PVSC One-Day Presentation: Tuesday Jan. 7 - "Katahdin Woods and Waters: Past, Present, Future" - (Hybrid ODP)
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"Katahdin Woods and Waters: Past, Present, Future"
Tuesday January 7, 2025 4:00-5:00 PM Hybrid presentation
UMA-Bangor Campus, Eastport Hall, Room 135 or at home on Zoom
(Zoom link and recording will be sent to registered participants)
This presentation is free with your 2024, or 2025 PVSC or other Maine Senior College Network membership.
Created by presidential proclamation in 2016 following a historic land donation to the National Park Service by Roxanne Quimby, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument preserves nearly 90,000 acres of Maine’s storied North Woods. In this presentation, Brian Hinrichs, the Executive Director of Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters, will explore the evolution of this landscape and how its past is coming to shape its future through vibrant collaboration with the Penobscot Nation and all Wabanaki communities. With the opening of a new welcome center called Tekakapimek Contact Station, the national monument is becoming more accessible to visitors, and the time is right to deepen community understanding of this national treasure in our own backyard.
Presenter: Brian Hinrichs
Brian Hinrichs, Bangor, Maine, is the Executive Director for Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters. He moved to Maine in 2013 to serve as the Executive Director for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, where he oversaw significant growth and championed a focus on community engagement during his ten years of leadership. Brian grew up in Bay Shore, New York, and attended Colgate University. After graduation, he went to Thailand on a Fulbright scholarship. Once stateside again, he worked in marketing and communications roles for various arts nonprofits, and completed his MBA at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He sees a throughline in his career of building community around powerful experiences and is inspired by the mission and work of Friends. Brian and his wife Alexandra, a children’s book author, are raising three children and hit the trails as a family whenever they can.