Museum Mondays: Our Summer Speaker Series 

At the Sail, Power, and Steam Museum, our mission is to: celebrate, honor, experience, and share the stories of Maine's maritime heritage. That's why - all year - we bring in speakers to share their wit, wisdom, art, and science of the sea.
Be sure to check back often for additional speakers and details!

Museum Mondays take place at the museum: 75 Mechanic Street, Rockland ME.
Tickets are $10 at the door.

Monday, August 25, 6:30pm: Michael Crowley:  “Working the Sea” with Kevin Johnson, Penobscot Marine Museum

​Michael Crowley, has been chasing fish stories for years.   Formerly on the editorial staff of National Fisherman, he still writes for that publication as well as the trade publication, WorkBoat, and his interests remain firmly grounded in the fishing industry.  Working closely with Searsport’s Penobscot Marine Museum led to the recent publication of his book, “Working the Sea:  Historic Images from National Fisherman.”


With the combined donations of pre-digital photography from The National Fisherman and The Atlantic Fisherman, The Penobscot Marine Museum’s collection provides a comprehensive look at the American fishing industry from the 1920s to the 1990s.The photographs of boats and the people who worked them document a critical period of change and growth in the history of American fisheries. “Working the Sea” highlights the grit, drama, resourcefulness, practical minutiae, and sometimes epic feats that characterize this essential and iconic industry.
DATE TBD: The Mayflower - A Generational Love Story, 13 Generations in the Making
with Phil Crossman

Join us as we listen to storyteller and Vinalhaven resident Phil Crossman, as he recounts a remarkably coincidental and clearly destined love story resulting from the very diverse and circuitous travels of descendant generations of two Mayflower passengers, emerging, finally, 300 years later, in parallel.

Crossman, an islander whose forbears arrived on Vinalhaven in 1792, is deeply involved with Island policies and activities, has served in town government forever, and has run several businesses, including the Tidewater Motel. He is a prolific writer and has authored several books, two of which are collections of mostly humorous essays which received the following endorsement from NYTimes art and literary critic, Richard Eder: 'A writer of antic gravity and grace who draws out the stretches, strains, and human comedy of a place that is all face-to-face encounters.'

Crossman’s considerable research into his family's Mayflower ancestry revealed that unlike the thousands of others who can legitimately claim that same chain, his is a circuitous and unlikely journey that lands squarely on the island of Vinalhaven. Entertaining, informative, and moving, the journey is told with Phil's unique perspective. Settle in for an enjoyable evening as he describes with interesting detail this journey, which started with William Brewster, senior elder of the Plymouth Colony and Richard Warren a signer of the Mayflower Compact.

Tickets: $10 at the door