RICHMOND — Friends of Merrymeeting Bay’s second presentation of their 28th annual Winter Speaker Series, James Madison Kendall’s Wonderful Water Wheel, features raconteur Bud Warren, maritime historian and co-founder of the Tide Mill Institute at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13. Winter Speaker Series presentations are again being held via Zoom and are accessible via hyperlink at the top of the FOMB web page fomb.org.

Bud Warren celebrates 90th birthday. Submitted photo

Warren is a popular lecturer, raconteur and co-founder and former president of the Tide Mill Institute which now has a subcommittee studying this evening’s peculiar bit of Maine’s coastal industrial history. A native of the coast, Warren knows Maine well.

Friends hosts their Winter Speaker Series October-May on the second Wednesday of each month. The FOMB Dec. 11 presentation: Our Town! Adventures in Richmond History, features the Piti Theatre Company and Marcia Buker Elementary School’s 4th grade classes of 2023-24.

Speaker Series presentations are free, open to the public.

For more information, call 207-666-3372, email edfomb@comcast.net or visit fomb.org.

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