SAGE membership is not required.  This is a ZOOM class and the public is welcome.                           

 This talk examines the Penobscot Expedition of 1779, which is the worst naval disaster in American history except for Pearl Harbor. The story centers on Bagaduce (present day Castine), the establishment of British Fort George, and the ill-fated American effort to capture the fort. 

Instructor: Dr. Patrick Callaway is an Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at UMPI. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Maine in 2019 and was a Fulbright student to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His primary research is on late colonial/early republic era agricultural trade and smuggling between the US and Canada.

SAGE membership is not required.  This is a ZOOM class and the public is welcome.                           

 This focuses on the War of 1812 in Maine, and the de facto truce Maine enjoyed with the British for the first two years of the war. This changed in 1814 as a British force re-captures Castine, and plots to incorporate all of eastern Maine into British North America. This is of local interest as one of the reasons for this campaign was to provide security for a new transportation route for the British army that started in Fredericton, traveled up the St. Croix through the county, and on to Canada.

 Instructor: Dr. Patrick Callaway is an Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at UMPI. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Maine in 2019 and was a Fulbright student to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His primary research is on late colonial/early era agricultural trade and smuggling between the US and Canada.

Fee is for the Sargent Family Community Center for fuel and will be determined by the mileage.  Lunch is on you. We will leave from the Sargent Family Community Center.

At the brainstorming session we held last fall to come up with ideas for classes, it was suggested that we learn about the history of Aroostook County towns.  The Sargent Family Community Center offered, immediately, to help us accomplish this goal by offering us a van and driver.

A committee was formed to map out where we are going and when so it covers the large number of miles in just 7 months. 

Each trip will be a separate registration, fee and schedule. However, all the trips will begin and end at the Sargent Family Community Center and all registration and payments will be collected by them also.  Call 207-764-2545 to register or drop by during business hours.

Here is a tentative schedule:

• April - Houlton Historical Society, a van tour of the city, lunch.
• May - Oakfield and Island Falls
• June - New Sweden and Stockholm
• July - Ashland, Island Falls, and Patten
• August - Eagle Lake & Portage
• September - Grand Isle, Lille, and Madawaska
• October - Caribou, Limestone, and Loring 

Space is limited so we suggest registering as soon as possible with the community center.

The mission of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine is to promote universal respect for human rights through outreach and education. Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other events, past and present, we encourage individuals and communities to reflect and act upon their moral responsibilities to confront prejudice, intolerance, and discrimination. Erica will take us through the Fundamentals of Nazis Antisemitism on May 7 and on May 14 she will talk about the Post Holocaust Antisemitism.  This discussion will shine a light on what went wrong, what is still going wrong and what we can do about it.  Instructor: Erica Nadelhaft, Education Coordinator, currently lives in Bangor and travels the state doing programs for the HHRC of Maine.