Please join us for our Very Fairy Tea Party on Tuesday, July 2 at 1:00 pm. Stories, face painting, crafts, fairy wings, treats, fancy dresses…Everything Fairy! All ages are welcome but children 6 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Pre-Registration is a must as space is limited. Sign up at the Library or call 967-2778. Help us celebrate summer reading with your fairy wings!
Yoga Beginnings
Please join us and our guest, Leslie Cargill, a certified Yoga Instructor, who will lead little ones and their parents through exercises in breathing and movement. Please call the Library at 967-2778 for more information.
Please join us on Monday, July 15 at 6:30 pm for a presentation, reading, and book signing with local artist, Jennifer Comeau. Ms. Comeau’s poems are included in this anthology, Sacred Stone, Sacred Water : Women Writers and Artists Encounter Ireland. This incredible anthology is an elegant and intimate collection evoking Ireland’s wild beauty and deep soul through the work of fourteen American women writers and artists who journeyed to three renowned parts of Ireland. Beautifully woven in image and word, this cornucopia is surely a jewel in the crown of Tir Ghra (an ancient Irish phrase which means (“love of land”) literature.
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 for the Jordan Marsh department store at the Warwick Mall. I majored in English at the University of Rhode Island, and that’s where I fell in love with Shakespeare, Willa Cather, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When I was in seventh grade, I read a book called How To Become An Airline Stewardess that fueled my desire to see the world. And that’s just what I did when I graduated from URI–I went to work for TWA as a flight attendant. Back then, I thought you needed adventures in order to be a writer. Of course, I know now that all you need, as Eudora Welty said, is to sit on your own front porch. But I did see a lot of the world with TWA, and I moved from Boston to St. Louis and finally to NYC, a place I’d dreamed of living ever since I watched Doris Day movies as a little girl. I wrote my first novel, Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, on international flights and on the Train to the Plane, which was the subway out to JFK. It was published in 1987. Since then, I’ve published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, O, Bon Appetit, Tin House, The Atlantic Monthly, Real Simple, and other wonderful places; and I’ve won two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing Awards, Best American Spiritual Writing and Travel Writing Awards, and a Boston Public Library Literary Light Award.
The Pasco Lecture Series is sponsored by the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, Kennebunk Savings Bank, and the Graves Library Snack Team. Sales and signing of Kitchen Yarns will follow the talk. Please give us a call at 967-2778 with questions about this event or to find out what else is going on at Graves Library. Doors open at 1:30 pm
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 (rain or shine). Eight homeowners have agreed to open their private gardens for this one day only to help raise money for the Library. Tickets are $40 each and they can be purchased in advance on the library website at graveslibrary.org or at the Library at 18 Maine Street. On the day of the event, tickets will only be sold at Kennebunkport Consolidated School at 25 School Street.
A program map will be provided that day to all ticket holders to reveal the secret locations of the eight participating properties. Visitors will be treated to a wide variety of garden styles and plant types amid lovely natural settings hidden from view behind stone walls, seaside cottages, and privacy hedges. Colorful perennials and annuals, a scenic pond, woodland sculptures, ocean views, a Zen-inspired rock garden, trellised blooms, and many more delights are waiting to be discovered during this special garden tour opportunity.
Please call us with any questions. (207) 967-2778.
Please join Miss Terri and Miss Stephanie for a special storytime on Friday, April 26. The guest reader will be Children’s Book Illustrator, Abigail Halpin. She will be here to read from her fabulously illustrated book, Finding Wild! Sometimes the most striking picture books are the ones that make readers see something in a new way. This is a must have for every bookshelf!
Stories, songs, and fun activities. All ages are welcome. For more information, please call the Library at 967-2778.
When next you visit the Graves Library, don’t forget to check out our ongoing book sale in the basement. Thousands of books (in really great condition) for sale at very low prices. Cookbooks, fiction, biography, travel, children’s, sports, history, Maine, DVDs, and so much more. All proceeds benefit Graves Library. We also have an account called Perkins House Books on Amazon.com. Our inventory is constantly changing.
To find out more about our book sale and other fundraising efforts, please give us a call at 967-2778 or visit our support page on this website.
When next you visit the Graves Library, don’t forget to check out our ongoing book sale in the basement. Thousands of books (in really great condition) for sale at very low prices. Cookbooks, fiction, biography, travel, children’s, sports, history, Maine, DVDs, and so much more. All proceeds benefit Graves Library. We also have an account called Perkins House Books on Amazon.com. Our inventory is constantly changing.
To find out more about our book sale and other fundraising efforts, please give us a call at 967-2778 or visit our support page on this website.
When next you visit the Graves Library, don’t forget to check out our ongoing book sale in the basement. Thousands of books (in really great condition) for sale at very low prices. Cookbooks, fiction, biography, travel, children’s, sports, history, Maine, DVDs, and so much more. All proceeds benefit Graves Library. We also have an account called Perkins House Books on Amazon.com. Our inventory is constantly changing.
To find out more about our book sale and other fundraising efforts, please give us a call at 967-2778 or visit our support page on this website.
When next you visit the Graves Library, don’t forget to check out our ongoing book sale in the basement. Thousands of books (in really great condition) for sale at very low prices. Cookbooks, fiction, biography, travel, children’s, sports, history, Maine, DVDs, and so much more. All proceeds benefit Graves Library. We also have an account called Perkins House Books on Amazon.com. Our inventory is constantly changing.
To find out more about our book sale and other fundraising efforts, please give us a call at 967-2778 or visit our support page on this website.
