Please join Miss Terri and Miss Stephanie for a special visit with guest reader Public Health Nurse, Alison Kenneway. Nurse Alison will tell us all how to stay healthy! No registration is required. This program is designed for children 5 and younger, however, all ages are welcome. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate.
For more information, please call the Library at 967-2778.
CALLING ALL CRAFTERS!
Sign up to make a special S-T-E-M craft on Thursday, March 12 @ 3:30 pm.
We will show you how to create art using toothpicks and marshmallows. Join us and play with your food! All supplies will be provided. All ages are welcome to attend.
Please call the Library (967-2778) to sign up and/or hear about other events going on.
DO YOU LIKE TO SKETCH, PAINT, AND/OR DOODLE? Join others via ZOOM to talk about art and share your work/creations/frustrations, etc. A “sketch prompt” will be given at the introductory meeting. Interpretation and variation will be discussed. This group will meet twice per month for one hour. For further information, please call the Library 967-2778 or email Mary-Lou Boucouvalas for the Zoom link.
DO YOU LIKE TO SKETCH, PAINT, AND/OR DOODLE? Join others via ZOOM to talk about art and share your work/creations/frustrations, etc. A “sketch prompt” will be given at the introductory meeting. Interpretation and variation will be discussed. This group will meet twice per month for one hour. For further information, please call the Library 967-2778 or email Mary-Lou Boucouvalas for the Zoom link.
DO YOU LIKE TO SKETCH, PAINT, AND/OR DOODLE? Join others to talk about art and share your work/creations/frustrations, etc. A “sketch prompt” will be given at the END of each meeting. Interpretation and variation will be discussed. This group will meet twice per month for one hour. For further information, please call the Library 967-2778 or email Mary-Lou Boucouvalas for more information. Supplies are not provided.
The morning book group meets every second Thursday of the month at 9:45 am. New members always welcome. Copies of the book will be available upon request/reservation. Please call the Library for further details (207) 967-2778.
For March 12, the group will be discussing Working by Robert Caro. 
For the first time in his long career, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses; what it felt like to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses’ Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ’s mistresses. [GoodReads]
The morning book group meets every second Thursday of the month at 9:45 am. New members always welcome. Copies of the book will be available upon request/reservation. Please call the Library for further details (207) 967-2778.
For April 9, the group will be discussing The Hidden Life of Trees.
Join us on Tuesday, March 17 @ 1:00 pm for an Afternoon At The Movies! In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, The Secret of Roan Inish will be shown in the Community Room.
Hot popcorn will be served. All Ages are Welcome! FMI please call (207) 967-2778.
Who’s In Your Tree? A Genealogy Discussion Group
Meet with fellow genealogy buff, Mike Weston on Tuesday, February 18 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm in the Business Center at the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library.
Mike will lead us in discussion and instruction on the following aspects of genealogy:
—How to start and document your family tree from your own computer.
—Techniques for on-line research.
—How not to fall into traps when searching other public trees on line.
—Outside sources of information and documentation.
—Approaches to overcoming “Brick Walls” that you may have found.
This is programmed geared mostly for beginners; however, Mike will answer your intermediate and advanced questions if they arise. Come and join us and have fun researching your family roots. There is no charge for this program.
At the first session, the group will decide on future meeting time/dates.
The Trustees of the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library are pleased to announce their annual Author Event to be held virtually on Thursday, September 16, 2021. This year’s fundraising event will feature award-winning author, Lisa Wingate.
Lisa Wingate is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which remained on the bestseller list for fifty-four weeks in hardcover and has sold over 2 million copies. She has penned over thirty novels and coauthored a nonfiction book, Before and After with Judy Christie. Her award-winning works have been selected for state and community One Book reads throughout the country, have been published in over forty languages, and have appeared on bestseller lists worldwide.
Her work has garnered or been nominated for many awards, including the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, and the RT Booklovers Reviewer’s Choice Award. Her blockbuster hit, Before We Were Yours remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for over a year, was Publishers Weekly’s #3 longest running bestseller of 2017, and was voted by readers as the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award winner for historical fiction. Before We Were Yours has been a book club favorite worldwide and to date has sold over two million copies. Before and After was a finalist for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Non-Fiction History and Biography.
Lisa was inspired to become a writer by a first-grade teacher who said she expected to see Lisa’s name in a magazine one day. Lisa also entertained childhood dreams of being an Olympic gymnast and winning the National Finals Rodeo but was stalled by a mental block against backflips on the balance beam and by parents who stubbornly refused to finance a rodeo career. She was lucky enough to marry into a big family of Southern tall tale enthusiasts who never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Lisa writes her novels at home in Texas where she is part of the Wingate clan of storytellers. Of all the things she treasures about being a writer, she enjoys connecting with people, both real and imaginary, the most.
Tickets for this virtual event are available at the Graves Library or go to the “DONATE” Button located on the HomePage of this website and specify in the event in the notes section. ($25 pp. — cnce payment is received, a link to a working email will be sent for the webinar.)
All proceeds benefit the annual operations of the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library. We truly appreciate your support.
