The Islesboro Forum

Miles O’Brien, "Flying Cars, Electric Planes and Cheap Rockets: how some breakthroughs in transportation may save the planet."
2021-08-08 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | ME
Miles O’Brien is a veteran, independent journalist who focuses on science, technology and aerospace.
He is the science correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, a producer, director, writer and correspondent for the PBS documentary programs NOVA and FRONTLINE and an aviation analyst for CNN. He owns MOBIAS Media, Inc., a production company that creates award winning documentary films primarily for PBS as well as several educational and corporate clients.
For nearly seventeen of his thirty-nine years in the news business, he was a staff correspondent and anchor with CNN, based in Atlanta and New York. He served as the science, environment and aerospace correspondent and the anchor of various programs, including American Morning.
While at CNN, O’Brien secured a deal with NASA to become the first journalist to fly on the space shuttle. The project ended with the loss of Columbia and her crew in 2003 – a story he told to the world in a critically acclaimed sixteen-hour marathon of live coverage. He later served for ten years as a member of the NASA Advisory Council, offering strategic advice to the NASA administrator.
Prior to joining CNN, he worked as a reporter at television stations in St. Joseph, MO, Albany, NY, Tampa, FL and Boston. He began his television career as a desk assistant at WRC-TV in Washington, DC.
O’Brien is an accomplished pilot and is frequently called upon to explain the world of aviation to a mass audience.
He has won numerous awards over the years, including six Emmys, a Peabody and a DuPont.
He has produced, written and directed nine films for PBS NOVA: Mind of a Rampage Killer (2013), Manhunt Boston Bombers (2013), Megastorm Aftermath (2013), Why Planes Vanish (2014), Nuclear Meltdown Disaster (2015), Fifteen Years of Terror (2016), The Nuclear Option (2017), Inside the Megafire (2019) and The Great Electric Airplane Race (2021).
He also produced, wrote and directed FRONTLINE Coronavirus Pandemic (2020) and was a writer and correspondent for four FRONTLINES: Flying Cheap (2010), Flying Cheaper (2011), Nuclear Aftershocks (2012) and Dollars and Dentists (2012).
In February of 2014, a heavy equipment case fell on his forearm while he was on assignment. He developed Acute Compartment Syndrome, which necessitated the emergency amputation of his left arm above the elbow. Despite the loss of his arm, he has completed two marathons, several ultra-distance bike rides, a half Ironman, and has returned to flying airplanes.
Born in Detroit and raised in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, he is based in Vero Beach, Florida. He was a history major at Georgetown University. Miles has two grown children. His son is a US Navy Lieutenant stationed in Yokosuka, Japan and his daughter is a social work in New York City.

Roger Heinen, "Islesboro Economic Sustainability"
2021-08-01 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Islesboro Community Center, 103 Pendleton Point Road, Islesboro, ME, United States
IESC is a quasi-municipal, non-profit entity transforming private non-taxable donation dollars into a catalyst for the essential island services and businesses which underpin a vital, full time island community. The IESC supports local entrepreneurs creating on-island jobs and attracting new families by providing information, business expansion loans and direct investments in infrastructure projects. Roger’s talk will briefly describe the IESC mission and accomplishments in its first 18 months of operation. Following that Roger will review the recent IESC island survey seeking to understand what the most essential services and businesses are. Then he’ll engage the audience in a discussion on their ideas for promoting Islesboro sustainability.
Roger and Marny Heinen have been residents of Islesboro since 1996. Roger spent his career in the computer industry including senior executive roles at Apple and Microsoft, mentoring and financing early-stage startups, and directorships for public, private and non-profit organizations. Roger holds degrees from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Myron S. Cohen M.D., “COVID-19: Past, Present and Future”
2021-07-25 17:30 (America/New_York) | ME

