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April 2019
Music Together
Toddlers, Infants and Preschoolers learn music through play! Come immerse yourselves in live music with other families. Music Together is a research based early childhood program that offers a fun interactive experience with your child while revealing the language of music. Join a trained leader in this mixed age class, to create a jam session with rhythm instruments, two part songs. After a few weeks, you will find that you begin to sing your way through car rides and…
Find out more »May 2019
Bath Farmers Market
The Farmers Market meets on Saturday mornings year round. Our vendors offer seasonal produce, fresh meat, poultry and fish. Glorious cheeses and creamy yogurt, sweet and savory baked goods, bread and fresh soups and ready to heat meals. Wool blankets, beeswax candles, herbal medicinals and all kinds of special treasures are available. Check out the homemade granola, the locally roasted coffee-try a cup-and the lactofermented vegetables. We have bags too. SNAP users are welcome; we also support credit and debit…
Find out more »Saturdays at the Doll Shop
This Saturday the Doll Shop will be Open! This summer we will be open by Appointment and every now and then we will be open on Saturdays. Here's your chance to see what's new (old), check out the jewelry, pick out a gift, find a new Steiff friend. PLUS! three of my own dolls will be available to see. Open at 10:30 until whenever I decide to close.
Find out more »Maine Tracks: The Underground Railroad in Maine
Maine’s connection to the famous Underground Railroad that helped free runaway slaves in the mid-1800s does not begin and end with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Indeed, from Kittery to Fort Fairfield, Mainers conspired together to break the law — the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 — forming a network of “safe houses,” hiding slaves from slave hunters and scurrying them to Canada. Author Mark Alan Leslie will weave the tale of the brave families, including those from Augusta eastward, who housed…
Find out more »Red Cloak Haunted History Tour
An evening lantern lit tour will explore Bath, discovering ghosts and history, spirits and mystery. Buildings that once seemed ordinary will take on eerie new dimensions as The Lady in the Red Cloak relives their history and that of the ghostly entities that are said to still reside there. The walks are fairly easy and appropriate for all ages; by reservation only. $17.50 for adults, $8 children under 12, free children under 5. 207-380-3806, www.redcloaktours.com.
Find out more »Behind the Scenes Tour of the Schooner Bowdoin and Ernestina-Morrissey
Built in 1894 the Ernestina-Morrissey is a National Historic Landmark Vessel and the Official Vessel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Built in 1921, the schooner Bowdoin is the official vessel of the state of Maine and the flagship of Maine Maritime Academy. Both vessels are currently undergoing restoration work at Boothbay Harbor Shipyard; join us to tour the vessels and the yard. Participants will meet at the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard.
Find out more »Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (theatre)
The hilariously written Twelfth Night is one of William Shakespeare's easiest plays to fall in love with. There are plenty of practical jokes and unexpected love triangles. Presented by the Chocolate Church Arts Center in partnership with Shakespeare on the Kennebec.
Find out more »June 2019
Bath Farmers Market
The Farmers Market meets on Saturday mornings year round. Our vendors offer seasonal produce, fresh meat, poultry and fish. Glorious cheeses and creamy yogurt, sweet and savory baked goods, bread and fresh soups and ready to heat meals. Wool blankets, beeswax candles, herbal medicinals and all kinds of special treasures are available. Check out the homemade granola, the locally roasted coffee-try a cup-and the lactofermented vegetables. We have bags too. SNAP users are welcome; we also support credit and debit…
Find out more »Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (theatre)
The hilariously written Twelfth Night is one of William Shakespeare's easiest plays to fall in love with. There are plenty of practical jokes and unexpected love triangles. Presented by the Chocolate Church Arts Center in partnership with Shakespeare on the Kennebec.
Find out more »Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (theatre)
The hilariously written Twelfth Night is one of William Shakespeare's easiest plays to fall in love with. There are plenty of practical jokes and unexpected love triangles. Presented by the Chocolate Church Arts Center in partnership with Shakespeare on the Kennebec.
