Historic District Walking Tour
2025-05-24 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-05-29 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-31 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-06-05 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-07 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-06-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-14 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-06-19 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) and 4 more dates | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Explore the history of the elaborate and historic homes that line Kennebunk’s Summer Street neighborhood in Downtown Kennebunk. Led by Museum tour guide. $10 per person/$5 for members.

Imagine That! Three Centuries of Kennebunk Commerce Tour
2025-05-27 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-03 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-10 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-17 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-24 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-07-01 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-07-08 10:30 - 12:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
This walking tour explores Main Street and its commercial history over three hundred years. Stretches from the Museum down to the Mousam River Bridge. (about a half mile, 60 minutes, led by trained tour guide). $10.00 per person/$5 for members. Reserve in advance by calling 985-4802 or visit www.brickstoremuseum.org.

Oral History Training Workshop
2025-05-31 09:30 - 12:30 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
This workshop is designed to introduce potential oral history practitioners to the fundamentals of conducting a life-course oral history. Participants will learn how to identify interviewees, conduct pre-interview research, and prepare for meaningful and professional oral histories. The session will cover best practices for conducting oral history interviews and ensuring the ethical and responsible documentation of personal narratives.
Throughout the workshop, participants will explore key interviewing techniques, including how to create a comfortable environment, ask open-ended questions, and engage narrators in sharing rich and detailed accounts of their experiences. Practical aspects of recording best practices will also be addressed, with guidance on selecting equipment, recording remotely or in person, and organizing recorded materials for preservation and access.
Legal and ethical considerations will be discussed in depth, including issues of privacy, copyright, and the responsibilities of oral historians in handling sensitive content. Participants will receive samples of necessary forms and documents to facilitate their own oral history projects. By the end of the session, attendees will have the foundational knowledge and confidence to conduct oral history interviews within their local communities independently.
Complimentary snacks and beverages provided.
The Brick Store Museum’s Oral History Program is looking for volunteer interviewers! If you would like to join the team, please consider taking this course. If you are a current Museum Volunteer, please register via the STUDENT rate for a complimentary registration.
The Workshop will be taught by Molly Graham, a professional oral historian and radio documentarian. She trained at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. She has her master’s degree in Library Science and Archives Management from Simmons College in Boston. Molly is the former director of the oral history program at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and Assistant Director of the Rutgers Oral History Archives. In 2013, she co-founded Oral History & Folklife Research, Inc., with the mission of preserving the stories, voices, and cultural traditions of Maine and beyond. Currently, she is the oral historian for NOAA’s Voices Oral History Archives, where she collects, preserves and curates oral histories documenting historical environmental change and its impacts on fisheries, oceans and coasts.

Liz & Dan Faiella | Concerts in West K with Mousam River Music
2025-06-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
The Museum’s Concert Partner Mousam River Music Presents:
Liz and Dan Faiella bring to life the traditional music of their roots, with crisp vocals, mesmerizing fingerstyle guitar, lyrical fiddling, and exhilarating rhythmic drive. Their music calls to mind the convivial grange hall contradances of their youth in New Hampshire, while conveying a wistfulness for their ancestral Ireland.
Liz and Dan have taken the stage at premier folk venues throughout New England, including Club Passim, the Acadia Trad Festival, Maine Celtic Celebration, Little Sea Folk Festival, and the Boston Celtic Music Festival. They are sought-after teachers, and have shared their craft with students at camps, festivals, and community music schools.
Their album, At Long Last (2018), explores heartache, wonder, and joy, expressed through the traditional music they love.
Liz Faiella’s study of Irish fiddling, training in classical violin, and love of social dancing have shaped her musical approach. Liz is chair of the Folk Department at the Concord Community Music School in Concord, NH, where she teaches fiddle students and organizes the Music School’s Fall Fiddle Festival. She also is active as a YouTube creator, sharing fiddle tunes, tutorials, and techniques far and wide.
Dan Faiella is a guitarist specializing in traditional Celtic music. Trained as an accompanist through years of playing for New England contradances and for Irish fiddlers, he has performed at venues and festivals around the country with numerous traditional music groups. In his solo playing, Dan’s fingerstyle arrangements of traditional songs and tunes draw extensively on techniques and ornamentation from traditional idioms beyond those directly related to the guitar, such as Celtic harp-playing, sean-nós singing, and uilleann piping. Over many years of playing solo and collaboratively, he has developed an ability to adapt and synthesize these sounds into the context of the unique arrangement capabilities of the guitar.
Join Liz and Dan in the museum’s Dane Street Program Center for a great afternoon of traditional Irish music!
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Tickets: $20 per person
Purchase online prior to 2:00pm on Saturday, June 7; after that time, please purchase at the door. Questions or want to reserve cash seats? Email: paul.wells@mousamrivermusic.net

