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Genealogy Research, Part 2

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

B.J. Jamieson, Genealogy Reference Specialist, Maine State Library, will present this program, which is cosponsored by the Belgrade Historical Society. Light refreshments will be served.

Free

Maine Author Gerry Boyle

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

Gerry Boyle, popular Maine author, will discuss his newest books: Random Act, a McMorrow mystery, and Port City Crossfire, a Brandon Blake mystery. Light refreshments will be served.

Free

Mystery Making: How the Stories Get Told

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

With intense audience participation, Maine mystery writers Maureen Milliken, Kate Flora, and Sandra Neily will build a mystery novel on the fly — or at least the plan for one. In the process, you'll learn how writers make the decisions when they create their books. Hilarity generally ensues. Maureen Milliken, author of the Bernie O'Dea […]

Free

Mr. Harley and The Strollers

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

Join Mr. Harley and his band for an hour of music, dancing, and fun for the entire family.

Free

Bedtime Story Hour

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

Come in your pajamas and hear your favorite stories about the moon. For all ages.

Free

Trucks, Up Close and Personal

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

What young child doesn’t love trucks? Here’s a chance to see and touch some of Belgrade’s construction and emergency vehicles and check out the library’s collection of truck books. For pre-schoolers and up.

Free

Maine Author Paul Betit

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

Come join Brunswick writer Paul Betit as he talks about his newest book Let Me Tell A Story and how this anthology came to be. Comprising ten stories spanning more than 50 years, half of them taking place in Maine, several of the pieces were also inspired by personal experiences during the Vietnam War and […]

Free

World War I Centennial: Monuments and Memorials in Maine

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

A 19th-century American cultural historian, Prof. Libby Bischof, specializes in the history of photography, particularly in Maine. Recently, she co-curated the exhibit Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940 at the Portland Museum of Art with Senior Curator Susan Danly. The show won the Critics' Choice Award for the Best Historic Show in the 2011 New […]

Free

Maine Author Richard Rubin

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. Interviewing the war’s last survivors face-to-face, he knew well the importance of being present if you want to get the real story. He discovered that while most Americans regard that war as dead […]

Free

Weathering Shame

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

Join weatherman Kevin Mannix and social worker wife Linda Rota, as they talk about their individual experiences with shame and stigma throughout their childhood and adult lives. They share their life experiences, lessons, struggles and feelings of shame and the stigma that results from growing up exposed to alcoholism, severe depression and suicide. In their […]

Author Talk: Maureen Milliken

Belgrade Public Library 124 Depot Road, Belgrade, ME

Crime author Maureen Milliken will speak about her new novel, Cold Hard News. Originally from Augusta and now living in Belgrade Lakes, Milliken is a third-generation newspaper editor and columnist. She has worked for over thirty years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. Come hear her talk about her love of Maine, her lifelong affection […]

Free
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