Biologist/author Rachel Carson standing seaside, examining specimen in jar. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) Rachel Carson was famously one of the essential sparks in the environmental movement and, although lacking the usual scientific credentials, a major force in national scientific debates. Yet she was a shy, retiring and humble person. How did she come to ...

This online program is free and open to the public. Preregistration is required. Click here to sign up. Learn about the lives of a few of the incredible Black men— free and enslaved— who worked the waters of the Kennebec and helped shape Lincoln County.  This talk will span the decades from the 1700s to the late 1800s.  Korinne Tanzer ...

Registration is required for this free online lecture! Click here to register. Artist, printmaker, and living history presenter Andy Volpe will discuss the illustration and graphic works used in print in the American Colonial period, such as Paul Revere, William Burgis, Amos Doolittle, Nathaniel Hurd, and others were producing for newspapers, magazines, almanacks, books, etc., with aspects relating to the ...

This online program is free and open to the public. Preregistration is required. Click here to sign up. Learn about the lives of a few of the incredible Black men— free and enslaved— who worked the waters of the Kennebec and helped shape Lincoln County.  This talk will span the decades from the 1700s to the late 1800s.  Korinne Tanzer ...

All three of our historic museums will open for the season to tours on June 1st! 

Click here to register now. How did a stuttering young boy come to be fluent in nine languages and even teach speech and rhetoric at Bowdoin College? How did a trained minister who had rarely left his native Maine find his way to the Gettysburg battlefield where he played a key role in preserving the Union? How did this wounded ...

LCHA's annual commemoration of Memorial Day. After being called to order at 11a.m., the gathered will proceed up the woods road to the Court House cemetery. Veteran soldiers of three wars will be remembered through spoken words and the placing of bouquets upon the graves.  Reenactors from the Colonial Maine Living History Association will be on-site with their encampment open ...

Help us usher in the summer and celebrate opening day at our three historic house museums: Damariscotta's 1754 Chapman-Hall House, Dresden's 1761 Pownalborough Court House, and Wiscasset's 1811 Old Jail with attached 1839 Jailer's House. Admission is free! Click here for hours and museum information.