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<b>October 31, 2017</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
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Contact: Nancy Bridges<br>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Walking To Listen</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Talk Kicks Off
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<b>Marine Biological Laboratory Falmouth Forum Season, November 3</b><br>
</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">How would our world change if we all listened first? Where do we begin? Andrew Forsthoefel speaks to these questions in an evening of storytelling and discussion
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-- Author and adventurer Andrew Forsthoefel will present a talk on living to listen at the Marine Biological Laboratory’s first
</span><a href="http://www.mbl.edu/falmouth-forum" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Falmouth Forum</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
of the new season, Friday November 3. Forsthoefel’s lecture, titled “Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time” will be held at 7:30 PM in the MBL’s Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole. The free series is presented by the
</span><a href="http://www.mbl.edu/associates" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MBL Associates</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">.
Free parking is available in any MBL lot.<br>
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At the age of 23, Forsthoefel walked out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read “Walking to Listen.” He had just graduated from Middlebury College and
was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn’t know how. So he decided he’d walk. And listen. It would be a cross-country quest for guidance, and everyone he met would be his guide.<br>
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Forsthoefel will speak to these questions in an evening of storytelling and discussion, drawing from his 2011 walk across America, the beginning of his apprenticeship to the discipline of listening.<br>
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Forsthoefel’s narrative work has appeared on <i>This American Life</i> and <i>The Moth</i>. He teaches walking and listening as practices in connective presence, personal transformation, and conflict resolution. His book
</span><a href="http://livingtolisten.com" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
(Bloomsbury, 2017) was recently selected for all school reads by both Berkshire and Holderness High Schools and he now devotes his time to taking this listening work into schools with programming on the discipline and art of listening.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The 2017-2018 season continues with the following presentations. Visit </span><a href="http://www.mbl.edu/falmouth-forum" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">mbl.edu/falmouth-forum</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
for details and updated information.<br>
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<b>December 1, 2017 *</b><br>
<b><i>Iceland, an Ambassador's Perspective</i></b><br>
Robert Cushman Barber, (Former) U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland and Partner at Price Lobel<br>
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<b>March 2, 2018 *</b><br>
<b><i>Visiting Russia over Half a Century</i></b><br>
Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science Program, MIT<br>
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<b>April 6, 2018 </b><br>
<b><i>Antarctica: Glacial History and the Future of Sea Level</i></b><br>
Mark Kurz, Senior Scientist and NOSAMS Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<br>
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* This season the MBLWHOI Library will offer open houses of the </span><a href="http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/collections/rare-books-and-mbl-archives" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MBL
Rare Books Collection </span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">on December 1 and March 2 from 5:45 to 7:15 PM in the Grass Reference Room, Lillie Building 2nd floor, located at 7 MBL Street. The Library
staff will display books and artifacts including <i>An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere</i>, by John Hawkesworth and Captain James Cook 1773 as well as T.H. Morgan’s Nobel
Prize.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
</span></i><a href="http://www.mbl.edu"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Marine Biological Laboratory</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (MBL) is dedicated to scientific
discovery – exploring fundamental biology, understanding biodiversity and the environment, and informing the human condition through research and education. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution and an affiliate
of the </span></i><a href="http://www.uchicago.edu"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of Chicago.</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
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The Falmouth Forum is sponsored by the MBL Associates who provide a vital connection between the MBL and the community. MBL Associates create and host local educational and cultural programs, sponsor promising students and early career investigators, and volunteer
their time to the MBL. Learn more at </span></i><a href="http://mbl.edu/associates" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">mbl.edu/associates</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Constituent Events and Visitor Engagement <br>
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