Dr. David Van Essen, “Your Brain, My Brain, and a Chimpanzee’s Brain: What’s the Difference, and Why Should We Care?”
2021-07-18 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | ME
The quest to understand the human brain in health and disease is a grand challenge for the 21st century and beyond. This talk will focus on the cerebral cortex, which is the dominant structure of our brains and largely responsible for what makes us unique as a species and unique as individuals—each with our distinctive personalities, intellectual capabilities, and personal foibles. Recent progress using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has provided intriguing answers to some questions but leaves many others as truly daunting.
David Van Essen is the Alumni Endowed Professor of Neurobiology at Washington University in St Louis. For nearly 50 years he has studied the structure, function, connectivity, development, and evolution of cerebral cortex in humans and nonhuman primates. He recently led the Human Connectome Project (HCP), a large-scale effort that acquired, analyzed, and freely shared high-quality neuroimaging data from 1200 healthy adults. Dr. Van Essen received his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He joined the Caltech faculty in 1976 and moved to Washington University in 1992 to chair the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology for 20 years. He has served in many other leadership positions, including President of the Society of Neuroscience and founding chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. He has received numerous awards and honors, notably including the Glass Brain Award from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, the George A. Miller Prize from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and the Carl and Gerti Cori Faculty Achievement Award from Washington University. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Abe Miller-Rushing, “Managing for Climate Change in Our National Parks”
2021-07-11 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | ME
National parks were originally established with the goal of preserving resources as they were in the past. That goal is no longer feasible. Dr. Miller-Rushing will describe how national park managers are adjusting their approach to manage for change and the science they are using to inform their decisions. He will specifically talk about work going on in Acadia National Park, which serves as a model for how national park managers can adjust to a changing climate.
Dr. Miller-Rushing is the Science Coordinator for Acadia National Park, where he has worked since 2010. He oversees research in the park and leads the science strategy to meet the park’s priority needs. Dr. Miller-Rushing’s own research focuses on protected area management, forest responses to climate change, and citizen science. He helped to establish the Citizen Science Association and the USA National Phenology Network, a national network to monitor the impacts of climate change plants and animals. He received his bachelors in Biology from Grinnelll College in Iowa and his Ph.D. in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution from Boston University.

Dr. Jim Basker, "Black Lives Have Always Mattered: American History and the Gilder Lehrman Institute in 2020"
2020-08-16 17:30 - 18:30 (Asia/Karachi) | ME
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In this talk, which will be dedicated to the memory of Richard Gilder, Dr. Jim Basker will present 6 or 7 moments in American history that were shaped by the African American presence, often in unexpected or forgotten ways. The focus will be on key documents, from a rare printing of the Declaration of Independence and a unique letter that Frederick Douglass wrote to his former master, to a 1926 NAACP poster and a civil rights placard from 1968. While progress is never smooth, it is always made possible by education and perseverance.
Basker is president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University. As president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute since 1997, Basker has overseen the development of history education initiatives nationwide, including history high schools, teacher seminars, traveling exhibitions, digital archives, and the National History Teacher of the Year Award program.
Basker has also served as project director for several history exhibitions at the New York Historical Society, including Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America (2004–2005), Lincoln in His Own Words: An Intimate View of Our Greatest President (2009), and John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legacy (2009–2010). He is an elected member of the Society of American Historians and former fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. He serves on Mount Vernon’s Scholarly Advisory Board, the boards of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and as a trustee of the New-York Historical Society.
Basker was educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He taught for seven years at Harvard University before coming to New York, and he has been a visiting professor at NYU, Cambridge University, and Rogue Community College in Oregon. He is also founder and president of OxBridge Academic Programs, which has sponsored summer programs and teacher seminars in Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, and Barcelona for more than twenty years.
His publications include Amazing Grace: Poems about Slavery 1660–1810 (2002), Early American Abolitionists (2005), and American Antislavery Writing: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012) as well as scores of essays and educational booklets on various topics in English and American history and literature.
Thanks to Richard Gilder, Dr. Basker has a long and recurring connection to Islesboro. Gilder invited Basker and his family to Islesboro often over the years, so he now counts many people on Islesboro as friends.
He will be introduced by Islesboro resident and Oxford classmate, John Rex Waller.

