Calendar

Brown Bag Lunch Series

Join us the first Wednesday of each month during 2012 for a FREE lunchtime program! Bring your lunch, see a short presentation, and look at some artifacts from our collections. The program is 45 minutes long to accomodate the workday lunch hour. Attendees receive a free reusable lunch tote. Every time you bring it back to a Brown Bag program your name will be entered into our 2012 prize drawing of a gift basket filled with products from local vendors.

January 4	Female Spies
February 1	Love in the Civil War
March 7	Being an Irish Soldier guest speaker Tom Desjardin
April 4	Effects of Civil War on the Women of Mount Desert guest speaker Timothy Garrity
May 2	Civil War Research guest speaker Diane Smith
June 6	Love and War in the Kitchen
July 11	"A Precedent for Nothing" West Virginia and Wartime Reconstruction guest speaker Robert Hodges
August 1	The Foster Sisters guest speaker Wayne Reilly
September 5	Rough Injustice: The Marcellus Emery Story
October 3	An Age of Mourning:Coping with Death on the Civil War Battlefield
November 7	A Scandalous Profession: Nurses, Nudity, and New Ideas
December 5	Victoria's Secret: 19th Century Underwear

Annual Exhibit Opening

Women in War: 1861-1865 Exhibit Opens Saturday, May 5th at the Thomas A. Hill House at 159 Union Street! Hours 10-5

History Camp

For students in grades 7-12 who enjoy history! http://mainehumanities.org/programs/history-camp/penobscot-county.html

Ice Cream Social

July 7th! 12:00-4:00pm

More information coming soon

Mount Hope Cemetery Tours
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Take a walking tour of Mount Hope Cemetery, the second oldest garden cemetery in the United States. Ponds, bowers, grottos and a variety of plantings, along with tombs and monuments, typify a 19th century landscape consciously designed for the living as well as the dead. Many of Maine's statesmen, military and civic leaders are entombed in Mount Hope Cemetery, which is also the final resting place of some of the more infamous characters whose colorful legends still survive.

Devil's Half Acre Tour
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Join a costumed interpreter on this hour long walking tour and explore the wicked side of Bangor! Despite Maine's 1851 Prohibitory Law many saloons, brothels and overcrowded tenements thrived along the Kenduskeag Stream in an area which came to be known as the Devil's Half-acre. Hear the stories of Madams, prostitutes, lumberman, and sailors who worked/visited the area as well as the beleaguered police and reformers that tried to clean up the town.

Ghostly Bangor

Tuesdays and Thursdays in October

Fee $10 per person

Two tours per night leaving at 7pm & 7:30pm

choose a day and time, call 207-942-1900 for reservations

Come explore the spirited side of Bangor and have a hauntingly good time during this progressive tour. Meet the spirits of Bangor's past as they tell their tales of woe! Bring a friend...if you dare!