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SUMMARY:Maine's Untold Vegetarian History
DESCRIPTION:After a successful run in Portland\, the exhibition Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History travels to The Good Life Center in Brooksville for the 2026 season. Reaching back 300 years\, Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History features stories of Mainers who changed what vegetarians eat and opened access to plant-based foods. Learn about the riots\, activist newspapers\, prophecies and back-to-the-landers who have influenced Maine’s vegetarian culture. Among these prominent influencers were Helen and Scott Nearing\, who ate their vegetable meals with wooden bowls\, chopsticks and spoons\, and cooked them on the Glenwood wood-fired cookstove\, all of which remain on view at the Good Life Center. Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History was co-curated by Avery Yale Kamila\, independent history researcher\, and John Babin\, author\, and the first-of-its-kind exhibition was on view at the Maine Historical Society museum from Sept. 10\, 2024 to May 31\, 2025. \nView the online exhibition at the Maine Memory Network \nWatch a 207 segment about the exhibition
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/maines-untold-vegetarian-history/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260705T160000
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SUMMARY:History Rhymes: Echoes of the Past in Today's Society
DESCRIPTION:As writers and artists\, Rob\, Aran\, & Margot Lee Shetterly will explore the failures and successes in history in order to plan better for a more just future. \nRob Shetterly is the artist behind Americans Who Tell the Truth\, a portrait series honoring those who stand for justice and the common good — joined here by his son Aran\, a writer and editor\, and daughter-in-law Margot Lee Shetterly\, bestselling author of “Hidden Figures”. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/history-rhymes-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T160000
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SUMMARY:Documentary Screening: “Turn Off the Machines”
DESCRIPTION:“Turn Off the Machines” — a public screening of a new film about the alternative lifestyle of Ethan Hughes and his family of Belfast\, Maine. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/documentary-screening-turn-off-the-machines/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T170000
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SUMMARY:From Individual Precarity to Collective Resilience: The Revolutionary Ecological and Social Implications of Local Microfactories\, Community Fablabs\, Personal Fabrication\, and Fabcities
DESCRIPTION:In this talk we’ll see how the Nearings use economy has evolved into the maker movement and Fabcities. Fabcities are cities that produce everything they make using a circular economy. Atoms cycle locally while ideas\, designs  and best practices flow globally and open source. \nLonnie Gamble is a professor\, educator\, and sustainability leader working across renewable energy\, ecovillage design\, and permaculture—including founding the Abundance Ecovillage. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/from-individual-precarity-to-collective-resilience-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T160000
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SUMMARY:Fermenting Grains with Joshua Rollson of Stone Broke Bread & Books
DESCRIPTION:Sourdough 101: What is Sourdough? A workshop and in-depth conversation about Fermented Bread and Culture for all levels of skill and experience. Bring your questions and curiosity and take home some starter. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/fermenting-grains-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T170000
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SUMMARY:Seeds of the Good Life
DESCRIPTION:In this conversation\, Eliot Coleman & Barbara Damrosch will share stories of Scott & Helen Nearing—the homesteaders who shaped their lives—and explore what the Nearings’ revolutionary politics and radical experiment in simple living still has to teach a world hungry for alternatives. \nBarbara Damrosch has been growing food and writing about it for nearly fifty years. Author of The Garden Primer\, her most recent book is A Life in the Garden\, part memoir\, part growing guide\, and an absolute delight to read. Eliot Coleman has been farming organically since the 1960s and is internationally known for his work on sustainable agriculture and year-round growing. His most recent book\, The Self-Fed Farm and Garden\, shows how growers can build lasting soil fertility from within the farm itself. Together\, they live at Four Season Farm\, right here in Harborside\, Maine. \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/seeds-of-the-good-life-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260726
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260902
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibition: Seeds & Threads by Dr. Rachael M Rollson (as part of the wild apotropaic)
DESCRIPTION:A collage series extending the thoughts of the revolutionary quote ‘they tried to bury us\, they didn’t know we were seeds’ along with trying to make sense in ‘these troubled times’. These days many of us are holding on by a thread. When the thread thins and breaks\, we knot it back together – it’s all we can do. We knot to count the days\, we knot to make do\, we knot to mark the events where we needed to remember our ‘seedness.’ We have all we need inside of us (somewhere) to start anew. \nRachael M Rollson\, Ph.D. Aesthetic Philosophy & Art Theory (IDSVA ‘23)\, MFA: Interdisciplinary Art (Goddard ‘06)\, Board Chair of The Good Life Center is a homesteader\, writer\, and educator with a 30-year art practice in collage\, analog B/W photography\, short film\, and watercolor painting. She/they write on anarchy and ecology\, focusing on the American shift in Western Philosophy toward praxis. \nArtworks are for sale.\nInquire at: rachaelmrollson@gmail.com\nWebsite: loveandangerblog.wordpress.com
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/art-exhibition-seeds-threads-by-dr-rachael-m-rollson-as-part-of-the-wild-apotropaic/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260726T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260726T150000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultivating Community: The Power of Gathering Spaces & The Impact of Belonging” with Kyle Warnock of Queerly ME
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1950s\, the United States has seen a steady decrease in gathering spaces that effectively foster meaningful\, long-lasting support networks and community belonging. As the country becomes more divided and individualistic\, we see an uptick in isolation and a decline in public health and well-being. In this talk\, explore the three components of community building Queerly ME employs to foster strong support networks and strengthen community belonging for LGBTQIA+ adults in Maine. Dive into what is needed for a gathering place to thrive and lead towards meaningful\, long-lasting community connections. This workshop will have a strong focus on the LGBTQIA+ community in Maine\, and the many sociopolitical obstacles challenging the creation and growth of gathering spaces and how we may overcome those challenges through collective action. \nSuggested donation: $10\nThis event has been cancelled\, we hope to see them here again in the future\, please see their website: QueerlyME.org for other ways to support and find them.
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/cultivating-community-2026/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260726T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260726T170000
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SUMMARY:The Influence of Helen and Scott Nearing: A 50-Year Journey
DESCRIPTION:In 1976\, inspired by the ideas of Helen and Scott Nearing\, Sherrie Lovler and Norm Lee began a back-to-the-land life in upstate New York. They later founded The Good Life Get-Together\, a yearly summer gathering with workshops for those drawn to the back-to-the-land movement and published Homesteaders News magazine for over nine years. Helen and Scott came to the first festival and Helen came again to teach stone wall building. Fifty years later\, Sherrie reflects on how the Nearings’ influence continues to shape her life as a self-employed artist\, poet\, teacher\, and author. \nSherrie Lovler is a writer and artist whose work explores “living simply and sanely in a troubled world.” She is the author of three books that combine her paintings and poetry. Her most recent work\, Distant Voices\, invites viewers to travel through fire\, forest\, silence\, and light—through endings that seek beginnings and beginnings that return us to ourselves.
URL:https://goodlife.org/event/the-influence-of-helen-and-scott-nearing-a-50-year-journey/
LOCATION:The Good Life Center\, 372 Harborside Road\, Harborside\, 04642\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Speaker Series
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