The Month of April - Honoring All Volunteers.  Stop by and commend our volunteers on their hard work.  Over 7,000 hours per year are committed to keeping Graves Library open for business 42.5 hours per week.  Without their help, we would not be able to provide all the wonderful services that we do.  Commitment, Community, and Co-Operation!  We are so very grateful.

There’s a new Movie Theater in town and the price is right–Free!  Graves Library offers  – Movie Night – once per month.  Please join us on Thursday, May 16th at 6:45 pm for a special showing of The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming.  What would you do if the Russians showed up on the Coast of Kennebunkport?  Discussion after the film. When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island,…

We are thrilled to have Maine Author, Susan Conley, return to Graves Library for a Pasco Lecture on Sunday, May 19th at 2:00 pm.  Susan will be here to read from her new novel, Elsey Come Home, published by Penguin Random House earlier this year.   According to Oprah, Elsey is one of ten newly-released books that will give you an excuse to stay indoors this winter! We agree!   Susan Conley is a Mainer and the author of four books including her…

The Evening Book Group meets the last Thursday of every month at 6:00 p.m.  Please join us in the Business Center (First Floor–Side Door).  No registration required (967-2778).  For the month of May, we will be reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens..  Please call the Library if you need to reserve a copy. Next Meeting : June 27 - Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver.

According to Cicero, "if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." We are very pleased to announce that Graves Library is launching its First Annual Secret Gardens of Kennebunkport tour on Saturday, July 20, 2019 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.  Eight homeowners have agreed to open their private gardens for this one day only to help raise money for the Library.  Tickets for this event will be going on sale (via our website and…

We are over the moon about having Author Ann Hood join us for a Pasco Lecture on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 2:00 pm.  Ms. Hood will be here to read from her new book Kitchen Yarns : Notes on Life, Love and Food. If you don't know anything about Ann Hood, here is a snipit from her biography: A Rhode Island native, I was born in West Warwick and spent high school working as a Marsha Jordan Girl, modeling…