Risky maritime trade focus of exhibit
CASTINE The Castine Historical Society has an exciting array of exhibits and programs scheduled for 2021.
After being physically closed for a year because of COVID-19, the society will open June 11. The featured exhibit will be “Risky Business: Square-Rigged Ships and Salted Fish.”
Back for a second and final year, the exhibit invites visitors to step back in time to the 1800s when Castine’s working waterfront thrived on a global market. The fascinating exhibit brings Castine’s maritime economy to life through paintings, objects, and documents.
“Risky Business” and all other exhibits are free and will be on display from June 11 to Oct. 11 in the society’s Abbott School exhibit gallery. Open hours are Friday-Saturday, and Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. Face coverings are encouraged inside the building.
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COVID-19 update: When planning your trip, check with museums and other attractions or diversions about their current pandemic-related policies, as well as Maine s COVID-19 website. Maine lifted its quarantine and COVID-19 requirements for out-of-state visitors on May 1 but may reinstate them for arrivals from particular states if their caseloads spike.
The minute you round the corner into Castine, you know you ve arrived somewhere special. This coastal Maine town seduces visitors with its handsome Federal and Georgian homes, elm-lined streets, colorful gardens, college campus and serene views of windjammers and working boats cruising Penobscot Bay but it s more than a pretty face. Long visited by Native Americans and occupied
Castine voters approve name change for Negro Islands
CASTINE Upper and Lower Negro Islands will be no more. Eventually.
Voters at Castine’s annual Town Meeting Saturday approved initiating the process of changing the names in a split vote.
Town Manager Shawn Blodgett said “the result was 44-33 in favor of changing the names of the two islands.”
Upper Negro Island is privately owned while Lower Negro Island is owned by Maine Coast Heritage Trust.
Now the Board of Selectmen will form a committee to get ideas for potential names for the islands. Those options would go on the ballot in November.
Castine to consider Negro Island name change
CASTINE Voters headed to the May 8 Town Meeting will decide if they want to initiate the process of changing the name of Negro Island.
The island has borne the name for hundreds of years and is actually two small islands connected by a sandbar in the mouth of the Bagaduce River off Castine. Upper Negro Island is in private hands while Lower Negro Island is owned by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust. The area is popular with kayakers and Lower Negro Island has a short hiking loop and a campsite.
It’s not clear how the island got its name, but the local lore that it was part of the Underground Railroad is a myth, said Lisa Simpson Lutts, the executive director of the Castine Historical Society.