September 21, 22, and 23, 2007
Common Ground Fair

The Common Ground Fair is the greatest thing going in Maine.
I look forward to it all year.
Back when I was allowed to tell you about upcoming events in Maine, you'd hear tell you that the CGF was the greatest thing going in Maine.
On my uncensored radio show, which you can now hear off my web page, on two TV stations, and on the Village Soup newspaper's web page, you will hear me telling about it this year, too.
You can hear humble telling stories at the 2007 Common Ground Fair on all three days from 2 PM until 3.
By the third day I should have it right.
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September 21, 22, and 23, 2007
Schedule for Speaker Tent
Common Ground Fair

Friday, Sept. 21

12:00 Ron Damico, Inner Tapestry, What is communication?
1:00 Baron Wormser: Maine’s former poet laureate, Maine Poets Read
2:00 Robert Skoglund, The humble Farmer
3:00 Gary Lawless and Russell Libby Maine Poets Read
4:00 Ellen Gibson, Stearns Hill Farm Barn Story: memoir as a tool for preservation

Saturday, Sept. 22

10:00 Gail Chase, Unity Barn Raisers Interview: Unity Barn Raisers: A community development model
11:00 None scheduled due to MOFGA keynote
12:00 Judith Schmidt, Christian Science Monitor Solutions for a healthy planet
1:00 Betsy Sholl, Elizabeth Tibbetts, Lisa Moore, and friends Maine Poets Read with Betsy Sholl, Maine’s poet laureate
2:00 Robert Skoglund, The humble Farmer
3:00 Herb Coursen, Patricia Ranzoni, Jeanette Baldridge, and friends Maine Poets Read
4:00 Amy Brown, WERU-FM Citizen Journalism

Sunday, Sept. 23

10:00 Cheryl Long, Editor, Mother Earth News Raising chickens in your backyard
11:00 None scheduled due to MOFGA Keynote
12:00 Laurie Graves, Wolf Moon Press Journal Panel on Writing and rural poverty with Laurie Graves, John Clark. and Claire Hersom
1:00 Arron Sturgis, Preservation Timber Framing Interview with Arron Sturgis: Saving your old barn
2::00 Robert Skoglund, The humble Farmer
3:00 George Van Deventer, Sherry Hanson, Claire Hersom and friends Maine Poets Read

September 21, 22, 23, 2007

Your buddy humble will be in The Speaker Tent for 50 or so minutes a day on each of three days
At The Common Ground Fair
In Unity, Maine
Where, for three fun filled days
A few acres of land
Will host more IQ than can be found anywhere this side of Cambridge
Come and picnic if you want
150 demonstrations every day
Yes, I plan to be there all three days --- all day ---
just for the opportunity to meet you.
and
have been permitted to talk with you from 2 until 3 each day
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Here's a tip. If you join MOFGA now, you'll get into the fair free.
Call (207) 568-4142 now and ask how you can join.
Also ---
Barbara told me that if you volunteer to help out for 4 hours
1. you get in free
2. you get an organic meal
3. you get a T shirt
(that was hopefully not produced by child labor)
Tickets are
$9. rich adults
$9. poor adults
$7. Seniors
$0. Under 12. Yup, if you're a kid you get in free

The Common Ground Fair