UPCOMING MILL TALKS
Jun 12 Mon 3 London Windmills and Watermills. “from ones which have been restored to those that exist as street names only.” Rob Smith, Footprints of London HERE
Jun 17 Sat 6-11AM Mayen: Making Millstones for the Roman (and Medieval) world. Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann. MANCENT, The Manchester ContinuingEducationNetwork. £20(tape)–£35 HERE. Past related 4 hour talks: North Africa and the Grain Supply of the City of Rome (Mar 2023); Watermills - not just for flour. (Jan 2023)
Jul 26 Wed 7AM Windmills and the Danger of Wind Loss. “Dutch planning law recognises and regulates wind loss resulting from new buildings close to a Windmill.” Steve Temple. SPAB The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. UK £9 live, tape 10 days HERE
TAPED TALKS
Milling from the Ancient World to 19th cen. Tony Shahan of Newlin Grist Mill museum PA. Bread to bake: Maslin bread late 1700s (wheat/rye). Seminar and baking with author William Rubel. Au 20 2020. Join Rubel's Facebook page Bread History and Practice for future topics and details HERE TAPE HERE
Turning Water to Power: How Water Systems Work in Mills. “structures and devices needed to run a water-powered mill and dissect the “machine on the landscape” using examples from different mills.” Tony Shahan. Newlin Grist Mill Au 11 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
MA Gray's Grist Mill “one of the oldest, continually running grist mills in New England” virtual tour. Old Colony History Museum. Mass. Jan 2023 HERE TAPE HERE
MA Hydro and Steam Power for Mills from 1840 to 1920 textile mills. by professional engineer Robert Timmerman. Charles River Museum. Oc 22, 2019 TAPE HERE
MD Ellicott mills. Pioneering Innovations in the Patapsco Valley. (now Ellicott City) and auxiliary trades (ie blacksmith, cooper, saw mill). Dr. Henry K. Sharp, author of The Patapsco River Valley: Cradle of the Industrial Revolution in Maryland and America’s First Factory Town: The Industrial Revolution in Maryland’s Patapsco River Valley. Charles L Wagandt II Memorial Lecture. Patapsco Heritage Greenway TAPE HERE
MD Wye Mill. Oldest Grist Mill in America. Wye Mills, Md. TAPE HERE
MD Oliver Evans. “the pioneering inventor and engineer.” Steve Childers. Spring Speakers Series. Old Wye Mill, Md. Apr 7 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
MD Lloyd/Bennett/Hemsley family who owned Old Wye Mill during the 18th century, as well as owning many important historic plantations nearby. Sherri Marsh Johns. Spring Speakers Series. Old Wye Mill Md. Mar 24 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
MD Local grain agriculture. John Draper. Spring Speakers Series. Old Wye Mill, Md. HERE TAPE HERE Mar 31 2022
MD Wye Mill. Several past talks go to 'playlists' TAPES HERE
MD Union Mills 1797 Grist Mill in Carroll County Maryland. Au 22, 2021 20 min TAPE HERE
ME The History of Midcoast Maine Mills. Donovan Bowley. Camden Public Library Oc 2020 TAPE HERE
NH The Mills of Exeter. Various mills including flour and potato starch. Barbara Rimkunas. Exeter Historical Society July 21 2020 TAPE HERE
PA Clues, Craft, & Cookery: Reconstructing a 1739 Kitchen. Tony Shahan, Laura Adie. Newlin Grist Mill. Oct 2020 TAPE HERE
PA Christmas Unfolds at Anselma Mill. “The Mill retains its original Colonial-Era power train, as well as multiple layers of industrial equipment ranging from the late 1700s to the mid 1900s.” Chester County Historic Preservation Network Dec 2020 HERE TAPE HERE
TX Barton Springs Mill. James Brown, miller. Barton Springs Mill is “bringing heritage grains back to Texas...Our mill is a Osttiroler from Austria, and it currently runs 10 hours a day, 7 days a week - 4 days for culinary and baking, and 3 for distilling and brewing.” Austin Organic Gardeners Oc 12 2020. Speaker after 26 min. TAPE HERE
