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Great Falls Forum

September 16th — 12 noon

Thursday, September 16, 12 noon.  Where has the Middle Ground Gone in the Partisan Politics of Today  (lecture).  Our Great Falls Forum series resumes with Charles Micoleau, a senior attorney with the Portland firm of Curtis Thaxter and the former [...]

Categories: Lecture • Presentation • Seniors

Author Talk: Doug Hodgkin on “The Lewiston & Auburn Railroad Company 1872-2009″

Past Event ....... May 10th — 7:00 pm

Monday, May 10, 7 p.m. in Callahan Hall, local historian and author Douglas Hodgkin will speak on his new book The Lewiston and Auburn Railroad Company 1872-2009. Free. Copies of the book will be available for signing and purchase. For [...]

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National Holocaust Remembrance Week event

Past Event ....... April 13th — 12:00 pm

Tuesday, April 13, noon-1:30 p.m. in Callahan Hall, Holocaust survivor Julia Skalina will share her experiences in German concentration and labor camps and discuss what life was like in Communist Czechoslovakia after WWII. This event is planned in commemoration of [...]

Categories: Lecture • Presentation

Contra Dance

Past Event ....... April 9th — 8:00 pm

Friday, April 9, 8-11 p.m.  in Callahan Hall, an evening of traditional New England contra dancing to the the band Playgroup (Alden Robinson & Julia Plumb on fiddle, Abraham Stimson on piano & bass, and Zach Davis on mandolin, banjo [...]

Categories: Dance • Instruction • Lecture

Vaudeville Music Event

Past Event ....... April 10th — 6:30 pm

Saturday, April 10, 6:30 p.m. in Callahan Hall, a program of vaudeville music by the band “Over a Cardboard Sea.” Maine farmer Heather Retberg, of Quill’s End Farm in Penobscot, will offer opening remarks in this closing event of the [...]

Categories: Lecture • Music • Seniors • Teens

Book Talk: Mark Griffin on the life & art of film director Vincente Minnelli

Past Event ....... March 9th — 7:00 pm

Tuesday, March 9, 7 p.m. in Callahan Hall, author Mark Griffin will speak on his newly published book A Hundred or More Hidden Things, dealing with the life of film director Vincente Minnelli. Free. Copies of the book will be [...]

Categories: Film • Lecture • Presentation

Great Falls Forum: Rex Rhoades on “Newspapers and the New Economics of News”

Past Event ....... May 20th — 12:00 pm

Thursday, May 20, noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall, the Great Falls Forum lecture series presents Rex Rhoades, executive editor of the Lewiston Sun Journal, speaking on “Newspapers and the New Economics of News.” A Q-&-A session will follow. [...]

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Great Falls Forum: Russell Libby on “Our Next Agriculture”

Past Event ....... April 15th — 12:00 pm

Thursday, April 15, noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall, the Great Falls Forum lecture series presents Russell Libby, executive director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), speaking on “A Face, A Place, A Taste: Our Next [...]

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Great Falls Forum: Alex Dauge-Roth on “Lewiston to Kigali and Back”

Past Event ....... March 18th — 12:00 pm

Thursday, March 18, noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall, the Great Falls Forum lecture series presents Alex Dauge-Roth, professor of French at Bates College, speaking on “Lewiston to Kigali and Back: Learning with Orphans of the Genocide of the [...]

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Great Falls Forum: Jonathan LaBonté on “Setting a New Course for the Androscoggin”

Past Event ....... February 18th — 12:00 pm

Thursday, Feb. 18, noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall, the Great Falls Forum lecture series presents Jonathan LaBonté, executive director of Androscoggin Land Trust, speaking on “Setting a New Course for the Androscoggin: From Industry & Pollution to People [...]

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