Hunters breakfast
AURORA — A hunters breakfast will be held 4:30-10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, Airline Community School, 26 Great Pond Road. Cost: The cost $6, $4 children 10 and under, $20 family of four or more. Proceeds will benefit the Airline PTF. For information, 974-7709 or email airlineptf@gmail.com.
Craft fair, silent auction
BANGOR — A craft fair and silent auction will take place 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, in the multi-purpose room, Maine Veterans’ Home, 44 Hogan Road. Proceeds will benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. Lunch and raffles also available.
Fly tying expo
BREWER — The annual Penobscot Fly Fishers Fly Tying Expo is seeking fly rod builders to participate in the event, a showcase of tyers from around the state.
The expo will be held Sunday, Nov. 16, at the world famous Brewer Auditorium. Doors will open for tyers at 8 a.m and to the public at 9 a.m. The expo will end at 3 p.m.
Admission is free.
For information, contact Mike at bronzebackfly@gmail.com or 944-8686.
Baked bean supper
EDDINGTON — A baked bean supper will be held with seatings at 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the North Brewer-Eddington United Methodist Church, Route 9, on the bend. The cost is $8, $4 children. For information, call the church at 989-4715.
Nonviolent action talk
ORONO — Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Boston-based Albert Einstein Institution, will speak about strategic nonviolent action movements around the world at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union at the University of Maine. Raqib’s topic will be “How to Start a Revolution.”
Raqib, originally from Afghanistan, has worked with noted researcher and writer Gene Sharp since 2002 in developing strategies that people throughout the world have used to create nonviolent revolutions against autocratic or oppressive governments. She is also a co-author with Sharp of a book on nonviolent strategies and wrote a chapter in another book on the Arab Spring revolution in Tunisia. Raqib has become a public face and speaker for strategies for citizen groups in organizing a successful nonviolent revolution in their country.
Albert Einstein Institution publications, such as Sharp’s “From Dictatorship to Democracy,” have been used as guides to citizen groups who have created successful nonviolent revolutions in Serbia, the Ukraine in 2004, the Republic of Georgia, Tunisia and Egypt. Raqib will describe some of the strategies that have worked to bring democracy to these countries.
The talk is free and open to the public. For more information about the talks and efforts to promote nonviolent strategies in Maine, contact Larry Dansinger, rosc@psouth.net or 525-7776.
Life in Maine series
ORONO — Bob Frank will give a presentation, “Early Logging and Forestry in Maine and the History of Leonard’s Mill” 6-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Community Room of the Orono Public Library, 39 Pine St. His talk is part of the “Life in Maine” series.
For information, call the library at 866-5060.
Potatoes fundraiser
ORONO — The Page Farm and Home Museum, 12 Portage Road, University of Maine, is taking orders through Thursday, Nov. 20, for for U.S. #1 potatoes. Pick up day is 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22.
Fifty-pound bags of potatoes cost $13, 20-pound bags are $7 for Norland and Pontiac Red, Kennebec and Norwis White, and Yukon Gold.
The cost for Russet potatoes is 20 pounds for $8, or $17 for 50 pounds.
Proceeds will benefit the museum. To place an order, call 581-4100.
Book talk
WATERVILLE — Historian Daniel Tortora of Colby College will share a talk and slide show based on his recent book, “Fort Halifax: Winslow’s Historic Outpost,” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, Waterville Public Library.
Attendees will learn about local residents and visitors who have worked to preserve the blockhouse, and hear about the events in Fort Halifax’s more recent history. Topics will include the eccentric amateur archaeologist Timothy Otis Paine; the efforts of the ladies of the Fort Halifax Chapter, DAR; the creation of Fort Halifax Park; and the April Fool’s Day Flood of 1987.
This event is free and open to the public. A question and answer session will follow.
Books will be available for purchase and the author will sign copies of the book. Light refreshments will be served.