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SUMMARY:Maine's First Ship: 1607 Pinnace 'Virginia' with Matt Blazek
DESCRIPTION:Join Matt Blazek\, Director of Educational Operations with Maine’s First Ship\, for a fascinating presentation about the 1607 pinnace Virginia\, the history of the Popham Colony\, and the Bath-based nonprofit’s reconstruction of the ship as an educational and community project. This program will take place on Tuesday\, April 29\, at 6:30 PM in the Picker Room. All are welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe pinnace Virginia was the first English ocean-going ship built in the Americas.  It was built in 1607-1608 at the Popham Colony’s Fort St George located near the mouth of the Kennebec River. Virginia was built to aid in coastal exploration and fishing\, but was repurposed when the colony was abandoned in October 1608 and was used to return some of the colonists to England.  The building of Virginia was the beginning of Maine’s 400 year tradition of quality shipbuilding.  \n\n\n\nMaine’s First Ship is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that strives to use their reconstruction of the 1607 pinnace Virginia to immerse the public in an exploration of the region’s early history\, craftsmanship\, and relationships\, and their impact on our community and environment today. The 51 foot reconstruction of the Virginia as built by a crew of volunteers in and around the Bath Freight Shed and meets Coast Guard requirements allowing it to be used as a floating classroom. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Camden Public Library carries on its Maritime Month tradition this April by once again featuring a month-long exhibit from the Penobscot Marine Museum and hosting a series of themed programs. Join us in celebrating our maritime heritage!
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/maines-first-ship-1607-pinnace-virginia-with-matt-blazek/
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SUMMARY:Open Community Conversation About Montgomery Dam and Waterfall (Non-Library Public Event)
DESCRIPTION:Although this event is taking place at Camden Public Library\, it is not a library program. However\, this event is free and open to the public and all are welcome. \n\n\n\nThe public is invited to a Community Conversation on Montgomery Dam and Waterfall on two upcoming Sundays\, March 30 and April 27\, at 2:00 pm each day in the Picker Room. This event is put on by Camden’s Save the Dam Falls Committee and is not a library program. \n\n\n\nThe sessions will be modeled on previous “conversations” on civic issues in Camden. Each event will begin with an informative slide show containing an overview of the Megunticook River and a visual history of the Montgomery Dam.  The conversations about Montgomery Dam will be presented by Camden’s Save the Dam Falls Committee\, a group of citizens organized for the purpose of raising awareness of the beauty\, value\, and legacy of the waterfall and Montgomery Dam\, and dedicated to giving the citizens of Camden a chance to discuss and to vote on the future of Montgomery Dam. The committee has been gathering information and sharing it over the more than three years since the committee was formed. \n\n\n\nThe slide talk will include an illustrated timeline of the construction of the dam and discuss its place in the history and legacy of Camden. It will also address the natural history\, geology\, and other issues related to this focal point where the River Meets the Sea. The slide presentation will be followed by questions and comments from the audience.   \n\n\n\nConstruction of Montgomery Dam in the winter of 1931 as part of the landscaping for Harbor Park. The landscape was designed by the famed Olmsted firm and paid for by Camden’s great benefactor\, Mary Louise Curtis Bok. (Photo credit: Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Archives.)
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/open-community-conversation-about-montgomery-dam-and-waterfall-2/
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SUMMARY:Earth Day Park Clean-Up
DESCRIPTION:Come at 10am for a park clean-up! Meet us with your gloves and rakes.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/earth-day-park-clean-up/
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SUMMARY:Easter Egg Hunt
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special Easter Egg Hunt at the library!Miss Amy will start at 10:30 with stories around the cupola\, thenthere will be an egg hunt for under 5 year olds and 6 to 10 year olds.The Easter Bunny will be visiting too!Sponsored by the Camden Fire Department & North East Mobile Health Services
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/easter-egg-hunt/
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SUMMARY:Midcoast Audubon: The Maine Nightjar Monitoring Project with Logan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Eastern Whip-poor-will\n\n\n\nThe Mid-Coast Audubon‘s series of nature talks in partnership with the Camden Public Library continues on Thursday\, April 17\, at 6:30 PM for a presentation on nightjar monitoring efforts in Maine\, with Maine Natural History Observatory ecologist Logan Parker. \n\n\n\nThis program will take place in person at the library and all are welcome. Light refreshments provided! \n\n\n\nWe will learn about the natural history of Maine’s nightjars (Eastern Whip-poor-will and Common Nighthawk)\, the threats they face\, and how you can take part in exciting monitoring efforts through the Maine Nightjar Monitoring Project. \n\n\n\nThe Maine Nightjar Monitoring Project is a multifaceted research effort working to support nightjar research in Maine and beyond. This project is comprised of both citizen science monitoring and intensive research efforts focused on nesting and movement ecology. It was launched in response to reports of widespread declines in Eastern Whip-poor-wills and Common Nighthawks throughout their eastern breeding ranges. Suspected declines in Maine evidenced by extensive anecdotal observations led to both the Eastern Whip-poor-will and Common Nighthawk being listed as a Species of Greatest Conservation Need in 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLogan Parker is an ecologist and the founder of the Maine Nightjar Monitoring Project. In 2017\, Logan initiated this grassroots\, citizen-science driven effort when he first learned of declining nightjar populations in New England. He graduated from Unity College with a Masters in Sustainable Natural Resource Management focused on bird monitoring and conservation. In 2020\, Logan co-founded the Global Nightjar Network to form partnerships with other nightjar monitoring efforts around the world. He recently supported the Maine Bird Atlas (2018 – 2022) by coordinating and participating the project’s special species projects.  \n\n\n\nWhen not out looking for nightjars\, Logan enjoys birding\, wildlife photography\, writing\, gardening\, reading\, and working with his wife\, Hallee\, on their off-grid home in the woods of Waldo County\, Maine. 
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/midcoast-audubon-the-maine-nightjar-monitoring-project-with-logan-parker/
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SUMMARY:Public Meeting to Review Camden Public Library’s Internet Safety Policy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a public meeting to approve a revised Internet Safety Policy for Camden Public Library. \n\n\n\nA policy outlining the library’s compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a necessary requirement for receiving filtered Internet service through the Maine State Library Network (MSLN). \n\n\n\nCopies of the policy will be available at the library in advance of the meeting. For more information\, please contact Kristy Kilfoyle\, Executive Director at (207) 236-3440 or email info@librarycamden.org.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/public-meeting-to-review-camden-public-librarys-internet-safety-policy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T183000
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SUMMARY:"How Do Novels Find Their Form?" In Conversation with Cynthia Reeves and Carla Spataro
DESCRIPTION:Join Cynthia Reeves\, author of The Last Whaler and Falling Through the New World\, with Carla Spataro\, author of More Strange Than True at the Camden Public Library on Tuesday\, April 15\, at 6:30 PM for a conversation about novel writing. They will discuss why they chose to tell their stories in the way they did. Did the “form” come before the writing\, or did it follow after the drafting was underway? All are welcome. Light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Cynthia Reeves\n\n\n\n\nA writer and poet for almost thirty years\, Cynthia Reeves was honored with Miami University Press’s novella prize\, and residencies at Hawthornden Castle\, Vermont Studio Center\, Galleri Svalbard\, and the 2017 Arctic Circle Summer Solstice Expedition. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. Her novels The Last Whaler and Falling Through the New World are both finalists in Literary Fiction for the Foreword INDIES awards. \n\n\n\n\n\nFalling Through the New World is a novel in stories that spans a century\, from World War I Italy to modern-day America. The collection comprises fourteen stories. The eponymous piece\, “Falling Through the New World\,” traces the experiences of a young married couple—Anna and Vincenzo Desiderio—as they negotiate the impact of the Great War on their lives. “La Dolentissima Madre” follows the parallel journeys of Anna and her mother as they grapple with their sister/daughter dying of the Spanish flu. “Sign Language” reaches back into the Desiderios’ family history as Anna and Vincenzo’s daughter\, Rose\, grapples with her father’s desire to reunite with his dead wife. And in the final story\, “All This the Heart Ordains\,” Kate returns to Italy after her mother’s death to seek out an understanding of Rose’s deep commitment to her Catholic faith. \n\n\n\n\n\nSvalbard. Midsummer’s Eve\, 1937. Astrid’s body cupped in mine\, I clasp my arms around her waist. Our pulses coursing together through our skin\, I enter her from behind. This was the beginning of our undoing. \n\n\n\nSo observes Tor Handeland in The Last Whaler\, an elegiac meditation on the will to survive under extreme conditions. Tor\, a whaler\, and his wife\, Astrid\, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora\, are stranded during the dark season of 1937-38 at his remote whaling station on Svalbard when they misjudge ice conditions and fail to rendezvous with the ship meant to carry them back to their home in southern Norway. Beyond enduring the Arctic winter’s twenty-four-hour night\, the couple must cope with the dangers of polar bears\, violent storms\, and bitter cold as well as Astrid’s unexpected pregnancy.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Carla Spataro\n\n\n\n\nCarla\, or C. J.\, Spataro is an award winning short story writer who directs the MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Publishing programs at Rosemont College in suburban Philadelphia. She was also one of the founding partners of Philadelphia Stories magazine and PS Books. She recently published her debut novel\, More Strange Than True. \n\n\n\n\n\nJewell Jamieson unknowingly eats a meal spiked with magic and makes a sloppy drunken wish. When Jewell awakes the next morning\, she discovers her beloved dog Oberon is gone and\, in his place\, (in her bed) is a beautiful naked man. Things get complicated when Titania\, the impulsive Queen of the Faeries\, decides she wants Oberon for herself. Is Oberon simply a man who used to be a dog\, or is he somehow something more? When Jewell discovers the answer\, she will be faced with a devastating choice. Will she choose to save the man she’s grown to love by giving him up\, or will she honor his wishes and watch him die?  \n\n\n\nSet in contemporary Philadelphia\, More Strange Than True can be best described as a mash-up of literary fiction and grounded fantasy in the vein of Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic or Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus – and there’s lots of Shakespeare. The novel takes some of its characters (and its title) from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other characters are pulled from Greek Mythology and Goethe’s poem “The Elf King.” 
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/how-do-novels-find-their-form-in-conversation-with-cynthia-reeves-and-carla-spataro/
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SUMMARY:Camden Philosophical Society: Ivan Illich
DESCRIPTION:As a continuation of its exploration of human relationships to place and to each other\, the Camden Philosophical Society on Tuesday\, April 15\, will discuss selected readings from mid-20th Century philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich – an Austrian priest with Dalmatian roots who spent substantial parts of his life in Mexica\, the US\, and Germany. Illich provides a somewhat more controversial and\, in many ways\, less compromising analysis of the crisis in modern society than others whose works the society has read and discussed recently. \n\n\n\nThe April 15 session will\, as usual\, be a hybrid gathering from 3:30-5:30 pm EDT on the third Tuesday of the month. All are welcome to participate\, in-person at the Picker Room of the Camden Public Library or by Zoom. That goes for visitors\, as well as year-rounders in Maine\, and friends of the society wherever you may be. \n\n\n\nIf you wish to participate via Zoom\, please email sarahmiller@usa.net. You will receive a Zoom invitation on the morning of the meeting. Click on the “Join Zoom Meeting” link in that invitation at the time of the event. \n\n\n\nIn Illich’s view\, the industrialization/bureaucratization of tools has undermined our ability to exist sustainably within our environment. By tools\, Illich includes everything from power tools\, automobiles\, and airplanes to schools\, hospitals\, and language. For him\, these tools (industrialized/bureaucratized) imprison\, rather than liberate us. We work for them instead of them working for or with us. From birth to death\, we move along the conveyor belt of predetermined inputs that stifle our creative approaches to solving the contemporary problems that\, by the way\, modern society has both defined and created. Problems such as loneliness\, poverty\, and pollution\, to name a few. \n\n\n\nIllich’s alternative to the industrial/bureaucratic path is the “convivial.” To implement this change\, he calls for the replacement of industrial/bureaucratic tools with “tools for conviviality.” \n\n\n\nIn order to explore how Illich defined the coming crisis and what he meant by tools for conviviality\, we will base our discussion on the first 15 pages of Section II (Convivial Reconstruction\, pp. 23-37)\, and Section V (Political Inversion\, pp. 115-125) of his book Tools for Conviviality (1975). The book is available for free online here: https://monoskop.org/images/3/3e/Illich_Ivan_Tools_for_Conviviality_1975.pdf \n\n\n\nAnd also on a conversation between Illich and journalist Nathan Gardels reprinted as “The Shadow that the Future Throws” (1989). https://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1989_shadow_future.PDF \n\n\n\nA large selection of Ivan Illich’s published writings can be found on David Tinapple’s website \n\n\n\nhttps://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/camden-philosophical-society-ivan-illich/
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SUMMARY:Book Shed CLOSED to Donations Today
DESCRIPTION:The Book Shed is not open or accepting donations on Tuesday\, April 15\, while we take some time to reorganize. Come back next week!
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/book-donations-at-the-blue-door-book-shed-2-2025-04-15/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250413T140000
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SUMMARY:From the Archives: "Mary Louise Curtis Bok\, the Olmsted Brothers\, and the Creation of Harbor Park" by the Library's Board of Trustees
DESCRIPTION:Camden Public Library invites you to travel back in time to 1930s Camden during the depths of the Depression. During this time the publishing heiress\, philanthropist\, and progressive activist Mary Louise Curtis Bok hired America’s preeminent landscape architect team\, the Olmsted Brothers Firm\, to realize her vision for Camden’s harbor shorefront. \n\n\n\nPhoto by 5iveleaf Photography\n\n\n\nUsing documents and photographs from the Walsh History Center\, the presentation by members of the Library’s Board of Trustees will present a biography of Camden’s generous benefactress\, provide key insights into the Olmsted’s design principles\, and show how these two larger-than-life forces came to transform the head of Camden Harbor into the beloved oasis of beauty we know as Harbor Park. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public and will take place on Sunday\, April 13\, at 2:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\n\nMary Louise Curtis Bok\n\n\n\nJames Frederick Dawson\, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. andPercival Gallagher\, Courtesy National Park Service
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/from-the-archives-mary-louise-curtis-bok-the-olmsted-brothers-and-the-creation-of-harbor-park-by-the-librarys-board-of-trustees/
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SUMMARY:Exhibit Lecture: "If You Give a Girl a Camera" with Jeana Ganskop of Penobscot Marine Museum
DESCRIPTION:Camden Public Library is pleased to once again be partnering with the Penobscot Marine Museum during Maritime Month! The museum’s exhibit “If You Give a Girl a Camera” will be on view in the Picker Room Gallery at the Camden Public Library during Maritime Month this April.* \n\n\n\nJeana Ganskop\, Education Director of the Penobscot Marine Museum\, will give a presentation about this exhibit on Saturday\, April 12\, at 3:00 p.m. in-person in the Picker Room. Free and open to all! Light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nGoing by Portland Head Light on the bark CARRIE WINSLOW. Photo taken by Ruth Montgomery around 1900. Ruth Montgomery Collection\, LB1990.49.11. Looking aloft on the ship STATE OF MAINE. Photo taken by Joanna Colcord around 1900. Joanna Colcord Collection\, LB2003.61.1431. \n\n\n\nJoanna Colcord and Ruth Montgomery each used photography to pass the time and to document voyages at sea. Both came from small\, coastal Maine communities with long legacies of seagoing. If You Give a Girl a Camera looks specifically at the years 1899 and 1900 when Joanna and Ruth sailed from the United States as 18-year-olds and features photographs the girls took at that time. \n\n\n\nLarge prints formatted with a social media vibe seek to meld the past and present and encourage visitors to consider Joanna and Ruth as people like you and me. What did a young woman take pictures of in 1899 or 1900? What do you take pictures of today?
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/exhibit-lecture-if-you-give-a-girl-a-camera-with-jeana-ganskop-of-penobscot-marine-museum/
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SUMMARY:"Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? Dialogue and Collaboration in the Era of Artificial Intelligence" with Gray Cox
DESCRIPTION:Join Gray Cox\, professor at College of the Atlantic\, for a presentation and discussion on his book\, Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? on Thursday\, April 10\, at 6:30 p.m. in the Picker Room. All are welcome and light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nIn his book\, Gray Cox asserts that technology employing Artificial Intelligence systems needs to be wiser\, not just more efficient and “smarter.” It must balance all the relevant values to make life more just\, convivial\, ecologically sustainable\, and spiritually nourishing. This requires an expansion of the conceptions of rationality used in AI technology as well as in mainstream economics\, politics\, and ethics. \n\n\n\nThis book describes the kind of dialogical rationality needed by drawing on contemporary research on conflict resolution and peacemaking including Quaker\, Gandhian\, Indigenous\, and other traditions of collaborative reasoning and ethical choice. \n\n\n\nTo respond effectively to threats from ecological collapse\, climate change\, wars of mutually assured destruction\, and out of control technology\, it offers systematically wiser ways to reason in our daily lives and collectively transform our dominant institutions.  \n\n\n\n\nGray Cox teaches philosophy\, peace studies\, language learning\, and artificial intelligence at College of the Atlantic. He is also a singer/songwriter for the group Fire in the Commons\, facilitator of Imaging a World Without Weapons Workshops\, and cofounder and current Clerk of the Quaker Institute for the Future.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/smarter-planet-or-wiser-earth-dialogue-and-collaboration-in-the-era-of-artificial-intelligence-with-gray-cox/
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SUMMARY:Camden Talks Climate: “Backyard Gardening Adventures for Biodiversity\, Resiliency\, Food\, and Fun” with Anna Dembska
DESCRIPTION:CamdenCAN and the Camden Public Library\, as part of its continuing Camden Talks Climate series\, welcome Camden resident Anna Dembska for her presentation “Backyard Gardening Adventures for Biodiversity\, Resiliency\, Food\, and Fun” on Tuesday\, April 8\, at 6:30 PM. \n\n\n\nThis program is hybrid and will take place in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library as well as on Zoom. Join in person to enjoy the hands-on activities! \n\n\n\nTo watch the presentation remotely\, please register ahead of time using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5Jw3jNQjRp-IDkF3QuG5xQ \n\n\n\nCamden gardener Anna Dembska will share stories\, techniques\, and tips from her experiments in turning her neglected\, undersized yard into a thriving\, evolving environment providing nourishment both physical and psychic. Topics include: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRapid\, inexpensive\, low-input yard-to-garden transformation; seed saving and promiscuous pollination to develop locally thriving plants for food in a changing environment; and freely incorporating elements of permaculture\, native planting\, and community for maximum success and enjoyment. \n\n\n\nThe evening will also include some hands-on activities\, including creating your own seedling pots from sustainable materials!  \n\n\n\nPhotos courtesy of Anna Dembska. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Dembska is an amateur gardener\, tending plants with passion in between her work as a musician and voice and tai chi teacher. After living most of her life in New York City in the winter and Downeast woods in the summer\, gardening mostly in containers\, she moved with her partner to Camden in 2010 with hopes of creating a food forest in their small in-town yard. Since then\, she’s been learning—mostly from the plants\, other wildlife\, and the many generous local gardeners she’s met—how to garden for increasing biodiversity and produce with less effort and control. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program is put on in partnership with CamdenCAN (ClimateActionNow)\, a citizen-led organization committed to reducing Camden’s contribution to climate change through local action\, education\, advocacy\, and resources. CamdenCAN helps our community take advantage of climate solutions with actionable steps. Learn more at camdencan.org.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/camden-talks-climate-backyard-gardening-adventures-for-biodiversity-resiliency-food-and-fun-with-anna-dembska/
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SUMMARY:"Foraging for Wild Mushrooms: Balancing Safety as You Expand Your List of Edibles" with Greg Marley
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Public Library\, in partnership with the Maine Mycological Association\, is pleased to welcome back mushroom expert Greg Marley on Sunday\, April 6 at 1:30 p.m. for a fascinating and informative presentation on foraging for wild mushrooms and expanding your list of edibles safely. \n\n\n\nAs people build their knowledge and skills to forage and use wild edible and medicinal mushrooms\, it is natural to want add more mushrooms to your list.  As you move beyond the Foolproof Few\, the common\, easily-identified mushrooms\, it becomes even more important to have guidance on choosing wisely and avoiding toxic mistakes. The talk will focus on Maine and New England mushrooms. \n\n\n\nThis talk seeks to offer a list of great mushrooms by filtering the recommendations through answering this question so often posed to me: “What is your favorite mushroom?”  \n\n\n\n\nWood Blewit\n\n\n\nOrange Latex Milky\n\n\n\nThe Gypsy\n\n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid program and will take place in person in the Picker Room as well as on Zoom. If attending via Zoom\, register ahead of time here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_plE9R6iTSUOZa1CxnBt6xw \n\n\n\nBiography:  Greg Marley has been studying\, growing\, collecting\, cooking and eating wild mushrooms for 50 years.  He is a frequent speaker and lecturer and teaches mushroom identification and ecology to hundreds of new foragers.  For more than 2 decades he has consulted in cases of mushroom poisoning across New England.  Greg is the author of Mushrooms for Health; Medicinal Secrets of Northeastern Fungi (2009) and Chanterelle Dreams\, Amanita Nightmares\, The Love Lore and Mystique of Mushrooms (2010). He lives and mushrooms along the coast of Maine.  When not mushrooming he works as a mental health trainer and consultant in suicide prevention and response after a loss. \n\n\n\n\nBicolor Bolete\n\n\n\nAbortive Entoloma or Shrimp of the Woods\n\n\n\nMatsutake
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/foraging-for-wild-mushrooms-balancing-safety-as-you-expand-your-list-of-edibles-with-greg-marley/
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SUMMARY:“Lost and Found: Sounds of the Maine Coast" with Dianne Ballon (Zoom Only)
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Public Library is pleased to welcome sound artist Dianne Ballon for her presentation “Lost and Found: Sounds of the Maine Coast” on Thursday\, April 3 at 6:30 PM.  \n\n\n\nThis program will take place on Zoom only. Click here to register and receive the link to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yDbO0MRYT7SeSPseais4-Q \n\n\n\nThis virtual presentation is drawn from Dianne Ballon’s exhibit in collaboration with Maine Maritime Museum\, which explores the significant role of sound in maritime environments. Viewers/Listeners of this program will experience and be encouraged to think about soundscapes along Maine’s coast from artistic\, scientific\, technological\, historical\, and personal perspectives. The audio you will experience are from Dianne’s field recordings of Maine harbors and coastal waters. From the Maritime Museum’s collection\, she recorded the historical—bells\, whistles and early foghorns. \n\n\n\nBallon’s exhibit and presentation “investigate the idea of ‘lost’ and ‘found’ maritime sounds and invite visitors to reflect on how sound affects our individual and collective memory” (Maine Maritime Museum). \n\n\n\nTo experience the high fidelity of sound that will be presented\, headphones or good quality speakers are highly recommended\, though anyone will be able to enjoy the variety of this presentation through their computer so long as it has sound capabilities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImages courtesy of Dianne Ballon and Maine Maritime Museum. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Camden Public Library carries on its Maritime Month tradition this April by once again featuring a month-long exhibit from the Penobscot Marine Museum and hosting a series of themed programs. Join us in celebrating our maritime heritage! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDianne Ballon (pronounced BAL’en) is a sound artist from Portland\, Maine. She received a Maine Artist Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission. Her sound works have aired on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.Her recent exhibition at the Maine Maritime Museum\, Lost and Found: Sounds of theMaine Coast\, featured her field recordings of working harbors\, boatyards\, and the sounding buoys of Casco Bay. From the museum’s collection\, she recorded the historical\, circa 1900— bells\, whistles and early foghorns.  \n\n\n\nHer coastal sound work was featured in Yankee and Down East magazines and on thepodcasts Radio Maine\, The Natural Curiosity Project and Light Hearted: the OfficialPodcast of the United States Lighthouse Society. Her field recording\, Boats Creaking at a Dock in Iceland\, was awarded at an international radio art competition. She produced audio for the national exhibition: The Marines and Tet: The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War. At Shenandoah NationalPark\, she was awarded an Artist-in-Residency. At the National Audio Theatre Festivals\, she produced radio theatre. She produced audio for Tactile Images\, a company that creates fine art for museums that is accessible to the blind\, through touch and sound. \n\n\n\nAt the University of Maine at Augusta\, Dianne taught audio production and radio theatre. Currently\, she teaches audio through Maine College of Art & Design\, SALT Institute for Documentary Studies. \n\n\n\nFor more about her work\, visit: www.dianneballonsound.com and MaineMaritime Museum Has All the Bells and Whistles.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/lost-and-found-sounds-of-the-maine-coast-with-dianne-ballon-zoom-only/
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SUMMARY:On Exhibit: "If You Give a Girl a Camera" from the Penobscot Marine Museum
DESCRIPTION:Camden Public Library is pleased to once again be partnering with the Penobscot Marine Museum during Maritime Month! The museum’s exhibit “If You Give a Girl a Camera” will be on view in the Picker Room Gallery at the Camden Public Library during Maritime Month this April.* \n\n\n\nJeana Ganskop\, Education Director of the Penobscot Marine Museum\, will give a presentation about this exhibit on Saturday\, April 12\, at 3:00 p.m. in-person in the Picker Room. Free and open to all! Light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nJoanna Colcord and Ruth Montgomery each used photography to pass the time and to document voyages at sea. Both came from small\, coastal Maine communities with long legacies of seagoing. If You Give a Girl a Camera looks specifically at the years 1899 and 1900 when Joanna and Ruth sailed from the United States as 18-year-olds and features photographs the girls took at that time. \n\n\n\nLarge prints formatted with a social media vibe seek to meld the past and present and encourage visitors to consider Joanna and Ruth as people like you and me. What did a young woman take pictures of in 1899 or 1900? What do you take pictures of today? \n\n\n\nGoing by Portland Head Light on the bark CARRIE WINSLOW. Photo taken by Ruth Montgomery around 1900. Ruth Montgomery Collection\, LB1990.49.11. Looking aloft on the ship STATE OF MAINE. Photo taken by Joanna Colcord around 1900. Joanna Colcord Collection\, LB2003.61.1431. 
