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SUMMARY:Seaside Series: Martin Conte
DESCRIPTION:Martin Conte is the director of Flash! in the Pans\, a locally renowned  community steel drum band\, based in Blue Hill\, ME. Conte will present a talk and demonstration about the history\, construction\, anatomy\, and performance of steel drums\, known as pans. \nConte will have a variety of pans available for audience members to try out following the talk. You can learn more about Flash! in the Pans on their website. \nSince graduating from GSA\, Conte’s topsy-turvy path always seemed to lead him back to Blue Hill\, where he is part of the English faculty and  Director of Steel Pan Programs at George Stevens Academy. His path has led him around the globe\, from visiting silverback gorillas in Uganda to playing music with the great steel bands of Trinidad. But not all of his paths have been physical. He has also been pursuing the uncharted territory of language\, and has great of enthusiasm for how much discovery still awaits us in writing and reading. \nThe rain venue for all Seaside Series programs is SPL\, 64 Main Street.
URL:http://www.stonington.lib.me.us/event/seaside-series-martin-conte/
LOCATION:Small Cove Park\, 6 Atlantic Avenue\, Stonington\, ME\, 04681
ORGANIZER;CN="Stonington Public Library":MAILTO:stonington.public.library@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Seaside Series: Mary Seelhorst
DESCRIPTION:Mary Seelhorst will present: The Platonic Ideal of a Sports Car: James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5. \nTrue crime\, twisted provenance\, pop culture\, philosophy\, folklore\, museums\, movie-making\, mythbusting\, and an unsolved mystery figure into this presentation by exhibit developer Mary Seelhorst. This fast-paced\, heavily illustrated session explores the making of an automotive icon that’s endured and grown since the car was introduced in the 1964 James Bond film\, Goldfinger. \nSeelhorst addresses the perceived authenticity and value of the original movie cars\, their slippery provenance\, and the DB5’s resurrection in movies\, real life\, and the collective imagination. In addition\, she reveals previously unknown facts and fresh insights about the 1997 theft of the tricked-out movie car—still missing—uncovered by a documentary filmmaker working on a forthcoming series about the car’s disappearance. \nMary Seelhorst is an award-winning independent exhibit developer and writer who played a personal role in the story of the stolen Goldfinger car\, which will be revealed in the presentation. Her work focuses on the history of technology and popular culture. In the last 20 years\, her museum work has increasingly centered on automotive exhibits\, including projects\nfor the NASCAR Hall of Fame\, The Henry Ford\, the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant Museum in Detroit\, and the Brumos Collection in Jacksonville\, Florida.
URL:http://www.stonington.lib.me.us/event/seaside-series-mary-seelhorst/
LOCATION:Stonington Public Library\, 64 Main Street\, Stonington\, ME\, 04681
ORGANIZER;CN="Stonington Public Library":MAILTO:stonington.public.library@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260727T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260727T193000
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SUMMARY:SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books
DESCRIPTION:Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem • Selected by Sue Stoessel \nWinner: Indie Book Award in Non-Fiction (2020) \n“Engrossing…evokes the subculture of the ‘mudlarks\,’ who scour the banks for fragments of London’s past.” –The New Yorker \nFind Mudlark in MaineCat \n“The international bestseller that mesmerizingly charts quixotic journeys through London’s past\, Mudlark thrills Anglophiles and history lovers alike. Long heralded as a city treasure herself\, beloved ‘Mudlark’ Lara Maiklem tirelessly treks along the Thames’ muddy shores\, unearthing a myriad of artifacts and their stories—from Roman hairpins and perfectly preserved Tudor shoes to the clay pipes that were smoked in riverside taverns. Seamlessly interweaving reflections from her own life with meditations on the art of wandering\, Maiklem ultimately delivers a treatise ‘as deep and as rich as the Thames and its treasures’ (Stanley Tucci).” –From the publisher’s website \nEleven readers chose 11 books\, and they will lead 11 discussions in 2026. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month at 6:30pm on Zoom. There are two exceptions: there is no discussion in August when the book club takes a summer break\, and the last meeting is bumped up to the second Monday\, December 14\, to minimize scheduling conflicts around the holidays. New readers—near and far—are always welcome. To sign up for the book club email list\, please send a request to the email below.