Beth Orcutt, "Deep Sea Frontiers: What Happens as Humanity Seizes the Seafloor?"
2020-08-09 17:30 - 18:30 (Asia/Karachi) | ME
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Will your next cell phone or solar panel contain heavy metals from the seafloor? Could strange life in the deep sea contain the genetic blueprint for a new blockbuster drug or industrial enzyme? Join Dr. Beth Orcutt for an introduction to the vast and diverse underbelly of life on Earth found deep in our oceans. Learn how this life benefits humanity, and how the deep sea connects to recommendations of the Maine Climate Council to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.
Dr. Orcutt has been a Senior Research Scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences since 2012, where she leads a team to study the weird microscopic life that lives at the bottom of the ocean. For her research, Dr. Orcutt has traveled far and wide: to the bottom of the ocean, exploring underwater hydrothermal vents in remote oceans and oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico; to remote lakes of the Canadian Arctic reachable only by helicopter; and to research labs around the world, including a recent sabbatical in Germany. She was recently awarded the Asahiko Taira Prize for Scientific Research from the American Geophysical Union, the largest international scientific society for Earth science. She received her Ph.D. degree in Marine Sciences from the University of Georgia Athens.

Bruce Blankenfeld, Master Navigator, "Rediscovery of Ocean Heritage"
2020-08-02 17:30 - 18:30 (Asia/Karachi) | ME
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Master Maritime Navigator and Hōkūle‘a Captain, Bruce Blankenfeld will discuss ancient Polynesian navigation techniques, the perpetuation of these, and the Hōkūle‘a’s “Mālama Honua” (the recent worldwide voyage in traditional voyaging sailing canoes).

Captain Blankenfeld serves as PWO Navigator and crew training coordinator for the World Wide Voyage. He is employed as a foreman by McCabe Hamilton and Renny (stevedoring contractor) and is a long distance paddler and coach for Hui Nalu Canoe Club. His most recent voyage as captain and navigator was the 2009 training sail from Hawai‘i to Palmyra and back in preparation for Hōkūle‘a’s Worldwide Voyage. Bruce serves as a director of crew training for the voyage.
Bruce began his association with Polynesian Voyaging Society in 1977 by volunteering for the maintenance of Hōkūle’a while training for crew on day and night sails.
In 1990, he began formal navigation training with Nainoa Thompson and Mau Plailug, which included a nine-day sail on Hokule’a out of sight of land in 1991. On the 1992 voyage to Rarotonga, he served as an apprentice navigator on Hokule’a from Rarotonga, Cook Islands to Tahiti (800 miles, 8 day) and then as co-navigator, with Kimo Lyman, from the Tahiti to Hawai’i.
After many decades of sailing and navigating, in 2007, on Ku Holo Mau, the voyage to Satawal, Bruce was captain and navigator of Hōkūle‘a from Hawa’i to Pohnpei. He rejoined the crew for the sail from Chuuk to Satawal, where he was one of five Hawaiians inducted into PWO by Mau Piailug.

Bruce will be introduced by Emily and Sophie Kelley-Lau. Emily and Sophie were born in Hawaiʻi and lived there until they were 10 and 8, after which they moved to Islesboro. Although they were welcomed into the loving community of Islesboro, they missed their native, vibrant culture. When the Hōkūleʻa sailed into Mount Desert Island, it was like a breath of warm Hawaiian air. Since first seeing and learning about the ancient traditions of Polynesian voyaging, the sisters have hoped to become a greater part of the Mālama Honua mission that Bruce introduced to them in Southwest Harbor.

To understand how the ancient Polynesian marine navigation described by Forum speaker Bruce Blankenfeld is different from, and persuasively challenges the theory of “Pacific float” asserted by Thor Heyerdahl in his book Kon Tiki, please read this Smithsonian Magazine article addressing the competing theories.

Francesca Zambello and Tim O’Leary, “Spotlight on the Opera Blue”
2020-07-26 17:30 - 18:30 (Asia/Karachi) | ME
Blue, a new opera by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson that had its premiere at The Glimmerglass Festival last summer, centers on the hopes and fears of a young Black couple as they raise a son in 21st-century America. Reflective of a tragically familiar headline, the story follows the father — a police officer — and the mother, as they navigate the killing of their son by law enforcement with support from their community. The opera was set for subsequent performances at Washington National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, before cancellations were announced due to the ongoing pandemic.
Glimmerglass Festival Artistic Director Francesca Zambello speaks with Washington National Opera General Director Timothy O’Leary about the process of bringing Blue from commission, to its world premiere, to ultimately receiving the Music Critics Association of North America’s award for Best New Opera. They will be joined by renowned baritone and featured Blue performer, Gordon Hawkins, and introduced by Betsy Cohen, Islesboro summer resident, opera lover and financial sponsor of Blue.

