CASTINE – A lecture by Russell Bourne titled “The Men who Sailed Against Castine in 1779” will be given at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 1, at the Castine Historical Society lecture hall. Admission is free.

Bourne is the author of the upcoming book “Cradle of Violence: Boston’s Revolutionary Underworld.”

For information, call Harry Kaiserian at 326-9309.