Tide Mills Galore!
From the Piscataqua to the Merrimack
and Around the World
Friday and Saturday
October 25 and 26
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