{"id":837,"date":"2016-09-16T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=837"},"modified":"2016-09-16T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:56:54","slug":"maine-historical-society-book-group-is-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Maine Historical Society book group is back again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"designingacadia_webgraphic\"<\/a>Wednesday, October 5, 2016 \u2013 Wednesday, March 1, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

The Maine Historical Society Book Group is back by popular demand! Join us for five fun evenings of camaraderie and great book discussion. Led by MHS Research Librarian Tiffany Link, the group will read five books, each related to MHS\u2019s Designing Acadia <\/i>and World War I <\/i>exhibitions, then gather for discussion. Light refreshments will be served. The group will meet in the MHS Brown Library, 6-8pm on the first Wednesday of each month through March. (There will be no December meeting.)<\/span><\/p>\n

October 5:\u00a0<\/strong> A Land Of Discord Always-<\/strong>Acadia From It\u2019s Beginnings to the Expulsion of Its People 1604<\/strong>-1755 by Charles Mahaffie (Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1995).<\/span><\/p>\n

Please Read Chapters : 1- 4- 7- 11- 16- 21- 24- 29- 32 and 33 (or the whole book if you like). Also choose a chapter from Longfellow\u2019s Evangeline <\/span><\/span><\/span>to discuss and compare.<\/span><\/p>\n

November 2: Ghost of Acadia <\/b>by Marcus LiBrizzi (Rockport, ME: Down East Books, 2011).<\/span><\/p>\n

January 4: Becoming Teddy Roosevelt <\/b>by Andrew Vietze (Rockport, ME: Down East Books, 2010).<\/span><\/p>\n

February 1: Love on the Rocks-Stories of Rusticators and Romance on MDI <\/b>(Yarmouth, ME: Islandport Press, 2008).<\/span><\/p>\n

March 1: Bar Harbor in the Roaring Twenties: From Village Life to the High Life on M.D.I. <\/b>by Luann Yetter (The History Press, 2015).<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Program dates: October 5, November 2, January 4, February 1, March 1. For questions, please contact Tiffany Link at tlink@mainehistory.org <\/span><\/span><\/span>or 207-774-1822 x 230. A 20{a924d0e49cc5813a40c6e5abf88cc5a144f266a1cd8c3074f66db425794a7bb6} discount on the books read for <\/b>this group will be offered in the MHS Museum Store. $20 MHS Members; $30 general admission for all book sessions. Limited to 25 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Register today!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016 \u2013 Wednesday, March 1, 2017 The Maine Historical Society Book Group is back by popular demand! Join us for five fun evenings of camaraderie and great book discussion. Led by MHS Research Librarian Tiffany Link, the group will read five books, each related to MHS\u2019s Designing Acadia and World War I … Continue reading Maine Historical Society book group is back again<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[371,370,130,372],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-acadia","tag-books-groups","tag-maine-historical-society","tag-world-war-i"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}