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SUMMARY:Speaker - Ivy Frignoca
DESCRIPTION:As the Casco Baykeeper\, Ivy Frignoca is the lead advocate for Friends of Casco Bay (FoCB). She is an environmental attorney with expertise in the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws\, and worked as a Senior Attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation before moving to Maine. Her leadership roles in the Maine marine community have included Co-Founder of the Maine Ocean Climate Collaborative\, member of the Maine Climate Council’s Coastal and Marine Working Group\, and member of the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership executive committee. \nIvy will be speaking about her role as Baykeeper\, including her work with Maine’s Legislature and state agencies\, FoCB’s water quality monitoring program\, and current efforts regarding stormwater pollution and PFAS monitoring in partnership with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
URL:https://www.smallpointclub.com/event/speaker-ivy-frignoca/
CATEGORIES:2026,Speakers 2026
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SUMMARY:Speaker - Lisa Borders\, Last Night at the Disco
DESCRIPTION:The Making of a Novel: Last Night at the Disco \nLisa Borders‘ third novel\, the dark comedy Last Night at the Disco\, is set largely in 1977 and narrated by a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54. There\, she discovers two musicians who become among the most influential artists of the 1980s – and decades later\, having burned bridges with them both\, she tells her story in hopes of securing her rightful place in rock ‘n’ roll history. \nLisa’s talk and slideshow will focus on research she did for the novel\, her own humorous memories of the 1970s\, and her writing process. \nLearn more about all of Lisa’s work on her website www.lisaborders.com \n 
URL:https://www.smallpointclub.com/event/speaker-lisa-borders-last-night-at-the-disco/
CATEGORIES:2026,Speakers 2026
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SUMMARY:Speaker - Michael Lowenthal\, Place Envy: In Search of Belonging
DESCRIPTION:Belonging isn’t always something we inherit. It’s something we search for and\, hopefully\, find. Author Michael Lowenthal will read from and discuss his new essay collection\, Place Envy\, which traces a lifelong search for identity\, queer lineage\, and connection across cultures\, histories\, and the self. Through journeys that span continents and communities\, Lowenthal explores what it means to feel rooted—or unmoored—and how storytelling can bring us closer to truth. \n  \n\nMichael Lowenthal is the author of the novels The Same Embrace\, Avoidance\, Charity Girl\, and The Paternity Test and of the short story collection Sex with Strangers. \nHis writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, The Boston Globe\, The Washington Post\, Ploughshares\, and many other publications. \nHis stories have been widely anthologized in such volumes as Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge and Best New American Voices. \nLearn more about Michael on his website www.michaellowenthal.com
URL:https://www.smallpointclub.com/event/speaker-place-envy-in-search-of-belonging/
CATEGORIES:2026,Speakers 2026
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SUMMARY:Speaker - Michael Delola coming 2027!
DESCRIPTION:No surprise that Michael’s time has been in demand this summer in many other fascinating directions.  Sadly rather than next week\, Hhe will join us next Summer 2027!\n**************** \nMichael Delola is a nature and macro photographer who focuses on insects\, spiders and other tiny arthropods like springtails and mites\, as well as fungi and slime molds. He is also a forager\, citizen scientist and amateur mycologist. \nHis work aims to explore the hidden and surprising beauty of under-represented and under-appreciated organisms in the Midcoast and Southern regions of Maine\, with the specific goal of highlighting local biodiversity and ecology. \n \n\nLearn more at Michael’s website www.mdelola.com \n  \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.smallpointclub.com/event/speaker-michael-delola/
CATEGORIES:2026,Speakers 2026
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SUMMARY:Speaker - Meadow Dibble
DESCRIPTION:Meadow Dibble\, Ph.D. is a writer\, organizer\, and public memory advocate who has been facilitating complex\, searching conversations about modes of historical recovery while developing sustained local engagement processes aimed at surfacing truth\, fostering healing\, and achieving justice. She is Founding Executive Director of Atlantic Black Box. \nOriginally from Cape Cod\, Meadow lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula\, where she published a cultural magazine from 1996–2000 and coordinated foreign study programs. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University’s Department of French Studies and taught at Colby College from 2005–08. From 2019–2023\, Meadow served as Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. \nIn 2022-2023\, she served as Co-Lead on the Place Justice initiative\, carried out in partnership with the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial\, Indigenous\, and Tribal Populations.
URL:https://www.smallpointclub.com/event/speaker-meadow-dibble/
CATEGORIES:2026,Speakers 2026
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