Lectures

With a Community Outreach Grant from the Maine Humanities Council, Spirits Alive presented three lectures from January to March 2008 on topics ranging from historic New England cemeteries to Portland's Great Fire at One Longfellow Square in Portland:

January
Joy M. Giguere - This Bowdoin doctoral candiate presented "Death & Commemoration on the Frontier: An Analysis of Early Gravestones in Cumberland County, Maine, 1720–1820."

February
Dr. David Watters - The Director of the Center for New England Culture and professor of English at the University of New Hampshire presented, "Stranger, Stop and Cast an Eye:  A Cultural History of New England Burying Grounds."

March
Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. - The Director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission presented the slide lecture, "The Day Portland Burned: July 4, 1866."

Admission was free and all lectures were open to the public (with donations accepted).