AUTHOR EVENT – LOU SALOME – NOVEMBER 14 @ 5:30 PM

You might know him as our “visiting professor.” News reporter and editor, Lou Salome will be at the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library on Thursday, November 14 @ 5:30 pm to talk about his new book, Two Hundred Miles from Bagdad: Cultures, conflicts, and the lost art of hitchhiking.” Copies will be for sale and signing after the discussion. No registration is required.

In September, 1958, Lou Salome hurried past Barney McNeil’s blacksmith shop to the town’s blinking traffic light and began hitchhiking to college. He was seventeen. Decades later his hitching experience led Salome through deserts and hostile zones in Asia, Europe, and Africa. At the end of his International life, he thumbed in the New Hampshire woods to gauge how times had changed. This is his story of the adventures, risks and fun he embraced while engaging in a lost art.

A New Englander by birth, Lou Salome holds a bachelor’s degree from Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts where he was a classmate of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s. He also has a Master’s Degree in American History from Boston College, and a Ph.D in hitchhiking and news reporting on four continents. Mr. Lou, as he was known in foreign climes, hitched to college for two years in the late fifties, hitched into and out of battle zones in Asia, Africa, and Europe in the nineties, and hitched for fun, but with little success, in the New Hampshire woods in 2004 while writing books. A newspaper reporter and editor for thirty-five years and an author since 2010, Lou has written three books, the latest about his hitching experiences, the lost art of hitchhiking, and the social and economic changes that doomed the art. As the editorial page editor of The Miami (FL) News, Lou Salome won numerous journalism prizes. In 1981 and 1984, he won the National Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Editorial Writing. In 1984, he won the Jamaica Daily Gleamer Editorial Writing Award given by the Inter-American Press Association, In 1987, he won the first annual Thomas Jefferson First Amendment Award given by the Cultural Action Network.

The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. Please call is for details (207-967-2778).

AUTHOR EVENT – DAVID ROHDE – NOVEMBER 9 @ 4:00 PM

We are pleased to welcome Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Maine native David Rohde to the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library on Saturday, November 9 @ 4:00 p.m. Mr. Rohde will be interviewed by author and associate editor for the Washington Post, David Maraniss. Rohde’s book (published August 2024), Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War Against Democracy will be featured in the discussion.

A suggested donation of $25 would be appreciated. Please stop by the Library or call (207) 967-2778 to reserve your seat. You may also purchase your ticket through our website (www.graveslibrary.org/support). A wine and cheese reception and book signing will follow. The Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport, Maine. Parking is available at Consolidated School (School Street) or the Village Fire Station (North Street).

A ride shuttle will be provided by Kennebunkport Recreation from Consolidated School from 3:15 to 3:45 p.m. and return from 6:00 to 6:30 pm after the program.

David S. Rohde is an investigative journalist and American author. He is the former news director for The New Yorker and now serves as Senior Executive Editor, National Security for NBC News. While a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre. From 2002 to 2005, he was co-chief of the New York Times’ South Asia Bureau. He later contributed to the newspaper’s team coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan that received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and was a finalist in his own right in the category in 2010. He is also a global affairs analyst for CNN.

While in Afghanistan, Rohde was kidnapped by members of the Taliban in November 2008 but managed to escape in June 2009 after seven months of captivity. His publications include Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe’s Worst Massacre Since World War II; A Safe Area: Srebrenica – Europe’s Worst Massacre Since the Holocaust, 1997; A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides; In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State” and Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War Against Democracy.

David Maraniss is a New York Times bestselling author and associate editor at The Washington Post. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, Jim Thorpe and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s. He currently lives in Washington D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin.

MOVIE NIGHT AT GRAVES LIBRARY – DECEMBER 19 AT 6:45 PM

Monthly Movie Night! Join us for a great night of theater, snacks, and friends in the Community Room.

One night a month, the Library’s Community Room will transform into a movie theater. Meet up with your friends, and snack on some popcorn!

MOVIE NIGHT AT GRAVES LIBRARY – NOVEMBER 21 AT 6:45 PM

Monthly Movie Night! Join us for a great night of theater, snacks, and friends in the Community Room.

One night a month, the Library’s Community Room will transform into a movie theater. Meet up with your friends, and snack on some popcorn!

EVENING BOOK GROUP – DECEMBER 19 @ 5:00 PM

Evening Book Group

Join us on Thursday, December 19 @ 5:00 pm for this month’s book group. All are welcome to attend. For December, the group is selecting books for 2025 and having a book swap.

Please give us a call at 967-2778 for more information on this event and other upcoming reads.

EVENING BOOK GROUP

Evening Book Group

Join us on Thursday, November 21st, for this month’s book group. All are welcome to attend. For November, the group is reading The Sentence by Louise Erdich.

Please give us a call at 967-2778 for more information on this event and other upcoming reads.

DEATH CAFE – WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 @ 9:30 AM

Please join us for our Death Café – Community, Conversation, and Coffee. We will be meeting in the Community Room from 9:30 to 11:10 a.m.

What is a Death Café? A Death Café is a safe and relaxed space to gather with people to discuss topics related to death and dying. The objective is to engage in interesting, thought-provoking, and life-affirming conversations. Please join us for this community conversation. Registration is required.

Facilitated by: Marilyn R. Gugliucci, MA, Ph.D., AGHEF, GSAF, AGSF, NAOMEF, Professor and Director of Geriatric Education and Research at the University of New England.

Hosted by: Kennebunkport Public Health Department and Graves Library. Please call (207) 967-2778 to register. Space is limited.

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7 @ 9:00 AM

We invite you to join us on Thursday, November 7th, at 9:00 a.m. for our “Community Connections” session. This hour will feature coffee and conversation with the Kennebunkport Communications Department at Graves Library. They will discuss the new website in an informal setting. Light refreshments will be provided!

Following this event, each month will bring a new member of our Town’s government to share updates and essential information. For further details about Community Connections, please contact the Library at 967-2778. The Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport.

BOB DENNIS & TOM BRADBURY – DECEMBER 3 @ 4:00 PM

REFLECTIONS AT THE LIBRARY – BOOK SIGNING AND HOMEMADE CLAM CHOWDER

We hope to see you here at the Graves Library for a special Prelude book signing on Tuesday, December 3 at 4:00 pm in the Community Room. Local favorites, Bob Dennis and Tom Bradbury will discuss and sign copies of their new book Reflections: Four Seasons of Beauty in Kennebunkport, Volume II. The book features 200 photos of Kennebunkport by award-winning photographer Bob Dennis. The photographs are accompanied by thought-provoking quotations selected by Tom Bradbury. Light refreshments will be served. Parking is available along Maine Street, the Fire Station Parking Lot (North Street), and Consolidated School (Route 9).

The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

TRICK OR TREAT AT THE GRAVES

Trick or Treat at the Graves!

Thursday, October 31, from 3 to 5 PM

A friendly witch, a Sumo Wrestler, and more characters will be giving out treats.

The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. For further information, please call 967-2778 and ask for the Junior Room or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

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