Pentagoet Inn

Castine, Maine featured in "1,000 Places to See Before You Die"

This year's edition of "1,000 Places to see Before You Die" features the Pentagoet Inn's home town of Castine, Maine.  Visit this historic town on the coast of Maine with a stay at the Pentagoet Inn. 

Downeast Maine Apple Week

The apple trees along the country roads on the Blbue hill peninsula are laden with ripe fruit.  In celebration of the harvest the Downeast Food Heritage Collaborative is holding a festival at the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine.  Did you know that in 1850 there 10,000 varieties of apples in cultivation in downeast Maine?  The Pentagoet Inn features local apples with warm gingerbread in our dining room, open every night except Sunday. 

Festival running October 7th -9th.  For more information see the Woodlawn Museum website.

3rd Annual Deborah Pulliam Lecture, Wednesday, July 20th, Castine Maine

On Wednesday night, July 20th, Pulitzer Prize winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed will be the guest speaker at the Third Annual Deborah Pulliam Lecture.  Her major work, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.  The lecture will take place at 7:30 at Delano Auditorium on the campus of Maine Maritime Academy.  It is free and open to the public as part of the 2011 Castine Historical Society summer events. 

The ongoing display at the historical society, "History and Hearsay: Tales of Castine Homes"  features 13 Castine houses and their stories, the exhibit tells intriguing tales of famous visitors, infamous householders, and objects found in walls.

Castine, Maine Featured in "101 Beautiful Small Coastal Towns of America"

"Castine: One of America's Earliest Settlements" is the opening for Castine's entry in the book One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Coastal Towns of America" by Stephen Brewer.  Published by Rizzoli, the book visits small towns from coast to coast including our hometown of Castine, Maine.

From the book:

"This proud old town on the Blue Hill Peninsula near the wide mouth of the Penobscot River, settled by French traders in 1613, is one of America's earliest settlements and accepts this fact with quiet pride."

"The Pentagoet Inn began receiving guests in the 1890's and the large porch just above Main Street is still one of the vantage points in town."

Castine Maine - Castine Historical Society Presents Pulitzer Prize Winner David Hackett Fischer

On July 7 at 7:30 PM David Hackett Fischer whose book “Washington’s Crossing” won a Pulitzer Prize for History in 2005 will discuss his more recent book “Champlain’s Dream”, a biography of the French explorer and colonist. His lecture titled “ Champlain’s Dream: A New France in the New World” is sponsored by the Castine Historical Society www.castinehistoricalsociety.org and is free to the public. It starts at 7:30 and is a two block walk from the Pentagoet Maine bed and breakfast. We look forward to seeing you

Castine Maine - Pentagoet Inn Beer Alert: Three Tides Bar & Left Bank Books Presents "Get Your Beers On"

The Left Bank Books www.leftbankbookshop.com  in Searsport will be sponsoring another of their gatherings in the “Winter Lyceum” Talk series on Sunday, April 11 from 3:30 to 5:30 PM. The talk is entitled “Get your Beers On” and will be presented by David Carlson the Brew master of Marshall Wharf Brewing and owner of Three Tides restaurant and bar in Belfast, Maine, www.3tides.com. This trendy watering hole has grown to include two levels, two bars, an outdoor fireplace, bocce court and most recently a new brewery and retail store.

In October of 2007, Marshall Wharf Brewery was opened for business, now producing a constantly-changing selection of a dozen or so beers, ranging from stouts to pale ales.  With colorful names like "Illegal Ale-ian" and "Big Twitch," the Marshall Wharf concoctions vary in their flavors, degree of hops, and their alcohol content, from the relatively lightweight "Tug Pale Ale" at 4.2% alcohol by volume up to the "T2-R9 Barleywine" - "our biggest beer yet" - weighing in at an impressive 11.3%. "In the Maine brewing world," Carlson says, "we are considered the bad boys. We brew big, strong beers, and because of the lack of distribution and availability, Three Tides has become a destination for serious beer-lovers from all over the state of Maine.” Marshall Wharf www.marshallwharf.com beers can also be found on tap at Darby's, Primo www.primorestaurant.com in Rockland, and Duckfat www.duckfat.com and Great Lost Bear in Portland.

