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AUGUSTA — Fort Western and the Maine Bicentennial Commission have made available 10 lectures chronicling the history of the Kennebec Valley and early Maine, available to view online free of charge.
The lectures, filmed by CTV-7, can be viewed on the Fort Western website, oldfortwestern.org — click on the plus sign after the Bicentennial Lecture Series button on the left side navigation pane.
They can also be viewed directly through vimeo.com/showcase/oldfortwestern.
Lectures are:
Arthur Spiess: “Maine Native Americans: An Archaeological Perspective Covering 13,000 years of Native American History in Maine”
Bruce Bourque and Fred Koerber: “Merrymeeting Bay Pioneers Project: Tracing the Lives of the Area’s First European Settlers”
Ken Hamilton: “French Privateers along the Maine Coast:
Leon Cranmer: “The 17th Century Trading Posts along the Kennebec”
Michael Dekker: “Maine’s French & Indian Wars”
Leith Smith: “The Archaeology of Fort Richmond”
Leon Cranmer: “The Archaeology of Fort Halifax”
Linda Novak: “The Archaeology of Fort Western”
Tom Desjardin: “Benedict Arnold’s March through Maine”
David Cheever: “Rummaging through Maine’s Familiar Civil War”
For information on the speakers, visit oldfortwestern.org. Old Fort Western is a 501(C)3 not-for-profit organization whose mission is to preserve, protect and interpret the National Historic Landmark, fort, store and house on the Kennebec River, across from downtown.
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