PORTLAND – ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) Night with the Portland Seadogs will be offered by the ALS Association of Northern New England and the Portland Seadogs on Tuesday, July 27, Hadlock Field.

The Seadogs will host a home game and recognize those in Maine who have been affected by ALS.

Tickets for the game may be purchased by calling 1-866-257-6663 or e-mailing [email protected].

Tickets are $6, with half going to the ALS Association, serving families in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

Visit the Web site at www.alsnne.org for more information.

Symposium set

OCEAN PARK – The Ocean Park Chautauqua-by-the-Sea will celebrate its 124th season with a symposium, “Islam in the West: Past, Present and Future,” from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 13, in Jordan Hall.

Ross Brann, the Alice Cook House professor and dean, Cornell University, will discuss “Muslims, Christians and Jews in Al-Andalus (Medieval Islamic Spain),” followed by an interreligious panel discussion that includes Rabbi David Gordis, president of Hebrew College, Newton, Mass., and Imam Talal Eid of the Islamic Center of New England. The panel will be chaired by Abraham Peck, director of the Academic Council for Post-Holocaust Christian, Jewish and Islamic Studies at the University of Southern Maine.

Admission is $6 a person and tickets will be available at the door. For more information, call 934-9068 or see http://www.oceanpark.org.

Summer institute

HANOVER, N.H. – New Englanders with an interest in the ancient world will congregate at Dartmouth College for the Classical Association of New England’s Summer Institute from July 6 to 10.

The institute is in its 22nd year of connecting New England academics with secondary school teachers and the general public in the study of classical antiquity.

Due to a grant from the Maine Humanities Council, three Maine teachers will receive scholarships to attend. The recipients are Alison Harvey of Messalonskee High School in Oakland, Diana Krauss of Mount Ararat High School in Topsham and Charles Platt IV of Berwick Academy in South Berwick.

“The Course of Empire” is this year’s theme. A series of nine morning lectures, all open to the public, will present modern perspectives on the literature, art and history of ancient empires and their implications for later ages and today. Participants will spend the afternoon attending two minicourses, chosen from 12.

Information on the institute can be obtained at the Web site, www.caneweb.org, or from Mary J. Wilson, director, CSI 2004, at (970) 963-4561 ([email protected].).