June Art Walk - Open Late!
2025-06-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Join us at the Museum to kick start your Downtown ArtWalk! On the second Friday of each month, come to Downtown Kennebunk for a night of live music, local artists, food trucks and specials. Let’s celebrate Downtown! The Museum will be open for FREE ADMISSION from 5pm – 7pm.
In addition to showcasing our current exhibitions, we will be featuring four incredibly talented local artists for the June Walk:
John Kessler of Salt + Sand Gallery
Elizabeth Murphy
Andrea Roth Kimmich
Kathy Polletto – Kennebunk Basketry
Downtown Artwalks occur every month from June through August (on the second Friday of each month). Hosted by the Kennebunk-Kennebunkport-Arundel Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Kennebunk.
Learn more about the full event on the Chambers’ website!

Block Printing Workshop
2025-06-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Discover the art of block printing and create your own hand-stamped designs on fabric! In this fun and creative workshop, you’ll learn how to carve a simple design into a printing block and transfer it onto a tea towel. We’ll provide all materials for the project, including tea towels and fabric-safe ink.
Want to personalize even more? You’re welcome to bring your own clothing items—like t-shirts, tote bags, or fabric scraps—to print on during class.
No experience necessary! This class is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in textile design, printmaking, or DIY crafts. You’ll leave with a custom piece and the skills to keep printing at home.
Instructor: Sarah Soleau

LEGO Build Workshop
2025-06-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Build, explore and get creative with Maine LEGO artist Colby Adolphsen! Colby’s newest creation: a LEGO model of the Museum itself will be revealed later this summer!
This free event invites visitors of all ages to enjoy the art of building. Stations will be set up for participants to join in building structures and environments.
Colby’s LEGO artistry will be on display later this summer with the “Brick by Brick: The Art of LEGO” exhibition of three-dimensional LEGO models, opening August 2, 2025.

Admission to the LEGO Build is FREE. Please RSVP below for planning purposes.

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Seeking donations of Legos!
Do you have unused LEGOs? Consider donating them to the Museum! Donations of new or gently-used LEGOs can be dropped off at the Museum’s Welcome Desk anytime the Museum is open in return for a donation letter that can be claimed as a tax deduction. Email Joyce Schnaars, Museum Educator, at jschnaars@brickstoremuseum.org with questions or donations.

Lafayette's Visit to Kennebunk: Bicentennial Event
2025-06-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
What it is:
The American Friends of Lafayette present an elaborate national tour commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Farewell Tour of the Marquis de Lafayette, one of the last surviving generals of the American Revolution. In response to France’s alliance with the American colonies to fight the British, Lafayette arrived in America in 1777 to serve alongside the colonists. In 1824, President James Monroe invited Lafayette to return to the United States as the nation’s guest, where he visited all 24 states in the union. He is sometimes known as “The Hero of the Two Worlds” for his accomplishments in the service of both France and the United States.

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Beginning in August 2024, a thirteen-month bicentennial celebration of Lafayette’s triumphant return tour of the United States kicked off in New York City. During the next thirteen months, the tour will follow Lafayette’s footsteps through the then-existing 24 states in the exact order he traveled in 1824 and 1825. To learn more about the entire route, visit the American Friends of Lafayette.

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Following the schedule of June 24, 1825, The Marquis de Lafayette (living history actor) will be visiting Kennebunk at 3:00pm on June 24, 2025!

The schedule is below:

Tuesday, June 24, 2025:

THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE INDOORS due to the excessive heat.

3:00pm: Join the Brick Store Museum at 117 Main Street to enjoy lemonade and cookies, and a pop-up exhibit as we await Lafayette’s arrival

3:30pm: The Marquis de Lafayette will make an historic speech to the crowd and meet & greet visitors.

4:30pm: Assemble in the second story windows of the Brick Store Museum for a photo with Lafayette! In 1825, workers constructing the Brick Store waived out these same windows as Lafayette rode past on his way to Biddeford.

This is a free event open to the entire community. Come welcome Lafayette with us!

