Winter Speaker Series 

2019-2020


ALL TALKS AT 7:00pm at CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY,
BRUNSWICK, UNLESS NOTED

October 9 E.A. Robinson, Gardiner’s Pulitzer Poet 1869-1935
Gay Grant, Author & Former Legislator

November 13

“Bugs” of the Bay
Hamish Greig, Asst. Professor of Stream Ecology, UMO


December 11

Meet Your District Forester
Shane Duigan, District Forester, ME Forest Service


January 8

“Let There Be Dark” – Preserving Our Night Skies
Rob Burgess, President, Southern ME Astronomers & NASA Solar System Ambassador
FOMB Annual Meeting & Potluck: 6:00pm, Public Welcome •Cram Alumni House, Bowdoin College• 83 Federal St., Brunswick


February 12

George Sproule’s Mapping of the Mid-Coast, 1770
Matthew Edney, Osher Prof. in History of Cartography at USM


March 11

Redfin Pickerel, Endangered, Elusive, & Here!
Merry Gallagher, Fisheries Biologist, MDIF&W


April 8

Seabrook Nuclear Plant – Still Operating, More Perilous
Doug Bogen, Executive Director, Seacoast Antipollution League


May 3

The Sonic Sea – Voices of the Deep
Chris Clark, Sr. Scientist & Researcher, Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University

FREE • OPEN TO THE PUBLIC • FREE
Sponsored by: Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
With support & door prizes from: Patagonia, Inc.-Freeport
Contact Ed Friedman, 666-3372 or edfomb@comcast.net for more information.

Watercolors by
Sarah Stapler