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SUMMARY:Bruce Blankenfeld\, Master Navigator\, "Rediscovery of Ocean Heritage"
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW!  \nMaster 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). \n\nCaptain 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. \nBruce 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. \nIn 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. \nAfter 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. \n\nBruce 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. \n\n\nTo 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.
URL:https://islesboroforum.org/event/bruce-blankenfeld-master-navigator-rediscovery-of-ocean-heritage/
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SUMMARY:Beth Orcutt\, "Deep Sea Frontiers: What Happens as Humanity Seizes the Seafloor?"
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW! \nWill 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. \nDr. 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.
URL:https://islesboroforum.org/event/beth-orcutt-deep-sea-frontiers-what-happens-as-humanity-seizes-the-seafloor/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Jim Basker\, "Black Lives Have Always Mattered: American History and the Gilder Lehrman Institute in 2020"
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW! \nIn 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. \nBasker 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. \nBasker 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. \nBasker 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. \nHis 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. \nThanks 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. \nHe will be introduced by Islesboro resident and Oxford classmate\, John Rex Waller.
URL:https://islesboroforum.org/event/dr-jim-basker-the-history-of-slavery-and-a-tribute-to-richard-gilder/
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