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W. Hodding Carter, left, and Rob Fleder, right
Alexis Gargagliano returns to second annual event
Rob Fleder and Hodding Carter Join Maine Literary
Festival Workshop
Sports Illustrated special contributor Rob Fleder
joins the faculty of the Maine Literary Festival Workshop, to be held in
Camden on Thursday and Friday, November 6 and 7. Author Hodding Carter will
be a special guest at the wrap-up luncheon. They join Sally Wofford-Girand
of Brick House Literary Agents, longtime magazine editor Judith Daniels,
and Alexis Gargagliano, an editor at Scribner who returns to the workshop
for the second time.
Fleder was named an executive editor at Sports
Illustrated in 1996. He had previously served as assistant managing editor,
features editor and senior editor. After 20 years on the staff of the
weekly, he is now a special contributor (SI Books). He has edited more than
a dozen books for SI, including the New York Times best-selling series Sports Illustrated 50: The Anniversary Book, The Football Book, The Baseball Book, The Basketball Book and The College Football Book. He is also the editor of Paper
Trails, a collection of nonfiction by the
novelist Pete Dexter, published by Ecco Press/Harper Collins.
Carter has written for several national magazines,
including Esquire, Smithsonian, Newsweek and Outside. A resident of
Rockport, where he lives with his wife and four children, Carter has
authored the books Westward Whoa, A Viking Voyage and An Illustrated Viking Voyage, Flushed: How the Plumber Saved
Civilization, and more recently Deep End.
Gargagliano, an editor at Scribner, began her
publishing career in the marketing department of Simon & Schuster.
After working in the Knopf editorial department she joined Scribner, where
she had the opportunity to work with Nan Graham on such books as The Glass Castle, Brick Lane, Eat the Document, and Living History by Hillary
Clinton. Her current client list includes Matt Bondurant, Staceyann Chin,
Adam Gollner, Mira Kamdar, Robin Romm, Joanna Smith Rakoff and Jennifer
Gilmore.
Before founding Brick House Literary
Agents,Wofford-Girand worked at a boutique literary agency in Greenwich
Village and served as director of foreign rights. There she worked with
Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Kim Edwards, Alice Hoffman and Grace Paley,
among others.
Daniels was an editor in New York City for almost 30
years. Career stops included New York Magazine, The Village Voice, Savvy (a
women’s lifestyle and business magazine she created), Life, Glamour
and Self.
The workshop is designed for published writers and
those whose work is ready or almost ready for submission. It is being held
in conjunction with the Maine Literary Festival, “For This Earth:
Visions in Literature.” The festival takes place at the Camden Opera
House November 7, 8 and 9. The workshop will be held in the Picker Room at
the Camden Public Library on November 6 and 7, finishing in time to prepare
for the first evening of the festival.
As registration in the workshop is limited to 20
writers, early registration is encouraged. The workshop fee is $350, and
workshop participants are eligible for the student rate of $65 for the full
festival weekend. The Saturday night dinner requires an additional fee.
Contact Maryanne Shanahan at the Maine Literary Festival for further
information 837-2827. Details are available at
www.maineliteraryfestival.com or by e-mailing
info@maineliteraryfestival.com. The Maine Literary Festival is a
scholarship project of the Mid-Coast Branch of the American Association of
University Women.
Fourth Annual Belfast Poetry Festival
The fourth annual Belfast Poetry Festival will take
place Friday and Saturday, October 17 and 18. The weekend includes a Poetry
and Performance Night on Friday at 8 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in
Belfast, workshops for writers and poets Saturday morning and the Poetry
and Art Walk on Saturday from 1 to 5:30 p.m.
The festival culminates in a reception and open
mic/round robin on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Waterfall Arts.
Collaborating acts for Friday night’s
performance include local and far-reaching talent. The Belfast Fab Four
(Karin Spitfire, Linda Buckmaster, Barbara Maria and Elizabeth Garber) are
matched with singer David Dodson, mask artist Beverly Mann, mixed-media
projectionist Dina Petrillo and singer Andrea Goodman from Barters Island.
Other matches include dancer Shana Bloomstein and poet Jacob Fricke; singer
Alex McGregor of Boston and poet Chuck Smith; and saxophonist Al
Crichton and poet Michael Brown of Robbinston.