Shey Conover, Entrepreneur, Marshall Cove Aquaculture, “Commercial Aquaculture Off Islesboro’s Coast”
2020-07-19 17:30 - 18:30 (Asia/Karachi) | ME
A look at a local sea farm’s effort to diversify the marine economy in a changing world.
Shey lives on Islesboro with her husband, Josh, and two children. Together they own and operate Islesboro Marine, a full-service boatyard that diversified into aquaculture in 2016 growing Marshall Cove Mussels. Shey came to Islesboro in 2002 as an Island Fellow, and continued her career at the Island Institute, leaving in 2017 as VP of Programs. Shey is now focused on their local family business and its growth into aquaculture and serves on a number of community boards.

Dr. Troy Brennan, Chief Medical Officer at CVS Health, “How the COVID Pandemic Might Change the Future Delivery of Healthcare”
2020-07-12 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
With his vast experience in the health care sector, as a senior officer at one of the country’s largest providers of pharmaceutical and basic health care services and as a professor at both Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Brennan will address how the COVID-19 pandemic might change the future delivery of healthcare in the US.
Troyen A. Brennan provides oversight for the development of CVS Health’s clinical and medical affairs and health care strategy, as well as the company’s CVS MinuteClinic and Accordant Health Care businesses. In his academic work, he was Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Law and Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health.
Brennan received his medical degree and his Master’s in Public Health from Yale Medical School and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Yale Law School. He also has a Master’s degree from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Methodist University. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

David Wenner
2018-08-04 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
Biology Lab

Penobscot Bay: Exploitation, Collapse & Now, Recovery
2016-08-28 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
Karen Alexander, Bill Leavenworth, James Wilson.

Penobscot Bay lies at the midpoint of the coast, creating the confluence of northern and southern waters, with the river, a watershed. Chellie Pingree, Maine’s 1st District representative to Congress notes, “Our lives are so affected by so much of the watershed, up and down the river…this is a critically important region to the rest of the state. People care deeply about the health of the Bay because our economies are built on tourism and fishing.” The Penobscot Watershed Conference in which she took part in May had 300 conferees considering the region’s environment, industries, and climate, the Penobscot’s history and future impact upon us. Bill Leavenworth, was a participant, looking into the history of fisheries, possible reasons for their declines and the likelihood of fisheries restoration. He is one of the principal historians for the Fresh and Salt Water Fishery research team, under the leadership of Professor Emeritus James Wilson. Wilson is a prominent marine biologist particularly concerned with policy and fisheries governance systems. Both experts work with Karen Alexander, also a member of the team. A research fellow at UMA Amherst, she is an author, has worked on three or more movies about the Marine ecosystem and is completing her PhD at the University of New Hampshire. The three university experts will present visuals for us, and a panel discussion on their findings and expectations for the Penobscot, a prime element in the current life and future of the State of Maine, its people and chief industries. Prepare your questions!

A Creative Life: Exploring Film, Television, and the Performing Arts in America
2016-08-21 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
George Stevens, Jr.
George is among the third generation of Stevens who summer on Islesboro, a well-known and admired good friend and neighbor, he preserves and continues the family influence on American taste and history through its enormous output for culture and the arts.
George grew up in Hollywood, son of director George Stevens (Alice Adams, Swing Time, A Place in the Sun, Shane, Giant) and went to Washington in 1962 to serve under Edward R. Morrow at the United States Information Agency, as head of USIA’s Motion Picture Service in the Kennedy administration. His legacy is a 50-year career dedicated to motion pictures and the performing arts. It includes establishing two enduring institutions: Founding Director for the America Film Institute, 37 year co-creator and writer-producer of the Kennedy Center Honors. Presented an Oscar in 2012 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for “extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement”, he also has been awarded 17 Emmys, 2 Peabody Awards, and the Humanitas Prize for his television shows. He has received eight awards from the Writers Guild of America for outstanding writing, and the Paul Selvin Award for writing that embodies civil rights and liberties.
Mr. Stevens has published two books: Conversations with the Great Movie Makers of Hollywood’s Golden Age (2006), prompted by a Seminar Series Stevens initiated in 1969, and Conversations with the Great Moviemakers – The Next Generation (2012).
He has served as Co-Chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities since his appointment by President Obama.

