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Pejepscot History
Приєднався 14 кві 2012
Pejepscot History Center preserves, interprets, and promotes the rich history of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine, through its collections, programs, and historic house museums.
Please enjoy our virtual programming!
Please enjoy our virtual programming!
Crimes Against Genealogy
Presented by Barbara Desmarais
Was your ancestor killed in the Battle of Port Royale? Or the heir to an English title and estate? Are you sure? Local historian Barbara Desmarais, well-known for both her local cemetery research and advancing the understanding of Brunswick’s Black 19th century population, delivers a lively presentation about coverups, deceit, and plain old mistakes from area families, including her own.
Was your ancestor killed in the Battle of Port Royale? Or the heir to an English title and estate? Are you sure? Local historian Barbara Desmarais, well-known for both her local cemetery research and advancing the understanding of Brunswick’s Black 19th century population, delivers a lively presentation about coverups, deceit, and plain old mistakes from area families, including her own.
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Chamberlain Saddle & Boots Party
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Join us on Thursday, August 15, 2024, to support the conservation of Joshua L. Chamberlain's saddle and Gettysburg boots. The event at Skyline Farm in North Yarmouth from 5:30-7:30PM is hosted by "Joshua and Fanny" and features carriage rides, live music, a silent auction and more.
Scrimshaw: Folk Art to Fine Art
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Part of Pejepscot History Center's Zoom at Noon series. Scrimshaw: Folk Art to Fine Art with Korinne Tanzer. Scrimshaw, the ubiquitous American folk art, has been a familiar sight in many New England homes since whalers first brought their art home from long voyages. Intricately carved bone, images darkened with ink, are evocative mementos of a society that heavily relied on the sea. In this ta...
Art, Education & Patriotism: 19th Century Schoolgirl Maps
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In the early to mid-19th century, creating hand-drawn and colored maps were common educational exercises for schoolchildren. While they were not necessarily considered art in their time, today many of them would be considered exquisite. Using a number of examples owned by the Osher Map Library and other archives, Libby Bischof, Professor of History and Executive Director of Osher Map Library an...
Caesar Freeman: An 18th-Century Free Black Man in Bowdoin, Maine
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During Black History Month, local historian Jym St. Pierre presents his research on Caesar Freeman, one of the first settlers of the Town of Bowdoin, Maine, and a free Black man. An early member of the First Baptist Church of Bowdoin, Freeman had his own nameplate on a pew and Caesar’s Pond in Bowdoin is named for him. Jym will trace his arrival in Bowdoin, his livelihood and family life, and h...
Chamberlain Legacy Lecture 2022: Disability and the Civil War
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(September 15, 2022) Dr. Sarah Handley-Cousins, author of "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North" explores how notions of masculinity changed in the 19th century as a result of war wounds, both external and internal. Her book includes a full chapter devoted to Chamberlain’s wounds and the effect they had on him (and his family) throughout his post-war life. During the talk, Handley-...
Fine Art/Folk Art: Breaking the Boundaries
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From portraits of John and Abigail Adams to the AIDS Memorial quilt, and many stops in between, this visually compelling presentation by Bowdoin College Associate Professor of Art History Emerita, Linda Docherty, has something for everyone. Linda's whirlwind tour through changes in ideas of what makes for "good art" over time will leave you with new favorites and a new appreciation of what you ...
Confronting Our History: Reinterpreting the Skolfields and the Slave Economy
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In the colonial era, Maine had a significant population of enslaved people and engaged heavily in the Atlantic slave trade. By Alfred Skolfield’s time (1815-1895), slavery had legally ended in Maine. However, Northern prosperity had become inseparable from Southern slavery. The Skolfields leveraged their connections with the South and the slave economy in order to build a prosperous multi-gener...
The Burning of Brunswick at 300: Memory and Maine's Forgotten War
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Known as “Dummer’s War,” “Father Rale’s War,” “Lovewell’s War,” “Greylock’s War,” the “Three Years War,” the “Wabanaki-New England War,” or the “4th Anglo-Abenaki War,” the 300th anniversary of this conflict offers an opportunity to examine what sparked Wabanakis and Maine colonists to go to war in 1722. Brunswick was the first town Wabanaki forces struck once the fighting started-why? How did ...
The Arrival of the Ulster-Scots in the Pejepscot Region
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Speakeers: John Mann, President Emeritas, Maine Ulster Scots Project; and Ian Saxine, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Bridgewater State University, and author of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" The Ulster-Scots, or Scots-Irish, began populating the southern Midcoast of the District of Maine in the early 18th century. Many fam...
Four Centuries of Immigration to Maine: A Talk with Maine Historical Society Curator, Tilly Laskey
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Kicking off PHC's 2022 programming on immigration is a slideshow and conversation with Maine Historical Society curator, Tilly Laskey, whose work at MHS and multi-generational family history in Brunswick gives her a unique perspective on topics of immigration in the Pejepscot region-from the first contact of Europeans and Indigenous peoples and its ongoing impact-to today’s New Mainers. She wil...
Maine's 21st Century Immigrants with Morgan Rielly and Reza Jalali
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Pejepscot History Center presents "Dear Maine: The Trials and Triumphs of Maine’s 21st Century Immigrants" with speakers and authors Morgan Rielly, State Representative, House District 34 Reza Jalali, Executive Director of Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center.
Making History Accessible: Expanding Access to PHC's Archives
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With tens of thousands of documents, photographs, and artifacts, PHC is the largest repository of local history in the Pejepscot region. From 18th-century maps to Dear Covid letters, our diverse collection spans hundreds of years and dozens of topics. We take our role as stewards of history seriously and are always trying to improve how we care for these precious items, including making them ac...
Taking Wing: A Century of Flight in the Brunswick Region
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Taking Wing: A Century of Flight in the Brunswick Region
Uncovering the Life of Quash, a Black Man in Eighteenth-Century Topsham
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Uncovering the Life of Quash, a Black Man in Eighteenth-Century Topsham
Unpacking the Skolfield-Whittier House South Attic
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Unpacking the Skolfield-Whittier House South Attic
My Franco Family: How I Researched my Roots and Learned More about Brunswick's Franco Community.
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My Franco Family: How I Researched my Roots and Learned More about Brunswick's Franco Community.
Adapting Historic Recipes for Modern Kitchens
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Adapting Historic Recipes for Modern Kitchens
Discover Your Place at PHC: Volunteer Info Session
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Discover Your Place at PHC: Volunteer Info Session
What’s Missing: Re-thinking the Homogeneity of Local History Collections
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What’s Missing: Re-thinking the Homogeneity of Local History Collections
Thank you. The information on the African Americans was very interesting.
Great video. Thanks for all your work!
Thank you, great presentation. My name is Dr. Humberto Liriano Fanduiz. He was my great Uncle.
Thank you Dr. Fanduiz! We're so glad that you enjoyed it. He was a truly remarkable man.
@@pejepscothistory6552 He was my dad's great-great uncle!
That was really exhilarating ; thank you !
I am a descendant of the Freemans, and my mother grew up in Maine. I have cousins who are currently living in Maine so the descendants are still in Maine though not in Brunswick. Thank you James for your work and presentation! Alison Hart
Fantastic event and fantastic lecture. Wonderful work all around.
I'm a PhD candidate writing my dissertation on the life and leadership of Joshua L. Chamberlain. I thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful lecture.
Very interesting presentation! I´m interested in have contact with Fanduiz Family or with Catherine Cyr. I´m from Dominican Republic and I´m investigating about this family. Thanks