The Saturday workshop topics are Reading Out Loud
taught by Kathryn Robyn of Got Content editorial services; Meditation and
Poetry taught by Barbara Maria, poet and creative writing teacher; and
Repetition, Pattern and Variation taught by Joel Lipman, poet and creative
writing teacher.
The Saturday Art and Poetry walk will include six
galleries, starting at Åarhus and proceeding to the Belfast Framer,
the Belfast Free Library, Phoenix Gallery, High Street Gallery, and ending
at Waterfall Arts. Both local and statewide artists and poets will be
featured. Collaborating pairs of poets and artists are Valerie Lawson and
Wes Reddick, Mandi Locke and Mark Kelly, Gary Lawless and Kimberly Callas,
Dave Moreau and Kate Buehner, Andrea Reed and Joy Vaughan, Kathleen Ellis
and Susan Toby White, Patricia Ranzoni and Meredith Alex, Maggie Finch and
Diane Brott Courant, Marcia F. Brown and Archie Barnes, Ruth Bookie and
Joan Braun, and Michael Macklin and Cathy Melio.
For more information, visit the Web site
illuminatedseapress.com/poetryfest08.html. To register for workshops, call
338-5634.
River Company Presents Fall Production, Relatively Speaking
L. to R.: Laurie Brown, Jason Kash, Ann Foskett and
Bill Michaud will appear in River Company’s Relatively Speaking.
Following its summer production of The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, River
Company continues its “season of comedy” with Relatively Speaking by
British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, directed by John Price. This comedy of
mistaken family identity pits a young couple, Ginny and Greg, played by
Laurie Brown and Jason Kash, against an older couple, Sheila and Philip,
played by Ann Foskett and Bill Michaud. Round and round an English garden
they go, becoming more and more confused by the minute. All ends
happily-ever-after, of course, but not before a lot of laughs and innuendo.
Price, Foskett, Michaud and Brown are already well known to River Company
audiences; Kash is making his debut with the company.
Performances will be on Fridays and Saturdays, October
17, 18, 24 and 25, at 8 p.m., and Sundays, October 19 and 26, at 3 p.m.
Seating is limited. Call 563-8116 for reservations.
River Company is a professional company presenting
minimalist productions of major playwrights in the intimate setting of the
Porter Meeting Hall at Skidompha Library in Damariscotta. Audience members
should use the Elm Street entrance to the library, where they will also
find parking.
An Intimate Look at a Literary Legend
Actor Richard Clark will bring Ernest Hemingway to life
in two performances at the Camden Public Library on October 14.
Professional actor Richard Clark brings the genius of literary giant Ernest Hemingway to life in “Ernest Hemingway Alive! Life, Language,
and the Pursuit of Happiness,” a one-man dramatic tour de force to be presented twice at the Camden Public Library on Tuesday, October 14.
The first performance, offered as part of Quarry Hill
Retirement Community’s Adventures in Living Well series and
cosponsored by the library, is reserved for adults age 55 and older and
will run from 2 to 3:30 p.m.; refreshments will be served. The second
showing, open to all ages, will begin at 6:30 p.m. and conclude at 8 p.m.
Admission to both performances is free.
Clark’s portrayal reveals Hemingway’s
depth and passion as he reflects on the tumultuous middle years of the 20th
century. The author of such classics as The Old
Man and the Sea, The
Sun Also Rises, and A
Farewell to Arms, Hemingway was understated on
paper, yet in life was anything but — a dashing figure whose exploits
in battle, bullfighting and booze shocked society and challenged
ivory-tower notions of the writing life.
Clark has been acting professionally in theater and on
television for more than 30 years. He is noted for his re-creations of
historical figures ranging from William Shakespeare to Andrew Carnegie.
Those wishing to attend the 2 p.m. showing of
“Ernest Hemingway Alive!” or any other event in the fall
Adventures in Living Well series are asked to register by calling Quarry
Hill at 230-6114. There is no need to register for the 6:30 p.m.
performance.
Fast boats and ancient seas
Rockport Library Boating Talks
The graceful arts and brute skills of solo racing
— from building and tuning high-powered yachts to sailing harsh seas
to the ends of the earth and back — bracket Rockport Public
Library’s fall marine lectures this month and next.
