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ANNOUNCING: 3rd
Annual
Historic Tide Mill Conference
Friday & Saturday
November 2 & 3, 2007
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The Tide Mill Institute, under the auspices
of The Dorchester Historical Society, 195 Boston
Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 02125, will host
the Third Annual Tide Mill Conference.
A tide mill is quite simply a water mill that
derives its power from the rise and fall of the
tides. Water impounded behind a mill dam can only be
put to work after the water level outside of the dam
has sufficiently dropped during the ebb tide.
Wherever there was an absence of freshwater streams,
or where freshwater streams had an inadequate drop
in geographic elevation, tide mills were important
early industrial resources in many coastal areas.
[Richard A. Duffy]
Click for more information.
PROGRAM
Friday - 2 November,
2007
7:00 - 9:00 P.M.- RECEPTION
- Exhibits & Displays
Saturday - 3 November,
2007
8:30 A.M. REGISTRATION -
Coffee, Exhibits & Displays
9:00 - 2:00 PRESENTATIONS,
LUNCHEON, REPORTS
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Searching for Origins of
the Tide Mill
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Tide Mills of Portugal
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Tide Mill in My Front
Yard: The 1650 Walton Mill Piscataqua
River, New Castle. NH
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Tide Mills of Ahglesey,
Wales
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A Word About Boat Mills
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After the Fire: An
update on Quincy's Souther Tide Mill
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Excitement on
Sedgunkedunk: A Newly-Found Tide mill in
Brewer Maine
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The Future for Tide
Mills
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Organizing the "Tidemill
Institute"
2:00-4:00 FIELD TRIP - The
Slade Spice Mill, Revere
Presenters:
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David Plunkett - Eling
Tide Mill, UK.
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Bill Drew - New Castle,
NH
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Claudia Silveira -
Ecomuseum Municipal do Seixal, Portugal
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Bud Warren - Topsham, ME
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John Goff - former
editor "Tide Mill Times"
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Bob Goodwin, Brewer, ME
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Earl Taylor - President
Dorchester Historical Society
Registration fee includes
Reception, Lunch & Presentations
Pre-Conference Registration -
before October 31st $10 - After October 31 or at
the door $20
DORCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
195 Boston Street Dorchester, MA
Register early with Earl Taylor
at his day job 800-663-6063
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