So please join the folks at Left Bank Books on Sunday afternoon as Carlson recounts the historic evolution of his interest in beer and brewing, the development of his waterfront craft microbrewery, and the explosion of craft beer production in Maine today. David will be revealing a few of the many arcane secrets of brewing craft beers and explain the difference between ales, lagers, stouts, pilsners, India Pale Ales and barley wines and will later introduce us to a few of his incredible brews. Calling all beer groupies, this is the brewery to follow, I love their beers! See you at the talk

Searsport Maine - Left Bank Books - Beer for the Masses

The Left Bank Books in Searsport www.leftbankbookshop.com will be sponsoring another of their gatherings in the “Winter Lyceum” Talk series on Sunday, April 11 from 3:30 to 5:30 PM. The talk is entitled “Get your Beers On” and will be presented by David Carlson the Brew master of Marshall Wharf Brewing www.marshallwharf.com and owner of the restaraunt and bar Three Tides www.3tides.com in Belfast, Maine. David will be revealing a few of the many arcane secrets of brewing craft beers and explain the difference between ales, lagers, stouts, pilsners, India Pale Ales and barley wines and will later introduce us to a few of his incredible brews. Hail all beer groupies this is the brewery to follow, I love their beers! See you at the talk.

Blue Hill Peninsula - Opera, Theatre, Book Readings, Lots of Culture

On Tuesday, Feb. 2, 7:00pm - Blue Hill Public Library hosts local author Susan Hand Shetterly reading from her new book, Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town.  This new collection of essays focuses on the nature around her home, her observations and experiences.  According to Shetterly, "I live on land that has not surrendered the last of its wildness.  It keeps secrets, and those secrets prompt us to pay attention, to look for more."....374-5515

 

On Thursday Feb. 4, 3:00pm - Blue HIll Public Library hosts an opera preview of Giuseppe Verdi's Simone Boccanegra which comes to The Grand on Saturday, February 6th by live simulcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.  To help music lovers prepare to this event, the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and Friends of the Blue Hill Pubic Library join together to introduce and study this political thriller.  The legendary tenor Placido Domingo, who is in his fourth decade of his Met career, will make history by singing the title role which is written for a baritone....374-5515

 

On Thursday Feb. 4, 7:00pm - Opera House Arts presents Brilliant Traces, live theater with stars from NYC.  This dramatic, dark comedy is set during a blizzard in Alaska and will give your Maine "cabin fever" a whole new look!  Starring your favorite Shakespeare in Stonington comedian Tommy Piper, last see as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream....367-2788

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham Lincoln Traveling Exhibit in Castine, Maine

November 6-25 at the Castine Historical Society, the Abraham Lincoln: Self-made in America travleing exhibit will be on display 1-4 pm daily or by appointment.  Castine in one of only 40 location across the United States to host this exhibit and 1 of 2 in New England.  This 200th birthday celebration of our 16th president is free of charge and open to the public.

 

The exhibit covers Lincoln's childhood, education, careers, family life, election, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation and assassination.  The reproduction artifacts on display are all modeled from originals in the Presidential Museum.  Some of the artifacts on display include: books, toys, nameplate from his home, his hat, a presidential campaign banner, an axe, his gloves and other items.

 

For other details please visit the castine site http://site.castinehome.com/Abraham_Lincoln_Exhibit.html

the Historical Society site

http://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/

or The Wilson Museum

http://wilsonmuseum.org/

Jeff Lewis Book Signing

As part of Castine's Summer Writer Series sponsored by the friends of Witherle Memorial Library, Castine resident, honored writer and two time Emmy Award winner Jeff Lewis will read from "Adam the King", the final novel in the Meritocracy Quartet, at the Unitarian Universalist Church parish House Wednesday, August 6, at 7:00 PM. Lewis will answer questions about his critically acclaimed Meritocracy Quartet, completed in 2008.