Stimulation - Knowledge - Interaction - Fun | | Humpback whale betweenSutton and Bear Islands - September 2025 | | Loving the North Woods: 25 Years of Historic Conservation in Maine | | |
Karin Tilberg
Friday, October 24th, 11:30 a.m.
Birch Bay Village, and on Zoom
Karin Tilberg, an expert on Maine’s vast woodlands and the past president/CEO of the Forest Society of Maine, will discuss her book Loving the North Woods: 25 Years of Historic Conservation in Maine at this month's Food for Thought program.
This talk will interest everyone who treasures forests, owns forestland, recreates in the woods and on forest-surrounded lakes and rivers, participates in forest-related industries, studies woodland ecology, and/or recognizes the global importance of Maine forests for carbon sequestration and migratory birds.
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What: October Food for Thought
When: Friday, October 24, 2025, 11:30 a.m.
Where: Birch Bay Retirement Village, 25 Village Inn Rd, Bar Harbor
Cost: In-person lunch and presentation - $20 (gluten-free options available)
Sign up: Click here to register
The Zoom-only presentation is free and begins at noon. If you register for the online talk, you will receive the link the day before the event.
Please let us know by Wednesday, October 22nd if you cannot attend.
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Fall Party
Seal Cove Auto Museum
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Thursday, October 30th
5:00 p.m.
Seal Cove Auto Museum
1414 Tremont Rd, Seal Cove
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Step back in time among the vintage automobiles.
Refreshments provided by the
Membership & Volunteers committee.
Enjoy wine, beer, cider, and seltzer, fun finger food, and live music.
All members and guests welcome - bring a friend!
No RSVP required.
| | 3rd Annual Clunan Lecture Recap | | |
On September 11th, Acadia Senior College welcomed Dr. Nirav Shah as our speaker at the third annual Clunan Lecture Series. Close to 200 ASC and community members gathered at the MDI Biological Laboratory for the talk and a reception. Dr. Shah asked the question "Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?"
To hear what Dr. Shah had to say, click here to watch the video recording.
| | Patsy Fogarty, Chair of the Clunan Lecture Committee, welcomes Dr. Shah. | | The audience at the Bio Lab. | | |
ASC receives grant from
Bangor Savings Bank
| Above, from left, Jeff Dunn, ASC president, Bill Dohmen, past ASC president, Heather Sukel, manager of the Bangor Savings Bank branch in Bar Harbor, Rachel Bunker, manager of the Ellsworth branch, and the local branch assistant manager, Hunter Dougherty | |
The Bangor Savings Bank Foundation has awarded a grant of $3,100 to Acadia Senior College for the purchase, testing, and implementation of audio enhancement devices for use in classrooms and lecture halls. The college will purchase several personal amplifier units and will begin testing these in upcoming classes. The devices will enable students to isolate a specific voice by controlling both tone and volume on personal receivers. For larger lecture venues, a more sophisticated system will transmit a speaker’s voice as an FM signal to be received on listeners’ individually adjustable earphones.
On behalf of the college’s 450 members, we thank Bangor Savings for your ongoing support.
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October 24: Food for Thought, Loving the North Woods with Karin Tilberg
October 30: Fall Party at the Seal Cove Auto Museum
November 3: Winter 2026 Courses Announced
November 21: Food for Thought, History of Mapping, Part 2 with Michael Pancoe
| | Some of our fall classes will wrap up soon, and others are just starting. Once your class is finished, you will receive an email reminder to submit your course evaluation. Please submit your online course evaluations to help the Curriculum Committee evaluate class sizes and locations, and learn what topics you enjoy. All comments are shared anonymously with the committee and instructors. | | More Learning Opportunities | | |
Did you know that as members of Acadia Senior College, you are eligible to register for classes offered by any of the other 16 Senior Colleges in Maine without paying an additional membership fee? Each college offers a variety of classes and presentations, some of which are free and many are on Zoom. To learn more, read and subscribe to the MSCN newsletter.
You can also visit the What's Happening? page and subscribe to receive email notices for presentations from other Maine senior colleges (Click the Log In link to sign up).
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Acadia Senior College
PO Box 475
Southwest Harbor, ME 04679
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