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The Maine Humanities Council podcast includes readings, lectures, interviews, and other programs sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council and partners like the Portland Public Library.
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War, Peace, and Conflict Resolution: What Homer Has to Teach Us
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, May 21, 2012
This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Homer’s The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles, takes place over 51 days, somewhere in the 9th or 10th year of the Trojan War. Amid a huge cast of memorable characters—and a crew of scheming Olympians sublimely indifferent to human suffering — three warriors stand out: the godlike and self-absorbed Achilles, [...]
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Was There a Troy and Why Does It Matter?
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, May 03, 2012
This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Homer’s The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles, takes place over 51 days, somewhere in the 9th or 10th year of the Trojan War. Amid a huge cast of memorable characters—and a crew of scheming Olympians sublimely indifferent to human suffering — three warriors stand out: the godlike and self-absorbed Achilles, [...]
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Reading the Iliad in 2012
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Homer’s The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles, takes place over 51 days, somewhere in the 9th or 10th year of the Trojan War. Amid a huge cast of memorable characters—and a crew of scheming Olympians sublimely indifferent to human suffering—three warriors stand out: the godlike and self-absorbed Achilles, the Tony [...]
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What is the role of Margaret Chase Smith in Today’s American Politics?
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Jan 05, 2012
In an encore performance, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine Farmington, Jim Melcher spoke to a class on the legacy of Senator Margaret Chase Smith. This talk was originially performed at the September 30, 2011 event The Politics of Conscience: Margaret Chase Smith and Today’s Political Climate at G.W. Hinckley, Hinckley, [...]
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Maine Festival of the Book Opening Night: Stewart O’Nan and Julia Glass
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. With the exception of Opening Night and Youth Outreach, festival events are first-come, first-served, un-ticketed seating, and [...]
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To End all Wars with Adam Hochschild
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Aug 31, 2011
As the opening event of the newly minted Mechaya Center, Director Jonathan Lee, invited Adam Hochschild to Maine to discuss new new book To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914 – 1918, where he focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of World War I critics, alongside its generals and heroes. This [...]
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From Far East to Old West: True Tales of the American Frontier
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. With the exception of Opening Night and Youth Outreach, festival events are first-come, first-served, un-ticketed seating, and [...]
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The Crisis of Intellectual Property
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jun 24, 2011
The Center for Global Humanities is a public forum dedicated to the study of human destiny in the 21st century. Because new discoveries in science and technology are changing our understanding of human nature and raising burning questions about the future of our civilization, the Center uses the lenses of the humanities to provide insight [...]
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How The Great Depression Changed America
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jun 17, 2011
The Center for Global Humanities is a public forum dedicated to the study of human destiny in the 21st century. Because new discoveries in science and technology are changing our understanding of human nature and raising burning questions about the future of our civilization, the Center uses the lenses of the humanities to provide insight [...]
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How To Lose Your Head When All About Are Keeping Theirs: Julien, Mathilde, and the Agony of Romanticism
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jun 10, 2011
This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black follows a young intellectual man from a provincial town who tries to make it in 19th century Paris. Stendhal’s psychological portrait of Julien Sorel and his love affairs mesh well with a satiric depiction of religious and society life. Charles Calhoun, independent scholar for [...]
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There and Back: The Journey to Write a Memoir
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Jun 02, 2011
Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. With the exception of Opening Night and Youth Outreach, festival events are first-come, first-served, un-ticketed seating, and [...]
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The Hare and the Tortoise: A General Biocultural Theory of Why People Have So Many Problems
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, May 27, 2011
The Center for Global Humanities is a public forum dedicated to the study of human destiny in the 21st century. Because new discoveries in science and technology are changing our understanding of human nature and raising burning questions about the future of our civilization, the Center uses the lenses of the humanities to provide insight [...]
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Wrestling a Book Into the World
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, May 13, 2011
Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. With the exception of Opening Night and Youth Outreach, festival events are first-come, first-served, un-ticketed seating, and [...]
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Desperate for Some Kindness: A History of Asking for Help in Hard Times
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, May 06, 2011
The Center for Global Humanities is a public forum dedicated to the study of human destiny in the 21st century. Because new discoveries in science and technology are changing our understanding of human nature and raising burning questions about the future of our civilization, the Center uses the lenses of the humanities to provide insight [...]
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Pens and Pistol Shots: Crimes of Passion in Stendhal’s France
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Apr 22, 2011
This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black follows a young intellectual man from a provincial town who tries to make it in 19th century Paris. Stendhal’s psychological portrait of Julien Sorel and his love affairs mesh well with a satiric depiction of religious and society life. Mary Rice-DeFosse, Professor of French [...]
