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For the 2020 Persis C. Smith Community Read, we're asking folks to read Ashley Bryan's "Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from WWII to Peace." The library will hold an online discussion via Zoom. You can join us here: https://networkmaine.zoom.us/j/85885136110
Join us via Zoom as illustrator Russ Cox reads "The Boy Whose Face Froze Like That" by Lynn Plourde and illustrated by himself. We're hoping to have a good crowd so we can have a screen full of funny faces! Here's the link to join the fun: https://networkmaine.zoom.us/j/82226261955
Get in your PJs with your cup of cocoa and join us on Tuesday evenings with Mrs. Littlefield from the Manson Park School PreK!
As part of the Persis Smith Community Read's discussion of "Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from WWII to Peace" by Ashley Bryan, Dr. Leroy Rowe from the University of Southern Maine, will be discussing African Americans during WWII and the segregated army.
Not all of Maine's earliest Europeans came voluntarily. Carol Gardner will deliver a talk (via Zoom) entitled "Involuntary Americans: Scottish Prisoners in Early Colonial Maine" discussing the more than 400 prisoners of war who were brought here to New England against their wills in 1650-51. Dr. Gardner is the author a recently published narrative history, […]
Get in your PJs with your cup of cocoa and join us on Tuesday evenings with Mrs. Littlefield from the Manson Park School PreK!