Season 3, Episode 9: Sounding the Last Whistle: The Canneries of Southwest Harbor and Bass Harbor
Guest: Raney Bench
Air Date: October 27, 2022
Host: Jenna Jandreau
Jenna and Raney chat about the canneries of MDI’s Quietside, along with cannery factories, cannery life and culture, and how a herring from the sea becomes a sardine in a can.
Since the publication of Raney’s article in Chebacco (2022), many MDI residents and visitors have reached out to share their memories of local canneries.
About Our Guest
Raney Bench is Executive Director at Mount Desert Island Historical Society. She has spent her career working in small history museums and is passionate about making history relevant for her community on MDI. She graduated with a BA in Native American Studies from Humboldt State University, and a MA in Museum Studies from the University of Nebraska. She lives in SWH with her husband, two, sons, and a variety of household pets.
Chebacco articles by Raney Bench:
- Maine’s Gone Mad: The Rising of the Klan, 2014
- Sounding the Last Whistle: The Canneries of Southwest Harbor and Bass Harbor, 2022
Previous Chebacco Chat appearances
- Season 3, Episode 1: What It Means To Imagine “What If…?”
- No. 37, with Bill Horner - MDI’s Car Crises (link to come)
- No. 11 - “Maine’s Gone Mad: The Rising of the Klan”