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Intimate Matters: Sex and Social Class in Post-Revolutionary France
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Apr 13, 2011
This year’s Winter Weekend selection, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black follows a young intellectual man from a provincial town who tries to make it in 19th century Paris. Stendhal’s psychological portrait of Julien Sorel and his love affairs mesh well with a satiric depiction of religious and society life. Theresa McBride, Chair of the [...]
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Two Heads and the Things They Carried with Tim O’Brien
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Jan 26, 2011
Tim O’Brien has been hailed as “the best American writer of his generation” (San Francisco Examiner). A Vietnam veteran, he is the author of eight books. He received the National Book Award in Fiction in 1979 for his novel Going After Cacciato. In 2005 The Things They Carried was named by The New York Times [...]
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The Bad News and the Good News with Kate Braestrup
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
Kate Braestrup is a Unitarian-Universalist chaplain to the Maine Warden Service, joining the wardens as they search the wild lands and fresh waters of Maine for those who have lost their way, and offering comfort to those who wait for the ones they love to be rescued, or for their bodies to be recovered. Her [...]
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Learning About Combat Trauma From Homer’s Iliad with Dr. Jonathan Shay
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, Dec 13, 2010
Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD is a clinical psychiatrist whose treatment of combat trauma suffered by Vietnam veterans combined with his critical and imaginative interpretations of the ancient accounts of battle described in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are deepening our understanding of the effects of warfare on the individual. His book, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma [...]
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Margaret Chase Smith and Cold War America
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Aug 26, 2010
History Camp is a one week seminar for high school students who enjoy history. Each history camp theme is related to a Maine person, historical site, or event in United States history and may be offered in collaboration with a history-related organization. One of this year’s camps, titled “The Cold War, McCarthyism, and Margaret Chase [...]
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There Are No New Stories: Nicole Chaison, Debra Spark and Elizabeth Searle
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Jun 22, 2010
Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. With the exception of Opening Night and Youth Outreach, festival events are first-come, first-served, un-ticketed seating, and [...]
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The Reawakening of Ayn Rand, Anne C. Heller
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Jun 09, 2010
Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. With the exception of Opening Night and Youth Outreach, festival events are first-come, first-served, un-ticketed seating, and [...]
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Franco-American Women’s Words in Maine, Rhea Cote Robbins
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, May 24, 2010
Wonder what writers really think about? Get ready for a literary extravaganza! The Maine Festival of the Book, brought to you by Maine Reads brings together writers and readers to enjoy readings, panel discussions, book signings, and performances. With the exception of Opening Night and Youth Outreach, festival events are first-come, first-served, un-ticketed seating, and [...]
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Middlemarch by George Eliot, Winter Weekend 2010, part 3
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, May 24, 2010
The Council’s annual Winter Weekend, a humanities seminar on a classic text, provides an opportunity for readers to confront, in a group setting, an important work of literature. Held at Bowdoin College in early March, the program begins with a Friday evening lecture and dinner (a gastronomic taste of the time and culture reflected in [...]
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Middlemarch by George Eliot, Winter Weekend 2010, part 2
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, May 03, 2010
The Council’s annual Winter Weekend, a humanities seminar on a classic text, provides an opportunity for readers to confront, in a group setting, an important work of literature. Held at Bowdoin College in early March, the program begins with a Friday evening lecture and dinner (a gastronomic taste of the time and culture reflected in [...]
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Middlemarch by George Eliot, Winter Weekend 2010, part 1
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Apr 09, 2010
The Council’s annual Winter Weekend, a humanities seminar on a classic text, provides an opportunity for readers to confront, in a group setting, an important work of literature. Held at Bowdoin College in early March, the program begins with a Friday evening lecture and dinner (a gastronomic taste of the time and culture reflected in [...]
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Cuba and the United States
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
David Carey, Jr. is an associate professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University; his publications include Ojer taq tzijob’äl kichin ri Kaqchikela’ Winaqi’ (A History of the Kaqchikel People) (Q’anilsa Ediciones, 2004) and Engendering Mayan History: Mayan Women as [...]
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Colonial Legacies: Cuba and Latin America
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
Allen Wells, the Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College, scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán. His most recent book is Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR and the Jews of Sosúa. Professor Wells is the first in our series of podcasts from our December, 2009 event: Cuban Exceptionalism: Reflections on [...]
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First Mainers and New Mainers: Dignity in Diversity
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Jan 19, 2010
Listen to the inaugural event that launched the new minor of Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies at the University of Maine, Augusta. This program was hosted by the Director, Abraham Peck at the Michael Klahr Center in Augusta. The panel discussion: First Mainers and New Mainers was part of a project entitled The Dignity [...]
