Belfast art exhibit: Our Town and Times in the Editorial Cartoons of Douglas Coffin Wed, 01/27/2021 - 4:00pm
Douglas Coffin work from the early 2000 s on the topic of a new footbridge for Belfast. (Photo courtesy Belfast Free Library)
Douglas Coffin work from the early 2000 s on the topic of a new footbridge for Belfast. (Photo courtesy Belfast Free Library)
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BELFAST From February 2 to March 31, 2021, the Kramer Gallery at the Belfast Free Library will host an exhibit of the editorial cartoons of Douglas Coffin. Coffin’s single-panel, black-and-white cartoons were a popular feature of the upstart Waldo Independent a Belfast-based weekly newspaper that from 1985 to 2008 provided lively competition to the deep-rooted Republican Journal, offering an alternative perspective on
“Ludicrous, ”Art Paine’s Luders 16. (Photo courtesy Come Boating!)
Come Boating! Belfast’s Community Boating Organization and the Belfast Free Library are teaming up once again to offer the Winter Adventure Series. This year the series of evening programs about adventures on the water will be offered virtually.
The next program, Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 6:30 p.m., will feature a presentation by Art Paine, “Boats Light Up My Life;” a 76 year old sea dog describes his lifelong love of designing, building, and restoring boats. And why he can’t quit working in boat shops.
Paine and his twin brother, Chuck, got an early start in boat building, building their first boat together at age 14. Nowadays Paine is a boating journalist (Wooden Boat Magazine, Maine Boats and Harbors), and an even better known marine artist, according to Come Boating, in a news release. But he especially enjoys what he describes as the best job of his life, rebuilding vintage classic boats at Jim Elk
Paul DeOrsay. (Photo courtesy Camden Conference)
The Camden Conference, Penobscot Marine Museum, and the Belfast Free Library will present Paul DeOrsay on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 6 p.m., for a program on Arctic exploration, science, and the Inuit. This event will be open to all on Zoom.
The 19th century saw a prolific bloom of interest in the Arctic among European and North American nations. Some 50 major expeditions were mounted between 1815 and 1909, most in search of a Northwest Passage. Along the way, these expeditions gathered data on geology, oceanography, flora and fauna, magnetism, gravity and astronomy. Later, as it was learned that the passage existed but was essentially impassable, exploration focused on discovering just what lay farther north: an open sea, another continent, or just more ice. Finally, the focus became reaching the North Pole, a somewhat intangible goal, but one that generated public enthusiasm and national pride.
Mon, 01/18/2021 - 6:00pm
Author and historian Charles Lagerbom, Courtesy of Camden Conference
The Camden Conference, Penobscot Marine Museum, and the Belfast Free Library will present Charles Lagerbom speaking on “Maine Whaling: To the Arctic and Beyond.” This event takes place on Thursday, Jan. 28 and will be open to all on Zoom. Please register at: belfastlibrary.org/virtual-programs
The history of American whaling is most frequently associated with Nantucket, New Bedford and Mystic. However, the state of Maine also played an integral part in the development and success of this important industry. The sons of Maine became whaling captains, whaling crews, inventors, investors and businessmen. Towns along the coast created community-wide whaling and sealing ventures, outfitted their own ships and crewed them with their own people. The state also supplied the growing industry with Maine-built ships, whale boats, oars and other maritime supplies. Bath built quite a few
Charles Lagerbom. (Photo courtesy Camden Conference)
The Camden Conference, Penobscot Marine Museum, and the Belfast Free Library will present Charles Lagerbom speaking on “Maine Whaling: To the Arctic and Beyond.” This event takes place on Thursday, Jan. 28, from 6 - 7:30 p.m., and will be open to all on Zoom. Please register at: belfastlibrary.org/virtual-programs
The history of American whaling is most frequently associated with Nantucket, New Bedford and Mystic. However, the state of Maine also played an integral part in the development and success of this important industry. The sons of Maine became whaling captains, whaling crews, inventors, investors and businessmen. Towns along the coast created community-wide whaling and sealing ventures, outfitted their own ships and crewed them with their own people. The state also supplied the growing industry with Maine-built ships, whale boats, oars and other maritime supplies. Bath built quite a few steam-bark whalers at the en