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SUMMARY:Indigenous Maritime Culture in North America
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n2025-2026 Speaker Series\n\nIndigenous Maritime Culture\nin North America\nLincoln Paine\, Maritime Historian\nWednesday\, May 13\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\nRegister for Zoom Presentation\n\nLincoln Paine \n\n\nNative American (perhaps a man named Wasco) with a dugout canoe near Celilo Falls\non the Columbia River in Oregon\, 1897. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.\n  \nLincoln Paine is a maritime historian\, author\, editor\, and curator whose books include the award-winning The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (Knopf\, 2013)\, Down East: A Maritime History of Maine (Tilbury House\, 2000)\, and Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia (Houghton Mifflin\, 1997). Paine is President\, North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) and Visiting Scholar\, Center for Oceans and Coastal Law\, University of Maine School of Law. \nThe Sea and Civilization won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction and a Mountbatten Maritime Award from the Maritime Foundation (UK)\, and made “best of” lists in Choice\, Booklist\, and The Telegraph (UK). The New York Public Library and Library Journal recognized Ships of the World as an outstanding reference source. \nPaine’s articles and reviews have been published in a wide variety of journals and magazines including The Daily Beast\, Foreign Affairs (online)\, France Forum\, Global Geneva\, International Journal of Maritime History\, Nautical Research Journal\, Naval History\, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord\, Professional Mariner\, and Sea History. \nFrom 2009 to 2012\, Paine was the guest curator and archivist of the Norman H. Morse Collection of Ocean Liner Materials at the Osher Map Library\, University of Southern Maine in Portland\, Maine. He is chair of the board of the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath\, Maine\, which marineinsight.com named one of the ten best maritime museums in the world. \nHe has lectured on topics across the broad spectrum of maritime enterprise\, including literature of the sea\, exploration\, museum curatorship\, decorative arts\, maritime law\, trade\, and naval history. A frequent guest in academic settings\, he has spoken at NOVA University of Lisbon; Ocean University of China\, Qingdao; Leiden University\, the Netherlands; Tulane Law School; Tufts University; College of the Atlantic; the Naval War College; and the U.S. Naval Academy\, among others. \nPaine has participated in public affairs forums including the Commonwealth Club of California; Engelsberg Seminar\, Avesta\, Sweden; Times of India LitFest\, Mumbai; and Arctic Futures Institute. He has also addressed trade associations such as the Women in International Shipping and Transportation Association (WISTA) and the Propeller Club. He is a frequent presenter at meetings of the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH)\, the International\nMaritime History Association\, and the World History Association and its affiliate the New England Regional WHA. \nHis radio appearances include PRI’s The World (Boston)\, BBC Radio 3 (UK)\, The John Batchelor Show (New York City)\, and Crosscurrents with Hana Baba\, KALW Public Radio (San Francisco). \nA graduate of Columbia College\, Paine has helped organize four tall ship events\, including Operation Sail’76 (for the U.S. Bicentennial) and OpSail ’86/Salute to Liberty. Before turning to writing fulltime\, he spent fourteen years as a non-fiction and reference book editor in New York. He is on the editorial board of The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord\, and has also served as an editor of Sea History magazine and Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions. \nBefore the 1950s\, if you wanted to get to the Americas\, you had to come by boat. This was true of the waves of celebrities aboard art deco-inspired ocean liners\, of nineteenth-century European immigrants\, of enslaved Africans from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries\, and of Spanish\, English\, and other European conquistadors from the late fourteenth century. It was also true of successive waves of people who\, starting around 15\,000 years ago\, migrated from Northeast Asia to North America and then spread south\, east\, and\, as the ice sheet retreated\, north\, many of them relying on rivers and lakes for migration\, fishing\, hunting\, and exchange. \nThis talk will sketch the broad outlines of Native Americans’ use of waterways and watercraft over the many millennia before Europeans even imagined such a thing as the Americas. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:New England Horses\, Sugar & Slavery in the 18th Century
DESCRIPTION:2025-2026 Zoom Speaker Series\n\n\n\n\nNew England Horses\,\nSugar & Slavery in the 18th Century\nCharlotte Carrington-Farmer\, Professor of History\, Roger Williams Univ.\n\nWednesday\, April 8\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\nRegister for Zoom Presentation\n\n\nCharlotte Carrington-Farmer\n\nDr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer is a Professor of History\, and she specialises in early American History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2010\, and she has a keen research interest in dissent in seventeenth-century New England. Her book\, Roger Williams and His World\, (Peterborough\, Ontario: Broadview Press\, 2024)\, sets Roger Williams in his wider Atlantic world context. She has published book chapters on two seventeenth-century dissenters\, see: “Thomas Morton” in: Atlantic Lives: Biographies that Cross the Ocean (Leiden and Boson: Brill\, 2014) and “Roger Williams and the Architecture of Religious Liberty\,” in Law and Religion and the Liberal State (Oxford: Hart Publishing\, 2020.) Building on her interest in Roger Williams\, she has published an article on his wife\, Mary Williams\, entitled: “More than Roger’s Wife: Mary Williams and the Founding of Providence.” The New England Quarterly\,vol. 97\, no. 3\, Sept. 2024: 308-44. \nCarrington-Farmer also has an active research interest in non-human animal history\, specifically equine history. Her research examines the breeding and export of horses from New England to the West Indies in the eighteenth century\, and its intersection with enslaved lives and labour. She has published a chapter entitled: “Trading Horses in the Eighteenth Century: Rhode Island and the Atlantic World\,” in Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld\, eds.