Adult Program
Designing and Building Small Houses with Jim Bahoosh
Abbott RoomThe Belfast Free Library will be hosting a talk presented by Jim Bahoosh on Designing and Building Small Houses, Tuesday May 10 at 6:30 PM. Jim has been restoring, designing and building homes since 1983. For the past 12 years his focus has been on smaller homes, from 500 to 900 square feet. In this […]
Presentation by the Game Loft COA Players
Abbott RoomFinal Event for the Revolutionary War Era Book Group. All are welcome! Light refreshments will be served.
Rehabilitating Maine’s Rivers and Streams: Restoring Our Rivers One by One
Abbott RoomJoin Downeast Salmon Federation, Executive Director, Dwayne Shaw in an examination of how Yankee resourcefulness and determination can rebuild and maintain a fisheries mecca on New England's northern border and bold coast. The last best living legacy of New England's migratory fish: Salmon, smelt and sea-run brook trout are now in the balance in a […]
Portuguese Perspectives Slide Talk with Jon Laitin
Abbott Room“Portuguese Perspectives,” an exhibit of photographs from the Algarve Region by photographer Jon Laitin will be on display at the Belfast Free Library from June 4th through June 30th. Laitin will also speak about bicycling in the Algarve Region on Tuesday, June 7th at 6:30pm in the Library’s Abbot Room.
Author Talk Kate Christensen
Abbott RoomThe 2016 Maine Writers Talk About...series of author presentations begins with Kate Christensen, author of "How to Cook a Moose: a culinary memoir", giving a talk titled, "Writing Characters". Christensen just won the 2016 Maine Literary Awards for memoir. Kate Christensen is the author of seven novels, including The Great Man, which won the 2008 […]
Author Talk with Judith Burger- Gossart
Abbott RoomAs part of the Maine Writers Talk About... series of author talks, nationally recognized magazine writer, Judith Burger-Gossart will be speak about her recently released book, Sadie’s Winter Dream, Fishermen’s Wives and Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs, 1923-1938. She will display several Mission rugs and illustrate her talk with archival photographs of Maine communities, […]
Imagine the Maine Woods National Park Opening Reception and Multi-Media Presentation
Abbott RoomExperience an extraordinary journey to one of the last, great, unprotected wilderness areas within the United States, the proposed 3.2 million acre Maine Woods National Park. The award-winning professional photography team of Lee Ann Szelog and Thomas Mark Szelog will personally guide you into the proposed park to experience and learn more about this fragile […]
Introduction to Walking Meditation
Abbott RoomBringing mindfulness into our natural activities can be thoroughly relaxing. Join health & wellness coach Barbara Crowley to practice taming the wandering mind while walking. Space is limited so pre-registration is required: journeytohealth.coursestorm.com or call 921-3950. Co-sponsored by Waldo County General Hospital Community Health and Wellness and the Belfast Free Library.
Maine Writers Talk About…
Abbott RoomThe Good, the Bad, and the Imaginary: Writing a Lot of Crime in a Low Crime State, a panel discussion with Maine mystery writers, Kate Flora, Lea Wait and Jen Blood . Statistically, Maine is a low crime state, yet it is a magnet for crime writers. Why do writers choose Maine as the setting […]
Maine Writers Talk About…series continues
Abbott RoomThis is NO Laughing Matter! Humor essayists Tom Sadowski and Eddie Adelman will talk about writing for newspapers and radio. Tom is the weekly humor columnist for The Free Press, having written over 200 columns. Eddie is a former weekly columnist for the Portland Press Herald and past contributor to Maine Things Considered on Maine […]