Robert Evans - Robert received his first degree at Cambridge University in Natural Sciences. He was awarded his PhD and DSc from the University of London. He is Emeritus Professor at the Jackson Laboratory where he studied the immunology of cancer for 21 years. He has been delving into the Arthurian mysteries as well as the history of Roman and post-Roman Britain for several years. In addition to presenting the course under the auspices of ACS he has also lectured at several institutions on the subject of King Arthur.
Betsy Hewlett - Betsy is collections manager and archivist for Thuya and Azalea Gardens since 2001. She holds a M.Ed, PhD Education and a BA in History.
Priscilla Hutton - Priscilla has been Head Gardener of Thuya Garden since 2006. She is a master gardener and former Greenhouse and Propagation Manager of Deer Meadow. She is responsible for garden, container and lawn maintenance and designer for the past 15 years.
Bob Myers - Bob received a PhD in New Testament Studies from Emory University. He also received degrees from United Theological Seminary and McGill University. He taught courses in Religion & Philosophy at Clark College and Mercer University in Atlanta and New Testament courses at the Interdenominational Theological Center. Recently he has led the Jesus Seminar Study group in Atlanta in studies of Jesus' Parables, The Synoptic Gospels, The Letters of Paul, and the Book of Acts. He has also written papers on 19th Century Feminists of the Ordination of Woman, Saul of Tarsus, Two Parables Reconsidered.
Dona Parker - Dona has an MA in counseling from UMO where she developed a counseling technique called The Art of Drawing Out. She used her counseling skills working at Hospice of Eastern Maine. After moving to Atlanta, GA, she developed the course "Creativity: Finding Your Inner Resource." Dona taught this class each quarter at Emory University Adult Ed Program for 6 years. She continues to evolve in her own art making and enjoys sharing creative ideas with others.
Lee Patterson - Lee has been a music enthusiast since the 1950s, as an avid listener, in performance as a trained tenor and as a teacher and director of music and operetta. Though largely self-taught, he has studied music at Harvard and Johns Hopkins.
Frank Pendola - Frank is the owner and chef of Nostrano, a private Italian dinner club in Bar Harbor established in 2004. He started cooking at age 5, learning from the greatest chefs in the world – all the Italian Aunts, Uncles, Grandmothers, and Grandfathers in his Niagara Falls, New York Italian neighborhood where he grew up. Most recently, he spent 15 years as a molecular biologist at The Jackson Laboratory prior to pursuing his culinary endeavors at Nostrano.
Steve Powell – Steve has a Liberal Arts Degree from Greensboro College with a major in History. Author of a mystery review column in the Greensboro Sunday Record 1984-1986 "Crime, Mystery, Detective," Member of The Mystery Writers of America since 1985, owner/publisher Wonderly Press (publisher of Judge Dee Plays His Lute: A Play and Selected Mystery Stories by local mystery writer Janwillem van de Wetering in 1997), antiquarian bookseller specializing in detective fiction since 1985, co-owner of Dunn and Powell Books, Inc. and Mystery Cove Bookshop in Hulls Cove.
Barbara Rappaport – Barbara received her master's in Botany from Univ. of Michigan and worked with her husband in animal cell biology.
Mette Watt - Mette earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has worked with the New Hampshire League of Arts and Crafts, Printmaking courses with U.M.O. and with Susan Gross, a pioneer in establishing non-toxic printmaking.
