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ASC Members' Field Trip to the Maine Forest and Logging Museum

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Saturday, October 5th

9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Please join us for a members-only field trip to the Maine Forest and Logging Museum to participate in "Living History Days". The museum celebrates Maine’s rich forestry and logging history through education, demonstration, preservation, and conservation.

Attractions at the reconstruction of a 1790 logging and milling community include a water-powered sash sawmill, a blacksmith shop, colonial and civil war re-enactors, fresh pressed cider, a Lombard log-hauler, horse-drawn wagon rides, an alewife fish ladder, and bean-hole baked beans with muffins for purchase.

Friends of the Museum, dressed in 19th-century garb, serve as docents and will be available to explain how a mill and log yard operated between 1790 and 1920.

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October Food for Thought

The Story of a Whiskey Bottle and its Ties to Bangor Maine, Hamilton College, The Pure Food and Drug Act, and Hollywood

David Gapp

Friday, October 25^th at 11:30 a.m.

Birch Bay Village, Bar Harbor

and on Zoom

While walking his dog and poking around in a wooded area near his home in Central New York, Dave found a brown bottle in an old trash heap. The raised glass label read “The Duffy Malt Whiskey Company, Rochester, N.Y. U.S.A., Patented 1886.” Dave set out to investigate and found that Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey was emblematic of the age of patent medicines that flourished from the second half of the 19th century until the first several decades of the 20th century.

Anyone could create a concoction of any number of uncontrolled ingredients and make claims for its efficacy without verification. You might also remember another patent medicine, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, which was made from a recipe developed by Mrs. Charlotte Winslow, a nurse from Bangor, Maine.

Ah, but the story continues... Join us and find out!

David Gapp was a Biology Professor at Hamilton College where he taught Biology of Reproduction, Food for Thought, Vertebrate Physiology, General Endocrinology, and Integrative Animal Biology. David has taught several courses for Acadia Senior College.

The luncheon at Birch Bay Village in Hulls Cove begins at 11:30 a.m. and costs $15. The presentation is from noon to 1:00 p.m.

The Zoom presentation is free and begins at noon. If you register for the online talk you will receive the link the day before the event.

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Please let us know by Wednesday, October 23rd if you cannot attend.

Fall course evaluations

Some of our fall classes will wrap up soon, and others are just starting. Once your class is finished, you will receive and email reminder to submit your course evaluation. Please submit your online course evaluations to help the Curriculum Committee evaluate class sizes and locations, and learn what topics you enjoy. All comments are shared anonymously with the committee and instructors.

More learning opportunites

There are 16 senior colleges in Maine, offering a variety of classes and presentations, some of which are free and many are offered by Zoom. To learn more, read and subscribe to the MSCN newsletter.

Did you know that as members of Acadia Senior College, you are eligible to register for classes offered by other Senior Colleges in Maine without paying an additional membership fee? Space permitting, you can register for courses and pay only the course fee.

You can also visit the What's Happening? page and subscribe to receive email notices for presentations from senior colleges around the state. (Click the Log In link to sign up.)

Acadia Senior College

PO Box 475

Southwest Harbor, ME 04679

acadiaseniorcollege.org

learn@acadiaseniorcollege.org

207-288-9500