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Friday, June 18 at 7 pm
1812 Farm in Bristol

Thomas McAdams DefordForeign affairs columnist for the Free Press, Thomas McAdams Deford, will address the CONA annual meeting this year. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m., potluck dinner at 6 and the speaker at 7.

As a State Department Foreign Service officer, Deford served in many parts of the world, beginning in Vietnam from 1966 to 1969. He then went off to the Middle East, learning Arabic in Beirut, Lebanon, working as a political counselor in Saudi Arabia and Jordan and a special assistant on the Middle East to the Undersecretary of State. Leaving the government sector, Deford joined Merrill Lynch International in 1978, serving in Korea, the Philippines and Argentina.

 
He is a graduate of Yale University and Bangor Theological Seminary. Active in many local organizations, he served as President of the Board of Trustees at the Farnsworth Museum and as Director of the Penobscot Marine Museum, is on the advisory council of the Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, the School for Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine, the Camden Conference and is president of the Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations.


Deford’s talk will address current key foreign policy challenges facing our country.

The event is free and open to the public. CONA members are encouraged to bring potluck items. There will be a cash bar. During the meeting portion, the CONA year will be briefly reviewed and the slate of board members presented and voted upon.

The 1812 Farm is approximately six miles from Damariscotta on the Bristol Rd., Route 129.  For more information, call Kay Liss at 549-3731 or Wendy Eichler at 549-3869.


2010:
May -- Olive Pierce - 40 year retrospective of her photography

April -- Green Beginnings - see photos in our scrapbook

March -- Film and discussion on FDR's Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, and on the center at her Newcastle, Maine home formed to carry on her legacy.

February -- "Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement" Jon Olsen

January -- Peaceful Beginnings and Potluck, CONA's annual celebration of the New Year.


2009:

December -- CONA's annual Potluck and Poetry celebration. This year, for the first time, a dancer, Shana Bloomstein, performed.

November -- "Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives -- The Environmental Footprint of War"

October --   Sundance Channel's film debut of  "Big Ideas for a Small Planet" that includes a segment on Lincoln Academy's Climate Action Club.

 

September -- Helen Weld RN, MPH of Edgecomb talk accompanied by photos about her work in Sierra Leone, West Africa

 

June -- CONA annual meeting, with former Maine Governor Angus King speaking on his proposal for a huge wind farm in the Gulf of Maine.


May -- In conjunction with Maine Audubon, the showing of the hour-long independent film Division Street, that highlights the adverse impact highways have on wildlife, and ways to mitigate the effect.

 

April -- The first annual Green Beginnings -- a celebration of the end of the long winter featuring music, garden-related activities and organic foods donated by Rising Tide Market.

 

March -- A forum on aging, health and quality of life in the Damariscotta region featuring four local experts in the field.

 

February -- Diano Circo with the Natural Resources Council of Maine on the challenges facing Maine's north woods and what his organization is doing to try to protect the lands and waters from unwise development.

 

January -- Peaceful Beginnings -- CONA's annual celebration of the New Year.

2008:

December -- CONA's  annual Potluck and Poetry event, this time featuring the Pemaquid Poets.

 

November -- Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision -- a forum on the Israeli-Palestinian situation.   (read about this event in an LCN article)

 

October -- a talk by student members of the Lincoln Academy's Climate Action Club.

 

June --  CONA annual meeting, with author and professor Anouar Majid speaking on dissent in Islam and America.

 

April -- Andrea Licata on the opposition in Italy to the expansion of a U.S. airbase in Vicenza, Italy.

 

March -- International reproductive health and family planning discussed by Julia G. (Judy) Kahrl of Pathfinder International.

 

January -- Peaceful Beginnings -- CONA's annual celebration of the New Year.

2007:

Betsy Scholl, Maine's Poet Laureate reads at Potluck and Poetry 
Bruce Gagnon "Star Wars and U.S. Empire"
Stephen Wessler: Preventing Bias, Harassment and Violence in Schools and Communities (October)
Helen Weld, RN, and Dr. Judy Sandick report from Pakistan (Sept.)
JONATHAN CLARKE CONA ANNUAL MEETING SPEAKER (June)

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2006:

Exhibit of “Americans Who Tell the Truth” in Damariscotta (March)

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2006:

