Program Archive
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Chebacco Chats Archives can be found HERE
On Thursday, September 11, 2024, author and historian Mac Smith for a discussed his latest book “Plain Madeleine: Mrs. John Jacob Astor in Bar Harbor” documenting Madeleine Astor’s life and the Astor presence in Bar Harbor, putting her story in the context of Bar Harbor's Golden Age
This talk was a preview of Anna Durand’s upcoming ‘Chebacco 2025” article exploring how MDI goods (like lumber and dried fish) were traded for molasses, sugar, and salt, which were in turn sold in local stores and incorporated into family recipes, undermining the claim that New England and Maine were outside of the economic structures of slavery.
On Thursday, April 25, 2024 at the Jesup Memorial Library, Dr. Patrick Callaway, lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Maine and Collections Manager at the MDI Historical Society shared how British authorities saw downeast Maine and interacted with Mainers in peace and war.
On Friday, March 22, 2024, we welcomed Brent Richardson for an evening of storytelling from 20th-century Mount Desert Island.
On January 17, 2024, Raney Bench, executive director for the MDI Historical Society, presented a brief history of the Klan in Maine, including their presence on Mount Desert Island.
On February 7, 2024 MDI Adult Education invited MDI Historical Society Director Raney Bench to present “Wicked Pissah! -Storms, Survival, and Sea Level Rise” and share the impacts of some of Maine’s worst weather and how climate change is accelerating storm severity and sea level rise.
Terese Miller examines the mill locations, products, and families involved in this industry across MDI from 1762 until the early 1900s.
The Mount Desert Island Historical Society book club met on Monday, December 4, 2023, to discuss “Women of the Dawn” by Bunny McBride
The Mount Desert Island Historical Society book club met on Monday, October 16, 2023, to discuss "Windswept" by Mary Ellen Chase.
Raney Bench shares tales of storms and survival from our past and what they tell us about our future.
Audrey Ryan discusses the modern aspects of Maine's smuggling history, exploring marijuana and hashish smuggling in the 70s and 80s