Events - 2007
this page was updated 12/29/06
Note the location and type of each event.
This is the current list of events planned throughout the Midcoast Read area (Brunswick, Topsham, Bath, Wiscasset, and surrounding towns.) Events are also listed on the library websites.
January, 2007
Jan. 30 - Patten Free Library, Bath, 6:30 - 8:00 pm. Join others reading The Grapes of Wrath for in-depth discussion as you go! Three sessions--Jan. 30: Chapter 1-11; Feb. 13: Chapter 12-18; and Feb. 27: Chapter 19-29-- led by Susan Beegel, a specialist in 20th century American literature.
February, 2007
Feb. 13 - Patten Free Library, Bath, 6:30 - 8:00 pm. Join others reading The Grapes of Wrath for in-depth discussion as you go! Three sessions--Jan. 30: Chapter 1-11; Feb. 13: Chapter 12-18; and Feb. 27: Chapter 19-29-- led by Susan Beegel, a specialist in 20th century American literature.
February 15- Curtis Memorial Library, Morrell Meeting Room, 12:15 - 1:15 pm. Brown Bag Lunch Discussion, We thought it was our doom: The Dust Bowl in American History and Culture. Facilitated by Matthew Klingle, Dept of History and Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College.
February 22- Curtis Memorial Library, Morrell Meeting Room, 12:15 - 1:15 pm Brown Bag Lunch Discussion, Harvest Gypsies: The Dust Bowl Migrants in California. Facilitated by Connie Chiang, Dept of History and Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College
Feb. 27 - Patten Free Library, Bath, 6:30 - 8:00 pm. Join others reading The Grapes of Wrath for in-depth discussion as you go! Three sessions--Jan. 30: Chapter 1-11; Feb. 13: Chapter 12-18; and Feb. 27: Chapter 19-29-- led by Susan Beegel, a specialist in 20th century American literature.
March, 2007
March 1- Curtis Memorial Library, Fireplace Room, 12:15 - 1:15 pm. Brown Bag Lunch Discussion, The Grapes of Wrath: Lessons from Yesterday for Today. Facilitated by Jack Wallace, retired History teacher.
March 2- Curtis Memorial Library, Morrell Meeting Room, 9:30 - 10:30 am. Cornerstones of Science Kinder Science program. Black Blizzards and Dust Bowls for 5 and 6 year olds and parent. Listen to the book Stars Beneath your Bed: the Surprising Story of Dust and participate in a dust science activity. Free and open to the public. Registration is required. You may register two weeks in advance by calling 725-5242 ext. 225.
March 3- Brunswick, Eveningstar Cinema, Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St., 11:00 am - 1:00 pm. The Grapes of Wrath film (1940) 20th Century Fox Studios, starring Henry Fonda, directed by John Ford. Admission is free.
March 5 – Bath, Maine Maritime Museum, 7:00 pm. Book discussion of The Grapes of Wrath with introductory comments on Bath in the Depression by Peter Goodwin, Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room Manager at Patten Free Library.
March 5- Topsham, Mt. Ararat High School, 2:15 pm. Books and Munchies showing of The Grapes of Wrath film. Pre-register with Tricia Gordon at gordont@link75.org
March 6-Topsham, The Highlands, 11:00am. Book Look Book Discussion of The Grapes of Wrath in the Main Lodge library.
March 7- Curtis Memorial Library, Morrell Meeting Room, 7:00 pm. Present Day Migrants of Central America and Mexico. Presentation by photojournalist Jim Harney, Artist in Residence of Posibilidad, a Bangor, Maine-based nonprofit that prioritizes engaging people in conversation around the excluded of society. Jim's incisive commentary and haunting images create an immediate sense of the reality being described and his skills as a facilitator enlarge conversation.
March 7 – Bath Area Family YMCA, 12:15 pm. Light lunch and book discussion of The Grapes of Wrath facilitated by Vida Henry. Reservations required, call 443-4112.
March 8 – Bath, Now You’re Cooking, 49 Front St., 6:00-8:00 pm. California wine tasting and Depression-era comfort food preparing and sampling.
March 8 – Phippsburg, Albert F. Totman Library, 7:00 pm. Book discussion of The Grapes of Wrath facilitated by Ellen Cooney.
March 8 - Curtis Memorial Library, Fireplace Room, 6:30 - 8:00 pm. The Grapes of Wrath: Lessons from Yesterday for Today. Facilitated by Jack Wallace, retired History teacher.
March 9- Curtis Memorial Library, Morrell Meeting Room, 4:00 - 5:30 pm. Create a Depression-era Quilt Block Children’s Quilting Program for 7 through 10 year olds. Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please register in advance by calling 725-5242 ext. 225.
