2019 Annual Conference

Tide Mills Galore!
From the Piscataqua to the Merrimack
and Around the World

Friday and Saturday
October 25 and 26

Kittery Community Center
120 Rogers Road
Kittery, Maine

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Registration fee: $50 per person ($40 for Tide Mill Institute members). Includes Saturday lunch.


Program

Friday, Oct. 25
8:30 a.m. start

  • Registration, refreshments, conversation
  • Welcome and introductions
  • Mills of New Hampshire and Kittery – Informal presentations by local residents
  • Hampton’s Tide Mill – Deb Knowlton – Hampton Historical Society
  • The Thompson’s Pond Tide Mill – John Viele – Later leads the field trip to this mill site with clear evidence of mill-dam construction techniques and two remaining millstones
  • Eastern Kittery Tide Mills – Deane Rykerson – Vice President, TIDE MILL INSTITUTE
  • Several Spruce Creek Mills – Fred Perry – Independent scholar
  • Colonial Tide Mills in Rye – Craig Musselman – Lives at non-tidal mill site in Rye
  • Tide Mills New and Old, Including Greenland, N.H. – Nathan Hazen – Member of Greenland Historical Society
  • The Ritson and Wentworth Tide Mills – Jim Cerny – Newcastle Historical Society, former president
  • Open Forum – Role of the Local Historical Society in Preserving and Interpreting the History of Local Tide Mills
  • Lunch on your own
  • Field trip to tide mill sites in Newcastle, Portsmouth and Kittery. Starts at 1:30 pm. (Footwear suitable for muddy and slippery conditions recommended.)

Saturday, Oct. 26
8:30 a.m. start

  • Registration, light breakfast, conversation
  • Welcome and introductions
  • Tide Mills: Old and New, Near and Far, Here and There
  • The Living Bridge: Incorporating Sustainability and Tidal Energy at the New Portsmouth Bridge – Erin Bell and Martin Wosnick – Department of Engineering, University of New Hampshire
  • From Energy Potential to Environmental Impact: Understanding the Process for Harnessing Tidal Power – Lauren Ross – Engineering Department, University of Maine
  • Medieval – Two Early Mills in the English Tidal Mud – Damian Goodburn – Archaeologist, The Museum of London Archaeology
  • A Worldwide Inventory of Tide Mills Reflecting an Essential Western History and a Consequent Distribution – Ewan Sonnic – Associate Researcher, National Higher School of Architecture of Brittany
  • Pinpointing Boston’s Early Tide Mills – Earl Taylor – Historian, TMI Co-Founder & Treasurer and President of Dorchester Historical Society
  • Lunch (12:00) Included in registration fee
  • Tide Mill Institute Annual Meeting
  • A SPOOM (The Society for the Preservation of Old Mills) Report – Amy Boyce
  • Finding Andrew Greele’s Tide Mill in Seabrook, N.H. – Jesse Cofelice – Independent Archaeological Counseling, LLC
  • Finding a Tide Mill in Truro – Tim Richards and Margaret Clark
  • From Maine to Georgia: Peveril Meigs’s Search for Tide Mills – Bud Warren – TMI Co-Founder and President

Registration has closed for the 2019 conference.