Conversations From the Pointed Firs

Peter Neill
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Conversations from the Pointed Firs is a monthly series of discussions between host Peter Neill and Maine-connected authors and artists about new books and creative projects that invoke the spirit of Maine, its history, its ecology, its culture, and its contribution to community and quality of life. Authors and artists interviewed live in Maine, work in Maine, or otherwise derive their creativity from its essence.

  1. 9月8日

    Noel Rubinton

    Join us in conversation with NOEL RUBINTON, journalist, essayist, and author of “Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee”.  Noel Rubinton’s writing has spanned many fields, including government, politics, culture, transportation, and history. His essay about H.P. Lovecraft and Providence is collected in the New York Times book Footsteps: Literary Pilgrimages Around the World and he wrote the foreword to Repression, Re-invention, & Rugelach: A History of Jews at Colgate. A graduate of Deerfield Academy and Brown University, he has been reading John McPhee's writing for many decades. He is a regular visitor to Maine and had a book talk at the Blue Hill library in July 2025 to promote his new book, “Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee” published by Princeton University Press this year. Conversations from the Pointed Firs is a monthly 1-hour audio series with Maine-connected authors, artists, innovators, thinkers, doers, and exemplars, discussing literature, creative projects, music, and more that invokes the spirit of Maine, its history, its ecology, its culture, and its contribution to community and quality of life. https://www.pointedfirs.org/

    58 分鐘

  2. 6月16日

    Kevin Johnson & Cipperly Good of Penobscot Marine Museum

    Our guests for June 2025 on Conversations from the Pointed Firs are CIPPERLY GOOD and KEVIN JOHNSON, curators of Sardineland, a new exhibit at Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine that tells the stories of the maritime communities affected by the boom and bust of Maine’s Sardine Industry and Herring Fishery. Photographs, tools of the trade, art, and cultural artifact explore the industry’s ongoing impact on those who handled the herring—from the net to the can. FMI: visit https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/sardineland/

    59 分鐘

  3. 5月6日

    Tom and Lee Ann Szelog

    Our guests for May 2025 on Conversations from the Pointed Firs are TOM AND LEE ANN SZELOG, often described as Maine’s most renowned wildlife photographers. Together they promote wildlife conservation and preservation through their films, lectures, exhibits, writings, and photographs. The Szelog’s specialize in photographing wildlife in remote locations, using the most ethical wildlife photography practices.  A monthly 1-hour audio series with Maine-connected authors, artists, innovators, thinkers, doers, and exemplars, discussing literature, creative projects, music, and more that invokes the spirit of Maine, its history, its ecology, its culture, and its contribution to community and quality of life. Broadcast the first Friday of the month from 3-4pm on WERU-FM 89.9.

    58 分鐘

  4. 3月10日

    Karin Tilberg

    Our guest this month on Conversations from the Pointed Firs is KARIN R TILBERG, author of “Loving the North Woods: 25 Years of Historic Conservation in Maine”, published by Down East Books in late 2024. Karin is also a lawyer, conservationist, past-President/CEO of The Forest Society of Maine. She and Peter discuss her recently-published book, which chronicles environmental protection and innovation in Maine's north woods, as accomplished by land trusts, government agencies, forest land owners, and the work of individuals who foresaw the protection of a vast segment of Maine as natural asset and contribution to our shared quality of life.

    58 分鐘

  5. 2月13日

    Avery Yale-Kamila

    Vegetarianism has deep roots in Maine. There is a fascinating history: join AVERY YALE-KAMILA in conversation with Peter Neill about the history of Maine’s food ways and the untold story of vegetarianism in Maine.  Author of “300 Years of Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History”, Avery is an American journalist, food writer and community organizer in Maine. She has written a vegan food column for the Portland Press Herald /Maine Sunday Telegram and its affiliated newspapers since 2009.

    59 分鐘

  6. 2024/12/19

    Claire Ackroyd

    Our guest this month on Conversations from the Pointed Firs is CLAIRE ACKROYD, author, inspector of organic maple syrup production in Maine. Claire Ackroyd, author of Murder in the Maple Woods, her first novel, a detective story set in the sugar camps in the northern forests of Maine, published in cooperation with Maine Authors Publishing, and a finalist in the 2021 Maine Literary Awards. She is a landscape designer, and for many years has been studying the history of production and conducting certifications of organic maple syrup in Maine.

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  7. 2024/10/09

    Ian Ludders

    This month on Conversations from the Pointed Firs, host Peter Neill engages in a fascinating conversation with Ian Ludders, author of "Didn't Do Much but a Little of Everything", a micro-history of Dalton Raynes who's workday diary from his 19th year, in 1897, serves as the book's center, and of Bob Quinn who worked the land up into the 2000s. Ian Ludders, who annotated the text, worked as a day laborer with Bob Quinn before he moved to the island to work and fish with Bob and to manage Eagle for the Quinn family. "Didn't Do Much but a Little of Everything" encapsulates life on the small community of Eagle Island, and was produced primarily for the small community of people who know and love it, though it will be of interest to anyone who loves Maine, island, and coastal living.

    59 分鐘

  8. 2024/09/12

    Peter Ralston

    This month on Conversations from the Pointed Firs host Peter Neill sits down with Peter Ralston. Peter is a marine photographer, photographing the coast of Maine since 1978, drawn especially to the working communities that define the coast’s enduring character. Instrumental in forming the Island Institute in 1983, Peter Ralston served as its executive vice-president until 2010, and contributed most of the photography and served as art director for the Institute's Island Journal since its inception. Peter's work has been reproduced in many books and magazines, exhibited in galleries, collections and museums throughout the United States and abroad. He is currently working on a major book about the Maine coast. Although, as a young man, Ralston studied very briefly under Ansel Adams, he acknowledges the greater artistic influence of a lifetime of association with the Wyeth family: close friends and life-changing mentors. He continues to spend as much time as he possibly can on and around islands.

    53 分鐘
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Conversations from the Pointed Firs is a monthly series of discussions between host Peter Neill and Maine-connected authors and artists about new books and creative projects that invoke the spirit of Maine, its history, its ecology, its culture, and its contribution to community and quality of life. Authors and artists interviewed live in Maine, work in Maine, or otherwise derive their creativity from its essence.

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  • 創作者
    Peter Neill
  • 活躍年代
    2021年 - 2025年
  • 集數
    42
  • 年齡分級
    兒少適宜
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    © 2025 Conversations From the Pointed Firs
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