Mabel Cabot will be presenting a slide/lecture at Thomaston Public Library

Thomaston, Maine - Mabel Cabot will be presenting a slide/lecture about her work at the Thomaston Public Library on Wednesday July 11  at 7 PM. The presentation will take place in Room 204 of the Academy building at 60 Main Street. The program is the first of this year's  Friends of the Thomaston Library series, Artists and Authors Among Us. Ms. Cabot will be discussing her book and showing slides from Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China and Mongolia, 1921-1925.

Vanished Kingdoms  brings to life the unique peoples and landscapes encountered by Janet Wulsin (Cabot's mother) during her four-year exploration of Asia.From the Gobi Desert to the Yellow River. Ms. Wulsin and her then-husband, Frederick Wulsin, traveled on camelback taking pictures of the local people. From village temples to kitchen utensils, these photographs and slides capture the daily culture and historic traditions of remote peoples, still living in almost complete isolation at the time of Ms. Wulsin's trip.

In order to construct her portrait of the Wulsin expedition, Mabel H. Cabot drew on archives at the Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology — as well as records at Haverford and Bowdoin colleges, the Smithsonian Institution and The National Geographic Society.
She also traveled to China in order to gain a first-hand perspective on Janet Wulsin’s experience.

Ms. Cabot has written for The Washington Post, the Washington Star and Smithsonian magazine. She founded a public relations firm in Washington, D.C., served at the White House during the Reagan

Administration and worked as the Director of Corporate Programming at Ford Motor Company.Ms. Cabot received her bachelor's degree from Smith College. She lives in Cambridge Massachusetts and Thomaston, Maine — and has four children and four grandchildren.

Following the presentation there will be light refreshments for all in attendance.

The Series, Artists and Authors Among Us,  is free to the public but donations to the library will be greatly appreciated. For further information, please contact the library at 354-2453