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HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABILITY - The 6th Annual Tide Mill Conference – November 12 and 13, 2010, Massachusetts, USA
The Tide Mill Institute is pleased to announce and invite the public to its 6th Annual Tide Mill Conference, to be held in the Boston area on November12 and 13, 2010. There will be an informal reception 7-9 PM Friday at the Dorchester Historical Society, 195 Boston St. in Dorchester. Registration at the Old Schwamb Mill in Arlington, MA, begins at 8:30AM. Saturday’s presentations commence at 9 and continue after an included lunch until 2:45. A tour and demonstration of the 19th-century wood-working mill will follow. Walk-ins welcome! The mission of the TIDE MILL INSTITUTE is to: .. encourage research into the tide mill sites; .. serve as a repository for tide mill data; .. promote appropriate re-uses of old tide-mill site development for the use of tides as an energy source.
Highlighting this year’s conference will be a presentation describing an exciting new helical turbine tide mill installation at Eastport Maine, a technological innovation creating electrical energy from the tides. Other papers been scheduled to explore the heritage and technology of other tide mill sites in Maine, Cape Cod, the Chesapeake Bay region and Spain. An Open Forum will be held, letting participants share brief descriptions of their research and site work.
In previous years, topics have included tide mill technology and mills in Wales, England, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, South Carolina and the Amazon Basin.
If you have questions or are interested in attending or presenting, at the Forum contact Bud Warren (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) 207-373-1209, or Earl Talyor (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) 781 272-6700.
.. advance appreciation of tide mill technology;
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