40th Annual Albert Reed & Thelma Walker

Maritime History Symposium

The History and Future of the Maritime Experience

The 40th Annual Maritime History Symposium will explore a broad spectrum of maritime subjects as symposium speakers bring a wide range of backgrounds and expertise to the table-from academic historians and museum professionals to mariners and boat builders. Speakers will address how the past informs or shapes the present and the future within their topic areas.

The following is a schedule of the day's events:

8:00 am Registration, coffee

9:00 am Welcome, Amy Lent, Executive Director

9:05 am Introduction, Nathan R. Lipfert, Senior Curator

9:10 am O New Looks At Old Vessels:

Mark Wilkins, “Cape Cod’s Oldest Shipwreck: The Desperate Crossing of the Sparrow-hawk”

Larry Spencer, “The RV Albatross and H. B. Bigelow: The Genesis of The Fishes of the Gulf of Maine

10:10 am Coffee and informal discussion

10:30 am O New Maritime History

Jim Millinger, “Portland’s Ever-Changing Harbor”

Glenn M. Grasso, “The Maritime Revival and Writing New Histories of Seafaring”

Annie Tock Morrisette, “Eighteenth Century Merchant Ship Construction: A Historiography”

12:00 noon Lunch

1:30 pm O Speaking from Personal Experience

Ernest G. DeRaps, “Automation and Preservation of Lighthouses”

Jaime and Joe Lowell, “History of the Maine Lobsterboat in the Frost and Lowell Families”

Michael Connolly, “Portland, Maine’s Irish Longshoremen in their Own Words”

3:00 pm Coffee and informal discussion

3:30 pm O Training for the Future

Molly Bolster, “Building the Gundalow Piscataqua: A Celebration of Maine and New Hampshire Rivers”

Sean S. Bercaw, “100,000 Miles of Traditional Vessels and Modern Education: From Sailing the Freedom Schooner Amistad into Cuba to Cutting-Edge Science under Sail”

5:00 pm Fish house punch reception

This program is supported by the Albert Reed & Thelma Walker Fund.