Mitchell to share stories at Acadia Night Sky Festival, Mount Desert Islander reports
The Mount Desert Islander reports John Bear Mitchell, a lecturer of Wabanaki studies and multicultural studies and the Wabanaki Center Outreach and Student Development Coordinator at the University of Maine, will speak at the 10th annual Acadia Night Sky Festival. The festival, encompassing five days of events and activities in the Mount Desert Island area to celebrate the “age-old affinity for pondering the stars and planets and people’s place in them,” will take place Sept. 5–9 this year, the article states. Mitchell, a member of the Penobscot Nation, will share Maine Native stories about the night sky on a series of “Under the Stars” boat cruises offered by the Bar Harbor Whale Watch at 1 West St. in Bar Harbor from 7–9:30 p.m. Sept. 5–8. For more information and reservations, call 288.2386.