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The Politics of Zora Neale Hurston
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jan 08, 2010
Tess Chakkalakal, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College, is the last in our series of podcasts from our October, 2009 event: Looking for Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale Hurston. This one day event explored the life and lasting work of Hurston, an anthropologist with a literary sensibility. Chakkalakal led [...]
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Seeing Green
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Dec 17, 2009
Kate Miles, Associate Professor of Environmental Writing at Unity College, is the third in our series of podcasts from our October, 2009 event: Looking for Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale Hurston. This one day event explored the life and lasting work of Hurston, an anthropologist with a literary sensibility. Miles’ lecture, entitled, Seeing [...]
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Worlds in their Mouths
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Dec 11, 2009
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catharine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Colby College, is the second in our series of podcasts from our October, 2009 event: Looking for Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale Hurston. This one day event explored the life and lasting work of Hurston, an [...]
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Looking for and Finding Zora Neale Hurston
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Dec 03, 2009
Cedric Gael Bryant, Lee Family Professor of English at Colby College, is the first in our series of podcasts from our October, 2009 event: Looking for Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale Hurston. This one day event explored the life and lasting work of Hurston, an anthropologist with a literary sensibility. Bryant’s lecture, entitled, [...]
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The Thinking Heart: A Performance in Two Voices, with Cello
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Oct 30, 2009
The Thinking Heart is a performance piece in two voices, with cello, based on the journal and letters of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch woman who lived in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation and died in Auschwitz in 1943. The performance is an original arrangement of her journal and letters in the form of poems written [...]
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Poets Writing Memoir: A Conversation with Elizabeth Garber and Dawn Potter
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Oct 23, 2009
Denise Pendleton, Maine Humanities Council’s Program Director of Born To Read and poet, sat down at the Belfast Free Library with two of Maine’s best-known poets, Elizabeth Garber and Dawn Potter. In addition to reading from their memoirs, the poets spoke about why they turned to prose and how their poetry background has influenced their [...]
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That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
For the kick-off of the new season of the Portland Public Library’s brown-bag lunch series, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Richard Russo, came back to Portland to read from his new novel That Old Cape Magic. Despite being a Yankees fan, Russo lives in Coastal Maine. Here, Russo reads a colorful chapter of his newly released [...]
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Faculty Flash Reading
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Jul 16, 2009
In the “flash reading” by Stonecoast MFA program faculty members, each writer gets three minutes in which to share his or her work before introducing the next writer in the queue. The flash reading from Stonecoast’s summer residency in July 2009 began with an introduction by director Annie Finch. Joan Connor started the reading with [...]
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Today’s Challenges on the Korean Peninsula
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jul 03, 2009
Brad Babson is a consultant on East Asia and global development issues. He served 26 years with the World Bank, most recently as Senior Advisor for the East Asia and Pacific Region, with assignments including Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. He has published widely on topics related to East and Southeast Asia, [...]
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Not Norman
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Not Norman by Kelly Bennett, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones, is one of five books that Raising Readers included in an anthology of Maine stories for pediatricians to give to 5-year-olds. Noah Z. Jones lives in Maine, and recently read Not Norman aloud for the Born to Read program. You can find this book, or [...]
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Love and Kisses
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Love and Kisses by Sarah Wilson, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, is one of five books that Raising Readers included in an anthology of Maine stories for pediatricians to give to 5-year-olds. Melissa Sweet lives in Maine, and the Born to Read program recently visited her studio, where she read Love and Kisses aloud. You can [...]
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Library Lion
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Library Lion by Michelle Knudson, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, is one of five books that Raising Readers included in an anthology of Maine stories for pediatricians to give to 5-year-olds. Kevin Hawkes lives in Maine, and the Born to Read program recently visited his studio, where he talked about Library Lion and read the first [...]
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Looking North
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Jun 18, 2009
Donna Cassidy is Professor of American & New England Studies and Art History at the University of Southern Maine. Her most recent book, Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation, led to her current research on U.S. artists in Quebec and Atlantic Canada from 1890 to 1940. In this talk, co-sponsored by the Yarmouth and North [...]
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Jane Austen’s Gardens
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, May 26, 2009
Kim Wilson is the Wisconsin-based author of two books: Tea with Jane Austen and In the Garden with Jane Austen. Her presentation at the Maine Festival of the Book, “Jane Austen’s Gardens: Love in the Shrubbery,” was beautifully illustrated by a slide show. The images are not captured by this audio recording, but her comments [...]
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The Craft of Writing: A Panel Discussion
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, May 26, 2009
Moderated by the publisher of Warren Machine Company, Ari Meil, this event was a discussion of why Maine provides such rich inspiration for writers, and what has brought the writers Lewis Robinson, Andrew McNabb, and Lisa Carey to their respective places in the literary world today. Lisa Carey is the author of Every Visible Thing, [...]
