Arrive To: Check-in to The Inn at Camden Place anytime after 3:00 p.m.

Afternoon: Join your fellow travellers in the Common Room of the Inn for a welcome reception and brief orientation to the stimulating week ahead. Receive your welcome packets .

Dinner: Welcome dinner in town. View the beautiful Camden Harbor.

Lodging: The Inn at Camden Place

Meals Included: Dinner

Breakfast: Continental breakfast at your leisure. Coffee and tea is available in the Inn's Common Room - 24 hours.

Morning: Listen to sea stories, shanties and other heroics on the high seas at the Sail, Power and Steam Museum on the grounds of the historic Snow's Shipyard in Rockland. neighborhoods.

Lunch: Lunch together.

Afternoon: This afternoon, enjoy about The Island Institute - a non-profit organization dedicated to sustaining and maintaining the working waterfronts and islands off the coast of Maine. Of the 5000 miles of coastline, only 20 miles are still designated "working waterfront" and of the over 300 once inhabited islands, only 15 have year round residents today. The challenges facing the fishermen and islanders are daunting. Learn about a lobsterman's life and life on an island.

Dinner: Dinner together at a local Camden restaurant.

Lodging: The Inn at Camden Place

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Searsport - The Penobscot Marine Museum and Belfast - The Museum in the Streets

Breakfast: Continental breakfast at your leisure

Morning: Enjoy the early morning ride up the coast to BlueJacket Shipcrafters, the oldest ship and boat modeling company in the U.S.. Go on a private, behind-the-scenes tour of the workshops, metal foundry and gallery where more than 100 ship models are on display. The next stop is the oldest maritime museum in Maine - the Penobscot Marine Museum. Enjoy a self-guided tour of the campus - including a classic New England Town Hall, the First Congregational Church and a 19th-century sea captain's home. The buildings house the various exhibits depicting a life of "working the bay." It's the focus on the real-life experiences of the men, women and children who lived and worked on the great square-rigged ships in the 19th-century that brings the "Great Age of Sail" to life and makes the Penobscot Marine Museum unique.

Lunch: Lunch together in Belfast.

Afternoon: Join your historian for a walk through Belfast's historic downtown whose architecture reflects the affluence generated by the wealthy sea captains and ship builders of the 19th-century. Belfast and Searsport were once considered the most affluent towns on the east coast due to the extremely prolific and lucrative shipbuilding and seafaring merchant class. After its heyday in the 19th-century to its decline in the 1970's, Belfast's present day eclectic mix of working class Maine, back-to-the-landers, artists, boatbuilders and retirees have brought about its recent emergence as one of the "top ten culturally cool towns in the country" as sited by USA Today.

Dinner: Dinner together at one of Camden's favorite local restaurants.

Lodging: The Inn at Camden Place

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Continental breakfast at your leisure

Morning: Welcome to the world of the Maine Windjammer! All aboard one of oldest and original daysailing windjammers in Camden Harbor for a two-hour adventure. The captain regales you with stories, points out the varied wildlife, lobster pots and lighthouses and explains why the lobster fishing industry is so important to Maine's economy and "sense of place."

Lunch: Lunch together.

Afternoon: This afternoon is yours to explore! Perhaps a hike up Mt. Battie, or a trip to the Farnsworth Art Museum, or, or, or . . . so much to do!

Dinner: You are on your own for dinner this evening and the choice is yours - stay in Camden, go next door to Rockport or down to Rockland.

Lodging: The Inn at Camden Place

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, Maine's Lighthouse Museum and Owl's Head Light

Breakfast: Breakfast at your leisure

Morning: This morning you head "up" on the way down to Rockland with a stop at the Rockland Breakwater Light. In 1827, a small lantern was placed at Jameson Point at the entrance to Rockland Harbor. By 1881, at the height of the shipping trade, it was apparent that a proper lighthouse was needed and work began on the 0.8 mile stone breakwater. Construction lasted until 1899 and the small beacon was moved farther and farther out as the breakwater extended. The next stop is the Maine Lighthouse Museum where you are joined by an authentic lighthouse keepers daughter for a private presentation of "Living in a Lighthouse", stories and slides of her childhood. Afterwards, Marla is your private guide to the Museum's exensive collection of Fresnel lenses. Learn about the history of this collection and the importance of the Maine coast's lighthouses.

Lunch: Lunch together.

Afternoon: This afternoon Marla joins you at her childhood home - the Owl's Head Lighthouse, authorized in 1825 by President John Quincy Adams. There are many stories associated with Owl's Head Light . . . and a dog named Spot. You'll hear them all!

Dinner: A farewell dinner celebration tonight at one of Camden's premier seafood restaurants.

Lodging: The Inn at Camden Place

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Everything You Wanted to Know About Lobsters . . . But Were Afraid to Ask

Breakfast: Continental breakfast at your leisure.

Morning: How can you tell the males from the females? What's a keepah? Join Captain Alan Philbrick as he answers those questions and more! A lobsterman for over 30 years, the captain has vast knowledge of various habitats, history and local ocean ecology as well as all things lobster - past, present and future.

Meals Included: Breakfast