Three events for the month of September

1>First Tuesday Book Club will meet  on Sept. 3rd to discuss-"Wild: From lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed"(non-fiction)

2>September Artist in the library and opening on Sept. 6th for the First Friday Downtown Art Walk, will be-Assemblage Artist-Anastasia S. Weigle, "The Dark Carnival Papers"- Tass was the July artist in 2012-exhibiting-"Down the Rabbit Hole"

3>The first Travel lecture is on Monday September 23, 2013, more info on the lectures later will be available.

Sept.3rd-MCMA First Tuesday Book Club

Wild: From lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed(non-fiction)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A Best Nonfiction Book of 2012: The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly

A Best Book of the Year: NPR, St. Louis Dispatch, Vogue

“At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.”

from- 

    http://www.cherylstrayed.com/wild_108676.htm

The MCMA library book club meets on the first Tuesday of each month in the library at 12:00 noon, bring a sandwich, dessert coffee and tea provided.

  For more information you can call   Pat @ 773-8396 during library

hours,Tue.,Wed,Thurs.10:00 am to 3:00 pm, 519 Congress St.

                                            0r e-mail  mcma1857@gmail.com

http://www.anastasiaweigle.com                         September Artist-Exhibiting

               "The Dark Carnival Papers"

September Artist in the library and opening on Sept. 6th for the First Friday Downtown Art Walk, will be-Assemblage Artist-Anastasia S. Weigle, - Tass was the MCMA July artist in 2012-exhibiting-"Down the Rabbit Hole"

-- For more info on Tass please check out her bio's at the sites below.
Anastasia S. Weigle
http://www.anastasiaweigle.com
http://www.inabindstudio.com          

Monday,September 23,2013

 Marlin Darrah presents

    “Italy; A Journey to Venice, Tuscanay, Rome, Naples & the Amalfi Coast”

CITIES OF ITALY: Venice, Florence, Pisa, Rome, Naples & the Amalfi Coast » Marlin Darrah  Shot in beautiful HD in 2009) Italy is a country with a staggering wealth of history, culture and natural beauty. This filmmaker's journey showcases the eternal city of Rome, the incomparable gondola-laden waterways of Venice, the Renaissance treasure that is Florence, and finally the Amalfi coast, which is arguably the most beautiful in the world - with its lustrous villages and lemon groves clinging to side of mountains cascading down to the Mediterranean.......D in 2009) Italy is a ccultu

presented at the

CATHERINE McAULEY HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM

     631 Stevens Avenue

           opposite Evergreen Cemetery

     Parking Lot off Walton St.

         7:30-Doors open @6:45

  Wheelchair accessible

Free to members and open to the public, a  $5.00 

donation suggested for non-members or guests.Dvd’s of the travel lecture are also usually available  to buy from the presenter.

FMI, CALL THE LIBRARY AT 773-8396 OR

e-mail  mcma1857@gmail.com

MCMA August events

 MCMA AUGUST EVENTS

August Artist in the Library and August 2nd First Friday Art Walk exhibit will be Oil Paintings by Fawzi Hasson and his daughter Maha. Fawzi Hasson, an accomplished painter, was born in Baghdad,Iraq in 1954. He is well known in Iraq for his use of colors and remarkable representation of light.He is the son of a shipbuilder and paints ships with remarkable accuracy.He is a teacher and instructor , he brought his family to America in 2008, coming to Portland in 2013. Fawzi’s daughter has followed her father’s teaching and is now showing her own paintings along with her father’s paintings which have been on exhibit at Mainely Frames & Gallery , at 541 Congress St.

First Tuesday Book club, August 6th-”Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The MCMA library book club meets on the first Tuesday of each month in the library at 12:00 noon, bring a sandwich, dessert coffee and tea provided.

  For more information you can call   Pat @ 773-8396 during library

hours,Tue.,Wed,Thurs.10:00 am to 3:00 pm, 519 Congress St.

                                            0r e-mail  mcma1857@gmail.com

August 14th noon time lunch lecture

“The White Man’s Grave”; A jungle Journal, a story of Sierra Leone, by Mike Plaisted. 

   Mike Plaisted is a Maine native who attended U of Iowa writer’s workshop and is trying to spread an understanding of humanity through this journal. “Though villagers are different from us we have more in common than we have differences. WE all bleed red”.

Bring a lunch, dessert, coffee and tea provided.

