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"
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.
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"
A four-part public conversation series on Visions of Climate Futures based around the book of the same name by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. Participants are welcome to join in person at SPL or by Zoom. The conversation dates are Wednesday, January 22nd, February 5th and 19th, and March 5th from 6-7:30pm. Reach out to SPL at … Continue reading "What If We Get It Right? Public Conversation Series"
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"
