Petoskey Luncheon Lecture Series
North Central Michigan College in Petoskey has partnered with Northwestern Bank to provide a Luncheon Lecture Series covering a variety of topics of local interest. Lectures are held on Fridays at 12:00 p.m. in the Library Conference Room. Cost is $9 which includes lunch.
Reservations are preferred. Call (231) 348-6600 or e-mail cmacinnis@ncmich.edu
Upcoming programs are as follows:
October 23 -- Great Lakes Fisheries Ecology
About 1.5 million whitefish are harvested from Lake Michigan each year. Yet much is unknown about their lives, mostly spent in very deep water, and how they have been able to survive the invasion of exotic species into the Great Lakes. Randy Claramunt, Great Lakes research biologist for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and a biology instructor at North Central, has been studying spawning characteristics and egg deposition patterns to help understand how they survive and to learn how we can help them thrive.
November 6 -- Cross Village Rug Works
A cottage industry based on local wool production and rug weaving is being nurtured in Cross Village to create a self-sustaining artisan community. Fleece is bought from local farmers, milled locally, dyed and woven into rugs and other fiber products by local residents. Co-founder Chery Reed and Karen Darnton, executive director of the Cross Village Rug Works, will speak. Also appearing in a non-speaking role will be "Chubbette," a wool-producing sheep owned by Kiersten Clavier of East
Jordan.
November 20 -- We Are the Stories We Tell: Narrative at the Confluence of
Literature and Medicine.
Neurologist Oliver Sacks said, "Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives, we are each of us unique." Pete Olson, Ph.D., director of North Central's allied health program, will examine the border between literature and medicine with an eye to discovering how each affects the other, and how a greater understanding of each enhances the art and science of the other. Pete was previously chairman of the English department at Hillsdale College and later became education coordinator for Allied EMS Systems, Inc.
December 4 -- Stories of the Mackinac Bridge
Mike Fornes of Mackinaw City is the author of, "Mackinac Bridge - A 50-Year Chronicle 1957-2007." Stories of births, deaths and other colorful happenings on, over and under Big Mac are told through words and hundreds of pictures in his book, named a Michigan Notable Book for 2008. Mike is a newspaper reporter and has given more than 1,500 tours of the Mackinac Bridge in motor coaches and on cruise boats, along with numerous shore-based presentations.