| Bangor Book Festival "Voices at the Threshold" |
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From Friday, October 03 2008
To Saturday, October 04 2008
Every day |
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| You will have a chance to meet the authors at a reception for friends and Festival donors on Friday, October 3 from 5 to 7 at the Isaac Farrar Mansion, followed at 7:30 by a keynote address by Kate Braestrup, author of Here If You Need Me. Tickets for the reception are $35 and can be purchased by credit card by calling The Briar Patch bookshop at (207) 941-0255, OR checks payable to the Bangor Book Festival may be sent to the Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow St., Bangor, 04401.
The keynote address, at nearby Wellman Commons, is free and open to all.
VOICES AT THE THRESHOLDFriday, October 3rd5:30 to 7:00 – Reception [Isaac Farrar Mansion]7:15 Welcome to the Festival [Wellman Commons]7:30 to 8:00 - Keynote Address: Kate BraestrupSaturday, October 4th [All Saturday events are at Bangor Public Library]10:00 - Writing For and About Real Kids [Lecture Hall]Panelists Lyn Mikel Brown, Carrie Jones, Robert KloseModerator Valerie Osborne Northeastern Maine Library Consultant11:00 - Reading Monica Wood [Lecture Hall]11:00 - Reading Lynn Plourde Margaret Chase Smith: A Woman for President[Story Room]11:45 to 1:00 - Book Signings12:00 to 1:00 - Lunch1:00 - Changing Lanes: Writers at Mid-Life [Lecture Hall]Panelists Kate Braestrup and W. Hodding CarterModerator Deb Neumann Host of Back to Business on WVOM Radio2:00 - A Coastal Companion: A Year in the Gulf of Maine from Cape Cod to CanadaCatherine Schmitt, Author, with Poets Kathleen Ellis, Leonore Hildebrandt,Annaliese Jakimides, and Patricia Ranzoni [Lecture Hall]2:00 – Packaging Girlhood Lyn Mikel Brown [Story Room]3:00 - The Writing Life: Starting & Staying the Course [Lecture Hall]Moderator Annie KuhnPanelists Ellen Booraem, Carrie Jones, Monica Wood3:00 - Jan West Schrock Give a Goat - Grass-Roots Philanthropy for All [Story Room]4:00 - Reading W. Hodding Carter [Lecture Hall]
5:00 - Reading Robert Klose [Lecture Hall]
www.bangorbookfest.org
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Location: Bangor Public Library/Isaac Farrar Mansion/Wellman Commons
Contact: 207-947-8336 |