Common Ground: Recent Projects by Selldorf Architects
2016-08-14 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | ME
Annabelle Selldorf.

Annabelle is the principal of Selldorf Architects, a 65-person architectural practice she developed in New York City, 1988. The firm’s guiding principles are rooted in humanism, designing the optimal experience for the individual. The firm’s work brings to life public and private spaces, conflating contemporary sensibilities with classic impact. One senses architectural solutions that fuse purpose and poetry.
Selldorf clients include cultural institutions and universities, among them: the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Clark Art Institute, Neue Galerie New York, New York University, Brown University, a number of galleries as Hauser & Wirth, and Gladstone Gallery. Exhibitions include Frieze Masters, Gagosian Gallery, and the Venice Art Biennale, to name a prominent few. In other directions Selldorf designed the award winning Sims Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility, a new recycling facility and education center on the Brooklyn waterfront, and a school In Africa.

A R R T! - Activist Artists Creating & Collaborating for Change
2016-08-07 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
Natasha Mayers, Nora Tryon.

Presenting artists Nora and Natasha are the organizing members of ARRT!, a collective project of the Union of Maine Visual Artists. ARRT! provides images for progressive organizations in Maine to help them get messages to State residents with a colorfully compelling alternative to the corporate-driven media environment.
Bright banners, placards, props, digital designs and video projections will be displayed and discussed, indicating how a small, dedicated business with an artistic approach, has spoken effectively to current issues of environmental hazards, health care access, social justice, peace, civil discourse, immigrant rights, climate change, economic equality, voting rights, food security – you name another!

Inspiring Visual Story Tellers, Creativity & Communication – Rockport, Maine to Around the World
2016-07-31 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
Meg Weston.

Meg is a long-time Maine resident and leader in higher education, business and consulting in international imaging. She was appointed President of Maine Media Workshops + College in February, 2012. In 2014, she led Maine Media in a partnership with the Town of Rockport creating the first municipally owned fiber optic network in Maine, bringing gigabit connectivity to the college’s campus and to the town.
Meg has a wealth of experience in higher education including service as Chair of a legislative commission on higher education governance, and on the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine System. She has an MFA in creative non-fiction and photography, and has taught digital imaging. One of the core faculty of the Maine Media MFA program, she mentors students on creative writing projects.
As leader in imaging and communications businesses, Meg was president of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, and president and COO of the U.S. photofinishing operations of Konica Corporation.
Meg’s passion is photographing volcanoes; her images of erupting lava and fire from more than 30 trips around the world has prompted solo exhibits. Included in her many activities, she leads workshops on writing and photography in the geologically active regions of Iceland and Hawaii.

Venison & Democracy - What Pasty Pans & Ticks Have in Common
2016-07-24 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
Sandy Oliver.

Sandy, a revered Maine Food Writer, Columnist, and Speaker, is a long- time resident on Islesboro. Forty years a food historian, she writes regularly for Maine magazines and newspapers. The breadth of her historical knowledge and interests is present in her books:
Maine Home Cooking, 175 Recipes from Down East Kitchens;
Food in Colonial and Federal America;
Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and Their Foods at Sea and Ashore in the 19th Century; and
Giving Thanks: A Thanksgiving History with Recipes from Pilgrims to Pumpkin Pie, and others.
She will describe for us how elite food became a symbol of culinary and cultural independence in America, an intriguing matter!
Sandy speaks often to professional food groups, historical organizations, and the like. She teaches, sharing her kitchen for hands on instruction, develops cooking programs, is a popular dinner host, and spends time with community organizations and town governance when not attending extensive vegetable gardens for her table, friend’s and neighbor’s.