VA Colonial Milling & Brewing by traditional miller, Steve Bashore and 18th-century baker, Justin Cherry at Stratford Hall, VA Au 19 2020 HERE TAPE bottom of page HERE
CANADA Flow and Fall: The Lost Mills of Mississauga, Canada. Youtube live Mar 20 2021 TAPE HERE
UK A Miller and his Mill, The story of John Else and Warney Mill. (Darley Dale). Using the miller John Else’s papers to describe work “of the mill and its farm but also of the craftspeople and specialists who helped rebuild the mill [1860], and those who bought flour and other products from the mill.” Judy Cooper. Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust Jun 8 2021 TAPE HERE
UK John O' Groats Mill. Rebuilt 1901 watermill. Historic Environment Scotland Se 2020 TAPE HERE Images HERE
TIDAL MILLS taped talks, videos, pictures, info
Tide Mill Institute. Much information, pictures HERE TAPES HERE and 3 years of conferences
How Woodbridge Tide Mill works. Fantastic 'cutaway' animation by Steve Bjorck. Woodbridge, Suffolk UK May 2021 2min TAPE HERE and many TAPES HERE
Tide Mills: Green Energy from the Colonial Era. Turnstile Tours. NY Au 31 2021 1 hr. TAPE HERE
The World’s Earliest Dated Tide Mill. Strangford Lough in Ireland 619-621AD. Thomas McErlean. Brown University. Nov 5, 2015 90min TAPE HERE
Tide Mills – How They Worked and Where They Were in Boston from Revere to Quincy. Mass. Earl Taylor. History Camp. Mar 2019 45min TAPE HERE
Ten Existing Northeast Tide Mills northeast US HERE
Tidal Mills The Engineer Feb 26, 1909 - Scientific American Suppliment No. 1750 July 17, 1909 HERE pictures
1st Photo: Poplar Grove tide mill, Mathews County, Virginia. 1935 Library of Congress
WIND MILLS
National Wind Mills Weekend May 2020 UK TAPE HERE
REMOVING OLD MILL DAMS
The Nation's Founding Fish [Shad] Returns to America's Historic Small Watershed [Brandywine River]. Mill dams on the river. Dr. Gerald Kauffman. Athenaeum of Philadelphia Dec 8 2020HERE TAPE HERE
The Americas. Fish Passage Conference 2021 “fish passage engineering, fishway research and telemetry studies, river restoration measures like dam removal, mapping migratory routes of fish, legislation.” (Africa, Europe, Oceania June 22-24) World Fish Migration Foundation Je 21 2021 HERE TAPE HERE World Fish Migration Foundation HERE
History of the Conestoga (Part II) Dammit! The effects of dams in the 18th and 19th century. Lancaster Conservancy PA Je 8 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Restoring our Rivers – Removing Barriers to Fish Migration. “how these weirs, locks and other infrastructure affect fish migration along the River Severn - and what could happen if they were removed.” Barbel fish. Dr Catherine Gutmann Roberts. Bournemouth University UK Mar 2 2021HERE TAPES HERE
Hidden Journeys within our Rivers “fascinating biology behind migration and the challenges” such as mid 18th century weirs disrupt twaite shad from going upstream to spawn in the River Severn. Dr. Catherine Gutmann Roberts, Pete Davies. Unlocking the Severn series UK Mar 18 2021 HERE website HERE TAPE HERE
BREAD
Bread, Baking and the Diversity of Grains. “Wheat is the globe’s third largest commodity. Almost all the varieties grown are hybrids, dependent on pesticides and artificial fertilisers…” Sheila Dillon & panel. Food Diversity Day. Jan 2023 HERE. Website HERE. Resource links HERE. TAPE HERE
Bread, flour, oven talks; Adobe ovens HERE
William Rubel Bread workshop TAPES HERE; RECIPES HERE
MILL BLOG POSTS
Mill stones - sharpening HERE
Barbegal: a SUPER Roman flour mill complex in France HERE
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CALENDAR OF VIRTUAL FOOD HISTORY TALKS HERE
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