Shipbuilding and Migration: A Camden Conference Community Event

The Belfast Free Library is hosting Cipperly Good, curator at the Penobscot Marine Museum on January 10 at 6:30 p.m. She will discuss the role of ships built in the midcoast on migration to this area. Searsport and Belfast built and captained ships that carried slaves from Africa to Cuba to work in the sugar industry. And, closer to home, they brought European and Italian workers to Stonington and islands off Rockland to cut and carve granite for use in major construction all over New England and New York. This program is free and open to all.

This presentation is hosted by the Belfast Free Library and offered as a free community event in in anticipation of the 30th Annual Camden Conference -Refugees and Global Migration: Humanity’s Crisis, February 17-19, 2017. The 30th Anniversary Camden Conference Community Events Series is supported in part by the Maine Humanities Council.