Downeast Book Babes: From Ancient Rome to Downeast Maine—A reader’s Journey

The Downeast Book Babes present an evening of storytelling and poetry—a little mystery, a little history, haiku and tanka, some audience participation, and fun.

Tickets: $10

Sherry Christie’s love affair with Ancient Rome started with Rosemary Sutcliff and Mary Renault. While she was busy writing for financial businesses, a Roman tale started unfolding in her imagination. It took years for the first scribbles to become Roma Amor, but book two (Amber Road) followed quickly, with a future book three hot on its heels. She lives in Jonesport. https://roma-amor.com

The award-winning author of a haiku collection and two short-story collections set Way Downeast, Catherine J.S. Lee continues to celebrate her coastal corner of Maine in stories, poems, and photographs. A high school educator, journalist, activist, and community-radio DJ, she still finds time to chase clouds and sunsets with her digital cameras, tend her perennial gardens, and be deeply involved in the local arts community.

Faye Weatherbee, author of the ongoing Blueberry Bay Cozy Mystery series, lives in a Downeast town very much like the one in her books—tossing in a glimpse of Maine history and a glimmer of magical realism as amateur sleuth Lisa and her clue-sniffing Havanese, Ziggy Starnose, find themselves fish out of water. Faye also shares her love of living here in her Substack series “Beyond the Page.” Like good mysteries, our event may harbor a reveal... https://fayeweatherbeebooks.com

Acclaimed poet, singer and songwriter Danielle Woerner and her husband Claude Johnson fell in love with the Downeast-Acadia region two decades ago. Since 2014, their Sunrise County Arts Institute in Milbridge has offered writing groups, concerts, singing lessons, and school drama activities. Danielle's poetry has been included in international journals and, closer to home, anthologies published by Resolute Bear Press (Robbinston) and the Eastport Arts Center, plus her own chapbook. https://daniellewoerner.com, Substack