Membership is required before registering for your first class of the year. Membership year is from September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025. This membership entitles you to take classes at any of the 17 senior colleges in Maine. As a member you will also have an opportunity to participate in occasional free classes and functions throughout the year

Join a class that is filled with readers that long to give their opinion of  their reading. We will share various genre’s of literature from the classics to best sellers.  Insights into the author’s life and  their writing is  alive and connected to life today.

This class meets the second Wednesday of the month on ZOOM from 10-11:30 starting Sept 11 and ending June 11.

BOOK TALK BOOK LIST 2024-2025

September 11, Wednesday Small Mercies by Dennis LeHane

October 9 …Wednesday Women by Kristen Hannah

November 13, Wednesday My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

December 11, Wednesday Long Island by Colin Tobin

January 8, Wednesday Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

February 12, Wednesday How To Read a Book by Monica Wood

March 12, Wednesday Travels With George by Nathaniel Philbrick

April 9, Wednesday Heaven and Earth by James McBride

May 14, Wednesday Book to be determined

June 10, Wednesday Discussion about book selection for the next year

Your story matters.  You have experiences and wisdom valuable to others.  This class will help you recall, organize, and write these episodes. Sharing our stories and experiences with others in class often leads to unexpected rewards. Enjoy the encouragement and support of writing and sharing with others in a comfortable and safe atmosphere.  New writers, unsure writers, experienced writers, all are welcome.

 Mike Davis believes everyone has a story to tell and wisdom to share.  His goal is to create a safe and welcoming environment for persons to learn together.  Throughout his career he helped lead safe, respectful experiences of listening and sharing. He treasures each story and the opportunity to bring people together in transforming relationships.

Class Schedule

Monday classes:  1PM -3PM

Session 1

October 14, 28

November 11

December 2, 16

January 6, 20

Your story matters.  You have experiences and wisdom valuable to others.  This class will help you recall, organize, and write these episodes. Sharing our stories and experiences with others in class often leads to unexpected rewards. Enjoy the encouragement and support of writing and sharing with others in a comfortable and safe atmosphere.  New writers, unsure writers, experienced writers, all are welcome.

 Mike Davis believes everyone has a story to tell and wisdom to share.  His goal is to create a safe and welcoming environment for persons to learn together.  Throughout his career he helped lead safe, respectful experiences of listening and sharing. He treasures each story and the opportunity to bring people together in transforming relationships.

Class Schedule Thursdays  10-12

Oct 17  - 31

Nov 14

Dec 5 - 19

Jan 9-23

This program provides an overview of the history of immigration in Maine. Yearning to Breathe Free begins with the arrival of the Europeans to what would become Maine and moves through the subsequent waves of French-Canadian, Irish, Swedish, Lebanese, Armenian, Chinese, and East Asian immigrants. Not all immigration to Maine was voluntary, however, and the presentation discusses the importation of African slaves into the state. Yearning To Breathe Free takes a deep look at the tension between the state’s need for labor and its recruitment of immigrants to fill that need and the suspicion, discrimination, prejudice and hatred that accompanied immigration. The program ends with a discussion of contemporary immigration to Maine, noting that, in contrast to earlier times, most immigrants coming into the state today are coming as refugees.

“Alexandra Magnaud is an educator for the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine (HHRC). She does educational programming for students, educators and community members throughout the state, both at schools and at their center, the Michael Klahr Center, located on the UMA campus at Augusta. The mission of the HHRC is to promote universal respect for human rights through outreach and education. Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other events, past and present, they encourage individuals and communities to reflect and act upon their moral responsibilities to confront prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.”

YORK REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

THURSDAY JANUARY 23, 2025   1-3PM

Your story matters.  You have experiences and wisdom valuable to others.  This class will help you recall, organize, and write these episodes. Sharing our stories and experiences with others in class often leads to unexpected rewards. Enjoy the encouragement and support of writing and sharing with others in a comfortable and safe atmosphere.  New writers, unsure writers, experienced writers, all are welcome.

 Mike Davis believes everyone has a story to tell and wisdom to share.  His goal is to create a safe and welcoming environment for persons to learn together.  Throughout his career he helped lead safe, respectful experiences of listening and sharing. He treasures each story and the opportunity to bring people together in transforming relationships.

IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO TAKE FIRST SESSION IN ORDER TO REGISTER FOR THE SECOND SESSION.

Session 2  Mon 1-3pm

Feb 3 - 17

Mar 3 -17 - 31

Apr 14 - 28

May 12

Your story matters.  You have experiences and wisdom valuable to others.  This class will help you recall, organize, and write these episodes. Sharing our stories and experiences with others in class often leads to unexpected rewards. Enjoy the encouragement and support of writing and sharing with others in a comfortable and safe atmosphere.  New writers, unsure writers, experienced writers, all are welcome.

 Mike Davis believes everyone has a story to tell and wisdom to share.  His goal is to create a safe and welcoming environment for persons to learn together.  Throughout his career he helped lead safe, respectful experiences of listening and sharing. He treasures each story and the opportunity to bring people together in transforming relationships.

IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO TAKE THE FIRST SESSION IN ORDER TO TAKE THE SECOND SESSION.

tHURSDAY 10-12 ON zoom

Feb 6 - 20

Mar 6 - 20

Apr 3 - 17

May 1-15

The Fight Against Fascism and the Nazis, a survey of individuals who couldn’t stand by but took action for their moral beliefs: Americans, Brits, Poles, Belgians, Dutch, Italians, etc.  It looks at the many ways people found to thwart and fight the Nazis and fascist ideology.  

8 weeks

Mondays March 17 1-3pm on ZOOM