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.

February 24, 2010

Turnip Pie by Rebecca Cummings

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

March 3, 2010

Site: Sullivan

Series: Differences

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.

March 17, 2010

The Girl Who Would Be Russian by Willis Johnson

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

April 7, 2010

Canuck and Other Stories edited by Rhea Cote Robbins

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

April 7, 2010

Site: Farmington

Series: Carrying the Past

This Session: Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault

So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting

Who Will Tell My Brother? by Marlene Carvell

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 5, 2010

Site: Farmington

Series: Carrying the Past

This Session: One Candle by Eve Bunting

As Long as the Rivers Flow by Larry Loyie with Constance Brissenden

I’m Still Scared by Tomie dePaola

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.

June 2, 2010

Site: Farmington

Series: Carrying the Past

This Session: Sacajawea: Her True Story by Joyce Milton

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell

Margaret Chase Smith: A Woman for President by Lynn Plourde

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.