\, Equine Cultures: Horses\, Human Society\, and the Discourse of Modernity\, 1700-Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 2019)\, which won the Association of College and Research Libraries “Outstanding Academic Title” award in 2019. She has published an article entitled: “The Rise and Fall of the Narragansett Pacer\,” Rhode Island History\, Winter/Spring 2018\, vol. 76\, no. 1: 1-38. The article was accompanied by a travelling exhibition on the Narragansett Pacer horse through Rhode Island Historical Society. Her most recent research in the field of equine history centres on mules\, see: “Shipping Mules in the Eighteenth-Century: New England’s Equine Exports to the West Indies\,” in Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber\, Lou Roper\, Agnès Delahaye\, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke\, eds.\, Agents of Empires: Companies\, Commerce\, and Colonies 1500-1800\, (Manchester: University of Manchester Press\, 2024.) Dr. Carrington-Farmer has a forthcoming chapter surveying equines in Atlantic history with Oxford University Press: “Horses in the Early Modern Atlantic World\,” in Trevor Burnard\, ed.\, Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History\, (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, forthcoming 2025.) Her book manuscript in progress\, which received a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium research grant\, is tentatively titled: Equine Atlantic: New England’s Eighteenth-Century Horse Trade to the West Indies. \nDr. Carrington-Farmer has reviewed books for the Journal of American History\, The New England Quarterly\, Connecticut History Review\, History: Reviews of New Books\, Equine History Collective\, and The American Historical Review. She has written pieces for The Junto\, The Spectacle of Toleration\, and Newport Historical Society blogs\, and recorded podcasts for the Knowing Animals series. Carrington-Farmer was a featured historian in several episodes of the multi-award-winning documentary series\, Slatersville: America’s First Mill Village\, which premiered on Rhode Island PBS in 2022. \nNew England horses\, sugar & slavery in the 18th Century formed something of an equine empire\, with horses dominating every aspect of the early modern Atlantic world in a way that is almost inconceivable today. Horses were central to trade\, labor\, war\, mobility\, structures of power\, and empire building. The breeding of riding and draft horses for exportation to the West Indies was an integral part of New England’s economy throughout the long eighteenth century. New England’s landscape was naturally well-suited to raising horses\, and the region was perfectly poised geographically with pre-existing provisioning connections. Whilst local markets were significant to the industry\, the primary driver was the sugar plantations in the West Indies. By the turn of the eighteenth century\, horses were at forefront of the trading markets which dominated the busy aquatic highway between New England and the West Indies. In the West Indies\, equines were not only essential for riding\, travel\, and fertilizing the fields\, but most importantly as draft animals on sugar plantations. New England’s horse trade was part of the competing chain of supply and demand for animal labor\, and rival empires fiercely guarded the equines that powered their sugar mills and profits. For New Englanders\, shipping equine cargo was a risky business\, but a profitable one.
URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/new-england-horses-sugar-slavery-in-the-18th-century/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series,Speaker Series 2025-2026
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SUMMARY:New Speaker Event test
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n2025-2026 Speaker Series\nReturn to the Sky\nTina Morris\, Ornithologist\, Wildlife Biologist & Author\n\nWednesday\, December 10\, 2025 at 7:00 pm\nTina Morris\nTina Morris\, raised in a large family and surrounded by myriad orphaned creatures both domestic and wild\, was imbued with a lifelong love of animals. After a few wrong turns and a stormy relationship with science in college\, she found a way to make her life’s ambition—rescuing endangered birds of prey—into a reality. Tina earned her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and her graduate degree in ornithology and wildlife biology from Cornell University\, where she helped develop the first techniques for releasing introduced Bald Eagles. Her field research ultimately became the instruction manual for eagle restoration programs in other eastern states. Tina was formally inducted as an honorary Iroquois into the Confederacy of Six Nations for her work returning the Bald Eagle to the nation’s skies. \nIn Return to the Sky\, Tina Morris\, one of the first women to engage in a raptor reintroduction program\, shares her remarkable story that is as much about the human spirit as it is about birds of prey. \nIn the spring of 1975\, on the eve of the US Bicentennial\, Tina was selected to reintroduce Bald Eagles into New York State in the hope that the species could eventually repopulate eastern North America. Young and female in a male-dominated field\, Tina was handed an assignment to rehabilitate a population that had been devastated by the effects of DDT. The challenges were prodigious—there was no model to emulate for a bird of the eagle’s size\, for one—but Tina soon found that her own path to self-discovery and confidence-building was deeply connected with the survival of the species she was chosen to protect. \nUltimately\, Tina spent two years playing “mother” to seven eaglets at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge\, east of Seneca Falls in New York. Driven by her passion\, she discovered unknown reserves of patience\, determination\, and grit. \nAt a time when the mass extinction of bird species is a critical global topic\, Return to the Sky reminds us how\, with a mix of common sense\, resilience\, and resolve\, humans can be effective stewards of the natural world. \nTake a peek at the Book.[/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html css=””]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[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:SLIME ME
