AUTHOR TALK WITH LOCAL AUTHOR ANDY YOUNG – MAY 21 @ 5:30 PM

LIFE IN 600 WORDS BY ANDY YOUNG

Back by popular demand, our friend and author Andy Young will be here at Graves Library on Wednesday, May 21 @ 5:30 pm to read from his new collection of stories, Life in 600 Words.

Mr. Young is a familiar face at Kennebunk High School, where he is in his 24th year as a teacher of English and literacy. Before that, he worked as a play-by-play announcer for several minor-league professional baseball and hockey teams. Young has done everything from digging ditches and washing dishes to selling athletic footwear and Christmas trees (though not at the same time). He and his three children live in Cumberland.

Copies of Andy’s new book will be for sale and signing at the event. Please call the Library for further details 207-967-2778.

The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport, Maine.

LOCAL AUTHOR – ALBERT WAITT – THURSDAY, JUNE 5 @ 6:00 PM

We are so thrilled to welcome back local author and friend of Graves Library Albert Waitt on Thursday, June 5 @ 6:00 pm. Mr. Waitt will be reading from his new book Springbrookville, the third in his LT Nichols mystery series. Copies of the book will be for sale and signing after the reading.

The first in the series, The Ruins of Woodman’s Village, was published in 2023, followed by Flood Tide in 2024. Waitt is a graduate of Bates College and the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. His short fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Third Coast, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Words and Images, and other publications. His first novel, Summer to Fall was published in 2013 by Barrel Fire Press.

The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. For further information, please call 207-967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.

LOCAL AUTHOR- GEORGE LONGSTRETH, MD – SEPTEMBER 11 @ 5:30 PM

We are thrilled to invite Maine Author George Longstreth to Graves Library on Wednesday, September 11 at 5:30 pm. Dr. Longstreth will be here to talk about his latest work Shot Down Over The Soviet Union, A Strategic Air Command Finally Revealed.

Born and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, George B. Longstreth, MD earned his medical doctorate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1965. Spending six years in New York City, first in Spanish Harlem, then in Hell’s Kitchen, he lived among many of the characters and events that he now uses in his novels. After a surgical stint in the US Navy, followed by ten years in rural northwest Connecticut, George and his wife Betsy enjoyed an active surgical practice in Fairfield during the 1980s and ’90s. This included on-call rotations to the Emergency Room at near-by Bridgeport Hospital, where an unhealthy sampling of the drug-world underbelly came for urgent care. Betsy and George now live in active retirement in Kennebunkport, Maine, where they are kept busy by family (including 19 grandchildren), friends, unusual characters and happenings, and a dog named Jane.

Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing. The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit www.graveslibrary.org.

AUTHOR VISIT WITH ALBERT WAITT – THURSDAY, MAY 23 @ 6:00 PM

MAINE AUTHOR ALBERT WAITT – MAY 23 AT 6:00 PM

Local Author and friend to Graves Library Albert Waitt will be here on Thursday, May 23 at 6:00 pm to read from the second book in the LT Nichols Mystery Series. Newly published Flood Tide is an incredible work of fiction about what happens when a body washes up on the shore of a harbor island and what LT Nichols, Maine’s Chief of Police will do about it!

Mr. Waitt will bring copies of the book to sell and sign after his reading.

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

MAINE AUTHORS FOR LEWISTON – A BOOK SIGNING – NOVEMBER 28 @ 2:30 PM

Maine Authors for Lewiston – Book Signing

November 28 – 2:30 to 5:00 PM

Maine Authors for Lewiston, an informal group of more than 70 Maine authors, have banded together to support the victims of the recent tragedy in Lewiston. The group has organized a series of 10 book signings, all free and open to the public so that people can purchase books and meet the authors. There will be fiction writers, children’s book authors, non-fiction writers, and poets among the participants.

This is a wonderful opportunity for Maine book lovers to support local authors, and most importantly, to help our fellow Mainers as they begin to heal and recover.

All of the participating authors have agreed to donate all, or most, of their proceeds from these events to help the healing and recovery efforts in Lewiston. All are volunteering because they care.

The authors scheduled to appear at the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library are Bruce Robert Coffin, William Chanler, Irene Drago, Maya Williams, Jean Flahive, Jennifer Lunden, Mike Bove, Susanne Dunlap, Mike Culver, Jennifer Dupree, Brenda Pollock, Skip Simonds, Kate Kearns, Matt Cost, David Florig, Jason Trask, Norma Salway, Robert Spencer, Didi Cooper, Annaliese Jakimides, Barry Somes, Wayne Burton, Maryann Cocca-Leffler…and others!

The Graves Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. Parking is available at the Village Fire Station lot (North Street), Maine Street, and at the Library. We hope to see you here.

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