March 10 – Wiscasset Public Library, 10:00 - 11:00 am. Sustainability Farming presented by Diane Hoppe of The Morris Farm.
March 10 – Patten Free Library, Bath, Children’s Room 1:00 - 2:30 pm. The Great Depression Through the Eyes of an American Girl with Cynthia and Aubrey Edmonds and Kit, an American Girl doll. Crafts, displays, activities, and treats. Suggested reading – Meet Kit: An American Girl 1934.
March 10 – Patten Free Library, Bath, 2:30 pm. Come share your memories of the Great Depression with Thomas Hanna, author of Shoutin’ Into the Fog: Growing up on Maine's Ragged Edge – a memoir of life in Georgetown during the 1930s.
March 12 – Bath, Kismet Inn, 44 Summer St., 2:30 pm. Book discussion of The Grapes of Wrath facilitated by Patten Free Library Reference Librarian Laura Bean.
March 13- Topsham Public Library, 4:00 pm. Book discussion of Out of the Dust.
March 14 – Wiscasset Public Library, 3:00 - 4:30 pm. The Grapes of Wrath book discussion.
March 14 – Patten Free Library, Bath, Children’s Room, 6:30 – 7:15 pm. Family Evening featuring Leah’s Pony, Depression era books and crafts.
March 15 – Patten Free Library, Bath, 7:00 pm. Geoff Kaufman Performs Depression-Era Folk Songs. Folksinger Geoff Kaufman has been called “one of the golden voices of New England’s folk music scene.” Bring the family and revisit the 1930s through ancient ballads, work songs, songs of love, poignant songs of people in struggle, and humorous songs of human foibles.
March 15- Curtis Memorial Library, Morrell Meeting Room, 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Cornerstones of Science
Science Sleuths program, a parent-child book discussion for 7 to 12 year-olds and caregiver, Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s, by Michael L Cooper. Registration is required. You may register two weeks in advance by calling 725-5242 ext. 225. Check out a copy of the book at your library or through interlibrary loan well in advance of the program.
March 16- Curtis Memorial Library, Morrell Meeting Room, 4:00 - 5:30 pm. Create a Depression-era Quilt Block Children’s Quilting Program for 10 through 12 year olds. Registration is required. Please register in advance by calling 725-5242 ext. 225.
March 17- Curtis Memorial Library, Morrell Meeting Room, 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Cornerstones of Science Saturday Science program, Dust Bowl Science for 7 through 12 year olds. Registration is required. You may register two weeks in advance by calling 725-5242 ext. 225.
March 17-Wiscasset Public Library, 10:30am. Storytime of books about the Depression for young children.
March 21- Topsham Public Library, 10:30am. Children’s Dust Bowl Storytime.
March 22 – Patten Free Library, Bath, 7:00 pm. Illustrated lecture –The Wrath of a Nation: Reading The Grapes of Wrath in 1939 and 2007--by nationally renowned Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw - Professor of English at San Jose State Univ. and Scholar-in-Residence at the National Steinbeck Museum in Salinas, CA.
March 22 – Wiscasset Public Library, Children’s Room, 10:30 - 11:30am. Reading of Leah’s Pony, Depression era books and crafts.
March 23 - Patten Free Library, Bath, Dust Bowl Family Festival
5:00 pm – Scavenger Hunt for children, Book discussion of Out of the Dust led by Francie Tolan & Julie Rice or Ask a Steinbeck Expert – Visit with Susan Shillinglaw in our History Room and get answers to all your questions about Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath.
6:00 pm – Chili and cornbread supper. (tickets available at PFL in March) In the spirit of helping our neighbors, we will be collecting dry and canned food for the local food bank. You can even tie goods in a bandanna and hang it on a stick for a hobo picnic donation.
7:30 pm –Fiddler Frank Ferrel in Concert. Come hear the heart-lifting traditional fiddle music that kept America going in hard times. Considered “one of the finest living masters of the genre,” Bath’s own Frank Ferrel has performed on Prairie Home Companion and toured with the legendary Celtic group Boys of the Lough.
March 24- Topsham Public Library, 10:00 am. Free showing of The Journey of Natty Gann, rated PG, 101 minutes.
March 24 – Wiscasset Public Library, 10:00 – 12 pm. Popcorn and a movie featuring Riding the Rails.
March 24- Patten Free Library, Bath, 1:00 pm. Depression-era board game fun for the whole family. An afternoon of monopoly and/or scrabble - two popular board games created during the Depression that are still favorites. Registration required, call 443-5141.
March 27- Topsham Public Library, 12pm. Brown Bag Lunch Discussion of The Grapes of Wrath. Registration required. You may register two weeks in advance by calling 725-1727.