Find out more »Pirates and Lost Treasure of Coastal Maine
Presented by author and pirate re-enactor Greg Latimer, this talk will offer insightful and factual information about Maine-based pirates as well as pirates from “away,” who, while not based in Maine, traveled to the area for a variety of purposes. Many of these facts will be new to readers, as Maine is not often considered a pirate enclave. In fact, just like today’s seasonal tourists, pirates traveled to Maine during the summer months, when the Caribbean was hot and subject…
Find out more »Mary E Kennebec River Sail (2.5 hours)
Sail down the Kennebec River aboard the historic 1906 schooner Mary E; the only Kennebec-built schooner still afloat. Help us set and trim sails as our crew share tales from her colorful history, or just sit back and enjoy the scenery. You’ll pass by the site of the Thomas E. Hagan yard where Mary E was built in 1906, see Doubling Point Light and the Kennebec Range Lights, and get a unique view of Navy vessels under construction at Bath Iron Works. Running…
Find out more »Lecture: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Hanover: The Romance and Reality of a Maine Shipwreck
The wreck of the Hanover and loss of all hands in 1849 shocked the midcoast Maine community. Susan Beegle will reveal how this tragedy inspired literary themes in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Pearl of Orr’s Island, written over a decade after the Hanover’s loss.
Find out more »Mary E Kennebec River Sail (2.5 hours)
Sail down the Kennebec River aboard the historic 1906 schooner Mary E; the only Kennebec-built schooner still afloat. Help us set and trim sails as our crew share tales from her colorful history, or just sit back and enjoy the scenery. You’ll pass by the site of the Thomas E. Hagan yard where Mary E was built in 1906, see Doubling Point Light and the Kennebec Range Lights, and get a unique view of Navy vessels under construction at Bath Iron Works. Running…
Find out more »Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (theatre)
The hilariously written Twelfth Night is one of William Shakespeare's easiest plays to fall in love with. There are plenty of practical jokes and unexpected love triangles. Presented by the Chocolate Church Arts Center in partnership with Shakespeare on the Kennebec.
Find out more »Bath Farmers Market
The Farmers Market meets on Saturday mornings year round. Our vendors offer seasonal produce, fresh meat, poultry and fish. Glorious cheeses and creamy yogurt, sweet and savory baked goods, bread and fresh soups and ready to heat meals. Wool blankets, beeswax candles, herbal medicinals and all kinds of special treasures are available. Check out the homemade granola, the locally roasted coffee-try a cup-and the lactofermented vegetables. We have bags too. SNAP users are welcome; we also support credit and debit…
Find out more »Mary E Kennebec River Sail (2.5 hours)
Sail down the Kennebec River aboard the historic 1906 schooner Mary E; the only Kennebec-built schooner still afloat. Help us set and trim sails as our crew share tales from her colorful history, or just sit back and enjoy the scenery. You’ll pass by the site of the Thomas E. Hagan yard where Mary E was built in 1906, see Doubling Point Light and the Kennebec Range Lights, and get a unique view of Navy vessels under construction at Bath Iron Works. Running…
Find out more »An Ekphrastic Event
MARK YOUR CALENDARS June 8th. 5:00 to 7:00 An Ekphrastic Event Centre St. Arts Gallery, LLC of Bath and Gulf of Maine Bookstore of Brunswick are teaming up to present to you 12 Local Poets reading their responses to new work in the gallery. This event reflects our joy in combining artistic mediums and supporting local businesses. Come and be treated to beautiful art work and inspiring poems, have a beverage and meet the artist! 11 Centre St, Bath, ME…
Find out more »Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (theatre)
The hilariously written Twelfth Night is one of William Shakespeare's easiest plays to fall in love with. There are plenty of practical jokes and unexpected love triangles. Presented by the Chocolate Church Arts Center in partnership with Shakespeare on the Kennebec.
Find out more »Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (theatre)
The hilariously written Twelfth Night is one of William Shakespeare's easiest plays to fall in love with. There are plenty of practical jokes and unexpected love triangles. Presented by the Chocolate Church Arts Center in partnership with Shakespeare on the Kennebec.
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