Fun things that are happening in the Children’s Room this summer Story and craft time from 10:00 to 11:00 every Tuesday. Free Lunches are being served every Tuesday at 10:30 – 11:30 for everyone 18 or under. SKCDC (Southern Kennebec Child Development Corporation) is helping us with this program. Make sure you stop in and have some fun this summer.
Violet Mackerel’s brilliant plot by Anna Branford Dancing with Rose by Lauren Kessler Nothing rhymes with orange by Adam Rex Deadly pink by Vivian Vande Velde Forever in blue by Ann Brashares The Hinky Pink by Megan McDonald Purple, green and yellow by Robert Munsch
FICTION America was hard to find by Kathleen Alcott. Three indelible characters embody the truths about this country in transition during America’s most iconic moments in the later part of the last century: the race to space, the race against the Vietnam War, and the ravages of the AIDS epidemic. The body in the wake by Katherine Hall Page. Amateur detective and caterer Faith Fairchild is at her Penobscot Bay, Maine cottage preparing for a summer wedding, when she stumbles across….a body. Bunny by Mona Awad. A darkly funny, strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique …
Have you been to Castle Tucker in Wiscasset? It is part of Historic New England, a trust that preserves historic houses and architectural designs. TheCastlepoet writes, “Perhaps the most original and prominent historic house in Wiscasset, Maine, Castle Tucker dates from 1807. It was built at the behest of Judge Silas Lee, a leading jurist and politician of the Federal period, when Wiscasset was the busiest port in the United States north of Boston. In 1858 Captain Richard H. Tucker, a local shipping magnate, purchased the house. Tucker subsequently enlarged the home, adding the Italian features that give it its …
School is out; the weather’s warm; it’s time to hit the road, explore old (and new!) favorite places, and share your adventures and travels with friends and family. Long before Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, postcards were the way to drop a line and keep folks up to date. We have a wonderful collection of Gardiner-themed postcards in our Community Archives Room. Many of them depict scenes around town, but there are also quite a few that were more generic, novelty cards into which Anytown, USA, could be inserted — and Gardiner was not to be left out of the fun! …
Summer is really, yes REALLY, beginning this month! We have had a very long stretch of odd? Unusual? Strange? Wet? (you choose) weather this Spring, and I for one am ready for the new season. Here in Gardiner we bring in the summer season with the Greater Gardiner River Festival. This year the festival happens on June 22nd, the second official day of summer. There will be many activities that day – from Ice Cream for Breakfast, to Face Painting, to the Arts and Crafts Fair on Water Street. For us, here at the library, one of the most important …