Saturday, July 12th at 10am - (Library) "Bug Zoo" presented by wildlife educator Tony Sohns. “Bug Zoo” is a close-up, hands-on look at the creatures whose million-plus species rule the world. From pollinators to dung beetles, bugs help make our planet a better place to call
home, yet most people know next to nothing about them. Here’s your chance to hug a hissing cockroach, get a massage from a 250-legged giant millipede, or just enjoy one of the most engaging—and instructive—science programs you’ve ever booked.
Thursday, July 17 at 7PM -(Library) Nancy Harmon Jenkins, a food writer, journalist and historian with primary expertise in Mediterranean cultures and cuisines, and secondary strong interests in sustainable agriculture and farm-to-market connections.
Her latest release, Cucina Del Sole: A Celebration of Southern Italian Cooking joins her other highly regarded titles such as The Essential Mediterranean, Flavors of Tuscany, The Flavors of Puglia, The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook are available in bookstores worldwide.
Nancy also writes for national publications, including The New York Times, Saveur and Food & Wine Magazine. She works closely with the Culinary Institute of America, leading tours to Italy and Spain for the CIA's Worlds of Flavor Program and Viking Life Culinary Tours. Nancy divides her time between her farmhouse outside of Cortona, Italy and the coast of Maine.
Wednesday, July 30 at 7 PM (Smith-Hokanson Memorial Hall) “The Sisters in Crime.” Award-winning mystery writers Katherine Hall Page, Frankie Bailey, and Julia Spenser- Fleming will give us rousing entertainment and secrets of the genre. Did you know that in 1986, women wrote 40% of the mysteries and garnered 15% of the reviews in the New York Times? Sisters in Crime was founded in part "… to promote the professional advancement of women who write mysteries." Sisters in Crime are mystery authors, agents, booksellers, editors, librarians, critics, and readers and the New England Chapter has 150 members. If you like mysteries (who doesn’t?!), this program is a must.
August 5 Jeff Dobbs is a graduate of Emerson College, with a BS in Mass Communications, a still photographer from 1973-1981 before creating Jeff Dobbs Productions in 1981 which is now a full production house, producing documentary some of which have aired on PBS. These have included: Gift of Acadia, Maine - America's Coast, High on Maine, and Light Spirit: Lighthouses of the Maine Coast, all narrated by Jack Perkins as well as Wild Maine with Jennifer Skiff of CNN. Jeff has done work for the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour, A&E's Biography series, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN. He is a member of the Maine Film Commission since 1988 and a past chairman. Jeff resides in Bar Harbor with his wife, Karen, and their son, Grady.
Thursday, August 21 at 7pm (library) - Away Happens, Thank Goodness with Phil Crossman
Sunday September 7 at 7pm (library) - China Travelogue with Barbara Kinder.