Sponsored by the Friends of Rockport Public Library,
the series “Sea-Faring: Near Shores and Far” begins Thursday,
October 16, in the Rockport Opera House with a talk by Freeport sail
designer Win Fowler. His talk and others in the series begin at 7:30 p.m.
and are free to all.
A sailor since childhood and a sailmaker for more than
30 years, Fowler will offer an expert’s perspective on cruising and
offshore racing from Maine waters to Halifax, Bermuda and beyond.
In 1992, Fowler ran the sail loft for America3 (pronounced
“America Cubed”) in its successful recapture of the
America’s Cup yachting trophy, the last time a United States boat did
so. The world’s oldest sporting prize, dating to 1851, the cup was
held exclusively by the New York Yacht Club for 132 years until Australia
and other overseas challengers surged to prominence beginning in 1983.
Today, Fowler’s firm, Maine Sailing Partners,
Freeport, is the state’s largest sailmaker, with service lofts in
Camden and Southwest Harbor. Since 1983, the business has designed and
built custom racing and cruising sails for hundreds of boats of all sizes
and descriptions. In 2004, it made the mainsail for racer Bruce
Schwab’s Open 60-class Ocean Planet, which competed in that year’s Vendee Globe
around-the-world race.
Fowler’s talk will be recalled on Thursday,
November 13, by Brian Harris, general manager since 2005 of Maine Yacht
Center, Portland. Harris’ passion is single-handed ocean racing and
preparing the big, fast boats that pursue this sport. After several years
working abroad on solo-racing boats that compete in the International
Monohull Open Class Association, Harris took charge of outfitting Great American III, an Ocean 60
trimaran that ex-schoolteacher Rich Wilson plans to sail in the Vendee
Globe race, starting November 9 from the southern coast of France. Harris
will see his man off, then fly home and come to Rockport to talk about it.
The challenge for the 20 participating sailors is
simple: navigate 27,000 miles across the southern Atlantic and Pacific
oceans for 100-plus days and return to Les Sables d’Olonne. More
people have circumnavigated earth in space than have tracked the Vendee
route.
The middle talk in the series on November 6 will
differ markedly. Geologist Henry Berry of the Maine Geological Survey will
conduct a photographic tour of the mid-Maine coast in search of rocks that
have stories to tell.
It is a tale that began in the Cambrian Era more than
600 million years ago near the South Pole, long before the Atlantic Ocean
existed. North America was tropical in those days and the first animals
with hard parts, either shells or skeletons, were marine creatures.
Camden’s Mount Battie, for example, is thought
to have once been more than a mile higher than now. Much of its rock is
quartzite, which research suggests was deposited in an ancient,
pre-Atlantic ocean. The sequence of rocks that comprise the Battie
Quartzite suggests they were deposited in an ocean basin predating the
Atlantic and the Appalachian Mountains.
Estimates of the position of continents at the time
suggest this ocean was the Iapetus and that its sediments, now found here,
accumulated near the southern margin of that sea not far from the South
Pole.
Berry holds graduate degrees in geology from the
universities of Maine and Massachusetts. He was a NATO postdoctoral fellow
in the fjords of western Norway, and did postdoctoral research in
geochronology at the University of Maine under National Science Foundation
grants. He was a member of the geology faculty at colleges in
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. For the past 12 years he has been
with the Maine Geological Survey, walking the countryside, making bedrock
maps and searching for stories in the rocks.
Tatelbaum to Launch New Book Oct. 11
Linda Tatelbaum
Linda Tatelbaum, author of Carrying
Water as a Way of Life, will launch a new book
on Saturday, October 11, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Rock City Books and Coffee in
Rockland. She will also speak at the Rockland Public Library on Tuesday,
October 14, at 6:30 p.m. Her new book, Woman Who
Speaks Tree: Confessions of a Tree Hugger,
traces the idealistic, comic and arduous journey that led her and her
husband to Maine in 1977 to build a solar homestead and grow their own
food.
Woman Who Speaks Tree
records the ripening of a generation. As Baby Boomers become
society’s elders, their activist values shape the next generation,
attests Tatelbaum, a longtime college professor. She offers perspective on
how activists can survive their grief and keep on going. “Hope is
internal, hope is local,” she writes. With humor, love, magic, and
fury, Woman Who Speaks Tree advocates for this planet Earth and those who defend it.
