Life of the Mind Salon: Lenore Skomal & Marian Gagnon

The 2015 Fall Life of the Mind Salon Series comes to a conclusion on November 18 when Marian Gagnonshows her documentary “America’s Forgotten Heroine”, based on the book, Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter: The Remarkable True Story of American Heroine Ida Lewis by Lenore Skomal. Director and author will hold a Q&A after the film.

Marian Gagnon is a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Johnson and Wales University. Gagnon is also a writer, director, and producer of documentaries. Her first documentary,HERstory: The Founding Mothers of Johnson & Wales University, was produced in 2004 and nominated for a New England Emmy.

Lenore Skomal is a career author. Her first published book, Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter, initially published in 2002 by Running Press under the title Keeper of Lime Rock, won the prestigious New York Public Library’s Best Books for Teens in 2003. As a former journalist and columnist, she has won many Society of Professional Journalist awards, the prestigious Whidbey Island Writer’s Conference honorable mention for best fiction, Writer’s Digest 73rd Annual Fiction Contest, and the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Burnt Toast, an anthology of her humor columns.

Wine and cheese will be served at 5:30 pm followed by the talk at 6:00 pm. Free for members; $10 for non-members. Please call the Redwood Reservation Line at 401.847.0292, ext. 112, to reserve your spot. Seating is limited.