Local Author Talk at the Library

Location: Lubec Memorial Library, 55 Water St., Lubec

Award-winning science writer, photographer, and Corea, Maine resident Margie Patlak will share what the nature in Maine taught her about life, loss, legacy, and restorative wonder. She will also showcase some of Maine's more wondrous scenery with her photos.

Within a short span of time, Patlak lost her mother and sole sibling. Reeling from those losses, she returned to live in Down East Maine, where she spent her childhood summers. While in mourning and writing about the wilder environment she experienced at her new home, Patlak uncovered many lessons from nature.

The three generations of monarch butterflies that it takes to make their way from Mexico to Maine taught her the value of what is passed on from generation to generation, while the dramatic tides taught her how fleeting time is and the need to make the most of it. Patlak will share several other vital lessons she and others have learned from nature about life, loss, legacy, and restorative wonder--lessons that helped her personally heal from her losses.

Many of these were recounted in Patlak's award-winning memoir "More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring Nature and Loss on the Coast of Maine", which was published in 2021. She will illustrate the talk with her photos of stunning Maine scenery that appear in her more recent book "Wild and Wondrous: Nature's Artistry on the Coast of Maine".

For more information:

http://lubec.lib.me.us/

207-733-2491

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