A Creative Life: Exploring Film, Television, and the Performing Arts in America
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 […]
Penobscot Bay: Exploitation, Collapse & Now, Recovery
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 […]
David Wenner
Biology Lab
Dr. Troy Brennan, Chief Medical Officer at CVS Health, “How the COVID Pandemic Might Change the Future Delivery of Healthcare”
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 […]
Shey Conover, Entrepreneur, Marshall Cove Aquaculture, “Commercial Aquaculture Off Islesboro’s Coast”
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 […]
Francesca Zambello and Tim O’Leary, “Spotlight on the Opera Blue”
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 — […]
Bruce Blankenfeld, Master Navigator, “Rediscovery of Ocean Heritage”
REGISTER NOW! 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 […]
Beth Orcutt, “Deep Sea Frontiers: What Happens as Humanity Seizes the Seafloor?”
REGISTER NOW! 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 […]
Dr. Jim Basker, “Black Lives Have Always Mattered: American History and the Gilder Lehrman Institute in 2020”
REGISTER NOW! 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 […]
Dr. Abe Miller-Rushing, “Managing for Climate Change in Our National Parks”
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 […]