We’re Safe Here . . . or Aren’t We?
2016-07-17 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
Ryan Martin, Leila Pike, TL Tutor.
The island is waking up and taking action to anticipate dramatic changes ahead.
Islesboro’s new generation of expertise, represented by TL Tutor, Leila Pike, and Ryan Martin will present how our island community is positioned, or not, to deal with the threats and challenges of climate change, discussing sea level rise, renewable energy, local food production, and steps we can take to get ready for the future.
With both a BA and MA in Engineering from McGill University, Leila Pike is now a project engineer specializing in coastal modeling, water resources, and hydraulics for a firm in Portland. She has been involved in evaluating Maine’s coastal resiliency, and modeling 100-year coastal storm surge flood levels for Maine and Louisiana, a part of FEMA’s flood remapping appeals process.
TL Tutor, one in the sixth generation of an Islesboro family, received his BS in Economics, then back-packed through South America learning about sustainable habitats, artists, permaculture, and skilled stone-working projects. Returning to our island he created his own project, building a solar-powered workshop for the family business, Hatch & Sons. He then moved to Portland to get involved in renewable energy. TL now works with ReVision Energy as a solar and heat pump design specialist, concerned with reducing energy bills and carbon footprints, the practical investments in home heating and energy efficiency.
Ryan Martin is known by many as the Horticulture teacher at Islesboro Central School, for a program that brings thousands of pounds of organic produce to the island to engage student learning at the school’s on–campus farm. He has completed his MA in Sustainable Food Systems, and teaches, though more occasionally, at a local community college.

Soldier Girls
2016-07-10 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
Helen Thorpe.

Helen is the much awaited 2015 guest who had to cancel at the last hour. She’s up to something new about which we may hear, but, chiefly, she’ll discuss Soldier Girls, her compelling book and interviews that reveal so much we non-combatants do not know about women’s lives while serving in conflicts, Afghanistan and Iraq.

TIM GLIDDEN
2015-08-30 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
President, Maine Coast Heritage Trust: “Land Conservation in the 21st Century: Implications for local and island trusts and stewardship.”

WILLIAM G. ROSENBERG, PhD
2015-08-23 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | ME
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies, Harvard: “Russia & the West: Some Observations about Old Wine Once Again in New Bottles”

ANGEL BRAESTRUP
2015-08-16 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | Up-Island Church, Islesboro, ME, United States
Foundation Director, Specialist in philanthropy and strategic Investments: “Time, Talent & Treasure, Making the Most of What We Give”

MICHAEL E. KERR, M.D
2015-08-09 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | Up-Island Church, Islesboro, ME, United States
Psychiatrist specializing in the family: “A Radically New Understanding of How Relationships Work”

CHARLES F. GAUVIN
2015-08-02 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | Up-Island Church, Islesboro, ME, United States
Executive Director, Maine Audubon: “Can Maine’s Iconic Wildlife, Particularly Shorebirds, Endure a Changing Climate?”

HELEN THORPE
2015-07-26 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | Up-Island Church, Islesboro, ME, United States
Veteran Reporter, her book on American women at war in the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq: “Soldier Girls”

RICH WILSON
2015-07-19 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | Up-Island Church, Islesboro, ME, United States
World Adventurer and Master Sailor: ” Leave Antartica to Starboard, Race France to France”

Richard Blanco
2015-07-11 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | Up-Island Church, Islesboro, ME, United States
US Inaugural Poet, 2013: Acclaimed poet, memoirist and entertaining storyteller, looks back with awe on rare roots.

David Arnold
2014-08-17 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | Up-Island Church, Islesboro, ME, United States
David Arnold, co-producer of a global warming exhibit, creator of a second exhibit in planning that compares the health of coral reefs “then and now”. Awards for environmental work and reporting excellence –
“Photographing Climate Change Above and Below the Waterline”

Alan Weisman
2014-08-10 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | Up-Island Church, Islesboro, ME, United States
Alan Weisman, Author with multiple distinguished book prizes, and journalist, reporting from around the world for news magazines, quarterlies and Public Broadcasting –
“Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?”