DON LORD, PH.D. and author of DUBYA: THE TOXIC TEXAN -- GEORGE W. BUSH AND Peaceful Beginnings (January)
A Report from Pakistan (January)
Wal-Mart debate (February)
 Ted Ames, “The State of North-east Fisheries” (March)
 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION”; (April)
Jan Schrock, “Heifer International, Peacemaker” (May) 
HELEN THOMAS, CONA Annual Meeting (June)

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2005:

Peaceful Beginnings (January)
Battle for America's Soul (February)
Invisible - film documentary about Native Americans living in Maine (March)
Unipolar Worlds: The British Empire and the New American Imperialism. (April)
 Cuba on the Mind: Considerations of Justice and Independence (May)
Reza Jalali speaks about Iran (September)
Who gets hurt when Maine discriminates (October)
A Southern Perspective (November)
Potluck and Poetry (December)

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2004:

Peaceful Beginnings (January)
no other records...

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2003:

Peaceful Beginnings (January)
Empire Without End (January)
Co-sponsored with the Skidompha Library, Poets Against the War.org and
area poets, CONA at the Movies also held a poetry reading on February 12,
titled "Poems For Peace"
Brave New World (February)
The American emergency and Some Things We Can Do (March)
Biodiesel: A Renewable Liquid Fuel (May)
Stealing the Heart of the Democratic Process (June)
The Hidden Price of Globalization(September)
Making Hope Work in a Troubled World (October)
Maine tax reform proposals (October)

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2002:

Peaceful Beginnings (January)
Fighting for Peace(January)
The Earth Charter (February)
Affordable Health Care in Maine (March)
American Culture in a Time of Stress (April)
Alternative to war: A people's movement in Colombia  (October)
War on Iraq: International and Regional Consequences (October)
Hope Rises from the Ashes of MyLai, Vietnam (November)
Potluck and Poetry (December)
Movie: The trials of Henry Kissinger (December)

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2001:

  • Peaceful Beginnings (Multi-program Open House for the      Community)(January)
  • Balkans Update (February)
  • Report from Cuba (March)
  • The Tax Cut  Issue (April)
  • Electoral Reform(May)
  • Shelly Pingree on Democracy (June - annual meeting)
  • Change, Challenges and Prospects for a US-Cuban Relationship (October)
  • Sprawl (October)
    Dialogue: A Pathway to Peace (November)
  • Potluck and Poetry (December)
2000:
  • Peaceful Beginnings (Multi-program Open House for the      Community)(January)
  • GM Food: The Science and the Politics of Genetically Modified       Food (February)
  • The World Trade Organization and Democracy (March)
  • Sowing for Need or Sowing for Greed (March); a film on GM      seeds’ impact on farming Land Mines, Power and Responsibility (April)
  • The Death Penalty (May)
  • Applied Compassion (June - annual meeting)
  • Third Party Politics (October)
  • Globalization and Militarization in Chiapas, Mexico (November

1999:

  • Peaceful Beginnings (Multi-program Open House for the      Community)(January)
  • The Forgotten Maine (Film) (February)
  • Y2K, a Community Forum (March)
  • Child Labor In Pakistan (April)
  • Corporate World Rule and Democracy (June - annual meeting)
  • Health Care: Alternative Options (September)
  • Kosovo and the Politics of the Balkans (October)
  • Meeting Our Gay and Lesbian Neighbors (November)
  • Potluck and Poetry (December)

1998

  • Peaceful Beginnings (Multi-program Open House for the      Community)(January)
  • Developmental Assets (Lincoln Co. Juvenile Task Force)      (February)
  • Next Steps Toward Abolition: De-Alerting & Ratification of       the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (March)
  • The Tobacco Settlement (April)
  • Money In Our Lives (May)
  • Arts in the City (June - Annual Meeting)
  • Understanding Today’s Nuclear Threat (August)
  • Propaganda In Our Culture (September)
  • Solving Disputes Among the Youth in our Community      (October)
  • The Carpenter’s Boatshop and the Community it has    Nourished(November)
  • “Affluenza” (Video presentation) (December)

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1997  

  • Propaganda and How it Controls Our Lives (June)
  • The Economy as if People Mattered (July)
  • Hiroshima Day Commemoration (August)
  • Ithaca Hours (Video program on local currencies) (August)
  • Cuba through an Organic Farmer’s Eyes (September)
  • Simpler Living: Alternatives to Consumer Living (October)
  • The Day After the Election: What Next? (November)
  • Concepts of Beauty and Ugliness in the Creation of the Human Face (art) (December)

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