BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220406T230000Z DTEND:20220407T000000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Jim Parmentier: Maine's First Ship DESCRIPTION:A long-time volunteer of Maine's First Ship program\, James Parmentier\, relates the account of the Popham Colony and the project to reconstruct its 1608 Pinnace\, Virginia.\n\n \n\nIn 1607\, 100 Englishmen attempted a settlement at the mouth of the Kennebec River. They traded with native people and built a small\, maneuverable ship with which to explore nearby rivers and coastlines for resources. When the colony was forced to fold after 14 months\, they rigged the ship for an open-ocean voyage and sailed it back to England. This was the start of the 400-year old shipbuilding industry in Maine today.\n\n \n\nDr. James Parmentier retired to Brunswick\, Maine\, in 2012 after a career as a research scientist in the drug development industry and a faculty member in the IHP Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Jim has spent most of his summers on or near the water . . . sailing\, rowing\, and building small boats. He is currently building a 19-ft lobster boat in his home workshop. For the past decade he has volunteered with Maine's First Ship to help reconstruct the Virginia of Sagadahoc. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
A long-time volunteer of Maine'\;s First Ship program\, James Parmentier\, relates the account of the Popham Colony and the project to reconstruct its 1608 Pinnace\, Virginia.
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In 1607\, 100 Englishmen attempted a settlement at the mouth of the Kennebec River. They traded with native people and built a small\, maneuverable ship with which to explore nearby rivers and coastlines for resources. When the colony was forced to fold after 14 months\, they rigged the ship for an open-ocean voyage and sailed it back to England. This was the start of the 400-year old shipbuilding industry in Maine today.
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Dr. James Parmentier retired to Brunswick\, Maine\, in 2012 after a career as a research scientist in the drug development industry and a faculty member in the IHP Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Jim has spent most of his summers on or near the water . . . sailing\, rowing\, and building small boats. He is currently building a 19-ft lobster boat in his home workshop. For the past decade he has volunteered with Maine&rsquo\;s First Ship to help reconstruct the Virginia of Sagadahoc.
\n LOCATION:Salem Athenaeum online UID:e.2160.11890 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260406T020758Z URL:https://www.salem-chamber.org/events/details/jim-parmentier-maine-s-first-ship-11890 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR