Pittsfield Public Library

A Carnegie Library serving the Pittsfield, Burnham, and Detroit communities

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The Listening Tour

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You’re invited to be part of Maine State Museum’s Listening Tour, in partnership with the Pittsfield Public Library. We’re reaching out to communities across the state to learn what they care about, and what they’d like to see in the museum.

No prior knowledge or experience with the museum is necessary, we want to hear from everyone! These have been fun, informal, thoughtful discussions, and we look forward to talking with you.

This will be a 1.5 hour facilitated conversation on Zoom. This is a free event with closed captioning available.

To attend, please register for this meeting at this link:
https://mainestate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAldO-vqjIrHd0E-sn8raqJrhBIZ-HjietG

Once you register, you’ll get a Zoom link in your email.

Maine at 200: What Should Life Be?

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Join Pittsfield Public Library, along with writer and retired professor Elizabeth Cooke, for three rich discussions grounded in readings that foreground the opportunities and challenges of life in Maine. What better time than now – the summer of Maine’s bicentennial year – to grapple with big questions, like who are we? where are we? how did we get here? and where might we be going?

Themes we’ll explore include Many Maines, Wabanaki Voices, and Race & Ethnicity. Readings will invite participants to discuss and reflect on key issues and important but lesser known chapters in the history of Maine, addressing issues of power, inequality, childhood and aging, health and resilience, home, work, and loss.

All of the readings and videos are downloadable and the discussions will be via Zoom. Please contact the library for more information on how to access the readings and join the discussions.

This program is part of the Maine Humanities Council‘s Discussion Project, a flexible opportunity for Maine communities to host text-based discussions that meet their own needs, whether working independently or as part of an organization.

Maine at 200: What Should Life Be?

by Leave a Comment

Join Pittsfield Public Library, along with writer and retired professor Elizabeth Cooke, for three rich discussions grounded in readings that foreground the opportunities and challenges of life in Maine. What better time than now – the summer of Maine’s bicentennial year – to grapple with big questions, like who are we? where are we? how did we get here? and where might we be going?

Themes we’ll explore include Many Maines, Wabanaki Voices, and Race & Ethnicity. Readings will invite participants to discuss and reflect on key issues and important but lesser known chapters in the history of Maine, addressing issues of power, inequality, childhood and aging, health and resilience, home, work, and loss.

All of the readings and videos are downloadable and the discussions will be via Zoom. Please contact the library for more information on how to access the readings and join the discussions.

This program is part of the Maine Humanities Council‘s Discussion Project, a flexible opportunity for Maine communities to host text-based discussions that meet their own needs, whether working independently or as part of an organization.