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nWinter Speaker Series 2025-2026\nSpeaker Series Archive\n [/vc_column_text][vc_widget_sidebar][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\nSLIME ME\n\n\nKaren Coluzzi\, Entomologist & State Survey Coordinator\,\nMaine Dept. of Agriculture\, Conservation & Forestry\n\nWednesday\, March 11\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\n\nKaren Coluzzi\n\nFriends of Merrymeeting Bay’s (FOMB) sixth presentation of their 29th annual Winter Speaker Series: SLIME ME features Karen Coluzzi\, Entomologist with the Maine Department of Agriculture\, Conservation and Forestry. \nExotic terrestrial snails and slugs are on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s watchlist. These are species that can cause serious threats to our nation’s plant resources\, food supply\, livestock and human health if they are introduced and become established. Conducting trapping and visual surveys for these species are time consuming\, inefficient\, and ineffective for a small staff\, but with the public’s help\, more ground can be covered. Promoting the use of iNaturalist\, Karen Coluzzi and her colleagues have been able to monitor the iNaturalistproject page\, SLIME ME for any suspicious invasive snails and slugs. In addition\, iNaturalist observations can be compared with the list compiled in Martin’s\, Terrestrial Snails and Slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Maine published in 2000 (Northeastern Naturalist 7(1): 33-88) to help determine if some species have gone extinct\, have been misidentified\, or are new to the state. In this program\, Karen will present information on terrestrial snails and slugs known in Maine\, exotic snails and slugs on the USDA’s watchlist\, and how to observe\, photograph\, and upload finds to iNaturalist to help with the hunt. \nKaren Coluzzi is an entomologist with the Maine Department of Agriculture\, Conservation and Forestry in the Plant Health Division.  She is the State Survey Coordinator for exotic pests and administers the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) Program. The CAPS Program\, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture\, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS)\, provides a mechanism for early detection of foreign plant pests and diseases that could be harmful to our agricultural and natural resources. Karen coordinates exotic pest detection surveys throughout the state and works with industry and stakeholders to raise awareness of harmful exotic pests. She received her Master of Science degree in entomology from the University of Maine in 2005. \nFOMB hosts their Winter Speaker Series October-May\, on the second Wednesday of each month. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic and ability for participants to attend from out of the area\, the series continues via Zoom. The FOMB April 8th 2026 presentation\, Horses\, Sugar & Slavery in the 18th Century features Charlotte Carrington-Farmer\, Ph.D. professor of history at Roger Williams University. \nSpeaker Series presentations are free\, open to the public. \nFor more information contact FOMB at 207-666-3372 or edfomb@comcast.net. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/9v_EBBOL8E0″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/9v_EBBOL8E0″ css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Quiet Communities
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In the decade since she founded QC\, she has assembled a team of 40+ operational and advisory team members and has been responsible for overall strategic and operational planning\, program and team development\, research\, educational initiatives\, conferences\, advisory services\, customer acquisition\, alliances\, and business planning. She is the author of several peer review publications\, a presenter at national and international scientific meetings\, and an invited presenter at local\, state\, and federal government hearings. \nDuring her career in health care\, she held senior consulting positions at Abt Associates\, Charles River Associates International\, and ML Strategies\, the consulting arm of Mintz Levin – working on new medical technologies\, market opportunities\, and economic value. In 2007\, she turned her attention to environmental health and climate change\, first founding Planet Rewards\, a company pioneering a corporate platform to promote eco-friendly behaviors\, and then founding Quiet Communities in 2013 to help find solutions to problems of harmful noise and pollution affecting communities. In addition to her role at QC\, she chairs the Noise & Health Committee at the American Health Association (APHA) and is leading efforts to develop policy statements around noise and related pollution. The first APHA policy statement\, Noise as a Public Health Hazard\, was published in 2021. Jamie holds a PhD in Social Policy/Health Economics from the University of Kent\, UK\, and earned masters’ degrees from Dartmouth Medical School and MIT. \nHarm from noise\, as affirmed by the American Public Health Association\, is a public health crisis. Noise is known to cause severe cardiovascular impacts\, to delay childhood development\, to impact mental health\, and lead to metabolic diseases. When noise is excessive and causes harm\, it needs to be addressed. Quiet and natural soundscapes have become precious commodities. Leaf blowers\, helicopters\, tractors\, chain saws\, motorcycles\, wood chippers\, workplace machinery\, traffic and airplanes are just a few sources of noise that are imperiling public health. OSHA notes that exposure to high levels of noise can cause permanent hearing loss. Neither surgery nor a hearing aid can correct this type of hearing loss. Short term exposure to loud noise can cause a temporary change in hearing (your ears may feel plugged) or a ringing in your ears (tinnitus). These short-term problems may go away within a few minutes or hours after leaving the noise. However\, repeated exposure can lead to permanent tinnitus and/or hearing loss. \nLoud noise can create physical and psychological stress\, reduce economic and other productivity\, interfere with communication and concentration\, trigger PTSD and contribute to accidents and injuries by making it difficult to hear warning signals\, but the problems with noise are not limited to the workplace. The effects of noise can be profound\, affecting neighbors\, communities and wildlife in the environment and causing psychological as well as physiological stresses. The little-known Noise Control Act was passed in 1972 but remains toothless years later despite 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act where noise pollution is addressed in Part IV\, §7641. \nThe health of more than 100 million Americans is at risk\, with children among the most vulnerable. Noise-related costs range in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year. 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CATEGORIES:Speaker Series,Speaker Series 2025-2026
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SUMMARY:test event to create event template