Jonathan Eiten MCMA July Artist and Events

MCMA member Jonathan Eiten has been painting in Maine since 1997, apprenticed to oil painter Jon Allen Marshall. In 2004 he was accepted into membership of the Copley Society of Art in Boston and, a couple of years later, awarded the tittle of Copley Artist.Jonathan has exibited in many galleries artound Portland  with great reviews, more pictures and info can be found at  http://jonathaneiten.blogspot.com/
 MCMA member Jonathan Eiten will be opening his exhibit of Oil Paintings on the First Friday Artwalk,July 5th   and during the month of July in the library Tuesday,Wed.&Thurs.10:00am to 3:00 pm,  more info on the Artist can be found at                         

Second  floor, elevator accessible, 519 Congress St.FMI call 773-8396 or e-mail at  mcma1857@gmail.com

        MCMA Library First Tuesday Book Club

                  July 2nd-Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich(non-fiction)

“Ehrenreich tells the reader that she developed the idea for this book over an expensive lunch with the editor of Harper’s, Lewis Lapham. Ehrenreich wondered how unskilled workers survive on such meager incomes; particularly, she was interested in how the 4 million women who were about to be booted into the labor market by welfare reform were going to make it at $6 or $7 an hour. Ehrenreich was not thrilled about undertaking the task herself. She remembers that even in the 1960s, when her fellow college students sought jobs in factories to organize the working class, she was not interested. Ehrenreich has witnessed various loved ones pull themselves out of the misery that can be associated with low-wage work. Ehrenreich decides to consider the project a scientific experiment, as she has a Ph.D. in biology. She learns that in 1998, 30% of the workforce worked for $8 an hour or less. She cannot imagine how these people survive, and wants to uncover their tricks”  Introduction-TheBestnotes.com

The MCMA library book club meets on the first Tuesday of each month in the library at 12:00 noon, bring a sandwich, dessert coffee and tea provided.

  For more information you can call   Pat @ 773-8396 during library

hours,Tue.,Wed,Thurs.10:00 am to 3:00 pm, 519 Congress St.

                                            0r e-mail  mcma1857@gmail.com

MCMA June Events

    Patrick Harrison   

June Art exhibit in the library and opening on First Friday 
June7th

"Imaginative Cartography and Other Works by Patrick Harrison". Patrick will also be featuring his ebook-"Quiet Courage", soon to be       available in print.

For more info on Patrick Harrison checkout his web site http://sundast.tumblr.com/post/51470978346/this-is-now-a-real-blog

First Tuesday Book Club-June 4th

“The Dressmaker,” by Kate Alcott

                "This novel is as much about the sinking of the Titanic as it is about dressmaking. Written by D.C. journalist Patricia O’Brien under the pen name Kate Alcott, it’s an unashamed girlie-book with a woman’s attractive behind adorning the cover, sporting an elegant semi-bustle. The dress seems to bunch up under the arms, and you can spend several minutes figuring out how someone put the thing together. Which brings up an interesting aspect of “making history,” particularly the kind that Virginia Woolf used to talk about: the flocks of girls with bits of sewing in their laps, chattering about men, defining them, often by bursts of rude laughter. That’s a form of history, too............."WashingtonPost"

The MCMA library book club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 12:00 noon, bring a sandwich, dessert coffee and tea provided.

  For more information you can call   Pat @ 773-8396 during library

hours,Tue.,Wed,Thurs.10:00 am to 3:00 pm

                                            0r e-mail  mcma1857@gmail.com

MCMA May events in the library

"The whole package"

"Let them eat Cake"

Lesley MacVane ,MCMA member, Officer and Photographer will be our May Artist in the library and will open her photography exhibit -"Stiletto Life"- 

on the First Friday Downtown Art Walk, May 3rd 5:00-8:00 pm

MCMA-First Tuesday Book Club

May 7th, 2013

"YOU KNOW WHEN
THE MEN ARE GONE"
By Siobhan Fallon

Winner of the 2012 PEN CENTER USA LITERARY Award in Fiction

2012 INDIES CHOICE Honor Award

TEXAS INSTITUE OF LETTERS Award for First Fiction
Reminiscent of Raymond Carver
and Tim O’Brien, an
unforgettable collection
of interconnected short stories.

Chosen as a Best Book Pick of 2011:

San Francisco Chronicle 

Los Angeles Public Library 

SELF Magazine 

Utah’s The Spectrum 

New York Times

The MCMA library book club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 12:00 noon, bring a sandwich, dessert coffee and tea provided.

  For more information you can call   Pat @ 773-8396 during library

hours,Tue.,Wed,Thurs.10:00 am to 3:00 pm

                                            0r e-mail  mcma1857@gmail.com

April Events in the Mechanics' Library

APRIL AND FIRST FIDAY ARTIST(April 5th) in the Library- 

 "Painter and Graphic Artist" John Handcock will be exhibiting his fine work.

