Learn how to assess a landscape before making significant design or structural changes. In this hands-on session, participants will explore a residential site and learn to assess key elements such as vegetation, soil conditions, drainage, topography, circulation and access, zoning regulations, and more. Leave with the tools and principles to evaluate your own property—or a ... Read more
This writing workshop with author Deborah Joy Corey will serve as a starting point for each participant to shape a particular food story or memory. Through reading, prompts, and discussion, Deborah will guide each participant in finding their true voice for telling their story. On completion of the workshop, each writer will have a solid ... Read more
Word invites mothers and caregivers to spend an afternoon at the Blue Hill Inn (40 Union Street) harnessing their creativity in a new way—writing in the compact, powerful “flash” form. Guiding the writers will be novelist and nonfiction author Kate Moses, whose four acclaimed books explore the experience of motherhood. The workshop will be held ... Read more
A delightful celebration at the beautiful Pentagöet. Contact 207.326.8616 for reservations.
Witherle Memorial Library will host a Bike Check-Up Day on Tuesday, May 12 for Adams School students, thanks to the efforts of Bill Corbett, Barbara Fleck and Taggart Chung. The Check-Up is sponsored by the Friends of Witherle Library. During PE classes the children will be riding at Adams School and getting their bikes “tuned ... Read more
At Witherle Library, 41 School Street. The group meets on Monday mornings (except for holidays) from 10 to Noon in the Reading Room. All are welcome!
Mahjong returns for a spring session. If you would like to play, please email admin@witherlelibrary.net. The group will return this summer. Stay tuned.
At Witherle Library / 41 School Street. Listen to stories with friends! Ms. Orado will read from picture books and teach the group a simple craft.
At Witherle Library / 41 School Street. Ms Orado will present a new craft every Wednesday in May. Join your friends and express your creative selves! All supplies provided. Ages 7 and older. Crafty Wednesday will take a break in June and return in July as a part of Summer Reading.
Known around Castine as the publisher of Stroll Castine (Castine Living) magazine, throughout his surveying engineering career, Brian Norris has participated in a multitude of archaeological assignments around the globe. This talk will focus on a few select archaeological sites in the rain forests of Central America, in the desert of Central Turkey, and aboard a ... Read more
At Witherle Library, 41 School Street. For more information, contact Nick Berry (nick@witherlelibrary.net).