HARPSWELL

C undy’s

Harbor resident

Henry Bird, author of “Ride the Wind: Biologist and Pastor,” will give a talk at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Cundy’s Harbor Library about his life as a biologist, educator and minister and his participation in the Civil Rights movement.

Bird will answer questions, and refreshments will be served at the end of his free public talk.

“From summers spent on Yarmouth Island, to a short but insightful stint in the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps then rowing as a crew member of the Princeton team at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1949, Henry Bird has always been on the move,” a release about the program states. “Ministry in the Episcopal church and marching on Washington, D.C., in 1963 with Martin Luther King Jr. was just the start. Called back to New England by his love of science, Bird threw himself into Gulf of Maine Biological Supply with gusto, supplying sea life specimens to leading research facilities.

“Pulled by his love of working with youth, Bird became director of Upward Bound at the University of Maine in the 1960s,” the release continues. “Work with the Navajos of the southwest pueblos was Bird’s next siren call, taking him to Albuquerque in the ’70s, with a year’s hiatus back in Maine for family reasons.”

Bird and his wife, Hilde, retired to Cundy’s Harbor. He took up rowing again and became an active volunteer at the then Harpswell Island School and Peace Action Maine.

“Ride the Wind,” published by Just Write Books of Topsham, is available at Gulf of Maine Books, Shaw’s Supermarket at Cook’s Corner, amazon.com and at jstwrite.com.

For more information, call 729- 3600 or email jstwrite@jstwrite.com.

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