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2023 ASC Members' Art Show

May 1 - 27, 2023

During library hours

Northeast Harbor Library, Mellon Room

The annual ASC Members' Art Show will be held during the month of May at the Northeast Harbor Library. The Art Show and Reception are generously sponsored by Camden National Bank.

Over twenty five talented artists have interpreted the theme in a variety of media including watercolor, oil paintings, mixed media, wood carvings, photographs and fiber art.


An opening reception will be held at the library on Friday, May 5th from 5 to 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served and we will honor our site partners and volunteers. ASC members and their guests are invited.


The art show is open for in person viewing in the Mellon room of the Northeast Harbor Library during library hours except during times when the Mellon Room is booked for private use. Please check the library website for hours and for the availability of the exhibit. 

2023 ASC Members' Art Show

Art Show Opening Reception and Members Appreciation Party

May 5, 2023

5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Northeast Harbor Library, Mellon Room

Don't miss the opening reception hosted by the ASC Membership & Volunteers Committee! ASC members and their guests are invited to view the artwork while munching on finger foods and visiting with friends, old and new.

Art Show Opening Reception and Members Appreciation Party

Field Trip to Bad Beaver Farm

May 6, 2023

1:00 p.m

Bad Beaver Farm, Ellsworth

This trip is a follow-up to Carol Leonard's Food for Thought talk on lichens. Preference will be given to those who attend her presention on April 28th, and if space allows, we will open this up to the general ASC community.

Bad Beaver Farm is a 400-acre parcel of pure Downeast wilderness. The owners, Carol Leonard and her husband, Tom Lajoie, have put in miles of woods roads for nature viewing. ASC visitors will be treated to a naturalist’s “Bad Beaver Safari” to see how many plant and animal species can be observed. (The name “Bad Beaver” came soon after Carol and Tom realized they were hosting about 200 beavers on the land that they argue about on a daily basis.) The farm also has a large greenhouse that is actively being planted right now.

Please note: we will be walking about 2 miles on good, even, gravel woods roads. 

There is no charge for this outing.

Please email acadiaseniorcollege@gmail.com or call 207-288-9500 to sign up and receive directions to the farm.

Field Trip to Bad Beaver Farm

The Amazing Monarch Butterfly - Talk and Slide Show

May 26, 2023

11:30 a.m.

Birch Bay Village Inn, and by Zoom

Click to register for this event

NOTE: The in-person lunch and lecture at Birch Bay Village is now FULL. However, you may still register for the Zoom presentation which begins at noon. When you register you may also choose to join the waiting list for the in-person lunch.

Bonnie Chase and Bill Calvert will share their knowledge and adventures of the Monarch butterfly, exploring the amazing life cycle and one of the world’s most  incredible long-distance migration journeys.

Bonnie will speak about the basic biology of monarch development from egg to adult. This involves two stages of metamorphosis – something we humans do not experience, where the larval stage completely reorganizes itself to form an entirely new creature that does not resemble its former self.

Bill will speak about the monarchs’ migration, his discovery of the locations of the overwintering colonies in Mexico in 1976 and some of the environmental issues they are facing and their current status.

It is truly a natural wonder how employing a brain the size of a pinhead, monarchs get themselves from latitude 45/ 50 to latitude 20, a journey of up to 3000 miles to find thirteen small areas in the Transvolcanic Belt of Mexico when they have never been there!

The luncheon, at Birch Bay Village in Hulls Cove, begins at 11:30 and costs $15, payable by cash or check at the door; the lecture is from noon to 1:00.

The Zoom presentation begins at noon. If you register for the online talk you will receive the link the day before. There is no charge for the Zoom presentation.


Bonnie Chase holds undergraduate degrees in Biology and Botany and a MS in Environmental Science from Montclair State University, NJ. Throughout her careers in teaching biology, as Executive Director of the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum and Nature Center, as a Master Naturalist, leading Natural History tours in Central and South America, and writing a weekly local nature column, she has always focused on immersing her students in the awe and beauty of the natural world.

Bonnie was also a recipient of the prestigious Abernathy Hull Award for outstanding environmental education achievements and educator in the US. She is currently teaching the ASC course Connecting Nature and Art, and previously taught the ASC course A Sense of Place: Printing and Dying with Spring Botanicals.

