Second Act

Second Act

This month: Pat Galant Charette who decided to swim the English Channel; Artist Betsy Wales; Casco Baykeeper Joe Payne

Second Act

This month Eric Sorensen tells Lesley MacVane that finding a cardboard box in a dumpster led to the art that saved his life. Bill Gregory traces Rod Shain's carrer from teaching to farming to ice cream. Julia Nichols explores the link between science and art with Lesley MacVane

Second Act - March 2011

Lesley MacVane talks with Cosmologist turned Architect turned Yurt Builder turned college student Bill Altenberg. Bill Gregory sits down with author Susan Lebel Young to explore how her life experience expresses itself through her writing. Finally, Lesley MacVane visits with John and Sally Barrows about how the charted course of their lives led them to work with maps.

Second Act - January 2011

This month Lesley MacVane introduces us to artist David Itchkawich who went from driving a taxi in NY City to drawing the streets of Portland. Then Bill Gregory sits down with Bobbie Keppel and Dick Skillin of the Harbour Hospice Singers. Finally Lesley MacVane talks with mother, entrepreneur, massage therapist and political activist Dory Waxman.

Second Act Oct 2010

This month we'll meet an Jan ter Weele, an educator turned painter: Layne Gregory, founder of Boyz to Men; and Jennifer Fox and Rick Frantz who decided to buy a local waterfront pub in Portland.

Second Act - July 2010

This month we meet Nancy Bowker, a Quaker raised in 'The Silence,' but who has found her voice through song; Phyllis Austin, a journalist and author with a special interest in environmental issues; and Steve Sunenblick a lawyer turned abstract/expressionist artist.

Second Act May 2010

DOCENTS
Meet Kerry Corthell and Suzie Sargent Both have lost their jobs in fields in the poor economy. They are now using their “free” time to train as Docents for the Portland museum system – to do something they are both interested in and to make connections for what they hope will be new career paths.

JOE OWEN
Joe Own was a veteran reporter for Stars and Stripes newspaper telling the stories of men and women in the armed forces around the world. His career began at the Kennebec Journal and he has returned to Maine to tell our stories as well.

SUSAN DOUGHTY
Susan spent many years as a nurse practitioner and administrator. On a 50th birthday cruise in Greece Susan realized she wanted hear her patient’s stories and she began a practice dedicated to women dealing with the health challenges of their own Second Acts.

Second Act March 2010

This month we visit with Pan Fried Steel, a steel drum band, Dale Robin Goodwin, a singer of American Root Music and Norman Abelson, a writer and poet

Second Act - January 2010

DOWNEAST DIARY II

Lesley MacVane serves up a second helping of her Downeast Diary. This past summer Lesley took a two week boat trip from Portland and brought along her video camera to shoot a diary of her trip. Perhaps seeing the places she visited and people she met will inspire you to take a journey of your own.

NEW ORLEANS

Last spring Bill Gregory returned to New Orleans with a group of volunteers making their second trip to help rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Bill also brought along a video camera and captured not only the physical journey to Louisiana but also the personal journey of those who made the trip. While the volunteers learned about the people of New Orleans they also learned a great deal about themselves. Bill and his group plan to return to the city this spring and his story reminds us of how far the people there have come…and how far they still have to go.

OSCAR MOKEME

USA Today recently named Portland among its “10 great towns with international flair,” thanks, at least in part, to the Museum of African Culture on Brown Street

'To find this rich mixture of African communities emerge in the Rockwell-esque images of Portland is to rediscover a city that is rediscovering itself' Hear Senegalese drummers or watch Nigerian films at this museum. Last spring Lesley MacVane sat down with museum director Oscar Mokeme and talked about his journey from Nigeria to the streets of Portland and what he hopes to accomplish with his museum.

Seconf Act - November 2009

This month's program includes: A trip to Simply Divine Brownies, an interview wit Joel Eastman at Fort Gorges, and an interview with Betsy Sholl, Maine's Poet Laureate.