The Newcastle Historical Society is pleased to announce that Kevin Johnson, photo archivist for the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, will present a slideshow of photographs from the Everett "Red" Boutilier Collection. The slideshow will take place at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, Sept. 3, at the Newcastle Community Room on River Road.

Everett L. “Red” Boutilier was born in 1918. He became an Eagle Scout at the age of 13 and, as a young man, sailed on the Gloucester fishing schooner Elsie and on a three-masted coasting schooner out of Nova Scotia. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College and his working career included serving as a production expediter at Bath Iron Works, a sports editor for The Saratogan in New York, a general news reporter and columnist as well as a photographer for several horse race tracks in New York, Florida, Kentucky and Maine.

During the last 40 years of his life, he was a freelance photographer and journalist, and his photographs and stories appeared in the leading boating magazines and newspapers. He was a regular visitor to the many boat yards of Maine’s Midcoast region and it is said that he never missed a launch. He made quite a name for himself as a photographer, and his photos were a regular presence in the Boothbay Register. He died at the age of 85 on Feb. 10, 2003, in Brunswick.

The Penobscot Marine Museum was able to acquire the Boutilier collection thanks to the help of some very generous supporters who arranged to purchase it from Red’s son. The collection contains more than 20,000 4 by 5-inch negatives, countless prints and articles (both completed and not). The slideshow will focus on "Red’s" photographs in Newcastle and the surrounding towns.

Penobscot Marine Museum has the largest maritime photography archives in the state of Maine made up of dozens of collections and consists of more than 140,000 photographic images spanning the 1880s to the recent past. The archive is being digitized and more than 60,000 images are available for viewing on the museum's website, www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org.

A brief business meeting will precede Johnson's presentation. Following the presentation tasty refreshments will be served. The program is free and open to the public though donations to the NHS are happily accepted.