Let’s Talk About It Books Discussion

Abbott Room

Re-imagining the American Family The Belfast Free Library has been selected by the Maine Humanities Council to offer “Let’s Talk About It”, a free reading and discussion group with copies of books available through the library. This program is provided by the Maine Humanities Council’s Maine Center for the Book in cooperation with the Maine […]

Zoom In- “Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage, a World in Your Library talk from the Maine Humanities Council.”

On Thursday May 14th, 6:30 pm the Belfast Free Library will offer a presentation commemorating an aspect of Maine’s History, the fight for Woman Suffrage with author Anne B. Gass. The talk, made possible by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council’s World in your Library Speaker Series, will be offered as a virtual program […]

Bicentennial Lecture

Abbott Room

This lecture will be live streamed on the YouTube Page What Do We Want History to Do to Us?: Maine's Bicentennial and Commemoration A presentation with Liam Riordan, Professor of History, University of Maine. This illustrated presentation and discussion explores Maine’s long statehood process that culminated in 1820 with separation from Massachusetts. That struggle engaged […]

Coyote Lives in a Democracy

Virtual Program on Zoom

The expression Keystone Carnivore is used to describe our Coyotes in Maine, but its meaning often is not fully understood. In this presentation coyote will be introduced to you in this context, and how their important role affects us and the landscape of Maine in vitally important ways. We are all inextricably connected. But our […]

Frozen Obsession Film Screening with Panel

Virtual Program on Zoom

The Camden Conference and Belfast Free Library will present the film 'FROZEN OBSESSION' Monday, 15 at 6 P.M. This is a special opportunity for Camden Conference, as the film will be shown on PBS later in the year. 'FROZEN OBSESSION' documents the 18-day, 2,000-mile Northwest Passage Project expedition through the Canadian Arctic aboard the Swedish […]

Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition Program

Virtual Program on Zoom

What’s New in the Penobscot River? Danielle Frechette, fish biologist, will give an overview of diadromous fish restoration in the Penobscot River as a result of the Penobscot River Restoration Project Danielle is a Marine Resource Scientist for the Department of Marine Resources, Division of Sea-Run Fisheries and Habitat working on the Penobscot River Restoration […]

Garden Club Evening Lecture Series

Virtual Program on Zoom

Gardens of Use and Delight with Speaker: Anne Perkins Anne Perkins will describe her large market garden in Owls Head, Maine. She will talk about topics of interest to gardeners with emphasis on the intermediate and advanced vegetable gardeners, such as planning for the growing season, recordkeeping, succession planting, crop rotation schemes, cover cropping, design […]

Special Program on Browntail Moth in Waldo County with Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition

Virtual Program on Zoom

Don’t miss our Browntail Moth program by Tom Schmeelk, State Entomologist. Responding to the acute infestation in Belfast and surroundings, we will learn about how to protect ourselves, and how as a community we can work to curb the problem. The program is cosponsored with the Belfast Library, Belfast Garden Club, and Friends of Belfast […]