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/on-exhibit-if-you-give-a-girl-a-camera-from-the-penobscot-marine-museum/
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SUMMARY:Castlebay: Music of the Maine Coast
DESCRIPTION:Since 1986\, Castlebay has celebrated Maine’s maritime heritage and environment\, blending history\, legend and experience into their performances. Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee support fine\, expressive vocals with Celtic harp\, guitar\, fiddle\, and woodwinds\, treating the audience to a musical journey through time and across the Atlantic. \n\n\n\nThis special Maritime Month Coffeehouse Concert will take place on Tuesday\, April 1\, at 6:00 p.m. in the Picker Room. Refreshments will be provided! Free and open to all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaritime ballads tell stories of triumph and tragedy\, history and humor\, romance and revenge. Years of deep research have resulted in their book\, Songs of Ships & Sailors\, which was published in 2022 by Loomis House Press and featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered”\, and “Morning Edition.” Castlebay’s many recordings also feature these songs as well as their original music inspired by the shipwrights\, sailor and fisherfolk who have established Maine as a maritime legend. \n\n\n\nCastlebay has presented at various festivals and institutions including the Mystic Seaport\, the Portsmouth (NH) maritime festival\,  the International Festival of the Sea in Portsmouth (England)\, and most recently in Canada at the Campobello Fog Festival and the St. Martins Sea Shanty Festival. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Camden Public Library carries on its Maritime Month tradition this April by once again featuring a month-long exhibit from the Penobscot Marine Museum and hosting a series of themed programs. Join us in celebrating our maritime heritage!
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/castlebay-music-of-the-maine-coast/
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Morning Book Club: What Happened to Nina?
DESCRIPTION:The Tuesday Morning Book Club meets in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library on the FIRST Tuesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. \n\n\n\nFor the month of April\, the group will be reading What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan. If you would like to join a book club session or would like more information\, please email Nora Curry at ncurry@librarycamden.org. New members are always welcome! \n\n\n\nClick here for the full book list for each month in 2025. \n\n\n\nSummary of What Happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan: Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young\, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont\, and only Simon comes home.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/tuesday-morning-book-club-what-happened-to-nina/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Open Community Conversation About Montgomery Dam and Waterfall (Non-Library Public Event)
DESCRIPTION:Although this event is taking place at Camden Public Library\, it is not a library program. However\, this event is free and open to the public and all are welcome. \n\n\n\nThe public is invited to a Community Conversation on Montgomery Dam and Waterfall on two upcoming Sundays\, March 30 and April 27\, at 2:00 pm each day in the Picker Room. This event is put on by Camden’s Save the Dam Falls Committee and is not a library program. \n\n\n\nThe sessions will be modeled on previous “conversations” on civic issues in Camden. Each event will begin with an informative slide show containing an overview of the Megunticook River and a visual history of the Montgomery Dam.  The conversations about Montgomery Dam will be presented by Camden’s Save the Dam Falls Committee\, a group of citizens organized for the purpose of raising awareness of the beauty\, value\, and legacy of the waterfall and Montgomery Dam\, and dedicated to giving the citizens of Camden a chance to discuss and to vote on the future of Montgomery Dam. The committee has been gathering information and sharing it over the more than three years since the committee was formed. \n\n\n\nThe slide talk will include an illustrated timeline of the construction of the dam and discuss its place in the history and legacy of Camden. It will also address the natural history\, geology\, and other issues related to this focal point where the River Meets the Sea. The slide presentation will be followed by questions and comments from the audience.   \n\n\n\nConstruction of Montgomery Dam in the winter of 1931 as part of the landscaping for Harbor Park. The landscape was designed by the famed Olmsted firm and paid for by Camden’s great benefactor\, Mary Louise Curtis Bok. (Photo credit: Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Archives.)