MCMA-First Tuesday Book Club

TUESDAY, April 2nd, 2013

Monica Wood  , the author will be joining us the Book Club meeting to discuss her book

  "When We Were the Kennedys": A Memoir from Mexico, Maine

New England bestseller

Maine #1 bestseller

Wood’s book...goes much beyond the story of her family’s grief. The book is a meditation on time... It’s also a record of a vanished way of life... it avoids sentimentalizing small-town life... By bringing such a town to life, with all its complexities and imperfections, it’s to Monica Wood’s great credit that she goes a long way to answering these questions. The New Yorker online

"Extraordinary, powerful and moving...This heart-wrenching, emotional, sometimes funny, oftentimes astonishing, and always compelling story is far better than the best novel...You will find yourself pausing, rereading entire paragraphs and thinking about what you've read...Read it and weep. Read it and wonder. Read it and rejoice. Kennebec Journal/Waterville (Maine) Morning Sentinel  

The MCMA library book club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 12:00 noon, bring a sandwich, dessert coffee and tea provided.

  For more information you can call   Pat @ 773-8396 during library

hours,Tue.,Wed,Thurs.10:00 am to 3:00 pm

                                            0r e-mail  mcma1857@gmail.com

A Newsletter from the MCMA was started and sent out to its members this week, if you do not receive one soon you should contact the library at.-  mcma1857@gmail.com .     

 Three Cheers To the members that made it happen!!! ...

A reminder that the year end Annual meeting will be held on Thursday,April 4th in the library at 9:00 am, I encourage all who can attend to be there and be heard.

Friday March 1st

First Friday Art Walk (5:00 to 8:00 pm) and library artist for the month of March- Joanne Fitzpatrick-

"PRESERVATION of the EARTH"...Pressed flowers

FYI.....   Authentic Pressed Flowers: Presevation of Earth 

http://authentic-pressed-flowers.blogspot.com/2012/04/presevation-of-earth.html

March 11, 2013

WILDLIFE of YELLOWSTONE. presented by Sandy Mortimer

What happens when you spend enough time getting close with wild animals? You really get to know them...on a personal level! Their families, their struggles, and their daily lives...from birth to death!

In Sandy Mortimer’s production “Wildlife Of Yellowstone,” that’s just what we do...with three very different residents of Yellowstone National Park - - - Trumpeter Swans, Coyotes and Elk.

And as we follow the stories of these three very different animals that share this common home, we meet the multitude of other inhabitants that interact with them. As well as learn about their history and possible future...including the near extinction in the lower forty-eight states of the magnificent Trumpeter Swans by man during the last century... how they survived and were rediscovered. Extraordinary sequences include coyote predation on a swan, defense of their nesting territory from intruding swans, and the young cygnets attempting to fly.

The sequences of the life cycle of the coyote during the changing seasons are dramatic. With rare scenes of a coyote taking fish from an otter, a pack stealing a black bear cub from its mother and pursuing antelope, bighorn sheep and elk. In it’s role as predator, the fierce and surprisingly playful coyote whom the Indians called “Song Dog”, is amazing.

The struggles and triumphs of Yellowstone’s elk are shown in extraordinary scenes, including a young elk calf being captured by a grizzly, a cow’s defense of her newborn calf against coyotes and large bulls battling for the right to mate. We also explore the historical impact of man on the herd over the past century and policies that threatened them with extinction and then overpopulation. We touch on the reintroduction of the wolf, the use of fire and how the present herd affects the vegetation and other animals.

Along with playful otters, pesky geese, and a collection of other inhabitants, this saga of Yellowstone’s residents will give us an in-depth adventure into a world few humans ever see.

last lecture of the season

March 25, 2013 

Korea: Land of Contrast

Produced and Narrated by Buddy Hatton

With over 10 million people, a figure that doubles if you include neighboring cities and suburbs, Seoul is the largest city in South Korea and unquestionably the economic, political and cultural hub of the country. By some measures it is the second largest urban agglomeration on the planet, after Tokyo. Situated between Shanghai and Tokyo and bordered by the impenetrable North Korea to the north, the South Korean capital is sometimes overlooked by American travelers but Seoul is an exciting location in its own right, and incredibly safe. With beautiful palaces, great food and a shopping nightlife, Seoul is an exciting way to experience the Asia of old and new. Veterans from the "Korea war" will not recognize what they remember from that time in the mid 50's. The American and ally bases are now all modern cities. The barracks are gone and in their place, new high-rises. Buddy Hatton invites you to travel with him to meet the people and experience the sites of this friendly, ultra modern country. From dynamic Seoul to beautiful Buson, the ports of Inchon and even to the DMZ, you will never forget your film journey to "South Korea in the 21st Century!"

Catherine McAuley High School Auditorium

631 Stevens Ave, Parking lot off Walton Street

Portland Maine

Starts at 7:30, doors open at 6:45

 Open to the public

Free for MCMA members, a $5.00 donation for non-members

Handicap accessible