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\nWinter Speaker Series\n2025-2026 Zoom Speaker Series\n\n\n\n\nPFAS Distribution in Lower Casco & Merrymeeting Bay Watersheds\nChris Aeppli\, PhD\, Environmental Chemist & Senior Research Scientist\,\nBigelow Ocean Lab for Ocean Sciences\n\nWednesday\, January 14\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\nRegister for Zoom Presentation\n\nChristoph Aeppli\n\n\nChristoph Aeppli is an environmental chemist and senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay\, Maine. He leads a research program in marine pollution and a testing center for “forever chemicals” (PFAS). Chris studies the fate of organic chemicals in aquatic environments\, with a focus on PFAS and oil residues from marine oil spills. His current work includes tracing the sources and pathways of PFAS in coastal waters such as Casco Bay. Aeppli’s research investigates the physical and chemical processes that control how these contaminants move\, change\, and affect marine life. \nThis project collected and shared data about the distribution\, levels\, and source contributions of PFAS in Casco Bay and its watershed including the Kennebec and Androscoggin River and Merrymeeting Bay. It includes bay-wide sampling\, comprehensive PFAS analysis\, assessment of source contributions (from facility effluent\, stormwater\, leachate from biosolid and firefighting foam impacted sites)\, and engagement with stakeholders and decision makers. \nPFAS are a large group of emerging contaminants that are of national concern for ecosystem and human health. PFAS have multiple sources and primarily travel via groundwater and surface water\, and\, therefore\, reach coastal ecosystems. The large number of PFAS compounds in the environment as well as the lack of detailed PFAS data in estuaries represents a major uncertainty about the scale and sources of the coastal PFAS problem. For Casco Bay\, the sparse available data from water\, sediment\, and biota show that PFAS are present at highly variable concentrations\, with several potential sources. \nThis project’s comprehensive sampling and PFAS analysis of 40 compounds provide high-quality baseline data. Statistical analysis of PFAS data will delineate the importance of various sources of PFAS into the lower watershed and in particular look at effects of the BNAS PFAS spill. This project aims to provide guidance to decision makers for appropriate source control measures and regulations to ensure the long-term health of Casco Bay. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:PFAS Distribution
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n2025-2026 Zoom Speaker Series\n\nPFAS Distribution in Lower Casco & Merrymeeting Bay Watersheds\nChris Aeppli\, PhD\, Environmental Chemist\n& Senior Research Scientist\,\nBigelow Ocean Lab for Ocean Sciences\n\nWednesday\, January 14\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\nView Zoom Presentation\n\nChristoph Aeppli\n\nChristoph Aeppli is an environmental chemist and senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay\, Maine. He leads a research program in marine pollution and a testing center for “forever chemicals” (PFAS). Chris studies the fate of organic chemicals in aquatic environments\, with a focus on PFAS and oil residues from marine oil spills. His current work includes tracing the sources and pathways of PFAS in coastal waters such as Casco Bay. Aeppli’s research investigates the physical and chemical processes that control how these contaminants move\, change\, and affect marine life. \nThis project collected and shared data about the distribution\, levels\, and source contributions of PFAS in Casco Bay and its watershed including the Kennebec and Androscoggin River and Merrymeeting Bay. It includes bay-wide sampling\, comprehensive PFAS analysis\, assessment of source contributions (from facility effluent\, stormwater\, leachate from biosolid and firefighting foam impacted sites)\, and engagement with stakeholders and decision makers. \nPFAS are a large group of emerging contaminants that are of national concern for ecosystem and human health. PFAS have multiple sources and primarily travel via groundwater and surface water\, and\, therefore\, reach coastal ecosystems. The large number of PFAS compounds in the environment as well as the lack of detailed PFAS data in estuaries represents a major uncertainty about the scale and sources of the coastal PFAS problem. For Casco Bay\, the sparse available data from water\, sediment\, and biota show that PFAS are present at highly variable concentrations\, with several potential sources. \nThis project’s comprehensive sampling and PFAS analysis of 40 compounds provide high-quality baseline data. Statistical analysis of PFAS data will delineate the importance of various sources of PFAS into the lower watershed and in particular look at effects of the BNAS PFAS spill. This project aims to provide guidance to decision makers for appropriate source control measures and regulations to ensure the long-term health of Casco Bay.[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/_UCk0O0CW4o?si=lM67dbnbO84574pI” align=”center” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/pfas-distribution/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series,Speaker Series 2025-2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T170000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214915
CREATED:20260106T203518Z
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series Template: Event
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\nWinter Speaker Series\n2025-2026 Zoom Speaker Series\n\n\nPFAS Distribution in Lower Casco & Merrymeeting Bay Watersheds\nChris Aeppli\, PhD\, Environmental Chemist & Senior Research Scientist\,\nBigelow Ocean Lab for Ocean Sciences\n\nWednesday\, January 14\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\nRegister for Zoom Presentation\n\n\nChristoph Aeppli\n\nChristoph Aeppli is an environmental chemist and senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay\, Maine. He leads a research program in marine pollution and a testing center for “forever chemicals” (PFAS). Chris studies the fate of organic chemicals in aquatic environments\, with a focus on PFAS and oil residues from marine oil spills. His current work includes tracing the sources and pathways of PFAS in coastal waters such as Casco Bay. Aeppli’s research investigates the physical and chemical processes that control how these contaminants move\, change\, and affect marine life. \nThis project collected and shared data about the distribution\, levels\, and source contributions of PFAS in Casco Bay and its watershed including the Kennebec and Androscoggin River and Merrymeeting Bay. It includes bay-wide sampling\, comprehensive PFAS analysis\, assessment of source contributions (from facility effluent\, stormwater\, leachate from biosolid and firefighting foam impacted sites)\, and engagement with stakeholders and decision makers.\nPFAS are a large group of emerging contaminants that are of national concern for ecosystem and human health. PFAS have multiple sources and primarily travel via groundwater and surface water\, and\, therefore\, reach coastal ecosystems. The large number of PFAS compounds in the environment as well as the lack of detailed PFAS data in estuaries represents a major uncertainty about the scale and sources of the coastal PFAS problem. For Casco Bay\, the sparse available data from water\, sediment\, and biota show that PFAS are present at highly variable concentrations\, with several potential sources. \nThis project’s comprehensive sampling and PFAS analysis of 40 compounds provide high-quality baseline data. Statistical analysis of PFAS data will delineate the importance of various sources of PFAS into the lower watershed and in particular look at effects of the BNAS PFAS spill. This project aims to provide guidance to decision makers for appropriate source control measures and regulations to ensure the long-term health of Casco Bay.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/speaker-series-template-event/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214915
