The Castine Historical Society is pleased to announce the 15th Annual Deborah Pulliam Lecture on Thursday, August 8th at 7:00 p.m at Delano Auditorium, Leavitt Hall, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, entitled “Rising from the Ashes: Building on Restituted Family Property in Post-Nazi Berlin, Germany”. The evening’s guest speaker will be Hans D. Strauch, an architect based in Boston and a Castine summer resident.

Strauch’s illustrated talk will discuss how the Mosse family legacy was all but erased by the time Strauch, a Mosse descendent and founder of Boston’s HDS Architecture, first visited Berlin, Germany. Strauch’s lecture will discuss his family roots in Berlin, the history of the property, and the family’s successful restitution of the land following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Visit castinehistoricalsociety.org for more information or to find the YouTube link for livestreaming of this event.