We’ve never seen anything quite like it here at the Seal Cove Auto Museum – over 100 people, one-third of them MDI Cub Scouts (Pack 98), gathered on March 1 to compete in the annual Pinewood Derby. Last fall, derby organizer Clay Gilley asked us if we had...
It’s the most fun you can have in March on Mount Desert Island – the annual Speakeasy at the Seal Cove Auto Museum! This year it’s all about the stars – dance and drink under them in our fabulously decorated museum; come dressed as a star from Hollywood of the 1920s...
You may have heard of White trucks or White sewing machines but a White steam car? You learn something new every day. This is one of 167 Whites known to exist, one of five model M-Ms, and one of only three 1910 M-Ms with a Pullman body. It is powered by a...
Evaline Kimball was born in Rumford, Maine, on her family’s farm in 1864. Growing up, she went to live in Chicago with her uncle William Wallace Kimball, the founder of the Kimball Piano Company. “With his great wealth and connections to high-society Chicago,...
A “supercar” is loosely defined as a high-performance street-legal car. I’ll tell you all about America’s first Supercar – the Stanley K Semi-Racer – but first a bit of background history. In 1906, at Ormond Beach (now known as Daytona Beach, Florida),...
The 2019 season, my first as Curator of Education, was stuffed to its hilt with beautiful days (and busy, rainy days!), great visitors, and fun events and programming at the museum. We are now in our off-season, and I thought it appropriate to reflect on some of the...
Albert Augustus Pope emerged from the Civil War at the age of 22, with the brevetted rank of Colonel, commendations for bravery, and a small amount of carefully-saved military pay. Setting up shop in Boston, he began trading in shoe decorations, air pistols, and...
Selected by Jenna Beaulieu, Curator of Education Nothing beats a bedtime story – except perhaps a daytime story, after-lunch story, on-a-road-trip story…wait – maybe stories are just great all the way around! Picture books are an amazing way to...
In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt occupied the White House, the average life expectancy was 47 years, only 14% of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub, the tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower, the average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents per hour, and most...
During this second year of our current exhibit, Selling Lifestyle and Leisure: Art, Advertising, and the Automobile, we decided to recreate some of our favorite advertisements or artworks featuring motor vehicles on display at the Seal Cove Auto Museum. Who else to...