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/open-community-conversation-about-montgomery-dam-and-waterfall/
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SUMMARY:Meet the Artist Teatime & Last Chance to View "Winter into Spring" Exhibit by Kelly Desrosiers
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Public Library welcomes artist Kelly Desrosiers for her fine art exhibit of collage-based paintings titled Winter into Spring in the Picker Room Gallery during the month of March*. The public is invited to a “Meet the Artist” teatime on Friday\, March 28\, at 3:00 PM in the Picker Room. View the exhibit before it goes away\, chat with the artist\, and enjoy light refreshments. \n\n\n\nKelly Desrosiers — Artist’s Statement\n\n\n\n“I have spent many years absorbing the experiences and knowledge that I now attempt to express through my art. The earliest years were as a dreamy\, artistic\, bookish\, loner child in the wetlands\, forests\, and flyways of northern Wisconsin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe second phase was exploring the world through jobs and travel: as a psychiatric technician\, truck stop night shift waitress\, migrant farm laborer\, woods worker for the Alaska Forest Service\, fieldworker for researchers studying eagles\, bears\, whales and blueberries\, veterinary surgical technician\, soil mapping\, train-hopping\, cycling and hitch-hiking on this continent and others\, culminating along the way in a degree in Animal & Veterinary Science. \n\n\n\nScience was filling in the gaps in my mystical experience of the natural world\, adding layers of understanding\, grounding my poetic sensibility. A sharp left turn led to teaching art\, an undergraduate degree in art (printmaking)\, Masters and MFA (sculpture)\, and the raising of a family\, along with a small garlic farm in Unity\, my home. I have lived in and created art in Maine for 42 years. Art had claimed me\, in the end\, full circle completed. \n\n\n\nMy acrylic collage-based paintings express the mystical energy of the natural world as I first knew it in childhood\, and are created on cradled wood panels with printed tissue papers that I make myself with original stencils and stamps that I design myself. Multiple layers of transparent collage are combined with acrylic applied by brush\, in glazes\, or by liner pen as a means of drawing with paint. Layers are sanded periodically to “antique” and integrate the layered patterns. \n\n\n\nI view the overlapping of patterns as a proxy for the web of relationships in the natural world\, both visible and invisible\, and from micro to macro. The time-consuming finished works have strong compositions based on Maine landscapes and seascapes (sometimes flora or fauna) but also have layered depth\, hidden visual surprises\, and a unique textured surface. \n\n\n\nI also create watercolor/gouache paintings that are usually landscapes/seascapes but often delve into more abstraction. I mount these paintings on cradled panels and seal them with 7 coats of spray varnish to leave a protected but matte surface. \n\n\n\nMy website can be found at pointedfirsart.com. If you are interested\, I have an artist’s talk recorded on video that is available through Waterfall Arts in Belfast\, Maine. In the talk I show and describe my evolution and thought process as an artist.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*The Picker Room hosts meetings and library events and is not always open for viewing. Please call ahead or check our website calendar to see what’s happening daily.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/meet-the-artist-teatime-winter-into-spring/
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SUMMARY:"Mustangs: Utah’s Onaqui & Cedar Mountain Herds" with Photographer John Steele
DESCRIPTION:Camden Public Library welcomes photographer John Steele for a presentation of his photography and book Mustangs: Utah’s Onaqui & Cedar Mountain Herds on Thursday\, March 27\, at 6:30 p.m. \n\n\n\nThe book features photography by John Steele over the course of his many extraordinary experiences and encounters with the Onaqui and Cedar Mountain mustang herds. Words in the book are by Silvio Calabi. \n\n\n\nJoin us for this rare and intimate view into two of Utah’s Wild Horse Herds. All are welcome and light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nThe photos allow “the viewer to sit with me on Lake Bonneville’s ancient playa observing the inter workings of foals and mares\, harems and the herd itself\,” says Steele. “It took years of patience until I was allowed to be in close proximity to them.” \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout John Steele\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Steele\, photographed by Val Stephens\n\n\n\n“My early life revolved around teaching alpine skiing\, running western rivers and flying  a Hang Glider. \n\n\n\n1997 brought an old vision for me back to life. I decided to pick up a camera once again. \n\n\n\nShortly after\, in January 1998\, a gift from Mother Nature was presented — my introduction to a Harem of Wild Horses. The significance of this day would not become clear to me for years. I knew nothing about wild horses or the wild herds of the American West\, and for that matter\, had little knowledge of domesticated horses either. But seeing these creatures in the wild for the first time left me speechless. \n\n\n\nIn November 2006 another gift was bestowed in the form of a poem written by a Jungian philosopher Sam Keen entitled: The Enemy Maker: How to Make an Enemy. Instantly I knew what I needed to do\, return to Vietnam. Seven months later I walked up the Jet Way on a hot and steamy Saigon evening\, bringing back emotions of the past front and center. I was there during the war 1968-1970 but not in My Lai. \n\n\n\nThen I started the second and the most healing project\, returning five times with one more trip to do. I traveled from the China border to the Gulf of Thailand\, interviewing survivors from the My Lai massacre while attending the 40th & 50th memorial ceremonies. I have sat with my former enemy drinking home-made rice wine until we giggled like kids. I have been blessed to see what none of us who were there during the war could allow ourselves to see\, the Vietnamese people as human beings. \n\n\n\nI have had the privilege of photographing many other events\, wildlife and people; but none as important as my Wild Horses or the Vietnamese people. \n\n\n\nMy camera opened my heart\, starting a journey that I could have never imagined.” — John Steele
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/mustangs-utahs-onaqui-cedar-mountain-herds-with-photographer-john-steele/
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SUMMARY:Maple Weekend Book Sale at the Blue Door Book Shed
DESCRIPTION:Tap into a sweet read at Camden Public Library’s Maple Weekend Book Sale on Saturday\, March 22\, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM at the Blue Door Book Shed next to the Amphitheatre and behind the small parking lot on Atlantic Avenue. There will tons of books for everyone at fantastic prices! \n\n\n\n(Plus\, the ongoing book sale inside the library continues every day!)
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/maple-weekend-book-sale-at-the-blue-door-book-shed/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:(Zoom Only) Midcoast Audubon: Intro to Gull Identification with Amar Ayyash\, Author of "Gull Guide"