Way back Bill Calvert took a degree in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. After this he did a stint in the US Army, and was assigned to the fighting 596 Light Truck Company. While with the 596, he had ample time to think things over, in particular the worth, or lack thereof an undergraduate degree in philosophy. He decided to do something practical. So he took up the study of butterflies – butterfly feet in particular – and how female butterflies find their host plants while earning a PhD in Zoology. These studies morphed into bark beetles in Mississippi, tent caterpillars in Massachusetts, and finally in collaboration with the renowned monarch expert Lincoln Brower, monarchs at Amherst College, the University of Florida, and in Mexico.

In Mexico, he led expeditions resulting in the discovery of the 13 overwintering colonies of monarchs. When the NSF funds dried up – they always do – Bill established the Texas Monarch Watch, the purpose of which was to use volunteer observers to learn about the monarch migration through Texas. The Texas Monarch Watch also hoped to instill in those who came in contact with this beautiful creature an appreciation of science and, especially, of nature. Each migratory season he followed the migration in Texas and Mexico to accumulate information as to how the monarchs, employing a brain the size of a pinhead get themselves from latitude 45/ 50 to latitude 20 and find those thirteen small areas in the Transvolcanic Belt of Mexico. In January 2009 he was featured in the Nova special on the monarch butterflies.


Click to register for this event, or email learn@acadiaseniorcollege.org.

The Amazing Monarch Butterfly - Talk and Slide Show

Upcoming Opera Previews at the Grand

June 3, 2023

11:00 a.m. - noon

The Grand, Ellsworth

Bob Gallon will lead the last preview discussion of the season prior to the Met Live broadcast of Mozart's "Die Zauberflote" at the Grand in Ellsworth.

Mozart's "Die Zauberflote" - Saturday, June 3rd

The talk is from 11:00 a.m. to noon, followed by a break for lunch. The live broadcast begin at 1:00 p.m. For more information click here.

The preview talks are free and no reservations are required. You do not have to attend the live broadcast to participate in the pre-event discussion, but tickets for the live broadcast can be purchased online or at the door.

Upcoming Opera Previews at the Grand

Annual General Meeting and Potluck Supper

June 7, 2023

5:00 p.m.

Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor

The Annual General Meeting and Potluck Supper will be held on Wednesday, June 7th at the Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor. This is our first in-person Annual Meeting since 2019!  After sharing some wine and appetizers, we will have a short business meeting to elect new Board Members and Officers.  A potluck dinner will follow.

5:00 - Appetizers and Conversation
5:30 - Business Meeting and Elections
6:15 - Potluck Supper

Please bring: your own wine or favorite beverage, your own place setting (plate, utensils, glass), and an appetizer, main dish, salad, side or dessert to share.

We look forward to renewing this traditional gathering and  hope to see you there!  No RSVP required.

Annual General Meeting and Potluck Supper

Members Only Boat Trip to Petit Manan Island

June 25, 2023

Noon

Departs from Steuben

This trip is now full - please call if you would like to join the waiting list.

ASC members are invited to join Seth Benz, Schoodic Insitute's Bird Ecology Program Director, on a two-hour cruise to Petit Manan Island. The cruise will circumnavigate Petit Manan Island to view the lighthouse, seabirds, and Atlantic Puffins.

The two-hour puffin cruise to Petit Manan Island is designed to showcase an active seabird colony as well as the picturesque shoreline and several other islands. Along the way, you will see seals, eagles, and osprey.

At Petit Manan Island, other species joining the puffins are razorbills, common murre, black guillemot, common and Arctic tern, common eider and perhaps some skulking shorebirds, such as spotted sandpiper and ruddy turnstone. 

Petit Manan Island is home to the second tallest lighthouse on the entire Maine coast and houses seasonal seabird biologists carrying out bird research. The tour is narrated by the crew of the Tricia Clark, a 42' modified lobster boat with ample indoor and outdoor space for ease of viewing. Seth Benz of Schoodic Institute - a former seabird biologist himself - will be your host and interpreter.

Bring binoculars and a camera and dress for the weather. There is a bathroom on board and a complimentary snack is served. Sunscreen is advised.

Departs from Steuben (about 45 minutes from Somesville.)

The cost is $75 per person.

To sign up please call ASC at 207-288-9500. Limited to 20 people.

Members Only Boat Trip to Petit Manan Island