Each episode, we bring you a new interview with a community member. It could be someone you see at the Post Office, behind the counter at Bradbury’s, at Church, or in the Square. Get to know your fellow Kennebunkport Residents by watching our weekly show. We post it on Facebook, Youtube, and Local Television 1301. Everyone has a Story! What is Yours?
A big thanks to Michael Kelly for producing this show!
Each episode, we bring you a new interview with a community member. It could be someone you see at the Post Office, behind the counter at Bradbury’s, at Church, or in the Square. Get to know your fellow Kennebunkport Residents by watching our weekly show. We post it on Facebook, Youtube, and Local Television 1301. Everyone has a Story! What is Yours?
A big thanks to Michael Kelly for producing this show!
Each episode, we bring you a new interview with a community member. It could be someone you see at the Post Office, behind the counter at Bradbury’s, at Church, or in the Square. Get to know your fellow Kennebunkport Residents by watching our weekly show. We post it on Facebook, Youtube, and Local Television 1301. Everyone has a Story! What is Yours?
A big thanks to Michael Kelly for producing this show!
Each episode, we bring you a new interview with a community member. It could be someone you see at the Post Office, behind the counter at Bradbury’s, at Church, or in the Square. Get to know your fellow Kennebunkport Residents by watching our weekly show. We post it on Facebook, Youtube, and Local Television 1301. Everyone has a Story! What is Yours?
A big thanks to Michael Kelly for producing this show!
Please tune in on Thursday, May 20 @ 10:00 am to this pre-recorded program with Miss Terri as she answers your letters and email questions to suggest books, articles, and movies on a special topic. She will have lots of recommendations for children of all ages. This session will be posted on our Facebook, YouTube, and local television network.
As always, we are happy to set aside any books you want to read and/or watch with your children. Please give us a call at 967-2778.
We are thrilled to welcome to Graves Library, Maine Author, Bruce Robert Coffin to talk about his new book on Sunday, May 23 at 2:00 pm. Mr. Coffin will be interviewed by local bookshop owner Kristen Kuehnle before an audience of none. Signed copies of his latest book, Within Plain Sight, will be available for sale starting Monday May 10 here at the Library. To order yours, please send us an email (ml@graves.lib.me.us) or call (967-2778). This program will be available for viewing on Facebook (facebook.com/GravesLibrary), YouTube (youtube.com – Search Graves Memorial Public Library), and Kennebunkport local access television.
Bruce Robert Coffin is the award-winning author of the bestselling Detective Byron mystery series. A former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he 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.
His novel, Beyond the Truth, winner of Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Award for Best Procedural, was a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel and a finalist for the Maine Literary Award for Best Crime Fiction. His short fiction appears in several anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories 2016.
Bruce is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. He is a regular contributor to Murder Books blogs.
Bruce is represented by Paula Munier at Talcott Notch Literary. He lives and writes in Maine.
The Evening Book Group usually meets the last Thursday of every month at 6:00 p.m. This month, the group will meet on May 27 at 6:00 pm. If you would like to participate in our meeting via Zoom, please call the Library (207-967-2778) or email ml@graves.lib.me.us to be added to the invitation list. If the weather is perfect, we will consider meeting outside of the Library in the garden.
A link will be sent to all participants early in the day to access the meeting. We will be discussing Mill Town : Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault.
KERRI ARSENAULT is the Book Review Editor at Orion magazine, and Contributing Editor at Lithub. Arsenault received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and studied in Malmö University’s Communication for Development master’s programme. Her writing has appeared in Freeman’s, Lithub, Oprah.com, and The Minneapolis Star Tribune, among other publications. She lives in New England. Mill Town is her first book.
What People are Saying About Mill Town – “Clear-eyed and self-deprecating, Arsenault is a welcome guide through the history of Mexico and Rumford, capturing the voices of their inhabitants, the stories they tell and the confidences they keep. She is tenacious in her search for answers, tender in her interactions with her mother and their neighbors. A riveting blend of reportage and memoir reveals the secrets of a paper mill town.”―Michael Berry, Maine Sunday Telegram
We are thrilled to welcome back to Graves Library, Maine Author, Susan Conley to talk about her new book Landslide on Sunday, April 25 at 2:00 pm. Ms. Conley will be interviewed by local bookshop owner Kristen Kuehnle before an audience of none. Signed copies of the book will be available for sale starting Monday April 12 here at the Library. To order yours, please send us an email (ml@graves.lib.me.us) or call (967-2778). This program will be available for viewing on Facebook (facebook.com/GravesLibrary), YouTube (youtube.com – Search Graves Memorial Public Library), and Kennebunkport local access television.
Ms. Conley is the author of five critically-acclaimed books, including her newest, best-selling novel Landslide — A New York Times Editor’s Choice and a Best Book/Most Anticipated of Winter/February ’21 by Good Morning America, The New York Post, Medium, Bustle, Biblio Lifestyle and others. Her previous, best-selling novel, Elsey Come Home, was a Most Anticipated/Best Book at Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, Pop Sugar, Huffington Post, Southern Living, Fodor’s, and an Editor’s Choice at Amazon. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Lithub, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Harvard Review, and others. She’s been awarded multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, as well as fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Maine Arts Commission, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. She’s won the Maine Book Award and the Maine Award for Publishing Excellence and has been a featured Tedx Speaker, where her talk the “Power of Story,” has been viewed widely. She’s taught at colleges and international art-residencies including Emerson College, Colby College, The University of Massachusetts, as the Jack Kerouac Visiting Fellow, The Haystack School, The Spannochia Foundation, La Napoule Foundation, and The Beijing Hutong. She’s on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program and is co-founder of the Telling Room, a creative writing lab for kids in Portland, Maine.
It’s School Vacation Week and We’ve Got Crafts for You. Stop by the Library to pick up your Packet To Go!
Monday, April 19 – Twiggy Flowers with Miss Bryce
Tuesday, April 20 – Spring Snacks with Miss Bryce
Wednesday, April 21 – Spring Sun Prints with Miss Bryce
Thursday, April 22 – Teacup Gardening with Miss Terri and her Guest (the Queen)
Friday, April 23 – Weekly Storytime with Miss Bryce – Celebrating National Arbor Day.
Let us know if you have any questions. We are also happy to get books and movies ready for you too!
