![]() ![]() at Eclipse of The Pearl, 273 Main Street, Rockland. – Fundraiser for Coby Dorr, noon to 4 p.m. Children’s book author and North Haven resident Stephen Costanza will also be signing King of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin, winner of the 2022 Golden Kite Book Award. ![]() Berlin is the author of King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era. The author, musicologist and leading historian on ragtime, gives the free talk. at the Sail, Power & Steam Museum in Rockland. Berlin: “The Life and Afterlife of Scott Joplin,” 2 p.m. Author’s remarks will begin at 2 p.m., followed by questions, book signing and refreshments. Based on real families, the novel describes homes and streets that are easily spotted driving or walking through historic Thomaston. Irene Drago, Bath resident and author of three books about Maine, has centered her latest story in Thomaston during its shipbuilding heyday in 1865. – Author’s Remarks and Book Launch: “Lavinia Wren and the Sailmakers,” at Watts Hall in downtown Thomaston. For more information, call Wendy Roberts at 691-0833 or email OCTOBER 22: with astronomer and retired physics teacher Peter Kalajian at the Good Neighbor Park in Cushing, across River Road from the former Fales Store. – Autumn Night-Sky Gazing with Cushing Public Library, gather at 7:30 p.m. ![]() Will you make it out alive or become one of the newest scarecrows? $10 per person. ![]() Take a walk into an abandoned cornfield that has been overtaken by evil scarecrows who are tired of being tied to stakes. – Trail of Terror at the Union Fairgrounds, in Union, Fridays and Saturdays, October 21 and 22, 28 and 29, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition invites the public to the talk by Tipping, a biologist and taxonomist, who will explain the nitrogen cycle, the effects of human activity on this cycle, and the consequences for water quality in Belfast Bay. – “The Nitrogen Cycle in Our Bay” with John Tipping, 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 593-2667 or visit. She has taught multiple courses on the Concord writers and various aspects of Maine history. Gordon is now vice president of Coastal Senior College. Jayne Gordon gives the final talk this season in Mussel Ridge Historical Society’s Summer/Fall speakers series. RSVP is required to “Coming from Away – A Brief History of Tourism and Vacationing in Maine,” 6:30 p.m. Doughty’s talk will be presented to a limited in-person audience. For information on the 36th annual Camden Conference – Global Trade and Politics: Managing Turbulence, February 17-19 – visit. Doughty will discuss its commercial and security aspects. Today, a new arms race is brewing in orbit. The launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 marked the beginning of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. – “Space: The Race for the Final Frontier,” a talk by John Doughty, hosted by the Camden Conference in its Community Events Series, at 6:30 p.m. Chats with Champions is a free community series. White grew up in Damariscotta and, while in high school, worked at a lobster pound. Ten years in the making, “The Midcoast” is a story that has persisted in White’s head ever since he turned in the first chapter as an MFA candidate at Columbia University. The novel, a Publishers Weekly “Top 10 Summer Read” and New York Times “Recommended Read,” tells the story of a family of lobstermen who rise from poverty to wealth and a local writer, whose look at their life uncovers small-town secrets that lie beneath the American dream. – Adam White on His Novel “The Midcoast,” 4:30 p.m., in Chats with Champions at Skidompha Library, Damariscotta. ![]()
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