DESCRIPTION:The Mid-Coast Audubon‘s series of nature talks in partnership with the Camden Public Library continues on Thursday\, March 20\, at 6:30 PM with a presentation from Amar Ayyash\, author of The Gull Guide. \n\n\n\nThis is a virtual program and will be on Zoom ONLY. Please register ahead of time here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-5feCK9iTYOH43jgVsMDAA \n\n\n\nOften approached with apprehension\, gulls have gained a love-hate relationship with many birders. Among these larids are some of the most coveted bird species in the world.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for a Zoom with Amar Ayyash where he will highlight key identification field marks for separating our most common gull species\, and he will also touch on some of the often-ignored topics in gull-study such as the aging process and plumage. Learn why an increasing number of people are being drawn to this family of birds and are eagerly calling themselves “larophiles”. \n\n\n\n\nAmar Ayyash is both an expert on the gulls of North America and an evangelist for “gull recreation”. He coordinates the IOS Annual Gull Frolic on Lake Michigan\, hosts the popular website anythinglarus.com\, and is often found speaking at birding events throughout the continent. Much of his free time is dedicated to traveling the world to photograph and study gulls. Ayyash has published a number of articles on gull identification\, distribution\, and molt. He is the author of the book\, The Gull Guide. Amar lives in northern Illinois where he teaches mathematics. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMID-COAST AUDUBON\, SERVING THE MAINE COUNTIES OF KNOX\, LINCOLN\, AND WALDO\n\n\n\nMid-Coast Audubon is a chapter of Audubon\, and affiliated with Maine Audubon. We cover the midcoast inland from Boothbay Harbor\, west to Windsor and China\, and east along the coast to Bucksport. Our mission is to promote long-term\, responsible use of natural resources through informed membership\, education and community awareness. \n\n\n\nThroughout the year fascinating and informative programs are presented (free!) via the Camden Public Library\, and there are numerous field trips to see birds and learn about the natural history of Maine. Come be part of the fun and learning. Check out our events page for dates/times. You can also watch the recorded presentations from earlier programs.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/midcoast-audubon-intro-to-gull-identification-with-amar-ayyash-author-of-gull-guide/
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SUMMARY:Camden Philosophical Society: The Unsettling of America
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Philosophical Society on March 18 will continue along the path laid out in our February reading from Robin Wall Kimmerer\, in this case with a reading by agrarian thinker Wendell Berry\, taken from his famed 1970s work The Unsettling of America. Both sessions form part of a series of discussions by the society on capitalism and alternatives to this mode of organizing and living in human society. \n\n\n\nThe March 18 session will\, as usual\, be a hybrid gathering from 3:30-5:30 pm EDT on the third Tuesday of the month. All are welcome to participate\, in-person at the Picker Room of the Camden Public Library or by Zoom. That goes for visitors\, as well as year-rounders in Maine\, and friends of the society wherever you may be. \n\n\n\nIf you wish to participate via Zoom\, please email sarahmiller@usa.net. You will receive a Zoom invitation on the morning of the meeting. Click on the “Join Zoom Meeting” link in that invitation at the time of the event. \n\n\n\nAs highlighted in our February discussion\, Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass postulates that the ways in which we relate to the Earth affect how we relate to one another. According to Kimmerer\, we need to enter consciously into a relationship of love — the earth loves us and we love the earth. Such is the basis of the Indigenous “gift” economy\, which stands in such sharp contrast to a profit-oriented capitalist economy. \n\n\n\nLike Kimmerer\, Berry believes that how we relate to the land affects how we relate to one another. He looks at our culture’s relationship to land — exploitive\, destructive\, and indifferent — and reveals the cost we are paying ecologically\, individually\, and culturally. He calls it a disease. Being a farmer and Jeffersonian\, Berry provides a unique view into our culture. One that heavily influenced the ideals and actions of many of the “back-to-the-landers” who flocked to Maine in the 1970s\, around the time The Unsettling of America was first published. \n\n\n\nThe discussion will be introduced by back-to-the-lander\, farmer\, and artisan in wood Mike Beaudry. As readings\, Mike selected the first four essays from The Unsettling of America. These are “The Unsettling of America\,” “The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Character\,” ”The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture\,” and “The Agricultural Crisis as a Crisis of Culture.” \n\n\n\nA PDF of the book can be found at https://kyl.neocities.org/books/%5BSOC%20BER%5D%20the%20unsettling%20of%20america.pdf
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/camden-philosophical-society-the-unsettling-of-america/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: "The Shattered Curling Stone" with David Florig
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Public Library welcomes author David Florig for a presentation of his novel\, The Shattered Curling Stone\, on Thursday\, Marcy 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Picker Room. If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about the 500-year-old Scottish sport of curling\, or are simply a fan of historical fiction and Scotland\, you won’t want to miss this event. Light refreshments will be provided! \n\n\n\nAudience members will learn about the special kind of ice used for curling\, as well as get a chance to see and feel curling equipment\, including a curling stone made from 60-million-year-old Scottish granite. There will be readings from both the award-winning The Stones of Ailsa Craig and The Shattered Curling Stone\, followed by a Q&A and book signing session. \n\n\n\nThe Shattered Curling Stone is a work of historical fiction\, set in late-1800s Scotland and Canada. Rich in the history of women’s curling\, The Shattered Curling Stone tells the story of Ailsa Maclaren\, a young Scottish lass who takes to the ice at twelve years old\, at a time when women were neither expected nor encouraged to play “the Roarin’ Game.” Ailsa’s curling journey takes her to the first women’s bonspiel in Scotland\, the Scottish Women’s Championship\, and the Women’s World Championship in Canada. Along the way\, she meets the charming and very\, very handsome Lucas Plotcok. And therein lies the real tale. \n\n\n\nSteeped in the history of women’s curling\, The Shattered Curling Stone stands among the select few novels centered around the 500-year-old sport of curling. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nDavid Florig is a member of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance\, as well as a member and past-president of the Pine Tree Curling Club in Portland. The Stones of Ailsa Craig is his debut novel and is an homage to Belfast\, Maine; the glorious Maine coast; and the ancient Scottish sport of curling. \n\n\n\nDavid lives in Ocean Park\, Maine with his wife of thirty-five years\, Nancy\, and their ill-mannered rescue dog\, Molly Malone.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/book-talk-the-shattered-curling-stone-with-david-florig/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Camden Talks Climate Series Tackles Risk Assessment and the Insurance Industry
DESCRIPTION:CamdenCAN and the Camden Public Library\, as part of its continuing Camden Talks Climate\, is proud to present  “How to Instigate Action on Climate Change\,” with Kerry Emanuel\, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science at MIT on Thursday\, March 6\, 6:30 PM in-person in the Picker Room as well as on Zoom. \n\n\n\nProperty insurance rates are skyrocketing in Camden and nationwide due in large part to catastrophes like wildfires in Los Angeles and hurricanes in Florida that are caused or worsened by climate change.  \n\n\n\nYet the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change continue to rise\, and little is being done to adapt infrastructure to handle the change. Emanuel argues that this inaction and\, even worse\, migration from less risky to more risky places\, are natural consequences of tax and insurance systems that subsidize building and rebuilding in high-risk locations. Professor Emanuel will present ideas for reversing this migration and sensible measures to deal with our changing climate.          \n\n\n\nTo attend this program virtually\, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z5TErInRQYS9jOmF_G9glQ \n\n\n\n\nDr. Emanuel is Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science at MIT. He is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers\, and three books\, including Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes\, published by Oxford University Press and aimed at a general audience\, and What We Know about Climate Change\, published by the MIT Press. \n\n\n\n\nThis evening is being presented by CamdenCAN (ClimateActionNow) a citizen-led organization committed to reducing Camden’s contribution to climate change through local action\, education\, advocacy\, and resources. We help our community take advantage of climate solutions with actionable steps. CamdenCAN’s substack offers more information about events as well as ideas\, inspiration\, and steps to take. Read the CamdenCAN newsletter here.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/camden-talks-climate-series-tackles-risk-assesment-and-the-insurance-industry/
