2024 Season
Thank you to our many season supporters who are allowing us to bring you an amazing 2024 season. We welcome you to join us as a Season Supporter.
Alan Lightman
Thursday, March 21, 2024, 7-8:30PM
Best-selling author of Einstein's Dreams, physicist, MIT professor, and social entrepreneur, Dr. Lightman was recently the host of the PBS miniseries Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science. At Freeport Speech, Dr. Lightman will explore the questions raised in his books Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine and The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science: How do complex human experiences, such as feeling connected to nature, feeling part of things larger than ourselves, falling in love, the appreciation of beauty, arise from the material atoms and molecules of our brains? It will be an evening melding the spiritual and the scientific in search of truth.
Ann McKee, MD
Thursday, May 30, 2024, 7-8:30PM
Ann McKee, MD is a neurologist and neuropathologist and in 2018 was listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people. Her career focuses on Alzhiemer's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), with groundbreaking work on the effects of repetitive head impacts and concussions in sports. Dr. McKee will guide us to a better understanding of the shifting paradigm in our understanding of sports-related head trauma.
William Harwood
Monday, June 24, 2024, 7:00-8:30PM
Bill Harwood was appointed Maine Public Advocate by Governor Mills after a four decade legal career and is one of Maine’s most experienced energy/utility attorneys. From water to solar to electricity, Bill has seen it all. As Public Advocate he represents the interests of Maine utility consumers in regulatory proceedings. After a year including referendum and downed power lines, Bill will invite us to consider Maine’s electric utilities – their costs, climate change, renewable energy and the future of electricity delivery in Maine. Introduction by Dr. Richard Silkman, PhD economist, former director of the Maine State Planning Office and founder and chairman of Competitive Energy Services.
Martin Fletcher, Aaron David Miller, Jackie Northam
Tuesday, August 27, 2024, 7:00-8:30PM
At the forefront of world events for most of our lifetimes, the Israel-Palestine conflict will be thoughtfully discussed by Martin Fletcher, former NBC News Tel Aviv Bureau Chief and now award-winning author, and Aaron David Miller, an American Middle East analyst, author, and negotiator at the State Department. Moderated by NPR's International Affairs Correspondent, Jackie Northam, we will seek to answer the critical question “can there be peace in the Middle East in our lifetimes?”
Joe Lockhart & John F. Harris
Thursday, September 19, 2024, 7-8:30PM
Joe Lockhart was the 21st White House press secretary during the Clinton administration and acted as press secretary and advisor to multiple presidential candidates. He's had a first-hand view of many of the major political events of the last 25 years. Joining Joe will be John F. Harris, political journalist and the co-founder of Politico. John was a journalist with the Washington Post for 21 years during which time he covered the White House. Together, they will provide us a peek inside the Oval Office as well as their impressions of America today.
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Barton Seaver
Fall 2024 (final date TBD)
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer and the Roux Distinguished Scholar of environmental science at Bowdoin College. Barton Seaver is an author, speaker and chef on a mission to restore our relationship with the ocean, the land, and with each other—through sustainable eating. Together, they will lead us down a path to a healthier planet and healthier selves. Combined, Johnson and Seaver's TED talks have had over 5 million listeners.
2024 Lead Sponsors
The Judith Glickman Lauder Foundation
Kathy Biberstein
Gregory Boulos & Nela Alvarez-Sotomayor
The Dara Jeanne Kaufman Fund
Legacy Properties, Sothebys International Realty
The Saliba Family
Robert & Joan Carpenter Troccoli
Gladys Cofrin & Dan Logan
Amy Woodhouse & Toby Scott
2024 Community Season Supporters
Peggy Greenhut Golden
Elizabeth McLellan
Flying Point Consulting
Ineke Schair
Marcia Feller & Bob Murray
Kate & Jonas Werner
Sherman's Maine Coast Bookstore
Vistage
2024 Season Supporters
Anonymous, William (Bro) Adams & Lauren Sterling, Liza Bakewell, Polly Bakewell, Nancy & Michael Beebe, Paul Biberstein, Jane & Ed Bradley, Hooper Brooks, Steve & Judy Brown, Maryellen Carew, Amy & Matt Cartmell, George Casey & Linda Bail, Glenn Cummings & Leslie Applebaum, Jim & Anne Cram, Jack & Katherine Emory, Martin & Hagar, Julie & Matt Forsyth, Marion Freeman & Corky Ellis, Dan & Julie Freund, Sara & Ben Gideon, Phil Gleason & Mary Schendel, Shaina Graff, Francisco & Sarah Guzman, Judy & Gordie Hamlin, Bridget & Mike Healy, Becky & David Hotelling, Robert & Paula Hoy, Carol & Dale Hudson, Ret. Admiral Gregory Johnson & Carol Hancock, David & Barbara Kaufman, Jon & Cindy Knowles, Carol & Noel Leary, Chris & Laura Lynch, Kristi Marsh, Tony McDonald & Denise Caron, Matt McGonagle, Kerry Michaels, Margaret & Mason Morfit, Steve Morrow & Rommy Brown, Elizabeth & Hugo Murphy, Ken & Rosemary Murphy, Merle & Lenny Nelson, Mary & Ken Nelson, Martha Nichols, Mark Nordenson, Harold & Claudia Pachios, Stephanie Paine & John Pier, Pat & Fred Palmer, Anne Parker, Chris Parker, John & Dean Paterson, Strandi & Ric Quesada, Eric Richard & Evgenia A. Kholoptseva, Terry Richard, Ford & Karen Reiche, Sam & Caitlin Reiche, Willy Ritch & Sarah Flink, Nadia Saliba, Evelyn Sawyer, Lynn & Jim Shafer, Nirav Shah & Kara Palamountain, David Soley & Debbie Coppinger, Clayton Spencer, Ellen & Bob Snyder, Marybeth & Steve Sunenblick, Jeff Thaler & Karen Massey, Susan Thornton & Michael Joseph Daley, Sidle House Gallery, Joe & Carol Wishcamper, Colin Woodard
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