
Books & Blooms Book Fair (7/12)
The fourth annual Books & Blooms book fair at the Gardens will pair readers with their favorite authors - many of them major award winners - for conversation, readings and book signings. Meet approximately 70 authors from Maine, the Northeast, and beyond - but all with a Maine connection. Books are available for sale, and participating authors will give café and garden talks. The Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library will host a garden-oriented used-book sale.
Books & Blooms is co-sponsored by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. The event is free for Gardens members and with regular Gardens admission for non-members. MWPA members who are not Gardens members will receive reduced rates on Gardens admission.
Participating authors are listed below.
The author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, Eric Jay Dolin, will give a lecture the evening prior to Books & Blooms. See the separate listing for July 11.
Charlotte Agell - Charlotte will be doing free quick sketch portraits of children and adults. William Andrews Louise Bernstone Henry Braun Jeannie Brett Jason (Brooks) Brown Toni Buzzeo Ben Carr John Christie Robert Chute Virginia Chute Joanne Clarey Jaed Coffin Stephen Cole H.R. Coursen Eric Jay Dolin Elizabeth A. DeWolfe Mary Duncan Sandra Dutton Sherri Eldridge Cathryn Falwell Annie Finch Kate Clark Flora Richard Ford Mary Lee Coe Fowler Barbara Hill Freeman Melinda Josiah Geaumont Karel Hayes Bill Hubbell Dahlov Ipcar Annaliese Jakimides Fred Kaplan Kerck Kelsey Lily King Christina Baker Kline Jenifer LeClair Cynthia Lord Donna Loring Robin MacCready Amy MacDonald Nelson Madore Bruce McMillan Sarah Sherman McGrail Wes McNair Eleanor Lincoln Morse Kevin Murphy Ken Nye Maria Padian Rev. Peter Panagore Susan Pelletier Alice Persons (attending with two other poets whose work she publishes – Ruth and Ted Bookey) Lynn Pinkham Lynn Plourde Neil Rolde Bill Roorbach Catherine Schmitt Aurelia C. Scott Betsy Sholl - Poet Laureate of Maine Cynthia Finnemore Simonds Julia Spencer-Fleming Karin Spitfire Melissa Sweet Jerry Stelmok Lee Ann Szelog and Thomas Mark Szelog James Taliana Lara Tupper Thomas Urquhart George Van Deventer Lea Wait Mark Warner Ed Werler John Whalley
Date/Time: Saturday, July 12, 12:30 - 3:30 pm
Location: Visitor Center and Central Gardens