I enjoy talking about Captain Mac with folks of all ages, and showing them pictures.

     Here are some of the great engagements I have had, and some upcoming ones:
 
March 16, 2010
Kane Masonic Lodge, New York City (where Donald MacMillan was a member!)
 
Kane Lodge, March 2010 Here I am with Kane Lodge Master, Barry Scott, and Carl Cowan -- and the lodge polar bear!
May 4
Westbrook-Gorham (ME) Rotary Club Mary at Rotary Club
May 19
After-school writing enrichment program, Rockville, MD.
May 21
Homeschool group, MD.
May 26
Book signing, Nonesuch Books, South Portland, ME (for a PTO fund-raiser).
June 1
Senior Citizen group, Greene, ME (where MacMillan lectured and showed his movies, first in April 1939).
June 8
Mabel Wilson School, Cumberland, ME, a second-grade class whose teacher had read them the book.
 
Mary visits a classroom
June 18
North Gorham (ME) Library (next door to where MacMillan taught school more than a century ago!)
June 19
Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, ME, “Mariners Day,” (where MacMillan’s historic schooner Bowdoin was docked for the day for people to come aboard).
Mary speaks at maritime museum
Mary with schooner captain
With the Bowdoin captain, Eric Jergenson!
June 21
Sailing in Casco Bay, ME, aboard the schooner Bowdoin with editor, Carolyn Yoder. Mary with editor Carolyn Yoder
 
July 10
Books in Boothbay (ME), a summer festival, with 40 authors attending.
July 11
Mary signing book in Boothbay ME Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, for the last day of the grand opening of a Children’s Garden.

 

August 4

Interview on “Open Book,” WRFR-LP, Rockland, ME. Mary on radio show
August 7
Mary autographing book for a little girl Children’s Event, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. 

Here I'm autographing a copy of Captain Mac for this little girl.

August 19
Thornton Oaks, Retirement community, Brunswick, ME.
September 14
Park-Danforth Retirement Community, Portland, ME.
September 28
Portland, ME, Bates Alumni Book Club
October 1
Sail Power & Steam Museum, Rockland, ME
October 7
Western Maine Senior College, Down Home Series, Bethel, ME.
October 8
Maine Library Conference, Samoset Resort, Rockland, ME.
November 6
Rochester Children’s Book Festival, Monroe Community College, Henrietta, NY.
November 9
An after-school event for young readers and an evening presentation, Walworth-Seely Public Library, Walworth, NY.

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