Join Mount Desert Street neighbors as we celebrate our community with this annual progressive dinner. Call for details, 288-3519. 

Rick Hunt, Abenaki, will lead two children’s workshops on free form drawing, inspired by music and their own creative expressions.  Rick has co-curated two contemporary art exhibits at the Abbe, and is an accomplished pen and ink artist.  No experience necessary, to register please call Raney Bench at 288-3519 or e-mail to educator@abbemuseum.org

Sponsored by the Lynam Trust.

The Laughing Couple Duo, Rick and Carolyn Hunt, Abenaki, will perform a combination of traditional Abenaki storytelling and illustration in the Circle of Four Directions.  Carolyn will share stories while Rick illustrates them as a live performance.

Sponsored by the Lynam Trust.

The lunch lecture series concludes with Theresa Secord, Penobscot, and Director of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance.  Theresa will highlight the enduring legacies that continue in Wabanaki families from the era explored in Indians and Rusticators.

This will be the third talk in our annual winter series, connected with our blockbuster exhibit Indians & Rusticators: Wabanaki and Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island, 1840s -1920s.

Sponsored by the Lynam Trust.

As part of Women’s History Month, Curator of Education, Raney Bench, will lead a talk highlighting prominent Wabanaki women in Maine, historic and contemporary, and their contributions to their tribal communities and the state. 

This annual free workshop for teachers is designed to enhance understanding about topics and resources related to the Wabanaki and Maine Learning results.  For more information or to register, call Raney Bench at 288-3519 or e-mail at educator@abbemuseum.org