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A Librarian’s Introduction to Rules
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, May 26, 2009
School librarian Connie Burns of South Portland is a steadfast supporter of the Maine Student Book Award program. Here, she presents the winning book from the 2006-07 school year: Rules (Scholastic, 2006) by Maine’s own Cynthia Lord. Part of the first chapter from the audiobook, performed by Jessica Almasy and published by Recorded Books, is [...]
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Meeting of the Apes
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, May 06, 2009
In this three-part episode, two particularly quick-witted and talkative apes, Hannah Holmes (The Well-Dressed Ape) and Bill Roorbach (Temple Stream), address their collisions with the rest of the natural world. Roorbach’s recent work has taken him into the woods and fields behind his own house, a primitive but not always private domain. Holmes has turned [...]
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Ann Hood
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, May 01, 2009
Ann Hood is the author, most recently, of The Knitting Circle and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief. Both new books deal with the loss of her 5-year old daughter, one through fiction and one through memoir. In this talk, she compares the two approaches and recalls episodes—both tragic and very, very funny—from her life. Hood [...]
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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Apr 21, 2009
To close the Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium on March 21, 2009, former Maine Governor Angus King read Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. He also shared some thoughts about Lincoln, whom he includes in his course on “Leaders and Leadership” at Bowdoin College. Governor King served two four-year terms as Maine’s independent 71st governor. He works as an [...]
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The Afterlife of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Apr 21, 2009
Thomas J. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. He is a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. In this lecture, Brown examined the ways in which debates over regionalism, race relations and governmental power [...]
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In the Aftermath of the Lincoln Assassination
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Apr 21, 2009
Elizabeth D. Leonard is the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College, where she has taught since 1992. Leonard is the author of three books on the Civil War era, and she is under contract to write the biography of Joseph Holt, Lincoln’s judge advocate general. In this talk, she [...]
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The Rise of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Apr 15, 2009
Before he was the leader of a nation torn apart by a Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was a young man growing up during tumultuous times in Illinois. In the first presentation of the Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium, historian Bruce Chadwick explained Lincoln’s rise to power from his first unsuccessful race for the state legislature to his [...]
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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Apr 15, 2009
To open the Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium on March 21, 2009, Portland Mayor Jill Duson read Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Mayor Duson is the Director of Rehabilitation Services, Maine Department of Labor. She is serving her third term on the Portland City Council. She has also served one term on the School Committee, where she was elected [...]
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Sarah Caldwell and Prokofiev’s War and Peace
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Apr 07, 2009
James T. Morgan was a long-time friend and colleague at The Opera Company of Boston of the late Sarah Caldwell, the most innovative opera director of mid-20th-century America and the first woman to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera. He worked with Caldwell on a production of the War and Peace opera by Sergei Prokofiev (pictured [...]
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Thin Blue Lines
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Apr 02, 2009
Thin Blue Lines is a project of Portland’s Arts & Equity Initiative. The project brings local poets and photographers together with Portland police officers and detectives to create poems and photographs that increase the public’s knowledge and appreciation of police work. The first product of this collaboration was a calendar that was sold as a [...]
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Shall We Dance? A Close Reading
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, Mar 16, 2009
Sheila McCarthy is Associate Professor of Russian at Colby College. She has a B.A. in Russian from Emmanuel College, an M.A. from Harvard in Russian Area Studies, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Russian literature. She teaches 19th-century Russian literature in Russian and in English. Here, she performs a close reading of three dance [...]
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Love and War in War and Peace
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, Mar 16, 2009
Justin Weir is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He received a B.A. in Russian from the University of Minnesota and his master’s and doctoral degree in Russian literature from Northwestern University. He is co-editor and co-translator of Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays (2000) and author of The Author as Hero: Self and [...]
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Chris Bohjalian
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
Chris Bohjalian is the author of eleven novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives. Bohjalian won the New England Book Award in 2002. His work has been translated into 25 languages and has sold over three and a half million copies. He [...]
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Patricia Smith
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Feb 17, 2009
Patricia Smith is a 2008 National Book Award Finalist for Blood Dazzler, also the basis of a forthcoming dance/theater performance with Urban Bush Women. Her other books of poetry are Teahouse of the Almighty, winner of the National Poetry Series, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize; Close to Death; Big Towns, Big [...]
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Marilyn Nelson
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Feb 13, 2009
Poet Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks. She has won numerous awards, including two Boston Globe—Horn Book Awards, and is a three-time National Book Award Finalist. From the American Library Association, her books have received Newbery, Coretta Scott King, and Michael L. Printz Honors. Other honors include two [...]
