BUCKSPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PRESENTS A SERIES OF LECTURES FALL 2022
ADMISSION FREE – DONATIONS WELCOMED
Where: Elm Street Congregational Church (Brown Hall)
70 Franklin Street, Bucksport, Maine
September 15
7:00 pm
“History and Commemoration of the Statehood Era”
by Dr. Liam Riordan
Professor, University of Maine
September 29
7:00 pm
“The Railroad Comes to Bucksport”
by Chris Johnson
Bucksport Historical Society
October 13
7:00 pm
“The Penobscot Expedition”
by Gary Edgecomb
BUCKSPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS A FREE LECTURE BY Dr. Trudy Irene Scee Author of Rogues, Rascas and Other Villainous Mainers
Many nefarious characters have passed through Maine on their way to infamy, including the pirates Dixie Bull and Blackbeard (Edward Teach), and gangster Al Brady, who was gunned down by G-men in the streets of Bangor. The rogues and scoundrels assembled in this book, however, are either Maine natives or notorious individuals whose mischief, misdeeds, or mayhem were perpetrated in the Pine Tree State. Where: Elm Street Congregational Church (Brown Hall)
Where: Elm Street Congregational Church (Brown Hall) 31 Elm Street, Bucksport, Maine
When: September 16, 2021 @ 7:00 p.m.
Bucksport Historical Society also offers a chance to win one of three door prizes
MASKING AND SOCIAL DISTANCING ENCOURAGED
Author Mark Allen Leslie to speak on
Thursday, September 26, 2019⋅7:00 – 8:30pm
Location:
Elm Street Congregational Church
31 Elm St, Bucksport, ME 04416, USA
Description:
Maine’s connection to the famous Underground Railroad that helped free runaway slaves in the mid-1800s does not begin and end with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Many people conspired to break the law — the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 — forming a network of “safe houses,” hiding slaves from slave hunters and scurrying them to Canada. If caught, these Underground Railroad “conductors” faced fines and jail.
Author Mark Alan Leslie will weave the tale of the brave families who housed and fed slaves in hidden rooms, attics and elsewhere en route to the next secret “way station” on the “railroad.”
Publisher’s Weekly hailed Leslie’s novel, True North: Tice’s Story, about a slave’s escape over the Underground Railroad through Maine, naming it a Featured Book for 2016. The Midwest Book Review cited Leslie’s “genuine flair for compelling, entertaining, and deftly crafted storytelling.”
Mac Smith to speak on
‘Mainers on the Titanic’
Free admission
Event organizer: Bucksport Historical Society
Event Date & Time: Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 7:00pm
Place: Brown Hall, Elm St. Congregational Church,
Bucksport, Maine
Mac Smith, author of “Mainers on the Titanic,” will speak on the stories of passengers on that fateful ship who had ties to Maine. Many of them were wealthy summer visitors to Mount Desert Island, but there were other residents of the state aboard as well. Their tales are retold in a lively way, along with what was occurring in the state at the time.
Meticulously researched, this book reveals the agonizing day-to-day wait of Mainers for news of what really happened to their loved ones aboard. It also tells the stories of Maine passengers from their boarding to the sinking, rescue, and arrival back in the country, and the stories of those who did not survive. It’s a unique and fascinating addition to the Titanic story and to Maine history.
A Navy veteran of the First Gulf War and former news reporter for the Bar Harbor Times, Smith lives in Stockton Springs, in the village of Sandy Point, where he is restoring the family homestead. This is his first book.