging from marine paintings and domestic furnishings to small craft. PMM is located on Route 1 in Searsport. penobscotmarinemuseum.com, 207-548-2529.
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Coastal ingenuity: Then and now at the Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors Show
By John K. Hanson Jr. - Aug 10Mainers are a creative lot. They have always adapted to the times while maintaining a high standard of craftsmanship and a pride that is reflected ...
A giant step in land preservation
By John K. Hanson Jr. - Aug 02Hard times can have lasting effects on a region. Unlikely as it seems, we are very fortunate here on Penobscot Bay to have two positive legacies ...
Yachting’s lasting legacy: The scene today
By John Hanson - Jul 22While the sailor of 1936 would find much changed today along the Penobscot Bay waterfront, he would easily recognize some of the types of boats ...
An innovative answer to getting around
By John K. Hanson, Jr. - Jun 25Seventy-five years ago on the coast of Maine, the automobile was beginning to dominate as a mode of transportation. Its popularity, along with the ...
75 years on Penobscot Bay
By John K. Hanson, Jr - Jun 06Imagine that it’s 75 years ago. 1936. Hamburger is 12 cents per pound. The Great Depression is full on. Unemployment is at 16.9 percent. The winds ...
Art of the Coast: The contemporary scene
By John K. Hanson Jr. - Aug 06Images of Maine and the lives lived here have inspired great art for hundreds of years. The tradition is alive and well today with art both ...
Maine as muse in the 1930s
By John K. Hanson, Jr. - Jul 30Ten years ago or so, an art museum in New York had a show of Maine painters, most of whom were residents of Maine during the 1930s. The catalog ...
The rise of yachting
By Ben Fuller - Jul 17Coming east from Boothbay in a yacht in 1936 could be an adventure. There weren't many yachts unless you landed in one of the summer colony ...
Travel by sea, rail, and road
By Ben Fuller - Jun 21Seventy-five years ago, a transportation revolution was happening on Maine's coast. In January 1936 at Snow’s Shipyard in Rockland, the keel was ...
