BDN Events

Join us as Maine based author, Kerri Arsenault and Maine based American novelist and PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, Kate Christensen sit down to celebrate and discuss the release of Arsenault's latest novel, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains - Mill Town is a personal investigation, where Arsenault sifts through historical archives and scientific reports, talks to family and neighbors, and examines her own childhood to illuminate the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxins and disease. Mill Town is a moral wake-up call that asks, Whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?

Join us as host Renee Kelly, Assistant Vice President for Innovation and Economic Development - University of Maine talks with Bangor area entrepreneurs Dan Finnemore, founder of Box of Maine; Brian Rahill, co-founder of Coursestorm and Jen Litteral, president of CoffeeHound, about their successes and struggles, and how they used support systems in the area to build their companies.

Thank you to our Tourmaline Sponsor Harvard Pilgrim Health Care for their continued support!

Join us on Tuesday, August 24 at 6:00p.m. as Maine-based author, Eleanor Morse and George Witte, editor-in-chief of St. Martin's Press, sit down to celebrate and discuss the release of Morse's latest novel, Margreete's Harbor - a literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home.