Programs

Admission to our monthly programs is by donation.
We rely on your support to continue our work!

Our Program venues vary — most are presented at Prospect Harbor Women’s Club, but we also host events at our Society Headquarters. Specific locations are noted on the Schedule below. For directions, please go to our Contact page.

2025 Schedule –

The Oyster Farm on Mill Pond

May 5, 2025 – 7:00 PM Young-Webber Hall at GHS Headquarters. How a former lobsterman grows and successfully sells oysters in Gouldsboro Bay. Presented by Joe Young, Schoodic Sea Farm, Corea
Packed Like a Can of Sardines — Celebrating a Maine Industry

June 2, 2025 – 7:00 PM Prospect Harbor Women’s Club. Help celebrate the Penobscot Marine Museum’s new exhibit “Welcome to Sardine Land” with this history of Maine’s sardine industry, once vital to our coastal communities. Presented by Kevin Johnson, Photo Archivist, Penobscot Marine Museum This event is sponsored by The Winter Harbor Agency
Wabanaki Ash and Sweetgrass Basketry

July 14, 2025 – 7:00 PM Prospect Harbor Women’s Club. Renowned basketry artist Sarah Sockbeson shows how she blends cultural materials and traditional techniques from generations of Wabanaki people with her contemporary Indigenous basket-weaving perspective. Presented by Sarah Sockbeson, Penobscot Nation basket weaver
Eden’s Other Sons: Downeast Connections to 19th Century Slavery

August 4, 2025 – 7:00 PM Prospect Harbor Women’s Club. How early seafarers of MDI and Frenchman Bay developed close economic ties with the slavery-based West Indies, as shown by local and primary sources. Presented by Anna Durand, MDI Historical Society
Corea in the 1940’s: The “LOBSTERTOWN” film

September 8, 2025 – 7:00 PM. Prospect Harbor Women’s Club. Experience this classic documentary of village life and the people of Corea in the late 1940’s. Commentary provided by locals who recognize the people and places in the film. Presented by Nick Woodward, MPBN and Corea
The Great Divide: Winter Harbor’s Secession

October 6, 2025 – 7:00 PM. Prospect Harbor Women’s Club. A lively look at how one town became two, and some reasons why. Presented by Don Ashmall, GHS President