Maine Humanities Council

January 27, 2010

Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Literature edited by The Maine Literature Project

Series: Making a Life, Shaping an Identity: Ethnic Americans in Maine

Location and Time: Rangeley Public Library, Rangeley, 10 a.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Contact: Martin Gagnon 207-864-5529

Let’s Talk About It is a free, library-based, facilitated book discussion program for adults who want to talk about what they’ve read, presented in collaboration with the Maine State Library with major support from the Betterment Fund and additional funding from the Maine Charity Foundation at the Maine Community Foundation.

For more information about the series

January 6, 2010

Papa Martel by Gerard Robichaud

Series: Making a Life, Shaping an Identity: Ethnic Americans in Maine

Location and Time: Rangeley Public Library, Rangeley, 10 a.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Contact: Martin Gagnon, 864-5529

Let’s Talk About It is a free, library-based, facilitated book discussion program for adults who want to talk about what they’ve read, presented in collaboration with the Maine State Library with major support from the Betterment Fund and from the Maine Charity Foundation at the Maine Community Foundation.

Snow date: January 13, 2010

For more information about the series.

January 7, 2010

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Series: Across Cultures and Continents: Literature of the South Asian Experience

Location and Time: Kennebunk Free Library, Kennebunk 6:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Contact: Janet Cate 985-2173

Let’s Talk About It is a free, library-based, facilitated book discussion program for adults who want to talk about what they’ve read, presented in collaboration with the Maine State Library with major support from the Betterment Fund and from the Maine Charity Foundation at the Maine Community Foundation.

For more information about the series.

January 11, 2010

“Milk” by Eileen Pollack

Location: MidCoast Hospital, Brunswick (This program for health care professionals is offered through partnerships with interested health care facilities. Pre-registration is required).

Contact: Lizz Sinclair 773-5051 or lizz@mainehumanities.org

Literature & Medicine is a national award-winning reading and discussion program for health care professionals that, as one participant writes, “renews the heart and soul of health care.”

January 12, 2010

A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

Location: Bangor Public Library, Bangor

Contact: Annie Medeiros 773-5051

The Community Seminars consist of six intimate scholar-led discussions of books around a central topic. These meetings are held once a month for six months, January to June. A hot catered supper begins each discussion to allow ample time for reconnecting with old friends and making new ones.

January 13, 2010

The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Series: Defining Wilderness, Defining Maine

Location and Time: Pittsfield Public Library, Pittsfield 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Contact: Holly Williams 487-5880

Let’s Talk About It is a free, library-based, facilitated book discussion program for adults who want to talk about what they’ve read, presented in collaboration with the Maine State Library with major support from the Betterment Fund and from the Maine Charity Foundation at the Maine Community Foundation.

For more information about the series.

January 18, 2010

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Location: Togus VA Medical Center, Togus (This program for health care professionals is offered through partnerships with interested health care facilities. Pre-registration is required).

Contact: Lizz Sinclair 773-5051 or lizz@mainehumanities.org

Literature & Medicine is a national award-winning reading and discussion program for health care professionals that, as one participant writes, “renews the heart and soul of health care.”

January 19, 2010

Series: Real Life

Site: Waterboro

Contact: Julia Walkling 773-5051

New Books, New Readers is a humanities-based book discussion program for adults who are new readers or who are working to improve their reading.

January 20, 2010

Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Location: The Cedars, Falmouth/Portland

Contact: Annie Medeiros 773-5051

The Community Seminars consist of six intimate scholar-led discussions of books around a central topic. These meetings are held once a month for six months, January to June. A hot catered supper begins each discussion to allow ample time for reconnecting with old friends and making new ones.

January 20, 2010

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Location: Maine Medical Center, Portland (This program for health care professionals is offered through partnerships with interested health care facilities. Pre-registration is required).

Contact: Lizz Sinclair 773-5051 or lizz@mainehumanities.org

Literature & Medicine is a national award-winning reading and discussion program for health care professionals that, as one participant writes, “renews the heart and soul of health care.”