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Friends of the Library Book Sale

Library Lobby

Book Sale and Book Intake The Friends will have a pop up book sale from 10am -1pm in the front plaza of the library (or in the lobby if it rains). They will also be taking donations of up to 12 good quality current books per person.  

CANCELLED “The Boston Boats” presentation with the Belfast Historical Society

Abbott Room

The SS Belfast THIS PRGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED. “The Boston Boats” is the topic for the Belfast Historical Society meeting at 7:00 pm, Monday August 29, in the Abbott Room at the Belfast Free Library. Judith Frost Gillis, Orrington Historical Society president, will present a history of four of the steamships which plied the waters […]

Library Closed for Labor Day Weekend

The Library will be closed Saturday September 3rd through Monday September 5th for the Labor Day Weekend.

Storytime

City Park Playground

Storytime

Learn to play the ukulele with Ando

Abbott Room

Join us for a  free beginner’s ukulele lesson with Ando Anderson on Friday September 9th from 4-5:30 in the Abbott Room. Please bring a ukulele if you have one. Anderson will have copies of his new book, “Playing the Uke with Ando “available to purchase at the program. Local musician and music teacher, Ando Anderson […]

Memorial Poetry Reading for Karie Friedman

Abbott Room

The Belfast Free Library and the Office of the Belfast Poet Laureate present a Memorial Poetry Reading featuring poems by Montville poet, Karie Friedman (1940-2017) . The event celebrates the life and influence of this poet who died suddenly five years ago. Karie Friedman was a remarkable writer and friend who influenced many local poets. […]

Book Launch with Elizabeth Garber, “Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year”

Abbott Room

Left Bank Books and the Belfast Free Library are pleased to co-host the launch of Elizabeth Garber's second memoir,  Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year. In Sailing at the Edge of Disaster, Elizabeth tells the story of how, in 1971, her domineering father sent his “problem children”—seventeen-year-old bookish Elizabeth […]