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 and at the Old Town House Museum. Specific locations are noted on the Schedule below. For directions, please go to our Contact page.

Our thanks to this year’s Program Sponsors:

Bar Harbor Bank & Trust

Sorrento Dental Associates

The Winter Harbor Agency

US Bells and Watering Cove Studios

2024 Schedule –

A Tale of Two Bells

May 6, 2024 – 7:00 PM Young-Webber Hall at GHS Headquarters Why and how a small town in Maine cast a duplicate of a bell from a sunken Candian ship. Presented by Tim Fisher, US Bells and Don Ashmall, GHS
The Abolitionists and the Underground Railroad in Maine

June 3, 2024 – 7:00 PM Prospect Harbor Women’s Club How resistance to the Fugitive Slave Laws produced a Maine rescue network Presented by Prof. Mary Freeman, U of Maine Orono
Building the Maine Shore Line Railroad — A History

July 1, 2024 – 7:00 PM Prospect Harbor Women’s Club How a railroad network came to Bar Harbor and the far Downeast. Presented byTom Testa, President, Downeast Scenic Railway
September Sunshine and Shadow — Maine Painted in Words

August 5, 2024 – 7:00 PM Prospect Harbor Women’s Club An historian’s in-depth view of the Schoodic Peninsula as read in his poems. Presented by Rev. Charles A. Joy, GHS Historian
Voting Down the Rose

September 9, 2024 – 7:00 PM Prospect Harbor Women’s Club Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s fight for Woman Suffrage Presented byAnne Gass, Author, “Voting Down the Rose”
Songs of the Downeast Rivers and Seashore

October 7, 2024 – 7:00 PM Young-Webber Hall at GHS Headquarters A busy historical folklorist returns to showcase the rich traditions of the region. Presented by Ann and Stephen Sanfilippo, Pembroke HS