Edible Island: Cookie Swap & Secret Tree

Stonington Public Library 64 Main Street, Stonington, ME

Edible Island: food • culture • community Cookie Swap & Secret Tree – a special holiday event Celebrate the season and share your family's traditions! Bring two dozen cookies to swap. Stay for a secret tree lighting—you'll have to come to find out where—and holiday songs. To participate in the tree lighting, arrive at the … Continue reading "Edible Island: Cookie Swap & Secret Tree"

A Scallop Christmas Story Time

Discovery Wharf 13 Atlantic Avenue, Stonington, ME

Led by Carla Guenther at the Discovery Wharf. Come hear a read-aloud holiday story, learn about scallops, and paint a scallop shell. SPL hosts a monthly story time and activity for kids of all ages on the second Saturday of every month.

Food & Fiction: Heartburn

Stonington Public Library 64 Main Street, Stonington, ME

Our December title is Heartburn by Nora Ephron. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month, except December to accommodate holiday plans, at 6:30pm. Readers can choose to participate either in person at SPL or online via Zoom. Contact SPL at the phone or email below to RSVP and/or to join the … Continue reading "Food & Fiction: Heartburn"

Reader’s Choice: How to Read a Book

Stonington Public Library 64 Main Street, Stonington, ME

Reader's Choice: Ellen Shockro How to Read a Book by Monica Wood MILS catalog record “Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing … Continue reading "Reader’s Choice: How to Read a Book"

Reader’s Choice: The Island of Sea Women

Stonington Public Library 64 Main Street, Stonington, ME

Reader's Choice: Kendra Chubbuck The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See MILS catalog record “Set on the Korean island of Jeju, The Island of Sea Women follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls from very different backgrounds, as they begin working in the sea with their villages’s all-female diving collective. Over many decades—through the Japanese colonialism of the 1930s … Continue reading "Reader’s Choice: The Island of Sea Women"