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Chebacco Chats: “Sounding the Last Whistle: Canneries of Southwest Harbor and Bass Harbor” with Raney Bench

Howe D. Higgins, Sardine Factory of Southwest Harbor, Maine, 1963.

Courtesy of the Willey family

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This Chebacco Chats episode will explore early canning on the Quietside, cannery factories, cannery life and culture, and how a herring from the sea becomes a sardine in a can.

Chebacco Chats, our weekly web series, features authors, historians, and others who study and celebrate history, the great place that is Mount Desert Island, and the way the island impacts the wider world.

Chebacco Chats are live on Zoom, and recordings are made available the week after they air.

Visit www.mdihistory.org/chebacco-chats for the full schedule, and links to past episodes.

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Chebacco Chats: “The Maine that Almost Was: British Plans for Downeast Maine, 1775-1815” with Patrick Callaway, Ph.D.