URL:http://www.stonington.lib.me.us/event/spl-book-club-jul2026/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Stonington Public Library":MAILTO:stonington.public.library@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T120000
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SUMMARY:Seaside Series: Jeryl Schriever
DESCRIPTION:  \nJeryl Schriever will present from her book\, Driving the Vote For Women: An American Journey for Suffrage\, published by Arcadia Publishing in September 2024\, and her national tour promoting the Equal Rights Amendment in her 1914 Saxon Roadster. \n  \nAbout Driving the Vote For Women: An American Journey for Suffrage \n\n\n\n\nIn 1916\, Alice Burke and Nell Richardson embarked on a daring and unprecedented cross-country journey advocating for women’s suffrage. Before the nineteenth amendment enshrined American women’s right to vote in 1920\, it was legal only in a few states. So trailblazing suffragists Alice and Nell loaded a Saxon automobile and embarked on a state-by-state campaign for women’s voting rights. Long before the modern highway system streamlined car travel\, Alice and Nell drove a grueling 10\,700 miles over twenty-six weeks\, traversing some of the roughest roads in America. Backed by the Saxon Motor Car Company—one of the original Detroit automakers—and fueled by their own unwavering spirits\, Alice and Nell advocated for women’s suffrage in every town along the way. Author Jeryl R. Schriever shares the remarkable story of the first women to ever drive across the country and back\, paving the way for generations of women to follow. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Bio\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeryl R. Schriever began her interest in Saxon Motor Cars in 2011 when touring in a 1914 Saxon roadster through the hills of eastern Pennsylvania. Combining her knowledge of automotive history and the suffrage movement\, the fascination of the Alice and Nell story became compelling. \nAs a member of the Society of Automotive Historians Jeryl has edited and written for several national automobile magazines. At present she serves as the president of the board of the Seal Cove Automobile Museum\, a prominent collection of brass era motor cars on the coast of Maine. She received her degree in landscape architecture from SUNY at Syracuse University in 1969. Her career has included work in museum education\, exhibit design\, and historic restorations. \nThe mother of two\, she and her husband\, Alex Huppé\, live in Castine Maine and Sarasota Florida. They tour vintage cars year round. \n\n\n\nYou can learn more about Schriever’s journey and the efforts of the Equal Rights Amendment\, visit www.drivingthevote.org. \n\n\nThe rain venue for all Seaside Series programs is SPL\, 64 Main Street.
URL:http://www.stonington.lib.me.us/event/seaside-series-jeryl-schriever/
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SUMMARY:Seaside Series: Bruce Robert Coffin
DESCRIPTION:.   \nBruce Robert Coffin will present from his latest book\, Dark Harbor\, published by Severn River Publishing in August 2026. \nAbout Dark Harbor \nDark Harbor is the third book in Coffin’s Detective Justice series\, featuring Detective Brock Justice investigating the deaths of a millionaire and a burglar in Bar Harbor\, Maine\, uncovering secrets of the wealthy elite while dealing with a suspicious new partner\, Samantha Osborn. The mystery involves a mansion break-in\, conflicting evidence pointing to the victim’s wife\, and powerful figures trying to hide the truth.  \nAuthor Bio \nBruce Robert Coffin is an international bestselling novelist and short story writer. A retired police detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement\, Bruce supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine’s largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11\, 2001\, Bruce spent four years investigating counter-terrorism cases for the FBI\, earning the Director’s Award\, the highest award a non- agent can receive. He is the author of the Detective Byron Mysteries\, co-author of The Turner and Mosley Files (along with bestselling author LynDee Walker)\, and author of the Detective Justice Mysteries. \nBruce is a member of International Thriller Writers\, Mystery Writers of America\, Sisters in Crime\, Short Mystery Fiction Society\, and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. \nHe lives and writes in Maine. \nYou can learn more about Coffin and his writing on his website. \n\nThe rain venue for all Seaside Series programs is SPL\, 64 Main Street.
