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2008 EVENTSWILSON MUSEUM:Open: May 27 - September 30; Weekdays 10 a.m. — 5 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 2 — 5 p.m. John Perkins House Group visits can be arranged by appointment.
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Blacksmith Shop
 The Human Journey Begins... The Old Stone Age - 500,000 to 11,000 Years Ago
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Special Exhibit  Friends of Elizabeth O'Malley: Paintings & Sketches
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Sunday, January 27
2:30 p.m. | Panel Discussion: Hunting, Harvesting & Homecooking on the Bagaduce: Way Back When Popular series with local panelists. |
Thursday, April 17
7 p.m.
| Lecture: Images of Women in European Ice Age Art: from the French Caves to the Russian Plains with Dr. Randall White, Director of the Center for the Study of Human Origins NYU, Co-sponsored by the Castine Arts Association |
Sunday, June 22
| 5:30 p.m. | Members' Reception to view new exhibit with introductory talk by guest exhibit curator Dr. Riva Berleant |
Wednesday - Friday, June 25, 26 & 27
| 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. | Plein-Air Painting & Drawing Workshop. Wilson Museum will be the home base for a three day workshop arranged by Barbara Mallonee. |
Saturday, June 28
| 10:30 a.m. | Eastern State Normal School Alumni Annual Reunion, music by Ellacappella, hosted by Wilson Museum |
Sunday, July 9
2-5 p.m. | Demonstration: Fireside Cooking |
Thursday, July 10
| 3 p.m. | Lecture: Highlights from the Wilson Museum's Textile Collection with textile consultant Lynne Bassett Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street |
Friday-Tuesday, July 11-15
| 2-5 p.m. | Celebrate Castine, town wide celebration - Wilson Museum, John Perkins House, Blacksmith Shop and Hearse House open all 5 days |
Sunday, July 13
2-5 p.m. | Demonstration: Fireside Cooking |
Sunday, July 16
2-5 p.m. | Demonstration: Fireside Cooking |
Thursday, July 17
| 3 p.m. | Concert: Native American Flute Music with Hawk Henries Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street |
Wednesday, July 23
6 p.m. | Concert: Yankee Brass Band |
Wednesday & Thursday, July 23 & 24
***Notice - these Civil War events cancelled due to illness***
All day | Civil War Encampment with Michael Celli
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| 3 p.m. Thursday | Lecture on Civil War Medicine and the Aftermath of the Battle at Gettysburg with Michael Celli |
Saturday & Sunday, July 26 & 27
| 2-5 p.m. | Eighteenth Century Encampment with the Davis family Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street |
Thursday, July 31
| 3 p.m. | Lecture: African Masks and Art Used as Communication Tools with Oscar Mokeme, Director of The Museum of African Culture |
Saturday, August 2
| 2-4 p.m. | Opening Reception for exhibit Friends of Elizabeth O'Malley: Sketches & Paintings |
Wednesday, August 6
2-5 p.m. | Demonstration: Fireside Cooking |
Sunday, August 10
2-5 p.m. | Demonstration: Fireside Cooking |
Tuesday, August 12
| 7:30 p.m. | Presentation: Animals of Uganda: Their Faces and Their Stories with Johanna Sweet. Co-sponsored with Castine Arts Association and Witherle Memorial Library. Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street |
Wednesday, August 13
2-5 p.m. | Demonstration: Fireside Cooking |
Saturday, August 16
| 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | Demonstration: Basic Gravestone Conservation with Independent Gravestone Conservator Jonathan Appell, Co-sponsored with the Castine Cemetery Association Castine Cemetery, Court Street |
Wednesday, August 20
| 2 - 5 p.m. | Demonstration: Pickles & Preserves with Sandra Oliver John Perkins House, 120 Perkins Street |
Thursday, August 21
| 7:30 p.m. | Presentation: Uganda: Classroom to Safari with Johanna Sweet. Co-sponsored with Castine Arts Association and Witherle Memorial Library. Unitarian Parish Hall, Village Green |
Monday - Wednesday, August 25, 26 & 27
| All day | Workshop: Early Northeast Prehistoric Pottery with Charles Paquin. This is a three day hands-on workshop on early techniques in pottery, fire-making, decoration, and other useful and necessary skills. |
Wednesday, August 27
| 3 p.m. | Lecture: Before Champlain: Indians on Penobscot Bay with William Haviland, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Vermont |
Thursday, August 28
| 1-4 p.m. | Workshop: Caring for Leather & Fur: The Basics with Abbe Museum Collections Manager Julia Clark Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street |
Friday, August 29
| 6 p.m. | Concert: Castine Town Band |
Saturday, September 13
| 3 p.m. | Lecture: The Castine Coin Deposit: A Numismatic Rosetta Stone with numismatist Dr. Philip Mossman Wilson Museum, 120 Perkins Street |
Saturday, September 27
| 2-5 p.m. | Museum Day in conjunction with Smithsonian Magazine and as thank you to our patrons |
| Previous Calendars | |
| Summer 2009 | Information from the 2009 Calendar of the Wilson Museum |
| Summer 2008 | Information from the 2008 Calendar of the Wilson Museum |
| Summer 2007 | Information from the 2007 Calendar of the Wilson Museum |
| Summer 2006 | Information on Chautauqua Days and other events from 2006 |
| Back to Top WILSON MUSEUM Open: May 27 — September 30 Weekdays 10 am — 5 pm, Saturday & Sunday 2 — 5 pm John Perkins House  Blacksmith Shop Hearse HouseJuly — August, Wednesday & Sunday, 2 — 5 pm Group visits can be arranged by appointment. (207) 326-9247 info@wilsonmuseum.org Admission is free, except for the John Perkins House, where there are guided tours. |
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