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| Title: | Maines First Ship Maypole Celebration | | Date: | 5/10/2025 (Saturday) | | Address: | 27 Commercial StreetBath | | Location: | Bath, ME | | Hours: | 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM | | Cost/Cover: | Free | | Web Page: | https://mfship.org/maypole-celebration/ | | Contact Info: | (207) 443-4242 |
| Details: | Right along with having the first English ship built in the Americas, the 1607 pinnace Virginia, the Midcoast Region of Maine can claim America’s first maypole dance. Over 400 years ago, in 1622, Thomas Weston’s fishing ship Sparrow of London, was headed to the Plymouth Colony. They made landfall too far north and came ashore to the established fishing station at Damariscove Island. Phinehas Pratt, a member of Sparrow’s crew, recorded in his journal “The men that belong to the ship, there fishing, had newly set up a maypole and were very merry.” |
| Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Arts and Entertainment | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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