Lost Maine Coastal Schooners
Thursday, September 4 at 6 p.m.
Large, Wooden-hulled schooners graced the seas of coastal Maine for more than a century as vessels of trade and commerce. With the advent of steam-powered craft, however, these elegant ships became obsolete and vanished from harbors and horizons.
Author Ingrid Grenon will tell the story of these magnificent relics of the bygone Age of Sail, and celebrate the people who devoted their lives to the sea.
Historic Kittery Walking Tour
Saturday, September 20 at 1:30 p.m.
Former Town Council member and local historian, Jeff Thomson, will lead you on a walking tour of historic Kittery landmarks.
This tour will begin at Traip Academy, and head through the Kittery Foreside to John Paul Jones park, then finishing back at Traip. This tour comprises a one-hour walk viewing historically significant landmarks, buildings and places and pairs them with remarkable anecdotes and local stories about the people and events that have contributed to Kittery’s vibrant past, present and future.
Please register. This event is weather-dependent.
Authors Gina Troisi and Mhairi Haarsager
Wednesday, September 10 at 6 p.m.
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In both fiction and memoir, the saying “write what you know” holds strong allure, but is it really that simple?
Gina Troisi, a New Hampshire author, and Mhairi Haarsager, a Maine author, will introduce their books and lead a discussion based on using real-life events in fiction versus memoir.
Gina Troisi’s memoir, The Angle of Flickering Light, was a finalist for the 2022 Maine Literary Award. She received an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Maine in 2009. She teaches writing at Southern New Hampshire University and is a writing coach and mentor for creative writers. She is especially interested in childhood trauma, economic and class issues, and the way literature has the immense capacity to promote empathy in the world.
Mhairi Haarsager, M.D., is a retired professor of pediatrics who published her debut novel, Moral Injury, this year. It is a quick-hitting thriller set in Baltimore in the waning years of the Cold War, about a NICU doctor who stumbles upon a deadly medical conspiracy involving the CIA and the Saudi Royal Family.