CREATED:20251027T173210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T161716Z
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SUMMARY:Return to Sky
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n2025-2026 Speaker Series\n\n\n\nReturn to the Sky\nTina Morris\, Ornithologist\, Wildlife Biologist & Author\n\nWednesday\, December 10\, 2025 at 7:00 pm\nTina Morris\nTina Morris\, raised in a large family and surrounded by myriad orphaned creatures both domestic and wild\, was imbued with a lifelong love of animals. After a few wrong turns and a stormy relationship with science in college\, she found a way to make her life’s ambition—rescuing endangered birds of prey—into a reality. Tina earned her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and her graduate degree in ornithology and wildlife biology from Cornell University\, where she helped develop the first techniques for releasing introduced Bald Eagles. Her field research ultimately became the instruction manual for eagle restoration programs in other eastern states. Tina was formally inducted as an honorary Iroquois into the Confederacy of Six Nations for her work returning the Bald Eagle to the nation’s skies. \nIn Return to the Sky\, Tina Morris\, one of the first women to engage in a raptor reintroduction program\, shares her remarkable story that is as much about the human spirit as it is about birds of prey. \nIn the spring of 1975\, on the eve of the US Bicentennial\, Tina was selected to reintroduce Bald Eagles into New York State in the hope that the species could eventually repopulate eastern North America. Young and female in a male-dominated field\, Tina was handed an assignment to rehabilitate a population that had been devastated by the effects of DDT. The challenges were prodigious—there was no model to emulate for a bird of the eagle’s size\, for one—but Tina soon found that her own path to self-discovery and confidence-building was deeply connected with the survival of the species she was chosen to protect. \nUltimately\, Tina spent two years playing “mother” to seven eaglets at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge\, east of Seneca Falls in New York. Driven by her passion\, she discovered unknown reserves of patience\, determination\, and grit. \nAt a time when the mass extinction of bird species is a critical global topic\, Return to the Sky reminds us how\, with a mix of common sense\, resilience\, and resolve\, humans can be effective stewards of the natural world. \nTake a peek at the Book. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/return-to-sky/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series,Speaker Series 2025-2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214915
CREATED:20251012T153648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260323T155615Z
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SUMMARY:The Steady State Economy for Environmental Protection
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n2025-2026 Zoom Speaker Series\nThe Steady State Economy\nfor Environmental Protection\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””] \nBrian Czech\, Executive Director\,\nCenter for Advancement of The Steady State Economy (CASSE)\n\nWednesday\, November 12\, 2025 at 7:00 pm\nVideo of Presentation Below\nBrian Czech\nBrian Czech is the founding president of CASSE\, and signed on as executive director in 2017. Czech served as the first conservation biologist in the history of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1999-2017\, and concurrently is a visiting professor of natural resource economics in Virginia Tech’s National Capitol Region. He is the author of several books including Supply Shock\, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train\, and The Endangered Species Act: History\, Conservation Biology\, and Public Policy\, as well as over 50 academic journal articles. His primary contributions to ecological economics pertain to the trophic theory of money\, the process of technological progress\, and the political “steady state revolution.” \nCzech is a frequent speaker\, moderator\, commentator\, and regular contributor to the Steady State Herald. He has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin\, an M.S. from the University of Washington\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Brian has been designated an “eco-champion” by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility\, an “eco-hero” by Ecohearth\, and one of the “top 100 inspirational leaders” by the Post-Growth Institute[/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html css=””]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[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T170000
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nIndigenous Maritime Culture in North America\nLincoln Paine\, Maritime Historian\nWednesday\, May 13\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\nRegister for Zoom Presentation\n\nLincoln Paine \n\n\nNative American (perhaps a man named Wasco) with a dugout canoe near Celilo Falls\non the Columbia River in Oregon\, 1897. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.\nLincoln Paine is a maritime historian\, author\, editor\, and curator whose books include the award-winning The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (Knopf\, 2013)\, Down East: A Maritime History of Maine (Tilbury House\, 2000)\, and Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia (Houghton Mifflin\, 1997). Paine is President\, North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) and Visiting Scholar\, Center for Oceans and Coastal Law\, University of Maine School of Law. \nThe Sea and Civilization won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction and a Mountbatten Maritime Award from the Maritime Foundation (UK)\, and made “best of” lists in Choice\, Booklist\, and The Telegraph (UK). The New York Public Library and Library Journal recognized Ships of the World as an outstanding reference source. \nPaine’s articles and reviews have been published in a wide variety of journals and magazines including The Daily Beast\, Foreign Affairs (online)\, France Forum\, Global Geneva\, International Journal of Maritime History\, Nautical Research Journal\, Naval History\, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord\, Professional Mariner\, and Sea History. \nFrom 2009 to 2012\, Paine was the guest curator and archivist of the Norman H. Morse Collection of Ocean Liner Materials at the Osher Map Library\, University