Call For Papers
Maritime History Symposium
at Maine Maritime Museum
"Life in the Shipyard and Life at Sea"
April 11-13, 2008
Save the dates and spread the word, whether you have any inclination to
speak, yourself!
We invite suggestions or self-nominations for speakers at our Maritime
History Symposium, sponsored by the Albert Reed & Thelma Walker Fund, which
Maine Maritime Museum is running this year for the 36th time. The dates of
the program this year are April 11-13, 2008. This will be the first time we
have ever abandoned our usual first-weekend-of-May time slot, which we are
doing because of evidence that a May conference was cutting into people's
gardening and lawn mowing time.
This year's theme will concentrate on the social history side of the
maritime world, especially on aspects of the lives of people working on
vessels or in shipyards (or boatyards). Wages, health, food, education and
training, clothing, religion and morality, leisure activities, folk art,
punishment and family life are all possibilities. If you have similar ideas
and are not sure they would be appropriate, just ask. This year we are
pretty open, but we are looking for presentations on people, not ships.
The length of the individual talks will depend on how many speakers we end
up with. Usually, speakers have 45 minutes each. Any form of AV enhancement
is encouraged, but not required.
Nathan R. Lipfert, Senior Curator
Maine Maritime Museum
243 Washington Street
Bath, Maine 04530
207-443-1316, ext 328, fax 207-443-1665
www.mainemaritimemuseum.org
lipfert[at]maritimeme.org
Showing posts with label 2007. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2007. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Holiday Greetings 2007
Well, it's been a great year here on the Strange Maine blog. We topped 60,000 hits, reached our 2 year anniversary in October, and overall had a great time. I met Loren Coleman, Glenn Chadbourne, and countless other friendly Mainers who intrigue me to no end. Abraham Schechter began adding his lore and research to our archives. I heard a lot of interesting stories which I'm hoping to get onto the blog to share with all of my readers. After two years of walking the path of Strange Maine, I can say with all honesty that I feel at home here still, and I love every minute I spend here. And I will never run out of interesting material!
The last few months have seen a slowdown of posts on the blog, and with the New Year I'm hoping to remedy that as I shift around some of my other obligations that have been leaving the blog unfairly short of my time and attention.
I'd like to take this moment to thank all of my readers, both the new ones and the regulars who have been with us for what seems like a long time now. Thank you for letting me know how much you like the site, and for bearing with us in our slower times. We promise great things as the years go on, and we hope you'll stick around to enjoy them.
We have some great stuff in the works -- interviews with Glenn Chadbourne, William Dufris of "Nightmares on Congress Street" OTR recording fame, exploration of Maine bigfoot sightings, exciting talk about Mark LaFlamme's new book and other great strange Maine fiction, and more, more, more! So stay tuned -- I promise you won't be disappointed.
As the year turns, I would like to share one thing with you all for sure -- my new tattoo. For almost two years I planned on getting a tattoo that commemorates my love of the strangeness of Maine. I finally drew up the design and set a date in late October 2007 with Wil Scherer, at Sanctuary Tattoo in Portland. After three hours in the chair, this was the result. It's official! Once I get organized, I'll be producing t-shirts with the design on them as part of a fund raiser for the blog and the Gazette.
The last few months have seen a slowdown of posts on the blog, and with the New Year I'm hoping to remedy that as I shift around some of my other obligations that have been leaving the blog unfairly short of my time and attention.
I'd like to take this moment to thank all of my readers, both the new ones and the regulars who have been with us for what seems like a long time now. Thank you for letting me know how much you like the site, and for bearing with us in our slower times. We promise great things as the years go on, and we hope you'll stick around to enjoy them.
We have some great stuff in the works -- interviews with Glenn Chadbourne, William Dufris of "Nightmares on Congress Street" OTR recording fame, exploration of Maine bigfoot sightings, exciting talk about Mark LaFlamme's new book and other great strange Maine fiction, and more, more, more! So stay tuned -- I promise you won't be disappointed.
As the year turns, I would like to share one thing with you all for sure -- my new tattoo. For almost two years I planned on getting a tattoo that commemorates my love of the strangeness of Maine. I finally drew up the design and set a date in late October 2007 with Wil Scherer, at Sanctuary Tattoo in Portland. After three hours in the chair, this was the result. It's official! Once I get organized, I'll be producing t-shirts with the design on them as part of a fund raiser for the blog and the Gazette.
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