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Library Lawn Series 2023 Interview:
Hubert & Kathleen Billings
with Stuart Kestenbaum
We were honored to have Hubert Billings and his daughter Kathleen Billings join us to talk with Stuart Kestenbaum on July 10, 2023. We are grateful to Eric Ziner for sharing the recording he made with us so that we could post it here.
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It was a rainy day when almost 70 people filled the Library to listen to Hubert and Kathleen Billings be interviewed by Stuart Kestenbaum. Oriana Wuerth, then Chase Emerson Memorial Board President, is doing the introduction. Our thanks to Oriana Wuerth and Stuart Kestenbaum for their effort on this event. Our profound thanks to Hubert Billings, and Kathleen Billings, for their time and efforts on behalf of our community.
It was a rainy day when almost 70 people filled the Library to listen to Hubert and Kathleen Billings be interviewed by Stuart Kestenbaum. Oriana Wuerth, then Chase Emerson Memorial Board President, is doing the introduction. Our thanks to Oriana Wuerth and Stuart Kestenbaum for their effort on this event. Our profound thanks to Hubert Billings, and Kathleen Billings, for their time and efforts on behalf of our community.
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December 9, Zoom Webinar:
An Afternoon of Poetry with Deborah Cummins
Deborah Cummins is the author of three poetry collections, Until They Catch Fire (2020), Counting the Waves (2006), and Beyond The Reach (2002), as well as a collection of personal essays, Here and Away: Discovering Home on an Island in Maine (2012). Her poems and essays have appeared in six anthologies and numerous literary magazines. Her poems have also been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, Maine Public Radio’s Poems From Here and the Maine Sunday Telegram’s weekly poetry column, Deep Water. Her numerous awards include a James Michener Fellowship, the 2013 and 2012 Maine Literary Award for Short Works in Nonfiction and a Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance 2013 Book Award Finalist.
Deborah earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Houston in 1995. She’s been the assistant director of the White River Writers’ Workshop at Lyon College in Arkansas, a faculty member of the Down East Writers’ Conference in Deer Isle, Maine and for a number of years curated poetry events for Opera House Arts in Stonington, Maine. She has given numerous public readings and talks in a variety of venues, including bookstores, libraries, radio programs, festivals and conferences.
Formerly from Chicago, Deborah resides with her husband in Portland and Deer Isle, Maine. Besides writing and reading, she enjoys travel, photography, hiking, cooking, tinkering in the garden and being captivated by the tides and ever-changing shoreline.
"Cummins is a poet with both hands in plain sight. No manipulative literary affections, no illustrations of theory, no personal mission other than to address us directly, with clarity, authenticity, and, above all, with generosity."
--Ted Kooser, Former U.S. Poet Laureate
Deborah Cummins is the author of three poetry collections, Until They Catch Fire (2020), Counting the Waves (2006), and Beyond The Reach (2002), as well as a collection of personal essays, Here and Away: Discovering Home on an Island in Maine (2012). Her poems and essays have appeared in six anthologies and numerous literary magazines. Her poems have also been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, Maine Public Radio’s Poems From Here and the Maine Sunday Telegram’s weekly poetry column, Deep Water. Her numerous awards include a James Michener Fellowship, the 2013 and 2012 Maine Literary Award for Short Works in Nonfiction and a Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance 2013 Book Award Finalist. Deborah earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Houston in 1995. She’s been the assistant director of the White River Writers’ Workshop at Lyon College in Arkansas, a faculty member of the Down East Writers’ Conference in Deer Isle, Maine and for a number of years curated poetry events for Opera House Arts in Stonington, Maine. She has given numerous public readings and talks in a variety of venues, including bookstores, libraries, radio programs, festivals and conferences. Formerly from Chicago, Deborah resides with her husband in Portland and Deer Isle, Maine. Besides writing and reading, she enjoys travel, photography, hiking, cooking, tinkering in the garden and being captivated by the tides and ever-changing shoreline.
"Cummins is a poet with both hands in plain sight. No manipulative literary affections, no illustrations of theory, no personal mission other than to address us directly, with clarity, authenticity, and, above all, with generosity."
--Ted Kooser, Former U.S. Poet Laureate
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August 26 Zoom Recording:
Climate Change in the Gulf of Maine
There is an often used statistic in the popular and scientific press that the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 98% of the world’s oceans. Less often, do we read about what is causing this warming and why it appears to be happening so much faster here. What does this mean for the fisheries and coastal communities currently so engaged in lobstering? Please join us as Dr. Carla Guenther describes the changes we are observing in the Gulf of Maine and recent scientific evidence of the oceanographic processes that are contributing to them. She will also briefly discuss what we might be able to do to best prepare for them and enhance coastal community resilience in eastern Maine.
Carla Guenther is the Chief Scientist at Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries and has been with the organization since 2010. She earned her undergraduate degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and her Ph.D. in Marine Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. Carla oversees MCCF's scientific research collaborations, fishermen engagement efforts around science and policy, and translates scientific observations for fishermen and fishermen’s observations for scientists and managers.
For more information on Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries visit www.coastalfisheries.org
There is an often used statistic in the popular and scientific press that the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 98% of the world’s oceans. Less often, do we read about what is causing this warming and why it appears to be happening so much faster here. What does this mean for the fisheries and coastal communities currently so engaged in lobstering? Please join us as Dr. Carla Guenther describes the changes we are observing in the Gulf of Maine and recent scientific evidence of the oceanographic processes that are contributing to them. She will also briefly discuss what we might be able to do to best prepare for them and enhance coastal community resilience in eastern Maine. Carla Guenther is the Chief Scientist at Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries and has been with the organization since 2010. She earned her undergraduate degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and her Ph.D. in Marine Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. Carla oversees MCCF's scientific research collaborations, fishermen engagement efforts around science and policy, and translates scientific observations for fishermen and fishermen’s observations for scientists and managers.
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August 12 Zoom Recording:
Past & Present Perspectives on the Maine Bicentennial: A View from Deer Isle
This illustrated presentation and discussion by Dr. Liam Riordan explores the long statehood process in Maine that culminated in 1820 with formal separation from Massachusetts. That struggle engaged a range of challenging public issues that we still recognize today:
•sharp partisan conflict and the “two Maines”
•the explosive place of slavery vis-a-vis the Maine-Missouri Crisis
•Wabanaki sovereignty
•the uncertain location and meaning of the international border
Dr. Riordan received his undergraduate B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a faculty member in the Department of History at the University of Maine in Orono since 1997. He is a specialist on the American Revolution, and has published about religious, racial and ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia region from 1770 to 1830, and the history of Loyalists, those who opposed the American Revolution.
For more information about the Maine Bicentennial Conference (held in 2019) and online state bicentennial resources, visit:
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/me200/
This is a World in Your Library Event sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council.
This illustrated presentation and discussion by Dr. Liam Riordan explores the long statehood process in Maine that culminated in 1820 with formal separation from Massachusetts. That struggle engaged a range of challenging public issues that we still recognize today: •sharp partisan conflict and the “two Maines” •the explosive place of slavery vis-a-vis the Maine-Missouri Crisis •Wabanaki sovereignty •the uncertain location and meaning of the international border Dr. Riordan received his undergraduate B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a faculty member in the Department of History at the University of Maine in Orono since 1997. He is a specialist on the American Revolution, and has published about religious, racial and ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia region from 1770 to 1830, and the history of Loyalists, those who opposed the American Revolution.
For more information about the Maine Bicentennial Conference (held in 2019) and online state bicentennial resources, visit:
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/me200/
This is a World in Your Library Event sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council.