Portland trip to feature Shakespeare’s First Folio, map collections
Members of the University of Maine community and general public are invited to join a bus trip to Portland to tour collections at the Osher Map Library, as well as attend a public lecture and view William Shakespeare’s First Folio at the Portland Public Library.
The UMaine Humanities Center (UMHC) and Department of English are co-sponsoring the April 2 event, which begins at 8:45 a.m. when the bus departs from the Collins Center for the Arts parking lot on the UMaine campus.
The bus is scheduled to arrive at the Osher Map Library in Portland around 11 a.m. for guided tours of Shakespeare-era maps and the new “Golden Age of American Pictorial Maps” exhibit, which was curated by UMaine geographer Stephen Hornsby.
At 1 p.m. the bus will take participants to the Portland Public Library for lunch and exploration downtown.
Richard “Dick” Brucher, a UMaine English professor, will deliver “Learning from the First Folio” in the library’s Rines Auditorium at 3 p.m. Visitors will have the opportunity to tour Shakespeare’s First Folio exhibit before or after the lecture.
The bus is slated to depart from the library at 5 p.m. and return to UMaine around 7 p.m.
Email Sarah Harlan-Haughey at sarah.harlanhaughey@maine.edu to reserve a spot on the luxury coach. The subsidized cost is $10 for UMaine students, faculty and staff; and $20 for the general public. Guests also can join the trip on a first-come, first-served basis by meeting in front of the Collins Center for the Arts starting at 8:30 a.m. April 2.
For more information, including a schedule for the day, visit the center’s website or contact Liam Riordan, UMHC director, at riordan@umit.maine.edu or 581.1913.