PUBLIC PROGRAMS for the Maine Humanities Council:

"The Land of Norumbega: Maine in the Age of Exploration and Settlement" (Maine Humanities Council Outreach Program, Opening Lecture). Vinalhaven and Lewiston,ME Public Libraries. 1991

"Different Places - Different People" (Maine Humanities Council Outreach Program on the cultural impact of discovery). Lectures in Public Libraries in Maine; 1994 (Brunswick, Greenville, Saco, Fort Kent, Eastport, Southwest Harbor, Blue Hill).

Marco Polo - A Biographer's Tale (Presentation for the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia and the Five College Center for East Asian Studies in Brunswick, 2002 to present), at the  2006 “Humanities’ Fest” of the Maine Humanities Council in Lewiston, and at the “Primary Source” summer institute Silk Roads: Arteries of Trade, Avenues of Culture at Milton High School in Milton, MA. (2008).