2024 Old House Forum & Annual Meeting
Held on THURSDAY, MAY 23 VIA ZOOM
We are pleased to present the 2024 Old House Forum & Annual Meeting program which will discuss new ways that our colleagues are celebrating, exploring, and interrogating the Maine’s history.
The Maine House II
Maura McEvoy, Basha Burwell, and Kathleen Hackett
Over multiple printings and across the world, The Maine House sounded a rallying cry “to preserve a living history belonging to individual, family, and state; a visual call to recognize these homey structures and others like them as ‘extraordinary gifts.’” The Maine House II moves beyond the authors’ cri de Coeur, highlighting the beauty and importance of preservation, restoration, thoughtful renovation, and low-impact living in the place they love the most.
Dead Writers Podcast
Tess Chakkalakal
Dead Writers brings classic American authors back to life for a contemporary audience through a podcast series that takes listeners on a tour of literary homes, transporting them inside the houses in which the authors lived and wrote. The first season is dedicated to Maine’s literary landscape and will highlight such authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
WHERE2024
Meadow Dibble
Atlantic Black Box empowers communities throughout the Northeast to research and reckon with our region’s complicity in colonization and slavery. Over the next seven months, ABB and its partner organizations will invite the public to take part in the Walk for Historical and Ecological Recovery (WHERE2024), a broad-based initiative aimed at surfacing suppressed stories of genocide and survival, enslavement and resistance, and displacement and representation in seven sites across the state.
THANK YOU TO OUR 2024 SPONSORS
2023 Old House Forum & Annual Meeting
Held ON Wednesday, May 31 at 5pm via zoom
We are pleased to present the 2023 Old House Forum & Annual Meeting program celebrating and exploring Maine's community spaces, recreational outposts, and roadside attractions.
Meeting Hall Maine
Michelle Hauser
Sporting and Leisure Camps of Central and Western Maine
Catherine Cyr
The Maine Roadshow
Tim O’Brien
2022 Old House Forum & Annual Meeting
Held on Wednesday, May 25
Building a Skilled Workforce
Nicholas A. Redding
President & CEO, Preservation Maryland
Digital Explorations of Place
J. Mark Souther, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Public History + Digital Humanities
Re-focusing Narratives
Taylor Kabeary & Eduardo Duarte Ruas
Co-Founders, Preservation Side B
50th Anniversary Kickoff Celebration & Annual Meeting
Held On Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 4:00 - 5:45 PM
The Old House Forum & Annual Meeting
Held Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Bootstrapping Economic Development Through Reuse of Historic Structures
Presenter:
Hugh French, Director, Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport
Learn about a current project that is reusing reusing an historic structure to foster economic development in Eastport.
16 Counties - 16 Stories of Early Maine Houses
Presenter: Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Maine State Historian
Take a whirlwind tour of notable early Maine houses - all built prior to Maine statehood - and hear the stories of the bold Mainers associated with them.
Highlights from the 2019 OLD HOUSE FORUM
Grit & Granite - May 11, 2019
The 2019 event was held at Hallowell at City Hall. We celebrated Grit & Granite, the foundation of preservation in Maine, and the 50th anniversary of Row House, Inc.
