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PODCAST WEBSITE: http://www.saltsandwater.org

AVAILABLE ON ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salts-water-stories-from-maine-coast-by-experience/id1265903653%20?ls=1

STITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/experience-maritime-maine/salts-water-stories-from-the-maine-coast?refid=stpr

SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/user-121694568-646755567

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Contacts:
Crystal Hitchings: 207-546-3600
Jenna Howard: 207-443-2067
Kevin Johnson: 207-548-2529 ext. 210

MAINE’S MARITIME CULTURE FEATURED
IN NEW PODCAST SERIES “SALTS &WATER”

Experience Maritime Maine, a partnership of organizations and regions that promote and celebrate the rich heritage, culture, and dramatic natural beauty of Maine’s coast recently launched “Salts & Water,” a six-part audio series, offering a unique and creative opportunity for listeners to experience thepeople and places along Maine’s coast in sound.

Produced by Rob Rosenthal, “Salts & Water” is designed to help deepen and enrich the visitor experience by highlighting the maritime traditions and culture of Maine. Rosenthal, an award-winning radio and audio producer currently heads up the Transom Story Workshop and formerly taught at the Salt Institute.

Throughout 2016 community forums were held to gather information and stories that helped create the podcast series. The audio stories feature people and places along the coast of Maine in Eastport, Stonington, Searsport, Rockland, Bath, and Portland.

Listeners will meet the women lobstermen of Stonington, island-hop aboard a windjammer in Penobscot Bay, discover the salty fishmonger of Portland’s piers, get to know meticulous boat builders, feel the spirit of maritime history in Searsport, and learn how the dramatic tides shape life in Downeast Maine. The podcast captures the people behind the scenes that are integral to Maine’s maritime culture and heritage.

The podcast is available at saltsandwater.org, and can also be found on iTunes, Stitcher and Soundcloud.

Community listening sessions will be held in Eastport, Stonington, and Bath. Visit ExperiencemaritimeMaine.com for a schedule of these events.

About “Salts & Water”:

“Salts & Water” is a project of Experience Maritime Maine, funded in part by the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation, Maine Office of Tourism, Hamilton Marine, Maine’s MidCoast & Islands, DownEast Acadia Regional Tourism, and is sponsored by Maine Boats, Homes, and Harbors. The podcast series can be found at http://www.saltsandwater.org

About Experience Maritime Maine:

Experience Maritime Maine is a partnership between organizations and regions to promote and celebrate the rich heritage, culture, and dramatic natural beauty of Maine’s coast. This working consortium of communities, organizations, and businesses helps to increase cultural tourism, preserve traditions, develop resources, support local economies, and raise the public’s awareness of Maine’s rich maritime heritage and culture. For more information, please visit: http://www.experiencemaritimemaine.org

SOME MAINE MARITIME FACTS

Maine Women Lobstermen Licensed (2016)

percent of all American deep-water shipmasters during the 19th-century came from Searsport, Maine

Jonathan Philbrook and his sons built the first 2 vessels in Bath Maine - starting the town shipbuilding reputation.

of the 9 windjammers part of the Maine Windjammer Association's fleet are National Historic Landmarks

miles of coastline

pounds - Maine Lobster Catch in 2016 (a record!)

nd largest whirlpool in the World is located in Eastport, Maine!

+ ships have been built in Bath, Maine since 1743!

Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport Maine has one of the largest archives of historical photographs in Maine, with more than 140,000 negatives, prints, slides, postcards and daguerreotypes

islands off the coast

Today, Maine seafood is a half-billion dollar industry that supports fishing families, working waterfronts, local economies, and our heritage.

companies and 5,000 jobs are tied to Maine boat building.

$ in annual Maine Boat Building industry sales

SCHEDULED LAUNCH EVENTS & LISTENING SESSIONS

Wednesday, September 13, 2017 from [5:30] to 6:30 pm
Maine Maritime Museum Boatshop, 263 Washington Street, Bath ME

Thursday, September 14, 2017 from [5:30] to 6:60 pm
Tides Institute’s Seaman’s Church building (the Congregational Church), 26 Middle Street, Eastport ME