Sunday, March 4th at 2:00pm
The Maine Irish Heritage Center
Corner of Gray and State Street, Portland
Maine Maritime Museum and the Maine Irish Heritage Center host Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barbara Walsh as she discusses her latest book August Gale. Barbara -who has interviewed killers, bad cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her journalistic career-faces the most challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain. In the process, she takes us on two heartrending odysseys: one into a deadly Newfoundland hurricane and the lives of schooner fishermen who relied on God and the wind to carry them home; the other, into a squall stirred by a man with many secrets: a grandfather who remained a mystery until long after his death. Together, she and her father journey to Newfoundland to learn about the 1935 storm, and along the way her dad begins to talk about the man he cannot forgive. As she recreates the scenes of the violent hurricane and a small boy's tender past, she holds onto a hidden desire: to heal her father and redeem the grandfather she has never met.
Lecture and book signing will be held in Portland at the Maine Irish Heritage Center (34 Gray Street on the corner of State and Gray). The lecture is free. Books will be available for sale and signing by the author.
Please contact us at 780-0118 or email www.maineirish.com with questions.
Dear Friends of the Maine Irish Heritage Center,
We have made great gains in the operations and programs at the MIHC since our reopening in 2008. We are so grateful to our many supporters who have shared their time, their treasure and their talents. We are a volunteer led organization and the continued use of the MIHC takes lots of resources. I think I read somewhere that there are 2000-3000 non-profit organizations started every year. This year has had so many cataclysmic events occurring here and around the world it is hard to remember them all. Trying to raise money for non-profits is a difficult task and in this atmosphere it is doubly difficult. That is why I am making a pitch for workplace giving. I have been giving at work since 1997 and I find it the most convenient and simplest way to give to the charity or charities of my choice. Since 2003 I have been designating my annual pledge to the Maine Irish Heritage Center (MIHC). If you have a workplace giving campaign in your workplace, or have family and friends that do I highly suggest that you consider this method of support for the MIHC. I give through the Maine State Employee Combined Charitable Appeal (MSECCA). Simply writing down the address and the Employer ID of the MIHC on your pledge form and signing it.
It is as simple and easy as that and then starting in January of the following year your employer will begin to withhold your charitable contribution. If you do have a workplace campaign and are already giving, consider the Maine Irish Heritage Center as a recipient of your giving. If you have any questions about workplace giving, or the Maine Irish Heritage Center please feel free to email me or call (232-2001). Thanks for your consideration.
Vinny O'Malley
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MIHC
PO Box 7588
Portland, ME -04112-7588
Employer Identification # 81-05-46468
