Great Summer Reads

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As you are packing for your vacation, or heading out to camp, don’t forget to take a stack of books with you! Summer is a great time to relax with a good book. Following are some great summer reads you may want to take with you! All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank If you’re a hopeless romantic, then this is the perfect read for you. A young couple from New York finds themselves at odds when a move to South Carolina causes strife in their relationship. A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams Lily’s story unfolds in 1930’s Seaview, Rhode …

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Summertime At The Library

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We have had some wonderful summer events already and have more to come. Summer Reading Program has started, and if you have not picked up your chart, please come in and pick it up. We have a chart for Readers and a chart for a Listeners. After August 3rd you will be able to pick up your free paperback book after filling up your chart. Teens have a different program where they get a ticket when they check out items.  Check with the YA librarian about this program. Monday, June 27th, we had a Chewonki program here in the library …

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Happy Birthday, Marjorie Standish!

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Did you know that a Gardiner kitchen was once every Maine kitchen?  From Biddeford to Boothbay, Waterville to Washington County, I’ve never known a Maine home that didn’t contain one or both (or multiple copies of each) of Marjorie Standish’s classic cookbooks, Cooking Down East and Keep Cooking – The Maine Way.   It may be old news to many, but it came as quite a wonderful surprise to me (and to many of those with whom I’ve recently shared my enlightenment) that Marjorie Standish lived, cooked, and wrote most of her famous cooking columns and recipes right here in …

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Maine Reading

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M            Maine : an explorer’s guide A             Archeological excavations at Pemaquid, Maine I               It N             Nectar E              Ebbing tide T              Train to Maine I               Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe T              Trespasser L              Lighthouse keeper’s daughter E              Enjoying Maine birds S              Stern Men F              Fairyhouses of the Maine coast O             One morning in Maine R             Route 1 Maine T              Time of wonder H             Heroes are my weakness E              East Hope S              Somewhere off the coast of Maine U             Under the dome M            Maine 24/7 M            Mirror of Maine E              Exit the milkman R             Real Maine food

Vinalhaven, Maine

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One of my favorite daytrips for a beautiful summer day in Maine is to take one of the many ferries out to an island off the coast.  This blog will talk about a day trip to the island of Vinalhaven.   I take the ferry out of Rockland.  It leaves about every 105 minutes and the schedule can be found at http://maine.gov/mdot/ferry/assets/docs/schedule/Vinalhaven.pdf.  There is no need to bring your car for a day trip.  Vinalhaven is very walkable for that time span.  The fee for walk-on passengers is $17.50 for a round trip ticket.  The ferry trip itself takes about …

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For the Love of a Library

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Some of my best memories from childhood were spent with a book. I can remember many a time being dropped off at the public library where I would spend hours surrounded by books and I would read to my heart’s content. I could go an adventure, visit a foreign land, or solve a mystery with my favorite detective, Nancy Drew. Many times I would become cross with my mother because she’d pick me up too early, wherein she would inform me that I’d been on my own in a sea of books for hours. I was lucky enough to spend …

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