On August 7, Professors Nicole Gugliucci  (Physics) and Joshua Tepley (Philosophy) of Saint Anselm College led a discussion on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. How likely is the existence of alien sentience? How profound would it be to discover the existence of aliens? Would it fundamentally change human culture? Or would life go on more or less the same as it was before the discovery?  

Hear the entire audio of Melissa Saggerer's popular talk at the library, The Tragedy of the Waitresses and other Historical Vignettes: The Isles of Shoals in Brief!

Melissa Saggerer worked on Star Island for eight summers. She was curator of Star Island’s Vaughn Cottage library, museum and archives for five of those years. She has served as a White Island Lighthouse steward and set foot on all nine Isles of Shoals. Melissa has degrees in

Anthropology and Library Science. She’s spoken on many historical topics at the islands as well as at the Seacoast Science Center and the Portsmouth Athenaeum.

You can find Melissa online at melissasaggerer.wordpress.com or on twitter as MelissaSaggerer. 

Susan Stibler is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Certified International Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), a nationally Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500), and a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP), holding a Master’s of Social Work degree from the University of New Hampshire, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Adult Education with a minor in dance. She is also a certified Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist (California College of Ayurveda), a Wise Earth Ayurveda instructor, an iRest Yoga Nidra level II teacher, an Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) practitioner, an Attunement practitioner, and a certified Qi-Gong instructor.

John J. Eddy is a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer living with his wife of 50 years, Armonía, originally from Spain, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  They have four children, born in Venezuela, El Salvador, Colombia, and Barbados, and five grandchildren. Eddy was Consul General in Bombay, India; Consul General in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Deputy Chief of Mission, Bridgetown, Barbados; Director, Office of Regional Economic Policy, Latin America and the Caribbean; Senior Advisor, Political and Security Affairs, U.S. Mission to the United Nations; and Senior Special Assistant, Director General of the Foreign Service. His book, FUNNY IN PARTS: The Diary of a Foreign Service Officer (Author House, 2011), showed how U.S. foreign policy is often first gestated among Foreign Service officers abroad. The book recounts amusing, sometimes harrowing stories of Foreign Service families in exotic locales.

Episode 1: WELCOME