Tatelbaum holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and
recently retired from teaching English and environmental studies at Colby
College. Founder of About Time Press, she is the author of three previous
books: the nonfiction Carrying Water as a Way of
Life: A Homesteader’s History and Writer on the Rocks — Moving the Impossible, and the novel Yes & No:
Paris 1969.
Maritime Historian to Speak at Waldoboro Library
The October program sponsored by the Friends of
Waldoboro Public Library will be held at the library Tuesday, October 14,
at 7 p.m. Maine author James L. Nelson will speak on maritime history,
featuring his latest book on the subject, George
Washington’s Secret Navy: How the American Revolution Went to Sea. Nelson will include slides in his presentation. The author
has been described as an accurate historical researcher and an engaging
storyteller. In addition to his writing, Nelson presents programs at the
Maine Maritime Museum and at other community events.
Washington was considered a landsman with virtually no
understanding of the ocean, ships or coastal vessels. Yet, he was able to
put together a naval force and hold off the British along the New England
coast. While the first naval effort was not award-winning, it led to better
times later on, with Washington learning from his mistakes and successes.
Copies of Nelson’s books will be available for
sale by cash or check only and will be signed by the author. The program is
free and open to the public. For more information, contact the library at
832-4484 or check the Web site at www.waldoborolibrary.org.
SVCAHosts Launch of Photography Book
Tom and Lee Ann Szelog
Down East Books announces publication of the new book By a Maine River: A Year of Looking Closely by Thomas Mark Szelog and Lee Ann Szelog. The couple is known to
book lovers for their previous book, Our Point
of View: Fourteen Years at a Maine Lighthouse,
chronicling in words and photos their experience living at Marshall Point
Lighthouse. Their new book takes a close look at life through four seasons
on the banks of the East Branch of the Eastern River in Whitefield. The
Szelogs chose the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association’s (SVCA)
Newcastle location as the site for their book launch because they share the
association’s mission “to conserve and restore the natural and
historic heritage of the Sheepscot Watershed.”
The book launch will be held on Saturday, October 18,
from 2 to 5 p.m. at the SVCA, 624 Sheepscot Road, Newcastle, with a
narrated photography presentation at 3 p.m. The book launch is free and
open to the public, and refreshments will be served. For further
information about the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association, visit
www.sheepscot.org.
“Teen Scene” Opens at Rockland Public
Library
Rockland Public Library will celebrate Teen Read Week
and the grand opening of the Teen Scene space the week of October 12 to 18.
Teen Read Week focuses on the importance of reading for the fun of it. This
year’s theme, chosen by teens for teens, is “Books with Bite @
your library.”
The Teen Scene space is open Monday through Friday
from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. It’s a comfortable space for teens to hang out
with friends, get homework help, and use new laptops. Teen Scene is
sponsored by the Rockland Kiwanis Club.
To celebrate the grand opening and Teen Read Week,
young adults are invited to enjoy a display of “Books with
Bite”; daily drawings for books, gift certificates and other
giveaways; and free food, with pizza on Thursday.
For more information, call Patty King at the library,
594-0310, or e-mail pking@ci.rockland.me.us.
“ Book Bingo” Begins
“Book Bingo,” a new reading challenge
sponsored by Waldoboro Public Library, is designed to encourage reading and
to invite the exploration of the library’s collections. It is under
way and runs through August 2009. There are two reading categories: fiction
and nonfiction. All readers who complete at least one Book Bingo card are
eligible, first, for the “prize” of choosing a new book to be
included in the library’s next order. Completed cards will be added
to an additional prize drawing, which will be held at the September 2009
annual meeting of Friends of Waldoboro Public Library. Readers who complete
both fiction and nonfiction Book Bingo cards will be eligible for the grand
prize, a $100 bookstore gift certificate.
New Director at River School
The board of dirctors of the River School, an
independent high school in Belfast now in its second year, have announced
the appointment of Louisa Carl as the new director of the school.
Last year, Carl served as lead teacher and worked on
fund-raising and school contacts with the community. With the departure of
founding director Larry Reynolds, Carl will work to develop the
school’s curriculum, faculty, financial assets and other structures,
as well as teaching occasional classes in art, literature and writing and
social sciences.