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SUMMARY:On Exhibit: "Winter into Spring" by Kelly Desrosiers
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Public Library welcomes artist Kelly Desrosiers for her fine art exhibit of collage-based paintings titled Winter into Spring in the Picker Room Gallery during the month of March*. The public is invited to a “Meet the Artist” teatime on Friday\, March 28\, at 3:00 PM in the Picker Room. View the exhibit before it goes away\, chat with the artist\, and enjoy light refreshments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelly Desrosiers — Artist’s Statement\n\n\n\n“I have spent many years absorbing the experiences and knowledge that I now attempt to express through my art. The earliest years were as a dreamy\, artistic\, bookish\, loner child in the wetlands\, forests\, and flyways of northern Wisconsin. \n\n\n\nThe second phase was exploring the world through jobs and travel: as a psychiatric technician\, truck stop night shift waitress\, migrant farm laborer\, woods worker for the Alaska Forest Service\, fieldworker for researchers studying eagles\, bears\, whales and blueberries\, veterinary surgical technician\, soil mapping\, train-hopping\, cycling and hitch-hiking on this continent and others\, culminating along the way in a degree in Animal & Veterinary Science. \n\n\n\nScience was filling in the gaps in my mystical experience of the natural world\, adding layers of understanding\, grounding my poetic sensibility. A sharp left turn led to teaching art\, an undergraduate degree in art (printmaking)\, Masters and MFA (sculpture)\, and the raising of a family\, along with a small garlic farm in Unity\, my home. I have lived in and created art in Maine for 42 years. Art had claimed me\, in the end\, full circle completed. \n\n\n\nMy acrylic collage-based paintings express the mystical energy of the natural world as I first knew it in childhood\, and are created on cradled wood panels with printed tissue papers that I make myself with original stencils and stamps that I design myself. Multiple layers of transparent collage are combined with acrylic applied by brush\, in glazes\, or by liner pen as a means of drawing with paint. Layers are sanded periodically to “antique” and integrate the layered patterns. \n\n\n\nI view the overlapping of patterns as a proxy for the web of relationships in the natural world\, both visible and invisible\, and from micro to macro. The time-consuming finished works have strong compositions based on Maine landscapes and seascapes (sometimes flora or fauna) but also have layered depth\, hidden visual surprises\, and a unique textured surface. \n\n\n\nI also create watercolor/gouache paintings that are usually landscapes/seascapes but often delve into more abstraction. I mount these paintings on cradled panels and seal them with 7 coats of spray varnish to leave a protected but matte surface. \n\n\n\nMy website can be found at pointedfirsart.com. If you are interested\, I have an artist’s talk recorded on video that is available through Waterfall Arts in Belfast\, Maine. In the talk I show and describe my evolution and thought process as an artist.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*The Picker Room hosts meetings and library events and is not always open for viewing. Please call ahead or check our website calendar to see what’s happening daily.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/on-exhibit-winter-into-spring-kelly-desrosiers/
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Morning Book Club: Moonflower Murders
DESCRIPTION:The Tuesday Morning Book Club meets in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library on the FIRST Tuesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor the month of March\, the group will be reading Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz. If you would like to join a book club session or would like more information\, please email Nora Curry at ncurry@librarycamden.org. New members are always welcome! \n\n\n\nClick here for the full book list for each month in 2025. \n\n\n\nSummary of Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz: Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she’s always wanted. But then the Trehearnes come to stay with a strange and mysterious story about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married. When the Trehearnes reveal that their daughter Cecily is now missing\, Susan knows that she must return to England and find out what really happened.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/tuesday-morning-book-club-moonflower-murders/
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SUMMARY:Camden Garden Club Winter Horticulture Series: "Time-Saving\, Mighty-Mite Shrubs that Outshine Perennials" with Kerry Ann Mendez
DESCRIPTION:Camden Garden Club’s 57th Annual Winter Horticulture SeriesJanuary 28 – February 25\, 2024 \n\n\n\nJoin us this winter for another series of fascinating free horticulture talks\, presented by the Camden Garden Club and hosted on Zoom with the Camden Public Library. Programs will be held via Zoom on Tuesdays at 9:30 AM\, January 28 – February 25\, 2025. Click here to view a list of all programs in this year’s series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for this program here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MxuO_So8TCuOw4m6vp8iZw \n\n\n\nOn Tuesday\, February 25\, at 9:30 a.m.\, the Camden Garden Club welcomes Kerry Ann Mendez to talk about how her outlook on flower gardening has evolved over the decades. In addition to following the latest earth-friendly practices and incorporating more natives\, she has shifted my focus from perennials to shrubs that provide months of radiant color but are far less maintenance. This eye-opening session features remarkable shrubs for front to mid-border gardens\, as well as their pruning requirements. These stunning beauties also are ideal for over-wintering in containers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Kerry Ann MendezKerry Ann Mendez is an award-winning garden educator\, author\, design consultant and proprietor of Perennially Yours based in southern Maine.  She is dedicated to teaching the art of low-maintenance flower gardening and landscaping – featuring time-saving gardening techniques\, workhorse plants and sustainable practices. As an exceptionally popular educator and communicator\, she has presented hundreds of lectures to thousands of gardeners in 23 states.  In 2014 she received the Gold Medal award from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for “Exceptional teaching and writing that increases public enjoyment and appreciation of horticulture.”  Kerry Ann has written four gardening books\, the most recent being The Budget Wise Gardener and The Right-Size Flower Garden. Her e-newsletters go out to almost 10\,000 subscribers throughout the United States.  In 2016 Kerry Ann started producing international gardening Webinars that have been enjoyed by thousands. To learn more about Kerry Ann\, please visit her web site pyours.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Camden Garden Club is a the oldest garden club in Maine. The Club was founded in 1915 by a group of like-minded women with the mission to develop and preserve the beauty in and around Camden\, Maine. \n\n\n\nOver a century later\, our mission is to cultivate the art of gardening to its fullest sense\, develop and preserve beauty in and around Camden\, and promotes civic improvements\, education\, and conservation of natural resources.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/camden-garden-club-winter-horticulture-series-mighty-shrubs/
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SUMMARY:Library closed to the public* while we undergo nonfiction reorganization (Monday Tax Appointments Still Happening!)
DESCRIPTION:Camden Public Library will be closed to the public* from Monday\, February 24\, to Thursday\, February 27 while we undertake a significant reorganization of our nonfiction collection. We are excited to unveil the improved nonfiction section to the community! Thank you for your patience and understanding. We’ll get things up and running again as soon as we can! \n\n\n\n*Tax help appointments on Monday and some regular club meetings will still be taking place in the Picker Room.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/library-closed-feb-2025/
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