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August 2021
White Pine’s Nature Stories: Feathered Friends
Join Miss Julie from White Pine Programs in the garden at the York Public Library for a story. This week we are going to watch and get to know the birds that call the library home! Suggested ages 3 - 5 with a caregiver.
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Art Exhibit: “Edge of the Land, Edge of the Water”
The York Public Library exhibit “Edge of the Land, Edge of the Water” is now on view until October 29. The exhibit features three New England Artists with very different styles, all representing their views of the landscape. Stephen Harby, an architect who lives in York in the summer, is an expert watercolorist. His representational paintings include many of views of York and other Maine sites as well as views of sites in Italy, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. His fresh…
Find out more »Author Talk: Colin Woodard presents Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, a small group of individuals—historians, political leaders, and novelists—fashioned and promoted the idea of America as a nation that had a God-given mission to lead humanity toward freedom, equality, and self-government. But this emerging narrative was swiftly contested by another set of intellectuals and firebrands who argued…
Find out more »Author Talk with Robin Clifford Wood: The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine
Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award–winning novelist, a Newbery Medal–winning children’s writer, a poet, playwright, and rising Hollywood success in the early twentieth century. Her light was abruptly extinguished at the age of forty-seven, when she died at the pinnacle of her personal happiness and professional acclaim. Fifty years later, Robin Clifford Wood stepped onto the sagging floorboards of Rachel’s long-neglected home on the rugged shores of an island in Maine and began…
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Author Talk: Caitlin Wahrer presents The Damage
Join us in welcoming Caitlin Wahrer, debut author of The Damage. Set in a fictional town in southern Maine, The Damage is equal parts family drama, crime story, and moral thriller. In it, a New England family is torn apart when the husband’s much-loved younger brother accuses a man he’s just met of sexual assault. It's a page-turner that library staff could not put down. If that's not enough, Stephen King wrote that it "pulled me in from the first page...put this…
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