
This storyteller spotlight features Robert Charles’ collection of stories about people he met during his years. He will talk about those people he has met during his career and answer questions from the audience.
Books will be available for sale. Books sales and conversations with Robert will be held in the Cyr Gallery and Woodrow Cross room following the presentation.
About the book
This book is one of a kind, a treasure of carefully researched, personally experienced, beautifully recounted stories, each true and riveting. Some will take your breath away, others just make you look out the window and think. Together, they remind us of America’s nobility, and the hero within. Some you know, others are new. Each rose when needed, and showed strength they did not know they had. If you want to see goodness in motion, reset your faith in humanity, this book will do it.
Some of these stories are historically significant, all worth telling. They are tied together by the author’s life, some overdue, others just compelling. So, if you like suspense, those who dare, unexpected outcomes – want to know what happens when everything rides on getting it right, and how impossible things actually happen, this is your book.
About the author
Robert “Bobby” Charles grew up in Wayne and attended Winthrop and Maranacook High Schools, later Dartmouth College, Oxford University, and Columbia Law School. He taught at Harvard University’s extension school, served in the Reagan and George HW Bush White Houses, clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, and is a Maine and New York lawyer. He was also a ten-year Naval Intelligence Officer who volunteered for active duty on 9-11, later serving as Colin Powell’s Assistant Secretary of State, establishing police training operations globally. He credits much of his later life to Maine teachers. In 2018, he wrote a widely celebrated book about local Maine veterans and Maine values, “Eagles and Evergreens.” These days, he lives in rural Maine, glad to be back, fishing, reading, and writing about a place he loves.