Fifth Maine Museum Annual Membership Meeting August 13 and Survey
Fifth Maine Museum Annual Membership Meeting
Thursday August 13
Hello, Fifth Maine Community!
First, please save the date August 13 from 5:30PM to 8PM for our Annual Membership Meeting. We are pleased to share that our guest speaker for the annual meeting this year will be Susan Hanley. Susan is the guest curator for our new exhibit, Abandon Ship! Mishaps and Maydays on Casco Bay, all about the history of Maine shipwrecks from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. For her talk at the Annual Membership Meeting, Susan will be sharing fascinating details that couldn’t make it into the exhibit. We hope to see you there! (if you haven’t enrolled as a member yet, click here)
Second, please take a moment to take our Membership Survey, whether you are a current or former member. This survey is an opportunity for you to share your feedback with us. We would like to know what is important to our members, past and present, and how we can better serve the community that supports us. Your feedback would truly mean a lot.
Finally, we want to remind you that this Friday, July 31, we will have an electronic music concert at 7PM. Providence-based artist and musician Eli Neuman-Hammond will be sharing his new composition for synthesizer inspired by the song John Brown’s Body. Also performing will be Peaks Island artist and musician, Auntie Opiate, and Portland electronic duo, tang. You can read more on our events page.
Eli Neuman-Hammond will also be installing a sound sculpture which will be on view at the museum for the month of August. In Eli’s words:
It is a cradle-shaped music box that plays an arrangement of a melody shared by the civil war song “John Brown’s Body,” its reactionary twin “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” the labor song “Solidarity Forever,” and the hymn “Say Brothers.” It plays this song using a motorized music box movement that takes punched paper, much like a player piano.
Thanks for reading and we hope to see you at the Annual Membership Meeting August 13!
Sincerely,
The Fifth Maine Team