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Suzanne Strempek Shea
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Feb 13, 2009
Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of five novels: Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, Around Again, and Becoming Finola. She has also written three memoirs, Songs From a Lead-lined Room, Shelf Life, and Sundays in America. Winner of the 2000 New England Book Award, which recognizes a literary [...]
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Stonecoast Faculty Flash Reading, Part 2
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jan 30, 2009
This episode is the continuation of the Stonecoast MFA Faculty “flash reading” from the winter residency in January 2009, in which each writer gets three minutes in which to share his or her work before introducing the next writer in the queue. The first reader is Richard Hoffman, who writes in multiple genres and here [...]
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Stonecoast Faculty Flash Reading, Part 1
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Jan 28, 2009
One of the highlights of each 10-day residency in the Stonecoast MFA program is the “flash reading” by faculty members. Each writer gets three minutes in which to share his or her work before introducing the next writer in the queue. The flash reading from the winter residency in January 2009 began with Jaed Coffin [...]
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Michael Steinberg
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jan 23, 2009
Michael Steinberg is a memoirist and the founding editor of the award-winning literary journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. His latest book, Still Pitching, was chosen by ForeWord Magazine as the 2003 Small and Independent Press memoir/autobiography of the year. Other books include Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs from Michigan, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On [...]
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Gray Jacobik
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jan 23, 2009
Gray Jacobik is author of three collections of poetry: The Double Task (University of Massachusetts Press), winner of the Juniper Prize, nominated for the James Laughlin Award and The Poet’s Prize; The Surface of Last Scattering (Texas Review Press), winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize; and Brave Disguises (University of Pittsburgh Press), winner [...]
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India and Pakistan: The History Behind the Headlines
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, Jan 12, 2009
The goal of this day-long program was to provide an introduction to the complex web of politics, culture, and religion that has made South Asia both a volatile area and an emerging power. Rachel Sturman, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College, was the featured scholar. The recording is offered here in [...]
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Colin Sargent
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, Jan 12, 2009
Colin Sargent is a playwright and author of three books of poetry. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he earned a Stonecoast MFA in creative writing and was awarded the Maine individual artist fellowship in literature. His screenplay “Montebello Ice” is under option at Gideon Films. Sargent is founding editor and publisher of [...]
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Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Nov 21, 2008
Another contender for a Maine Student Book Award in 2008-09 is Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party (Random House, 2007) by Ying Chang Compestine (pictured at right). This novel about life in China during the Cultural Revolution is based on the author’s own experiences. The first chapter from the audiobook, performed by Jodi Long and [...]
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Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Nov 21, 2008
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell, illustrated by Jonathan Bean (Henry Holt, 2007), is intended for children ages 8-12, but its whimsy and wit broaden its appeal. The novel was chosen as one of School Library Journal’s Best Books of 2007, and now it’s a contender for a Maine Student Book Award [...]
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Landscapes of Poland Spring
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Oct 16, 2008
David Richards earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of New Hampshire. His research for the 2006 book Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age (University Press of New England) forms the basis of this presentation at the Yarmouth Historical Society. Richards is the assistant director of the Margaret Chase Smith Library in [...]
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Blaine House Oral History
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Oct 16, 2008
The Blaine House is the Governor’s residence in Augusta, Maine. At the 175th anniversary celebration of this historic house on August 16, 2008, historian Jo Radner interviewed some of its former residents and staff. Phyllis H. Siebert was the Blaine House chef from 1972 until her retirement in 2001. Cass Longley-Leahy is one of James [...]
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Children’s Authors at the Blue Hill Library
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, Oct 06, 2008
Maine is home to many children’s authors and illustrators. Fans are usually only fortunate enough to see one at a time, but in July 2008, three of the best-known—Cynthia Voigt, Ruth Freeman Swain, and Rebekah Raye—appeared together at the Blue Hill Library. In this recording, they are introduced by Brook Ewing Minner, the library’s Assistant [...]
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A Librarian’s Introduction to Moon Runner
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, Oct 06, 2008
School librarian Connie Burns of South Portland is a steadfast supporter of the Maine Student Book Award program. She presents one of the books on the list of contenders from the 2006-07 school year: Moon Runner (Candlewick, 2005) by Carolyn Marsden (pictured at right). After Connie introduces the main character, Mina, then previews the story [...]
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Eve LaPlante
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Sep 23, 2008
Samuel Sewall, the only judge to publicly repent his decision to condemn twenty people to death as witches in 1692, is the subject of Eve LaPlante’s new biography, Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall (HarperOne, 2007). LaPlante counts Sewall as her sixth great-grandfather, a family connection that gave her access to [...]