URL:http://www.stonington.lib.me.us/event/seaside-series-bruce-robert-coffin/
LOCATION:Small Cove Park\, 6 Atlantic Avenue\, Stonington\, ME\, 04681
ORGANIZER;CN="Stonington Public Library":MAILTO:stonington.public.library@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Seaside Series: Jim and Emma Krosschell
DESCRIPTION:.   \n.     \nFather and daughter team\, Jim and Emma Krosschell\, will present their poetry from their respective books\, Man Afield\, published by Prolific Pulse Press LLC in March 2026\, and Hermitage published by Littoral Books in October 2024. \nAbout Man Afield \nMan Afield is a lyrical journey through the living world\, guided by a backyard naturalist attuned to both wonder and warning. These poems chronicle spiritual and physical excursions into landscapes larger than any one mind or body — places where awe\, joy\, disorientation\, and reckoning intertwine. \nMan Afield is at once a field journal\, a meditation\, and a love song — to earth\, to home\, and to the fragile bond between them. \nAbout Hermitage \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Hermitage\, Emma Krosschell inhabits a liminal space\, somewhere between her mind and the living world of hemlock\, crows\, snow\, wind\, tides and stars. These are poems that begin in silence\, and draw us into those moments when the world comes alive before her eyes. She is\, above all\, a witness\, and we become witnesses along with her in this place where the finite\, mortal self meets something greater. She is listening intently\, seeing deeply\, and her heart is wide open.  – Stuart Kestenbaum\, Former Poet Laureate of Maine \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Bios\nJim Krosschelll has published poems and essays in some 85 journals\, plus three collections: One Man’s Maine\, which won a Maine Literary Award\, Owls Head Revisited\, and Man Afield. He lives in Deer Isle\, ME and Newton\, MA\, and volunteers on boards for Coastal Mountains Land Trust and the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma Krosschell lives in Brooksville\, Maine\, with her partner and their dog. She spends her time wandering in the woods and baking as much bread as she can. Hermitage is her first collection of poetry. \n\n\nThe rain venue for all Seaside Series programs is SPL\, 64 Main Street.
URL:http://www.stonington.lib.me.us/event/seaside-series-jim-krosschell/
LOCATION:Small Cove Park\, 6 Atlantic Avenue\, Stonington\, ME\, 04681
ORGANIZER;CN="Stonington Public Library":MAILTO:stonington.public.library@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T193000
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SUMMARY:SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books
DESCRIPTION:Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood • Selected by Laura Watson \nWinner: Giller Prize (1996) \n“Alias Grace has all the pacing of a commercial novel and all the resonance of a classic.” –The Washington Post Book World \nFind Alias Grace in MILS \n“It’s 1843\, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. \nSome believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence\, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?” –From the publisher’s website \nEleven readers chose 11 books\, and they will lead 11 discussions in 2026. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month at 6:30pm on Zoom. There are two exceptions: there is no discussion in August when the book club takes a summer break\, and the last meeting is bumped up to the second Monday\, December 14\, to minimize scheduling conflicts around the holidays. New readers—near and far—are always welcome. To sign up for the book club email list\, please send a request to the email below.
