Maine Humanities Council

January 28, 2010

Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams

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

Contact: Lizz Sinclair 207-773-5051 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. Literature & Medicine has received major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

March 18, 2010

Site: Ellsworth

Series: Courage

This Session: Introduction

Contact: Julia Walkling 207-773-5051

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. NBNR is supported in part by grants from Jane’s Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Sam L. Cohen Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, Rines/Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation, and Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.

April 1, 2010

Site: Ellsworth

Series: Courage

This Session: Frederick by Leo Lionni

Sidewalk Story by Sharon Bell Mathis

Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler and Joseph B. Egan

Contact: Julia Walkling 207-773-5051

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. NBNR is supported in part by grants from Jane’s Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Sam L. Cohen Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, Rines/Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation, and Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.

April 15, 2010

Site: Ellsworth

Series: Courage

This Session: Brave Irene by William Steig

Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

Contact: Julia Walkling 207-773-5051

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. NBNR is supported in part by grants from Jane’s Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Sam L. Cohen Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, Rines/Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation, and Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.

April 29, 2010

Site: Ellsworth

Series: Courage

This Session: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully

The Gold Cadillac by Mildred Taylor

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Contact: Julia Walkling 207-773-5051

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. NBNR is supported in part by grants from Jane’s Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Sam L. Cohen Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, Rines/Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation, and Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.

May 20, 2010

New Mainers: Portraits of Immigrant Neighbors by Pat Nyhan and Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest

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

Contact: Lizz Sinclair 207-773-5051 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.” Literature & Medicine has received major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

June 17, 2010

Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

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

Contact: Lizz Sinclair 207-773-5051 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.” Literature & Medicine has received major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.