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Beyond the Clash of Civilizations
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Mon, Sep 22, 2008
The 2008 Douglas M. Schair Memorial Lecture on Genocide and Human Rights was a dialogue for Muslim-Jewish understanding, presented in cooperation with the Islamic Society of Portland and the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine. The featured speakers were Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed. Pearl, a computer scientist from Israel, and Ahmed, a social scientist [...]
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Linda Greenlaw
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Sep 19, 2008
Linda Greenlaw’s three books about life as a commercial fisherman—The Hungry Ocean (1999), The Lobster Chronicles (2002), and All Fishermen Are Liars (2004)—have climbed as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Her first novel, Slipknot, began a mystery series whose second installment is Fisherman’s Bend (2008). Before becoming a writer, Greenlaw [...]
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The Devil of Great Island
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Sep 09, 2008
Emerson â€Tad’ Baker of York, Maine, is a former chair of the Maine Humanities Council. An author and Professor of History at Salem State College, he directs several archaelogical excavations in New England and also served, from 2002 until its premier in 2004, as a lead consulant for the Emmy-nominated PBS TV series, “Colonial House.” [...]
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Vietnam in the Context of the American Way of War
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Aug 26, 2008
Patrick Rael is Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College. His areas of interest include antebellum America, Civil War and Reconstruction, and comparative slavery. Among other publications, he has edited a volume of scholarship on African-American Activism Before the Civil War (Routledge, 2008). In this talk, Rael places the Vietnam conflict in a continuum of [...]
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Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Aug 26, 2008
Connie Burns is a school librarian in South Portland with a hidden passion: the lives of Victorian women. In pursuit of her passion, Burns researched Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat (1823-1908) for her Master’s thesis in the American and New England Studies program at the University of Southern Maine. Sweat is best remembered for her bequest [...]
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First Anniversary of the Portland Freedom Trail
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Aug 15, 2008
“Weaving History and Literature: the African American Oral and Written Tradition” brought five writers together to read from their work and discuss how African American history is revealed through storytelling and literature. The speakers were JerriAnne Boggis, founder and director of the Harriet Wilson Project; Kate Clifford Larson, biographer of Harriet Tubman; novelists Michael C. [...]
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Annaliese Jakimides and A Coastal Companion
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Aug 15, 2008
A Coastal Companion: A Year in the Gulf of Maine, from Canada to Cape Cod (Tilbury House, 2008) is part field guide, part almanac; a celebration of the natural world that also highlights people who have chosen the Gulf of Maine as the setting for their life’s work. Poems by contemporary Maine poets open each [...]
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Interview with Lizz Sinclair
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Aug 08, 2008
Created by the Maine Humanities Council, Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care® is a national award-winning reading and discussion program for health care professionals. The Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s Tom Porter interviewed Literature & Medicine Program Officer Lizz Sinclair when the Literature & Medicine anthology, Imagine What It’s Like, was published [...]
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Nalo Hopkinson
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Aug 08, 2008
Nalo Hopkinson is one of the world’s best known fantasy and science fiction writers. She is the author of four novels (most recently The New Moon’s Arms, Warner, 2007) and numerous short stories, and editor or co-editor of several anthologies, including So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004). Hopkinson [...]
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Alison Hawthorne Deming
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Aug 08, 2008
Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of three books of poetry, three nonfiction books, and two limited-edition chapbooks. Her place-based writing has earned her fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown , the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Tucson/Pima Arts Council; as well as many [...]
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A Conversation about Thanks to the Animals
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jul 25, 2008
When the Born to Read program selected books for its anti-bias initiative, Many Eyes, Many Voices, there was a distressing gap in the field of contenders: a suitable children’s book about Maine Native Americans. The few titles available were either too stereotypical or too distant—tales populated by warriors with headresses, or set amidst Plains buffalo [...]
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Sleep Tight, Little Bear
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jul 25, 2008
Here is another story by Martin Waddell about Little Bear and Big Bear. It is read aloud by Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth. Then Rachel shares two fingerplays. Text copyright 2005 by Martin Waddell. Illustrations copyright 2005 by Anita Jeram. Reproduced by permission of Candlewick Press, Inc., Somerville, [...]
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You Can Do It, Sam
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jul 25, 2008
Amy Hest’s third book about the bear named Sam is read aloud by Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth. Rachel then teaches two fingerplays that you can do after you read the book. Text copyright 2003 by Amy Hest. Illustrations copyright 2003 by Anita Jeram. Reproduced by permission of [...]
