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  • Skywatching: Human-Bird Relationships Through Time feat. Dr. Bonnie Newsom, Angi King Johnson, and Olivia Olson (Schoodic Institute’s Summer Lecture Series)

    Schoodic Institute 9 Atterbury Cir, Winter Harbor, ME, United States

    Join us in person at Schoodic Institute or online via Zoom on Tuesday, September 8 at 7:00pm for Skywatching: Human-Bird Relationships Through Time, our 2026 Summer Lecture Series closing event featuring Dr. Bonnie Newsom (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Faculty in the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine), Angi King Johnson (interpretive...

    Free

  • Conversation and Celebration with local mystery author Moe Claire

    Ellsworth Public Library 20 State St, Ellsworth, ME, United States

    Friday, September 11 at 5:30 in the Riverview Room of the Ellsworth Public Library. Join the Conversation and Celebration with Moe Claire, author of the Pyke Island Mysteries. a contemporary Downeast Maine crime-suspense series, on the release of the fourth book A Blind Spider.

    Free

  • Loving and Leaving the Good Life with Kate Braestrup

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    Loving and Leaving the Good Life. Helen Nearing's last full book, Loving and Leaving the Good Life (1992), insists that how we live and how we die are not separate questions. Kate Braestrup has spent her life walking alongside people in their hardest moments and arriving at something like the same conclusion. In this talk,...

    Free

  • Conversation and Reading by local author Moe Claire

    Southwest Harbor Public Library 338 Main Street, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Tuesday, September 15th from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Southwest Harbor Library invites you to hear from local Maine mystery writer Moe Claire talk about "A Blind Spider", the fourth installment of her Pyke Island Mysteries, a contemporary crime-suspense series set Downeast. Audience participation is encouraged and there will be a drawing for a free book. Books will...

    Free

  • Lecture with Capt. Dennis Dorsey: “The Burning of the Royal Tar, 1836”

    Castine Historical Society 17 School St, Castine, ME, United States

    The 1836 burning of the steamship Royal Tar in Penobscot Bay became one of Maine’s most remarkable maritime disasters. In this illustrated presentation, Capt. Dennis Dorsey will discuss the findings of an eighteen-year investigation into the vessel, its operation, the people and animals aboard, its final voyage, the development of the fire, rescue efforts, conflicting...

    Free

  • Haystack Mountain School of Crafts: Seven Decades in the Making

    Friend Memorial Public Library 1 Reach Road, Brooklin, ME, United States

    Friend Memorial Public Library in Brooklin (1 Reach Road) is hosting Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Executive Director Perry Price on Friday 9/18 from 4 to 5 p.m. to discuss the 75-year history of Haystack using archival materials and one-of-a-kind objects to share the story of the School’s impact on the field and its role...

    Free