of Southern Maine in Portland\, Maine. He is chair of the board of the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath\, Maine\, which marineinsight.com named one of the ten best maritime museums in the world. \nHe has lectured on topics across the broad spectrum of maritime enterprise\, including literature of the sea\, exploration\, museum curatorship\, decorative arts\, maritime law\, trade\, and naval history. A frequent guest in academic settings\, he has spoken at NOVA University of Lisbon; Ocean University of China\, Qingdao; Leiden University\, the Netherlands; Tulane Law School; Tufts University; College of the Atlantic; the Naval War College; and the U.S. Naval Academy\, among others. \nPaine has participated in public affairs forums including the Commonwealth Club of California; Engelsberg Seminar\, Avesta\, Sweden; Times of India LitFest\, Mumbai; and Arctic Futures Institute. He has also addressed trade associations such as the Women in International Shipping and Transportation Association (WISTA) and the Propeller Club. He is a frequent presenter at meetings of the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH)\, the International\nMaritime History Association\, and the World History Association and its affiliate the New England Regional WHA. \nHis radio appearances include PRI’s The World (Boston)\, BBC Radio 3 (UK)\, The John Batchelor Show (New York City)\, and Crosscurrents with Hana Baba\, KALW Public Radio (San Francisco). \nA graduate of Columbia College\, Paine has helped organize four tall ship events\, including Operation Sail’76 (for the U.S. Bicentennial) and OpSail ’86/Salute to Liberty. Before turning to writing fulltime\, he spent fourteen years as a non-fiction and reference book editor in New York. He is on the editorial board of The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord\, and has also served as an editor of Sea History magazine and Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions. \nBefore the 1950s\, if you wanted to get to the Americas\, you had to come by boat. This was true of the waves of celebrities aboard art deco-inspired ocean liners\, of nineteenth-century European immigrants\, of enslaved Africans from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries\, and of Spanish\, English\, and other European conquistadors from the late fourteenth century. It was also true of successive waves of people who\, starting around 15\,000 years ago\, migrated from Northeast Asia to North America and then spread south\, east\, and\, as the ice sheet retreated\, north\, many of them relying on rivers and lakes for migration\, fishing\, hunting\, and exchange. \nThis talk will sketch the broad outlines of Native Americans’ use of waterways and watercraft over the many millennia before Europeans even imagined such a thing as the Americas. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/859/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series 2025-2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214915
CREATED:20251105T211039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T162448Z
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SUMMARY:Voter ID: Solving No Problems
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Series: 2025-2026 \n\n\n\nVoter ID: Solving No Problems\nMatt Dunlap\, Maine State Auditor\n\nShenna Bellows\, Maine Secretary of State\n\nWednesday\, October 8\, 2025 at 7:00 pm\nView Zoom Presentation Below\n\nMatt Dunlap of Old Town is Maine’s 23rd State Auditor. Prior to that\, he served seven terms as the 47th and 49th Secretary of State and was in the Maine House of  Representatives for four terms representing Old Town and the Indian Island Voting District\, where he chaired the Joint Standing Committees on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Government Oversight\, and was a member of the House Standing Committee on Elections. Dunlap’s work resulted in the development of the Lifetime Hunting and Fishing License endowment\, the establishment of the Office of Program Evaluation and Governmental Accountability\, the development of the Central Voter Registration system and Ranked-Choice Voting among many other policy developments. \nMatt was a member of President Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in 2017\, which Trump dissolved after Dunlap successfully litigated that the Commission was not acting transparently or in good faith. \nAlong with his day job\, Dunlap is President of the Board of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra\, Treasurer of the New England Outdoor Writers Association\, Chair of the Episcopal Diocesan Council on Indigenous Relations\, is the last founding board member of the Maine Youth Fish and Game Association\, and is also a member of the University of Maine Board of Visitors and the University of Maine “M” Club. \nA former board member of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine\, Matt served as Executive Director in between terms as Secretary of State. He is also an award-winning columnist for The Northwoods Sporting Journal. Previously\, Dunlap served as a member of the Maine StateWabanaki Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission and many other boards and commissions. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in literature from the University of Maine\, and resides in Old Town with his wife\, the Hon. Michelle Dunphy\, Assistant Clerk of the Maine House of Representatives. They have an adult child\, Emily Dunlap of Levant\, who is a University of Maine graduate and is the band director at the Nokomis Middle Schoolin Newport. \nShenna Bellows is Maine’s 50th and first female Secretary of State. She’s led implementation of reforms like automatic voter regis \ntration and online voter registration in her state and has taken strong stands \nagainst Donald Trump – like when she ruled that he wasn’t eligible for the 2024 ballot because of his incitement of the insurrection of January 6. Bellows is used to speaking truth to power – and was Executive Director of the ACLU of Maine before she entered elected office. Shenna also understands the dangers this moment poses to our democracy\, having led Maine’s Holocaust and Human Rights Center for several years. \nBellow was one of the leaders of Maine’s marriage equality campaign\, and she and her husband waited to marry until their gay and lesbian friends and family could. She helped win that campaign by launching Republicans for the Freedom to Marry out of the ACLU even though she’s a Democrat\, and that kind of bipartisan coalition building helped her turn a red district blue when she was elected to a state senate district that voted for her and Donald Trump in 2016. Growing up in rural Maine without electricity or running water made her Maine tough. In her spare time\, she runs half-marathons or goes birdwatching in the Maine woods with her husband Brandon. \nVampires\, Werewolves and Voter Fraud: Will Voter ID Succeed