GREENE – Michael Perry will present a slide program, “Mt. Washington” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, at the Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road.
Perry is founder-director of Dreams Unlimited, specializing in multi-media slide programs about the fun of traveling for retirement communities, schools and civic groups. As a writer and photographer, he has written many articles about the outdoors for national publication.
During his 20-year career at L.L. Bean, Perry founded and managed the L.L. Bean Outdoor Discovery School, the outdoor education component of L.L. Bean.
Perry was one of the first recipients of the “Bean’s Best” award, given annually to those L.L. Bean employees selected by their peers who excel in the area of customer, profit or productivity. Perry was honored for his excellence in the customer category.
Perry loves the outdoors and enjoys a wide variety of outdoor activities. He and his wife have biked across the United States three times, the most recently from San Francisco to Philadelphia.
In addition to biking, Perry also enjoys sea kayaking, canoeing, hiking and cross country skiing. He has climbed Alaska’s Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America, participated in the 1990 Mount Everest Peace Climb, paddled his sea kayak from Maine to New York City and has run in the Boston Marathon three times.
He is a 1974 graduate of Bowdoin College and lives with his wife, Chris, and black lab, Mandee, in Freeport.
Admission is free and the auditorium is air-conditioned. Doors open one hour before each show. For more information, call 946-5311 or http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.
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