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Baby Brains
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jul 25, 2008
Here’s a funny book by British author Simon James, read aloud by Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth. After she reads the book, Rachel teaches a fingerplay called “The Baby Grows” and a poem called “Bend and Stretch.” Text and illustrations copyright 2004 by Simon James. Reproduced by permission [...]
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Kiss Good Night
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jul 25, 2008
This is the first book that author Amy Hest wrote about the bear named Sam, a character inspired by her own son, Sam. Here, the book is read aloud by Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth. Rachel then teaches two fingerplays about kisses. Text and illustrations copyright 2004 by [...]
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Why Are Some Biographies So Good?
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Jul 16, 2008
Charles Calhoun is Scholar in Residence at the Maine Humanities Council. He is the author of Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life (2004), A Small College in Maine: 200 Years of Bowdoin (1993), and the volume on Maine in the Compass American Guide Series (4th ed., 2005). Born in Monroe, Louisiana, he studied history at the University [...]
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Family and Gender in Contemporary China
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Jul 16, 2008
Nancy Riley is a professor of sociology at Bowdoin College whose work focuses on family, gender and population, and China. She has completed years of research in Dalian on the family lives of women factory workers, and taken groups of students (and one group of faculty) to Asia with the support of the Freeman Foundation. [...]
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Miriam Colwell
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jul 11, 2008
Miriam Colwell was born in Prospect Harbor in 1917 and still lives in the house built by her great-great-grandfather in 1817. She is the author of Wind Off the Water (1945), Day of the Trumpet (1947), and Young (1955). As a small town resident and long-time postmistress, she has watched change upon change wash over [...]
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Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (1892-1955) was a native Mainer, Bowdoin College graduate, and longtime Bowdoin faculty member. Though a popular writer and speaker in his time, his work is not widely known today. In this podcast episode, Kevin Belmonte, who recently completed a Master’s thesis on Coffin for the American and [...]
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The Good Life of Helen K. Nearing
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
For her doctoral dissertation in American history, scholar Mimi Killinger researched the life of homesteader and writer Helen Nearing. Her dissertation became the biography The Good Life of Helen K. Nearing (University of Vermont Press, 2007). Here, Killinger uncovers the roots of her project at the Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine, and reads excerpts [...]
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Neil Rolde
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Jul 02, 2008
Neil Rolde’s 2006 book, Continental Liar from the State of Maine, is a biography of James G. Blaine, the Maine politician who dominated the American political stage from just before the Civil War and almost until the twentieth century. A former Maine politician himself, Rolde is a prize-winning historian and author of Unsettled Past, Unsettled [...]
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Jeff Shaara
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, Jul 01, 2008
The Steel Wave is the second novel in what will be a trilogy of World War II stories by Jeff Shaara, who has also written about the Civil War, the American Revolution, the Mexican War, and the first World War. Shaara is the son of the late Michael Shaara, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Killer [...]
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Lewis Robinson
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Jun 19, 2008
Lewis Robinson is the author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories and the forthcoming novel Water Dogs, due out from Random House in January 2009. A graduate of Middlebury College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award. Here, he is introduced by fellow [...]
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Shara McCallum
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, Jun 19, 2008
Shara McCallum is the author of two poetry collections, The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh, 1999, winner of the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize) and Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh, 2003). McCallum was born in Jamaica, where she lived until she was nine with Afro-Jamaican and Venezuelan parents. She directs the Stadler [...]
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Interview with Ashley Bryan
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jun 06, 2008
Born and raised in New York City, Ashley Bryan is another author “from away” who has found a home in Maine. Folklorist, writer, illustrator and performer, Bryan draws on African myths and tales, his own and others’ experience, and his literary, artistic and thespian talents to create children’s books (enjoyed by adults, too) and storytellings [...]
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Don’t You Feel Well, Sam?
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jun 06, 2008
Here is one of Amy Hest’s popular books about a bear named Sam, read aloud by Amy Hand, children’s librarian at the Camden Public Library. Text copyright 2002 by Amy Hest. Illustrations copyright 2002 by Anita Jeram. Reproduced by permission of Candlewick Press, Inc., Somerville, MA. We welcome your feedback on any of Amy Hand’s [...]
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In the Rain With Baby Duck
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jun 06, 2008
Amy Hest is the author of this book about a duck who learns to love the rain. Here is Amy Hand, children’s librarian at the Camden Public Library, reading the book aloud and sharing a rhyme and two songs. For more children’s books about rain, see this Born to Read booklist. Text copyright 1995 by [...]
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Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear?
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Jun 06, 2008
Owl Babies is not the only bedtime book by Martin Waddell. He also wrote this book about a bear who cannot fall asleep. Amy Hand, children’s librarian at the Camden Public Library, reads the story aloud, then shares two rhymes and a song about the night sky. Text copyright 1988 by Martin Waddell. Illustrations copyright [...]