Where Garlic and Holy Water Have Failed? The “Voter ID for Maine” citizen’s initiative refuses to die and will be a referendum question on the November ballot. FOMB is highlighting this issue because we are a nation of laws and a long-running experiment in democracy. Key to experimental success or failure; whether in the crafting and enforcement of environmental laws or in other areas\, is voter participation. We believe any measure that makes voter participation more difficult is the first step in the death of democracy and it matters not your political persuasion\, participation is fundamental. \nThe League of Women Voters of Maine (LWVME) opposes this initiative\, considering it a form of voter suppression. The voter ID requirement proposed by this campaign would be one of the most restrictive anywhere in the county. It would require photo ID to vote and to vote absentee\, and it would exclude a number of currently accepted IDs. \nBut that’s not all. The legislation behind the referendum is also an attack on absentee voting. It will repeal ongoing absentee voting\, where a voter can sign up to have an absentee ballot mailed to them automatically for each election cycle\, and it limits the use and number of absentee ballot dropboxes to the point where some towns may find it impractical to offer them. It makes it impossible for voters to request an absentee ballot over the phone. It prevents an authorized third party from delivering an absentee ballot\, a service that many elderly and disabled Mainers rely on. \nAbsentee voting is safe and secure and a popular way to vote for many Mainers. We should be looking for ways to make it more convenient for Maine voters to cast their ballots\, not putting obstacles in their way. LWVME feels this campaign is a broad attack on voting rights that\, if implemented\, would disenfranchise many Maine people. It’s disappointing to see Mainers try to impose these barriers on their fellow Mainers’ right to vote when this state is justly proud of its high voter participation rates. These restrictions can and will harm every type of voter\, with senior and rural voters experiencing the worst of the disenfranchisement. It will be costly\, too. Taxpayers will be on the hook to pay for a new system that is unnecessary\, expensive\, and harmful to Maine voters. \nAll of the evidence suggests that voter IDs don’t prevent voter fraud. Maine has safeguards in place to prevent fraud\, cyber attacks\, and other kinds of foul play that would attempt to subvert our elections. This proposal is being imported to Maine from an out-of-state playbook (see the latest Ohio voter suppression law) that just doesn’t fit Maine. The “Voter ID for Maine” campaign will likely mislead Mainers into thinking that requiring an ID isn’t a big deal\, but it will have immediate impacts on eligible voters. Unfortunately\, that may be the whole point\, and that’s what the proponents of this measure will likely refuse to admit. \nVideo of Presentation: \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/voter-id-solving-no-problems/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T183000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214915
CREATED:20250819T133146Z
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SUMMARY:Insects & Other Natural Wonders with Kathy Claerr
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URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/insects-other-natural-wonders-with-kathy-claerr/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T180000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214915
CREATED:20250819T125642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T221722Z
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SUMMARY:Mushroom Walk with Michaeline Mulvey
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \n\nFriday\, September 5\, 2025 : 4:00 – 6:00 pm\nGardiner\, Maine\nContact: Ed Friedman at 666-3372.\nFriends of Merrymeeting Bay (FOMB) is pleased to offer an upcoming mushroom walk as part of their 2025 Outside Summer Series. On September 5th join Michaeline Mulvey\, President of the Maine Mycological Association as she leads this walk on wooded property along the Kennebec River in Gardiner.\nMushrooms are the fleshy\, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus\, typically produced above ground\, on soil\, or on its food source. The generic or stereotypical mushroom has at minimum a stalk and cap with gills or sponge beneath it that releases spores. While the fruiting body of a mushroom is above ground\, most of it is below ground in a complex web (the original worldwide web!) known as mycelium.\nParticipants should dress appropriately for roaming around in the woods and bring a basket\, knife and some small paper or wax paper bags. If you have specimens from home you would like help identifying you are welcome to bring samples. This has been an exceptionally dry summer so it will be interesting to see what species have persevered and discuss what it takes to do so.\nThe FOMB Summer Outside! Series is the warm weather counterpart to FOMB’s popular Winter Speaker Series and this is the last outing of 2025. FOMB’s 29th annual Winter Speaker Series begins October 8th via Zoom and features former Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap (now Maine’s Auditor) and current Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows discussing the upcoming ballot initiative with a program entitled Voter ID: Solving No Problem.\nPre-registration is required for FOMB outings. Register for this walk with and get directions from Ed Friedman at 666-3372.\nThe full FOMB Summer & Winter series schedules and details are on the web at: www.friendsofmerrymeetingbay.org\nFor more information about FOMB’s programs call Ed Friedman at 666-3372.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/mushroom-walk-with-michaeline-mulvey/
LOCATION:Gardiner\, Maine\, ME\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250921T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250921T180000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214915
CREATED:20250819T132721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T200612Z
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SUMMARY:Tree Walk with Cathy Reynolds
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URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/tree-walk-with-cathy-reynolds/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250824T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250824T090000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214915
CREATED:20250819T133427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T155930Z
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SUMMARY:Bird Walk with Will Broussard
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URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/bird-walk-with-will-broussard/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250820T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250820T190000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214915