Annual Members Meeting
2025-06-25 16:30 - 18:30 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
The Museum’s Annual Members Meeting is set for Wednesday, June 25 from 4:30pm – 6:30pm.
Museum Members are invited to hear updates from the Museum, then explore the brand-new OceanWorld exhibition alongside a delicious reception complete with a Taco Bar by Las Olas!
Program Schedule:
4:30pm – 5:30pm Annual Meeting
5:30pm – 6:30pm Reception in OceanWorld exhibition

RSVP below! Members are invited to attend with family or friends. Please let us know how many are attending so that we can ensure space and appetizers for all!

Declaration of Independence Reading & Celebration
2025-07-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Celebrate Independence Day at the Brick Store Museum with a Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence
Join the Brick Store Museum and the Kennebunk Rotary Club on Friday, July 4, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. for a community celebration of our nation’s founding with a public reading of the Declaration of Independence. The event takes place on the Museum’s campus at 117 Main Street in Kennebunk and is free to all.
This 45-minute patriotic program brings history to life as community leaders and Rotarians read aloud the document that declared the United States’ independence in 1776. The program will also explore how the phrase “all men are created equal” has evolved over time, highlighting key moments and landmark movements—such as the Gettysburg Address—that have expanded the promise of equality throughout American history.
The reading will be presented by:

Earle J. Patterson, Kennebunk Rotarian and member of the Brick Store Museum
David Moravick, Kennebunk Rotarian and President of the Museum’s Board of Trustees

This event offers a moment of reflection and celebration for all ages, honoring the enduring ideals of freedom, democracy, and social progress. Admission is free, and donations to the Wounded Warrior Project will be gratefully accepted to support veterans and their families.
For more information or to RSVP, register below or call (207) 985-4802.

Kennebunk Beach Walking Tour
2025-07-05 10:00 - 11:30 | Trinity Chapel, Kennebunk Beach, 4 Woodland Ave, Kennebunk, 04043, United States
This outdoor walking tour of Kennebunk’s Mothers Beach features eleven historic homes and an illustration of life at the beach in the early 20th Century. Tours depart from Trinity Chapel on Woodland Ave.
Kennebunk Beach Walking Tours dates for 2025 are as follows: July 5, August 30, and October 11
Private tours are also available. Please contact us at info@brickstoremuseum.org or (207)985-4802 at least two weeks in advance of your anticipated tour date to arrange a private tour.
Time: 60 – 90 minutes
Distance: Less than a mile on sidewalks and flat terrain.
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Please wear comfortable walking shoes.
Where to go:
This tour begins at the Trinity Chapel on Railroad Ave along Kennebunk Beach. Please arrive about 5 minutes prior to the tour start. You can pre-purchase tickets online and let us know you’re coming!
PARKING: Parking is available (with Kennebunk Parking sticker) at beach spaces; and alongside roads leading to the Chapel (as marked). Please pay attention to parking signage.
If the forecast on the day of your walk calls for rain, please contact the Museum in advance to make sure the walk is still scheduled. Email: info@brickstoremuseum.org OR call: (207)985-4802. If the walk is postponed, you will have the choice to reschedule or receive a refund.

Vintage Baseball Game
2025-07-05 11:00 - 13:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
It’s Dirigo vs. Mudville!
On Saturday, July 5th, watch authentic 1860s base ball played with its original rules (No gloves! The ball can bounce!) and all the players are in historic wool uniforms. It’s not a day out at the 19th century ball park without food and fun to enjoy with the whole family! Concessions sponsored by Hannaford Kennebunk.

Game kicks off at 11:00am on the KENNEBUNK HIGH SCHOOL FIELD. Rain or shine!
Parking behind Kennebunk High School is available. Please enter the ball field through the gate to the left of the parking lot. We’ll see you there!
Limited seating on field bleachers is available – guests are encouraged to bring pop-up chairs or blankets!

Tickets:

$10 per person (purchase at gate with your credit card or cash!)
Free under 16

Sponsored by:

MM Total Bookkeeping

Summer Storytime
2025-07-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Join us for Summer Story Time, a delightful weekly program for young children and their caregivers! Each Tuesday afternoon in July, we’ll share an engaging story, enjoy a fun hands-on activity, and explore a kid-friendly part of the Museum. Perfect for ages 4 and up, this program encourages creativity, learning, and imagination—right in the heart of our historic galleries. Admission is free and no registration is required—just drop in and join the fun!
