2006 Tidemill Conference - Power in the Tides: Then and Now: 2nd Annual Historic Tide Mill Conference, Saturday, November 4th, 2006, Dorchester, Massachusetts

8:30 – 9:00
Registration, refreshments, view exhibits

9:00 – 9:10
Welcome to DHS and opening remarks: Earl Taylor, President DHS

9:10 – 10:10
Report on Arlington’s & Mystic River Tide Mills: Richard Duffy

10:20 – 10:40
Break

10:40 – 11:30
Investigating the Torrey Grist Mill on Deer Isle, Penobscot Bay, Maine:
Bud Warren, President, The Maine Approach

11: 40 – 12:30
New Jersey’s Forgotten Tide Mills: Richard Hunter, President, Hunter Research, Inc.

12:30 – 1:30
Lunch

1:30 – 1:31
Announcement re: tide mill tours on Sunday

1:31 – 2:15
Tide Mills near the Mouth of the Amazon: Traditional Technology & Its Reuse: Scott Anderson

2:15 – 3:00
Use of Helical Turbines at Historic Tide Mill Sites: Alexander Gorlov, Northeastern University

3:00 – 3:40
Short presentations (10 min. each)

- Tide Mill Artifacts for a Tide Mill Museum
John Goff, former editor, The Tide Mill Times
- A Newly-Discovered Neponset Tide Mill
Earl Taylor, President DHS

4:00
Looking forward to next year: Participant suggestions and Concluding remarks: Earl Taylor, John Goff, Bud Warren