Join Tim Junkin, Executive Director of Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, for a special evening of remarks on our local rivers and the showing of MRC’s new film (20 minutes in length): Let Our Rivers Flow, narrated by Tom Horton, music by Bird Dog and Road
Kings and other local musicians, produced by award winning filmmaker, Sandy Cannon-Brown. The program will be held on March 22, from 5-6 pm, at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
Midshore Riverkeepers Conservancy(MCR) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the restoration and protection of the waterways that comprise the Choptank River watershed, Eastern Bay, and the Miles and Wye Rivers. The organization serves as an advocate for the health of these tributaries and the living resources they support. Tim Junkin is the founder and Executive Director of MRC. He is an attorney with thirty years of experience as a trial lawyer and advocate of civil rights, an award winning writer with three books under publication (all centered around the Choptank River-Eastern Bay area), and a teacher. His books, in chronological order, are The Waterman, Good Counsel, and Bloodsworth.
Thursday afternoons from March 29 –April 19, Margot Miller will lead a class entitled ”Choosing Between Two Worlds” at the Manor
House, Londonderry. Margot Miller, Ph.D. is a translator and writer who has published poetry, short fiction, and academic work. For several years Miller has led discussion forums around fiction, primarily foreign fiction in translation, at the Academy of Lifelong Learning. Most of her selections are by woman authors and often speak in a feminist voice. For her forums she selects books with common themes and she deftly leads an exploration of the material encouraging full participation from the group. “My classes are like a book club where I get to pick all the books” she notes with enthusiasm. There are many different levels to good literature and Miller’s background has made her an expert in unraveling these for the group. “My role is to unpack the metaphors for the class. People may not realize how much they know, but if some of it is explained, they will know it for the rest of their lives. What excites me is to help reveal the secrets in literature.”
There are three intriguing books on the reading list for this class. The international bestseller, What the Day Owes the Night is translated from French and explores Algerian and European worlds, past and present, love and loyalty, fate and autonomy. Orlanda, also translated from French, lightheartedly explores gender confusion. And Benny and Shrimp, a Swedish book in English translation explores death and life, sorrow and joy, solitude and solidarity. Miller earned a Master of Arts in Counseling in 1977 and a Ph. D. in French literature in 2001. She is the Fiction editor at The Delmarva Review and maintains OCCASIONAL ART, a painting studio and gallery in Easton, MD.
On March 12 the Academy for Lifelong Learning at CBMM will welcome Susan McKelvey, author of Far on Distant Soil. From an
1850’s Chatham, Massachusetts Signature Quilt. Susan McKelvey regularly peruses antique shops for old quilts. One day a year ago she spied, wadded under a footstool in a poorly lit corner of a booth, what looked like might be a quilt. When she examined it, she found that although it was literally a rag, it was a signature quilt from the mid 1800s. The messages the signers wrote indicate that the recipient was traveling across the sea. The blocks were lovely and many of them were original and worthy of being added to the quilt world’s lexicon of quilt blocks. She decided to write a quilt pattern book. The project grew to include the quilt signers and their town’s history. Susan McKelvey holds a B.A. from Cornell College and an M.A at the University of Chicago.
For more detailed information about these classes and the Academy for Lifelong Learning, call the CBMM at 410-745-2916 or download a catalog online at https://www.cbmm.org/all. Also on Facebook at facebook.com/academy for lifelong learning at cbmm.
March 12, 2012 Susan McKelvey
March 22, 2012 Tim Junkin
March 29 – April 19 Margot Miller
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