CHAMBERLAIN DAYS 2011
AUGUST 25 - 28, BRUNSWICK DOWNTOWN
Thursday, August 25
7 pm - Opening Lecture - Thomas Desjardin, Chamberlain scholar
Title: "The Chamberlain You Never Knew"
Location: Curtis Memorial Library, Morrell Room
Friday, August 26
11 am - Walking Tour of Chamberlain's Brunswick
Guide: John Cross
Logistics: Meet at the Chamberlain statue at the corner of Maine St.
and Bath road, free but registration required (call 729-6606).
12 - 5 PM - Civil War Encampment with 20th Maine Regiment
Logistics: Brunswick's Lower Mall, Free and open to the public.
2 pm - Workshop - "The Life and Times of a Confederate Surgeon and Medical
Practices of the American Civil War"
Presenter: Chris Nulle (15th Alabama Company G reenactor)
Logistics: Lower Mall (with rain location, PHS Museum)
4 - 6 pm - General Chamberlain Reception
Host: The Brunswick Inn, 165 Park Row, Brunswick
$25 donation per person, cash bar
(tickets available through PHS and during Chamberlain Days)
6 pm - Centennial Band Concert - 19th century music
Location: Gazebo on the Brunswick Mall
Saturday, August 27
10am - 5 pm - Civil War Encampment with 20th Maine Regiment
Location: Brunswick's Lower Mall, Free and open to the public.
10 am - Walking Tour of Chamberlain's Brunswick.
Guide: John Cross
Location: Meet at the Chamberlain statue at the corner of Maine St. and
Bath road, free but registration required (Call 729-6606)
11 am - Workshop - "The Life and Times of a Young Confederate Soldier"
Presenter: Kate Nulle
Location: lower Mall (with rain location, PHS Museum), free but
donations welcomed!
12 - 1:30 - Civil War Bake Sale - Hardtack, 1800's candy, beef jerky etc.
Location: Lower Mall
1 pm - Lecture - By author Ned Smith Maine author and scholar will be presenting a talk on
"22nd Maine Infantry"
Location: Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick
2 pm - Lecture - Diane M. Smith, author of Fanny and Joshua: The enigmatic
Lives of Frances Caroline Adams and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1999,
Thomas Publications)
Location: Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick
7 - 8:30 pm - “From the Land of Spruce Gum and Buckwheat Cakes!”
A series of readings and song from Joshua Chamberlain and contemporaries
of the Civil War.
Location: Theater Project, 11 School Street, Brunswick.
Tickets: suggested $10 (on sale through PHS or during Chamberlain Days)
Sunday, August 28
9 am - Parade of Respect and Honor - Leaving from the 20th Maine Encampment on the
Brunswick Mall to Chamberlain Family gravesite in Pine Grove Cemetery.
(all welcome to join – meet on the mall at 8:45 am)
Organized by:
PEJEPSCOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
159 Park Row, Brunswick, ME 04011
207-729-6606
Please contact Interim Executive Director, John Briley, with any questions.
Welcome to the Pejepscot Historical Society Joshua Chamberlain
Information Area. The Society rescued the Chamberlain House from demolition in 1982, and that year began restoration on what would become the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum.
Features at the on-line Chamberlain Area include:
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