Northeast by Eastern

Penobscot Marine Museum has the feel of a 19thMaine village.Our lovely campus of ten buildings is in the charming town of Searsport on Penobscot Bay. Our ship captain’s house is beautifully furnished with antiques from around the world. Another ship captain’s house displays our extensive collection of 19th century marine paintings, scrimshaw, ship models, and China Trade objects. We have three 19thcentury barns displaying over fifty classic small water craft including lobster boats, dories, and canoes. Two buildings are filled with hands-on maritime activities for kids. Outside on our green you can raise and lower a ship’s mast!Check our websitewww.penobscotmarinemuseum.orgfor exhibit, lectures and workshops through the year. The PMM campus is open from late May through late October, but our Gallery has special exhibits, lectures and workshops throughout the winter and spring, and our Museum Store and Framer remain open Thursday through Saturday.

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<DIV><SPAN>For years, Belfast, Maine-based Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company sent traveling photographer-salesmen on the roads all over New England and beyond with cameras, catalogues, and order books, seeking buyers and markets for their unique “real photo” postcards.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>The Northeast by Eastern combines Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company’s comprehensive collection of early 20th century photographs with archival film footage, interviews, oral histories, a musical soundtrack featuring period music, as well as an original score by Sumner McKane. Combined, these stories and images illustrate an era unlike any other in American history. <BR><BR>Interviews and oral histories not only detail the history of the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co., and the postcard craze of the early 1900s; but also divulge stories from a quieter, simpler, yet stirring and enterprising time period. The Eastern Illustrating glass negative archive is curated by the Penobscot Marine Museum and film draws heavily on the collection and hundreds of the images are used in the film. <BR><BR>The audience hears first-hand accounts of smuggling during prohibition, of river drivers brawling for fun, of growing up without worry and without constant adult supervision, and of slop buckets spilling on tourists’ pies. These accounts are woven together amidst an exceptional backdrop of archived films and Eastern Illustrating’s work.</DIV>
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<DIV>Come experience this multi media event while  supporting the preservation of our local history!<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>About Sumner McKane:<BR>Sumner McKane is a filmmaker, composer and musician based in Wiscasset, Maine. He records instrumental music, film scores, and music for media. He produces historical documentaries along with companion live presentations to his films. In a few short years, Sumner has built a reputation for innovative historical storytelling using multimedia, combining various mediums to tell a historical story in a live setting. Sumner studied photography in Missoula, Montana at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography and the University of Montana. He graduated from the University of Southern Maine with high honors in history. His music is often featured on NPR’s Echoes program, and he is a recent Maine Arts Commission Performing Arts and Media Fellow award recipient. The Northeast By Eastern his third historical documentary film project, following The Maine Frontier (2014) and In The Blood (2010). Sumner is accompanied by Josh Robbins on bass guitar. Josh is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter and has recorded and performed with Sumner in arts venues, theaters, historical societies, schools and other venues throughout New England for over a decade.</DIV>

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