CREATED:20250819T133307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T160128Z
UID:165-1755707400-1755716400@wp.fomb.org
SUMMARY:Six River Farm Tour/FOMB Annual Meeting & Potluck
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URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/six-river-farm-tour-fomb-annual-meeting-potluck/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250710T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250710T143000
DTSTAMP:20260514T214915
CREATED:20250819T125736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T162336Z
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SUMMARY:Cathance Paddle with Stan & Michelle Moody
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nSummer Outside Series 2025\nCathance River Paddle\n\nThursday\, July 10\, 2025 – 12:30 – 2:30 pm\nBowdoinham\, Maine\nContact: Michelle Moody at 406-5221\n\n  \n \nAn intermediate paddle in Bowdowinham \nSee FOMB Archives for full description \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriends of Merrymeeting Bay kicks off their 2025 Summer Outside Series Thursday July 10th with a paddle excursion on the tidal Cathance River in Bowdoinham and Topsham. The trip is led by Michelle & Stan Moody and is scheduled for 12:30-2:30 pm on the 10th. Paddlers will depart from the Bowdoinham Town Landing. Preregistration is necessary with Michelle at 406-5221. Further details are also available from her.\nThe group will paddle leisurely up the Cathance River on an incoming tide towards Topsham but gunk-holing along the way where participants might even have a chance for a swim while exploring nooks and crannies off the main stem. The tide will assist in both directions. All boats must have waterproof flotation and be at least 12 feet long. PFDs must be worn at all times on the water.\nThe Cathance is one of six rivers flowing into Merrymeeting Bay\, an ecologically important freshwater tidal riverine inland delta of international importance draining nearly 40% of Maine. The Bay supports twelve species of diadromous fish including striped bass\, American eel\, Atlantic salmon\, two types of sturgeon and various river herring. It is a feeding and breeding ground for migrating waterfowl\, and home to a number of endangered and globally rare plants including Eaton’s bur marigold (Bidens eatonii) \, estuary bur marigold (Bidens hyperborea)\, spongy arrowhead (Sagittaria calycina ssp. spongiosa)\, Parker’s pipewort (Eriocaulon parkeri)\, and Long’s bittercress (Cardamine longii)\, all found on the Cathance. Likely wildlife sightings include ospreys\, eagles\, and sturgeon\, who jump clean out of the water. Herons\, muskrats\, and beavers also call this place home as does the state endangered redfin pickerel which has only been found in the Bay area and in Phippsburg.\nFOMB works to protect and improve the Bay through land conservation\, education\, research and advocacy. Their Summer Outside! series is the warm weather counterpart to the popular Winter Speaker Series. Events are usually free and open to the public. Their next outing will be a Tree Walk on August 24th from 4:00-6:00 pm in Bowdoinham led by Cathy Reynolds. Please call Ed Friedman at 666-3372 to pre-register and for location.\nTo receive more information about FOMB’s programs call Ed Friedman at 666-3372. The full Summer Outside! schedule is on the web at: www.fomb.org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/cathance-paddle-with-stan-and-michelle-moody/
LOCATION:Cathance River put in\, 120 Augusta Rd\, Topsham\, ME\, United States
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SUMMARY:Our Town! Adventures in Richmond History
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\n\n2024-2025 Zoom Speaker Series\n\n\n\n\nOur Town! Adventures in Richmond History\n\nPiti Theater and Marcia Buker Elementary 4th Graders 2023-2024\n\nWednesday\, December 11\, 2024 at 7:00 pm\nSee Zoom Recording Below\n\n\nWorking in the Mill\n\n\n\n\nFriends of Merrymeeting Bay’s (FOMB) third presentation of their 28th annual Winter Speaker Series\, Our Town! Adventures in Richmond History features the Piti Theatre Company and the 2023-2024 Fourth Graders of Richmond’s Marcia Buker Elementary School. Winter Speaker Series presentations are again being held via Zoom and are accessible via hyperlink at the top of the FOMB web page: fomb.org. This event takes place Wednesday\, December 11th at 7 pm.\nThis program premieres the “living history” streaming theatre-meets-documentary work FOMB and Piti Theatre did in early 2024 with 4th grades of the Marcia Buker elementary school in Richmond. The project looks at historical\, cultural and social roots of our contemporary environmental challenges here in Merrymeeting Bay and around mid-coast Maine through the lens of local history-in this case ice harvesting\, dairy farming\, ship building and spinning mills\, topics chosen by the students. In collaboration with Piti Theatre Company (via a one week residency and more)\, the program produced film\, songs\, script\, and research becoming a resource for local schools\, colleges\, libraries\, historical societies and conservation groups.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMoving Ice Onto the Conveyor and Into the Ice House\n\n\n\nSimilar examples are Piti’s “Dexter and the Dinosaurs” theatre-meets-film project produced in Greenfield\, MA. (Note the kids in this production all regularly attended acting classes.) and closer to home\, a program FOMB and Piti did with approximately 80 Bowdoin Central School students in 2021-2022\, premiering in May 2023\, (see 2023 FOMB newsletter pages 2 & 3) and that may be viewed at the bottom of this page. The FOMB 2024 Spring newsletter (pages 2 & 3) feature a good story on the Richmond project.\nFOMB hosts their Winter Speaker Series October-May\, on the second Wednesday of each month. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic and ability for participants to attend from out of the area\, the series continues via Zoom. The FOMB January 8th presentation: Getting to Know Rachel Carson\, features Barbara Vickery\, retired Director of Conservation at The Nature Conservancy\, Maine Chapter.This event takes place at 7:00 pm with the Zoom registration link available at www.fomb.org a week or so prior to the presentation.\nSpeaker Series presentations are free\, open to the public. Visit www.fomb.org to see speaker biographies\, full event schedules\, video recordings of past presentations\, become a member\, and learn more about how you can help protect beautiful Merrymeeting Bay and the Gulf of Maine.\nFor more information contact FOMB at 207-666-3372 or edfomb@comcast.net.\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://wp.fomb.org/event/our-town-adventures-in-richmond-history/
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