Wesley McNair Remembers Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon

Robinson Room, Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

In honor of National Poetry Month, poet Wesley McNair will offer a recollection of his literary friendship with Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon, which began in the middle 1970s, just after the two moved into their farmhouse in Wilmot, N.H. Interspersing his account with poems and personal anecdotes, McNair will show how he and his […]

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Painting Birds To Save Them

Miller Library, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Please join usĀ for an encouraging discussion of how a small group of impassioned nature conservationists fought and changed the course of bird extinction and bird decimation. From the 1860s to the 1930s, these activists employed the power of the written word and the great appeal of historic bird paintings in order to create an army […]

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