The Woods Hole Historical Museum will host a virtual conversation on Tuesday, December 12, at 7 PM with Jim Parmentier of Maine’s First Ship, discussing the group’s reconstruction of the
OWLS HEAD Entering its third season, the Owls Head Village Library Garden Gatherings summer speaker series will feature well-known Maine-based artists, authors, historians and museum executives. “Set in homes around Owls Head, the gardens and.
Join Jim Parmentier for his program at Wiscasset Public Library at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22 as he presents “Reconstructing the 1607 ship Virginia.” In 1607, English colonists settled at the mouth of the Kennebec River in what is now Phippsburg.
Members of the Maine’s First Ship group have spent more than 20 years researching the first ocean-going vessel built by Europeans in North America. Last summer plans became reality when, after years in construction, a replica of the Virginia of Sagadahoc was launched in Bath, according to a news release from Bob McIntire, Row House […]
UNION Following the successful launch of “Maine’s First Ship” last June, Jim Parmentier returns to Union Historical Society on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m., for an update on the historic project. The original Virginia was built in.