Fire of 1947

The Year Maine Burned Maine winters are long. Spring is always eagerly anticipated, and this was especially true in 1947.

Campfire Storytelling with George Neptune, Passamaquoddy

Storytelling is an important part of Wabanaki culture, as stories are used to pass on the knowledge of Wabanaki traditions, history, and worldview to the next generation. Join Abbe Museum Educator George Neptune, Passamaquoddy, for an evening around the campfire, as...

Embrace of the Serpent Screening and Facilitated Discussion

Indigenous people rarely have input when it comes to their representations in mainstream culture, yet these representations seem to appear more and more frequently. Join Abbe Museum Educators George Neptune and Jen Heindel at The 1932 Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor...

Kids Forgo Birthday Gifts for Park Street Playground

Instead of birthday gifts this year, local girls, Maesa Levesque and Olivia Bond, asked for birthday money for Bar Harbor’s Park Street Playground. These altruistic youngsters follow the path of three-year-old Ezra Cross who has been asking for Park Street...

Island Arts Association’s 4th of July Craft Fair

The Island Arts Association will hold their annual craft fair on July 4th, 2016, from 9:00am-3:00pm at the Mount Desert Island YMCA on Park Street in Bar Harbor . This fair is an opportunity to browse among new work by some of the area’s most accomplished...

The Talented Women of Mount Desert Island

Artist Genevieve Barbee is traveling to Mount Desert Island on May 20th to interview and illustrate ten female leaders active in their community about their personal talents and learn about their lives in the area. An exhibition of the portraits created will be on...
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