How do we honor what we cannot see? How can the experience of history-in-place change our perspectives on the past? Castine Waterfront, Sea Street / Castine, Maine Join Georgia Zildjian, Manager of Museum Learning at the Wilson Museum, and Lisa Simpson-Lutts, former director of the Castine Historical Society, for Castine History Partner’s fourth Jane’s Walk. ... Read more
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.
All are welcome. In person in the Downstairs Community Room and over Zoom. Go to the Agenda. Request the Zoom link
The topic is "The Rising Challenge to Territorial Integrity". Moderated by Barbara Griffiths. All are welcome. We meet over Zoom. Go to readings and how to register
The Alamo Theatre, 85 Main Street / Bucksport, Maine Conversations about the Maine Woods Ethan Tapper is a nationally-recognized forester, bestselling author, and content creator from Vermont. Only those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper. In How to Love a Forest, he asks: what does it mean to live in 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
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.
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