[SEMCO] Maria Mitchell Biographer to Kick Off 2007-2008 Falmouth Forum Season at the MBL, October 12

[Gina Hebert]

  Maria Mitchell Biographer to Kick Off 2007-2008 Falmouth Forum Season 
at the MBL, October 12

MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—Margaret Booker, author and a former curator at 
Nantucket’s Egan Institute of Maritime Studies will kick off the 
2007-2008 Falmouth Forum season with a lecture titled "Among the Stars: 
The Life of Maria Mitchell, Astronomer, Educator, Women's Rights 
Activist on Friday, October 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the MBL’s (Marine 
Biological Laboratory’s) Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole. 
The lecture, presented by the MBL Associates, is sponsored by the Bank 
of America Charitable Foundation and is free and open to the public.

Few avenues of high achievement were open to American women in the 
mid-nineteenth century, but Maria Mitchell, a young librarian on 
Nantucket Island sent a startling signal through the male-dominated 
world of science when she emerged as a world-class astronomer. Mitchell, 
who discovered a comet while peering through a simple telescope on the 
roof of her family’s home, earned the price of her travels and 
scientific materials by computing navigational tables for the /Nautical 
Almanac/, and then moved into the larger world.

For more information, visit 
http://www.mbl.edu/events/falmouthforum/events_fal_forum07_10_12.html