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Author John McDonald's Maine Trivia: A Storyteller's Useful Guide to Useless Information - Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 871-1700
May 02, 2012. Join the Portland Public Library for a humorous book talk and signing on Wednesday, May 2nd at noon in the Rines Auditorium when John McDonald joins us for the Brown Bag Lecture Series. The talk will be held from noon to 1 p.m. A professional storyteller, John McDonald, author of the now-classic A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar offers up his unique take on Maine trivia in his new book John McDonald's Maine Trivia: A Storyteller's Useful Guide to Useless Information. John delivers an educational and hilarious mix of basic and fun facts about the Pine Tree State, including, of course, more than a few wicked funny stories. Event #8922 | Report Update
Author Kristen Ghodsee: Lost in Transition - Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square
Portland,
Maine
04101
Phone: (207) 871-1700
May 16, 2012. Join the Portland Public Library for the Brown Bag Lecture Series on Wednesday, May 16th at noon for a lecture and book signing by Kristen Ghodsee, author of Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism. Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism. Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences with Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why it is that so many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past. Ghodsee uses Bulgaria, the Eastern European nation where she has spent the most time, as a lens for exploring the broader transition from communism to democracy. She locates the growing nostalgia for the communist era in the disastrous, disorienting way that the transition was handled. The privatization process was contested and chaotic. Event #9172 | Report Update