University of Maine at Fort Kent

Conservation Law Club Weekly Meeting
2023-03-30 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-03-23 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-03-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Join Con Law club for their weekly meeting in the Armory, classroom A119!

Sustainability Club General Meeting
2023-03-30 12:00 - 12:30, 2023-03-23 12:00 - 12:30, 2023-03-16 12:00 - 12:30
Join Sustainability Club in the lair for their weekly meeting!

Lego Animal Kit
2023-03-30 11:00 - 16:30 | Student Affairs Window
While supplies last! Pick up a lego animal kit from the student affairs window! 100 paw points.
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TableTop Guild Session
2023-03-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-03-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-03-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Bengal Student Center
Join TableTop Guild weekly for a Dungeons and Dragons session! Email andrew.pierce@maine.edu for more information.

UMFK to host author Cathie Pelletier featuring newly published book, “Northeaster”
2023-03-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Nadeau Hall conference room, Fort Kent, ME, United States
UMFK to host author Cathie Pelletier featuring newlypublished book, “Northeaster”

The University of Maine at Fort Kent book club will host a reading and book signing for award-winning author Cathie Pelletier’s newly published book on March 28th at 6 p.m. in Nadeau Hall conference room. The event is free and open to the public.
Northeaster, A Story of Courage & Survival in the Blizzard of 1952 was published by Pegasus Books/Simon & Schuster in January.

Cathie Pelletier is the author of twelve novels beginning with The Funeral Makers, published by Macmillan in 1986. She and theoretical physicist S. James Gates, Jr. (a National Medal of Science recipient)co-authored Proving Einstein Right, released in 2019 by Public Affairs. Praised by Walter Isaacson, the book was awarded the Brown University Book Award for 2020. Also released in 2019 is The Ragin’ Cajun, a memoir she wrote with legendary fiddler Doug Kershaw (Mercer University Press).

Producer Gabrielle Tana has recently optioned Pelletier’s novel The Funeral Makers for Doug Liman to direct and Pelletier to adapt. Her screenplay, The Luna Christmas,has been optioned by actor Donald Sutherland. She has worked on several film projects with Grammy-winner and AFI founder George Stevens, Jr.
Under the pseudonym of K. C. McKinnon, Pelletier wrote Dancing at the Harvest Moon and Candles on Bay Street, both with Doubleday, the latter earning a million-dollar advance. Harvest Moon was printed in 22 languages and was a CBS film starring Jacqueline Bisset and Valerie Harper. Candles on Bay Street was translated to16 languages and was a Hallmark Hall of Fame film starring Alicia Silverstone.
Two of her Pelletier novels received notable mentions from the New York Times Book Review. Her third, The Weight of Winter, won the New England Booksellers Award. In 2006, Running the Bulls won the Paterson Prizef or fiction. Her first middle grade novel, The Summer Experiment, was published in 2014.

Pelletier was privately hired to write a memoir, now finished, that centers on the Vietnam War. She also created and sold to Simon & Schuster a book for country music icon Tanya Tucker,titled 100 Ways to Beat the Blues.She co-wrote The Christmas Note with her friend, and Grand Old Opry legend, the late Skeeter Davis. She has co-written songs that were recorded by David Byrne (of the Talking Heads), the Texas Tornadoes, and others. She and Tanya Tucker are working on a children’s book.

A middle grade book, Mystery Traveler at Lake Fortune and Evangeline, a prose version of the Longfellow poem, are coming by Down East Books this July.

Books will be available to purchase at the UMFK campus store starting March 20th and at the event.

For more information on the event, please contact the University Relations office at 207-834-7557.

For the Books - Cathie Pelletier
2023-03-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Nadeau Hall Teleconference Room
Join Cathie Pelletier and the Book Club at UMFK in discussion about Cathie’s latest book, NORTHEASTER.
Set in 1952, NORTHEASTER shows just how brutal the beauty of nature can truly be.
Snacks and drinks will be provided. FREE and open to the public.
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Be the Match Registration and Swab
2023-03-28 10:00 - 14:00 | UMFK Sports Center Gymnasium
Join the Be The Match Registry on behalf of Caleb, a Maine State Trooper who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2012. He has relapsed twice and is now in need of a stem cell transplant from a matched donor.
It takes less than 5 minutes to join this life-saving registry.
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Ski Lesson
2023-03-27 15:00 - 16:00
Want to have a free ski lesson? Come to Fort Kent Outdoor Center at 3 PM today! Very limited spots-Free to the first 5 UMFK Students. Please meet at the Fort Kent Outdoor Center 10 minutes before 3 PM.

Misfish Club UMPI Sportsman Show Trip
2023-03-25 11:00 - 16:00 | Event @ UMPI
Meeting at the Crocker Parking Lot for 11am, we will offer rides for students interested in attending, however will only be paying admission for Misfish Club Members. Admission fees are $5.

Chad Burke the Hypnotist
2023-03-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Fox Auditorium, University Dr, Fort Kent, ME 04743, USA
Come join SAB for a night of mystery and explore your mind with a hypnotist! 500 Paw Points
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SAB Open Mic Night
2023-03-23 19:00 - 20:30
Join SAB for an Open Mic Night in the Lair! 400 paw points.
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Book Club General Meeting
2023-03-23 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-16 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-09 17:00 - 18:00
Alumni Conference Room. Book: Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman

Book Club General Meeting
2023-03-23 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-16 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-03-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Alumni Conference Room
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Wilderness Sporting (Misfish) Club General Meeting
2023-03-23 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-23 13:00 - 14:00, 2023-03-09 13:00 - 14:00
Please join Misfish club in their bi-weekly general meeting in Grindle Conference Room (right next to student affairs)!

Henna Hand and Finger Art
2023-03-23 11:00 - 14:00 | Outside Lair
Join Student Activities in creating Henna hand and finger art. While supplies last. 200 paw points.
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Behavioral Science Club Bakesale
2023-03-22 10:00 - 13:00
Join BSC outside the Lair and purchase some baked goods!
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Art Night-Disney Paint Canvases
2023-03-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Lair
Paint Disney canvases in the lair. Raffle prize. 100 paw points.
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BONFIRE
2023-03-09 18:00 - 21:00
Please join Misfish club in their monthly bonfire! 500 paw points.
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