Carl has a master’s degree in environmental
education from Lesley University’s Audubon Expedition Institute,
based in Belfast, and a bachelor of fine arts degree from Washington
University. She has worked for 18 years in alternative education, including
the Missouri Botanical Garden, Hog Island Ecology Camp, Audubon Expedition
Institute and Round Top Center for the Arts.
For six years, Carl worked in the education division
of the Audubon Expedition Institute, helping to develop a new graduate
degree program, doing recruiting work and running the field program. She
brings skills in designing office systems, marketing and outreach,
fund-raising, and curriculum development to the River School.
PBMC Book Fair and Gift Sale Oct. 14 & 15
A book fair and holiday gift sale to benefit the
Penobscot Bay Medical Center Volunteer Program is scheduled for Tuesday and
Wednesday, October 14 and 15, in the hospital lobby. The sale is open to
the public. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on October 14 and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
on October 15.
The event is coordinated by PBMC and Imagine Nation
Books Ltd. A drawing for one free gift will be held each day.
Columbus Day Weekend Sales at Green Store to Benefit
River School
Stock up on nontoxic cleaning products, recycled
greeting cards and fair-trade gift items, and do good at the same time. The
Green Store in Belfast is holding a River School fund-raising weekend
Saturday through Monday, October 11, 12 and 13, Columbus Day weekend. The
Green Store will donate 25 percent of all sales during this time to the
River School, Belfast’s independent high school. This money will help
kick off the first River School Annual Appeal, which will help the school
develop scholarship funds to support area students.
The Green Store offers a full range of environmentally
friendly products, from homeopathic remedies to composting systems to
organic clothes. It is located at 71 Main Street in downtown Belfast, and
on the Web at www.greenstore.com.
River School students, parents and teachers will have
a table set up outside the store during the weekend with information about
the school and food and drink for sale. For more information, visit
www.riverschoolbelfast.com or call 338-0100.
The Free Press Bookshelf
Mid-Coast Christian book & gifts recommends . . .
It’s harvest time, when we all enjoy the results
of the labors of hard-working farmers who planted, fertilized, watered,
weeded and pruned. Jesus spoke of a “harvest,” saying,
“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of
the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Jesus’ mention of the great harvest is not referring to
farmer’s fields and orchards but to the harvest of souls, people who
are ready to respond to the Gospel message. These groups of human beings
are harvested from the rich, poor, learned, unlearned, and guilty of sin of
all kinds.
Laborers are needed at Mid-Coast Christian Book &
Gift. We are heeding God’s command to be involved in the “great
harvest.” We need harvesters, people who love God and have put their
faith in Jesus Christ to serve in this bookstore ministry. We need
volunteers for Thursday afternoon shift, from 1 to 4 p.m. and on Saturday
either from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 1 to 4 p.m. Is God calling you into the
harvest field?
The reading corner recommends . . .
Brisingr
the third novel in Christopher Paolini’s
blockbuster Inheritance fantasy series for young adult (and adult) readers.
Following the colossal battle against the
Empire’s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon,
Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at
hand, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be
able to keep. When unrest claims the rebels, Eragon must make choices that
may lead to unimagined sacrifices.
Author Paolini’s love of fantasy and science
fiction inspired him to begin writing his debut novel Eragon when he graduated high school at
15. Both Eragon and Eldest, the second book in the
Inheritance cycle, are now available in paper editions.
Visit us for a wide selection of books for children
and young adults. Make the Reading Corner your headquarters for Halloween
treats: ghost stories, spooky, scary tales, black cat books, and
Halloween stickers and Advent calendars.
Left Bank Books . . .
“As anyone who collects anything knows, there is
as much pleasure in the hunt as in the acquisition.
‘Seaglunkers’ (a fusion of ‘sea glass’ and
‘spelunker’ ) have the additional joy of searching for their
treasure on sandy beaches and rocky coastlines.... Then there is the fresh
air, the mild exercise, and, of course, the fact that the sea glass is free
for the taking... Why do otherwise rational people collect vast amounts of
sea glass? One called it archaeology for the soul.”
— from the
introduction, A Passion for Sea Glass
Please join us this Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. when
Carole Lambert and Amy Wilton talk about sea glass and sign their new book.
Plus, sea glass identification from 2 to 3!
Left Bank Books
21 E. Main Street, Searsport, Tel. 207-548-6400,
leftbank@verizon.net
