Creating Tide Mills – Then and Now
How man once got the oceans to do his work
and how he is seeking ways to make it happen again.
The 2018 Annual Tide Mill Conference is scheduled for Saturday, November 10, in Beverly, MA, at 100 Cummings Center on Elliot St. (Rt 62). Link to Google Map.
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Registration fee (includes lunch): $50 per person for non-members, $40 for members.
Pre-registration by Nov 1 is requested for food planning. (See below for instructions.)
Program (subject to change)
8:30 Registration, coffee, donuts, informal discussion
9:00 Welcome and introductions
9:15 What’s Going on in the East River and Around the World – a Verdant Power presentation
9:50 The Early Technical Development of the Horizontal and Vertical Water-Wheels in Early Medieval Ireland and Europe c. AD 580-1100: Some Thoughts on Their Use in Early Tide Mills – Colin Rynne, University College Cork, Archaeology Department
10:35 Break
11:00 A Salem Perpetual Power Tide Mill That Was Never Built – Robert Gordon
11:35 A Proposed Hydro-Electric Tidal Canal for Boston – Paul Lukez
12:00 A Tide Mill in Cummings Center: A Brief Discussion
12:15 Lunch
1:15 A New Look at Maine’s Quoddy Tidal Power Project: 1920-1940 – Mark Borton
1:40 Reconstructing Features of Rowley Tide Mill Wheels – Jack Grundstrum
2:15 Tide Mill at the Heart of the 1775 Battle of Brooklyn – Eymund Diegel
2:50 Ocean Storms Clobber Two Historic Tide Mills – Bud Warren and John Goff
3:00 Construction Details of Some Early Maine Tide Mills – Bud Warren
3:30 Adjourn