URL:http://www.stonington.lib.me.us/event/spl-book-club-sep2026/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Stonington Public Library":MAILTO:stonington.public.library@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books
DESCRIPTION:Three Junes by Julia Glass • Selected by Ellen Shockro \nWinner: National Book Award (2002) \n“Enormously accomplished….rich\, absorbing\, and full of life.” –The New Yorker \nFind Three Junes in MILS \n“In June of 1989 Paul McLeod\, a newspaper publisher and recent widower\, travels to Greece\, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage. \nSix years later\, again in June\, Paul’s death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno\, the eldest\, a wry\, introspective gay man\, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village\, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses. \nFour years farther on\, in yet another June\, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky\, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant\, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her.” –From the publisher’s website \nEleven readers chose 11 books\, and they will lead 11 discussions in 2026. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month at 6:30pm on Zoom. There are two exceptions: there is no discussion in August when the book club takes a summer break\, and the last meeting is bumped up to the second Monday\, December 14\, to minimize scheduling conflicts around the holidays. New readers—near and far—are always welcome. To sign up for the book club email list\, please send a request to the email below.
URL:http://www.stonington.lib.me.us/event/spl-book-club-oct2026/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Stonington Public Library":MAILTO:stonington.public.library@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261123T193000
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SUMMARY:SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books
DESCRIPTION:Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town by Susan Hand Shetterly • Selected by Kendra Chubbuck \nWinner: Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction (2011) \n“Shetterly’s penetrating observations resonate with an undeniable sense of what matters most in life: the preservation of self\, the protection of wilderness\, and appreciation for the passage of time…” –Booklist \nFind Settled in the Wild in MILS \n“Settled in the Wild takes us into the woods and along the shorelines\, mudflats\, and paths of rural Maine\, where Susan Hand Shetterly has lived and written about nature for the past thirty years. Now\, she turns her attention to the ways humans and animals share the land\, especially as our mutual habitat is changing. Her observations start small\, looking out her window at the many living things in just one dead tree in her yard\, at the wild turkeys and coyotes in the field. Then she expands to the surrounding forest\, to the seaside\, and to the lives of her neighbors\, many of whom have always made a living off the land or sea. \nWhether writing about a displaced garter snake\, witnessing the paving of a beloved dirt road\, catching a cricket with her young son\, rescuing a fledgling raven\, or rejoicing with the town at the return of the alewife migration\, Shetterly pays tribute to the resilience that abounds. She argues for a consciousness that honors the values of wilderness\, protects the beauty and vigor of rural communities\, and teaches our children to love the gifts of the land.” –From the dust jacket \nEleven readers chose 11 books\, and they will lead 11 discussions in 2026. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month at 6:30pm on Zoom. There are two exceptions: there is no discussion in August when the book club takes a summer break\, and the last meeting is bumped up to the second Monday\, December 14\, to minimize scheduling conflicts around the holidays. New readers—near and far—are always welcome. To sign up for the book club email list\, please send a request to the email below.
URL:http://www.stonington.lib.me.us/event/spl-book-club-nov2026/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Stonington Public Library":MAILTO:stonington.public.library@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:SPL Book Club: Award-Winning Books
DESCRIPTION:March: Book One by John Lewis\, Andrew Aydin\, and Nate Powell • Selected by Pat Dobbs \nWinner: RFK Book Award (2014) \n“A riveting and beautiful civil-rights story…Lewis’s gripping memoir should be stocked in every school and shelved at every library.” –The Washington Post \nFind March in MILS \n“March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights\, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis’ personal story\, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. \nBook One spans John Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama\, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, the birth of the Nashville Student Movement\, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins\, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall. \nMany years ago\, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book ‘Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story.’ Now\, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience\, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.” –From the publisher’s website \nEleven readers chose 11 books\, and they will lead 11 discussions in 2026. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month at 6:30pm on Zoom. There are two exceptions: there is no discussion in August when the book club takes a summer break\, and the last meeting is bumped up to the second Monday\, December 14\, to minimize scheduling conflicts around the holidays. New readers—near and far—are always welcome. To sign up for the book club email list\, please send a request to the email below.
URL:http://www.stonington.lib.me.us/event/spl-book-club-dec2026/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Stonington Public Library":MAILTO:stonington.public.library@gmail.com
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