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Dido’s Lament: Virgilian Epic and 17th Century English Opera
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, May 30, 2008
Andrew Walkling is Dean’s Assistant Professor of Early Modern Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he teaches in the departments of art history, English, and theater and is affiliated with the faculties of history, music, and philosophy. He earned a Ph.D. in British history from Cornell. A Fellow of the [...]
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Art for Justice: Using Writing to Create Social Change
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, May 29, 2008
Jennifer Hodsdon, a 2008 graduate of the Stonecoast program who now coordinates the Maine SpeakOut Project, led this discussion of some of the rewards and challenges that come from using writing as a transformative exercise to effect social change. The panelists were three Maine-based writer-activists—Gary Lawless (pictured at right), Cathy Plourde, and Chiara Liberatore—whose experiences [...]
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Peaceable Stories with Jody Fein
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, May 29, 2008
Storyteller Jody Fein visited the East End Community School in Portland on May 15, 2008, to tell stories to the Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade. She selected the stories “Abiyoyo,” “Stone Soup,” and “The Wind and the Sun,” all of which tie into the Born to Read initiative Peaceable Stories. This event was part [...]
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Believing Shakespeare: Religion in Shakespeare’s World and in his Plays
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Thu, May 29, 2008
David Scott Kastan is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the English Department at Columbia University. He specializes in 16th- and 17th-century literature and culture, Shakespeare, and the history of the book. He is the first American to serve as General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare, and he also served [...]
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Moon Pie Press
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, May 13, 2008
Three poets whose work has been published by the small, Maine-based Moon Pie Press, read together as part of the Portland Public Library’s Poetry Festival in April, 2008. Alice N. Persons, founder of Moon Pie Press, is a sometime English teacher and an adjunct instructor of business law at the University of Southern Maine. A [...]
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Ford In Focus
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, May 13, 2008
Michael C. Connolly and Kevin Stoehr are the editors of John Ford in Focus, a collection of essays that offers a comprehensive examination of Ford’s life and career, revealing the frequent intersections between Ford’s personal life and artistic vision, including his roots in Portland. Stoehr is associate professor of humanities at Boston University and lives [...]
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Annie Finch and Patricia Hagge
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Tue, May 13, 2008
Patricia Hagge and Annie Finch opened the library’s 2008 Poetry Festival with this reading. Hagge earned her MFA from the Stonecoast MFA program. She serves on the boards of SPACE Gallery and The Telling Room. Finch, who directs the Stonecoast program, is a professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. This reading was [...]
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How Did You Get Here?
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, May 07, 2008
Playwright Victoria Mares-Hershey’s “How Did You Get Here?” gives voice to Africans in Maine, during the period of slavery and beyond, by giving audiences a sense of their everyday lives. This reading of the play’s first act was recorded on March 21, 2008, at the Museum of African Culture on Brown Street in Portland. Museum [...]
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Cowboy Baby
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, May 02, 2008
This bedtime story by Sue Heap is set in the Wild West. As Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth, reads the book aloud, you can follow along in your own copy or a copy borrowed from the library. Then, listen to some fingerplays about cowboys. Copyright 1998 by Sue [...]
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Oliver Finds His Way
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, May 02, 2008
While walking through the woods in autumn, Oliver chases a leaf and gets separated from his parents. This is the story of how he finds them again. It is read aloud by Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth, who then shares two fingerplays about leaves. Text copyright 2002 by [...]
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Only Joking, Laughed the Lobster!
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, May 02, 2008
Colin West is a prolific British author who writes nonsense verse and humorous books, such as this one, about a lobster who takes his joking one step too far. Rachel Davis, children’s librarian at the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth, reads the book aloud and then teaches two fingerplays about the ocean. Copyright 1995 [...]
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Translating Virgil
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Wed, Apr 23, 2008
Barbara Weiden Boyd is the Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College, where she has taught since 1980. She earned her Ph.D. at Michigan and has written extensively on Latin literature, notably two books on the poet Ovid. In recent years she has prepared a series of school texts and teachers’ guides [...]
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The Rome of Augustus
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Fri, Apr 18, 2008
Peter Aicher is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, where he frequently teaches courses on Homer and Virgil, in translation and in Greek and Latin. He combines these literary interests with a fascination with the city of Rome, which has resulted in several books and numerous articles and talks. He [...]
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Virgil and History
Author: Maine Humanities Council
Sat, Apr 12, 2008
Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University, where he has taught since 1961. Educated at Harvard, he has written 11 books on Latin literature and has edited four others. He is widely regarded as one of the leading interpreters of the work of Virgil. He [...]
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