Sage Lecture Series   

ANNA WROBEL
Historian, Teacher, & Poet

A child of those risen from the Nazi Final Solution, Anna forges decades of Holocaust scholarship and original poetry
to explore and reveal layers of Shoah experience and its reverberations within generations.

CAREY KISH
Author, Writer, Adventurer, Hiker

This past spring, Carey went to Spain to hike the legendary Camino de Santiago. Come and experience what it was like for a long-distance hiker to make the 500-mile journey.

Each fall and spring, SAGE presents a series of Tuesday morning lectures that cover a wide array of topics of current interest.  Our speakers are recognized experts for the arts, government, non-profit, education, business, and civic communities in Maine.

KATHLEEN NEUMANN
Curator of Education & Public Programs

MIA SIGLER
Reference Librarian

TIFFANY LINK
Curator of Collections

Founded in 1822, the Maine Historical Society preserves and shares Maine’s history. A look at the newest exhibit Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public Eye: 1698-1940 will be part of the presentation.

RON ROMANO
Cemetery Historian; Author; Lecturer;Board Member, Spirits Alive

Spirits Alive, an all-volunteer group, has rescued Eastern Cemetery from neglect and restored the site all while educating the public about its history.

GARY LAWLESS
Co-owner, Gulf of Maine Bookstore; Publisher, Advocate, & Poet

Gary Lawless will chronicle the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Maine in the 1920s, its influence today, and what we can do about it.

PATRICE McCARRON
President & CEO, Maine Lobstermen’s Association

For 70 years, the Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) has advocated for sustainable practices, for fisherman, and for communities that depend on the industry. The president and CEO of the MLA and a working lobsterman will share the enduring legacy of this iconic industry and the challenges that lie ahead.

DR. ADAM TUCHINSKY
Provost, University of Southern Maine

Despite writing 150 years ago, Thoreau shares our modernity — its alienation and artificiality — and self-consciously tried to simplify his life. This lecture’s aim is to situate Thoreau’s sensibility in his time, and ours.