[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]FOLLOWING MAINE CDC’S
RECOMMENDATION, WE HAVE DECIDED TO POSTPONE THIS YEAR’S SYMPOSIUM.
UPDATED DETAILS WILL BE POSTED AS SOON AS THEY ARE AVAILABLE.
Join us for the 47th Albert Reed and Thelma Walker Maritime Symposium
examining Maine leadership on Saturday April 4, 2020. As part of the
state’s bicentennial celebrations, this year’s Symposium will
feature scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine what
leadership means in the context of maritime Maine. This
interdisciplinary program will touch on abolitionists, the Civil War,
the slave trade, 20th century medicine, steamships, the Navy, the War
of 1812, and Maine’s lobster fishery.
ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED, TICKETS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AT THE
DOOR. An optional boxed lunch can be ordered during registration;
attendees are also free to go off-site to enjoy Bath’s restaurants
for lunch. Boxed lunches must be ordered in advance.
_Generously sponsored by:_
Lincoln Paine
[https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/pwmbahx-hampton-bath-brunswick-area-me/]
SCHEDULE
8:30-9:00 AM
Check-in and Coffee Reception
9:00 AM
Opening Remarks
9:30 AM
_John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851): An Antebellum Black Leader Forged in
Maine_
Carl Patrick Burrowes, Author, Between the Kola Forest and the Salty
Sea
10:20-10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM
_Turning the Tide at Gettysburg: How Maine Saved the Union_
Jerry Desmond, Executive Director, Pamplin Historical Park & The
National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
11:10 AM
_To Hang A Slaver: The Unique Case of Nathaniel Gordon_
Ron Soodalter, Author, Hanging Captain Gordon
12:00-1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
_Unpacking the Black Bag in the Age of Miracles: Medicine and
Modernization in the Rural Northeast, 1920s-1970s_
Sasha Mullally, Associate Dean, University of New Brunswick
2:10-2:20 PM
Break
2:20 PM
_Steaming the Gulf: Maine Pioneers the Internationalization of the
First High Technology_
John Laurence Busch, Author, Steam Coffin
3:00 PM
_A Tale of Two Chiefs of Naval Operations_
Winn Price, Local Historian
3:30 PM
_Captain Isaac Hull, the Navy Yard and the War of 1812_
Joseph Glukert, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Historian and Museum
Director
4:00-4:10 PM
Break
4:10-5:00 PM
_Leading Maine’s Lobster Industry through Changing Time_
Patrice McCarron, Executive Director, Maine Lobstermen’s Association
5:00 PM
Closing Remarks
5:00-6:30 PM
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