Storytime
2022-07-05 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-07-15 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-07-29 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
All ages storytime! Check for location for each date.

Belfast Free Library Summer Reading Program: Puppet Show The Monkey and the Pirate
2022-07-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Abbott Room

Belfast Free Library Summer Reading Program: Jennifer Armstrong – Anything is Possible!
2022-07-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Gazebo at Steamboat Landing

Children's Take & Make: Ocean Picture Frame
2022-07-12 09:30 - 18:00 | Children’s Floor

Antarctic Whale Science: How Do Humpbacks Find Their Food? With Professor Mike Coffin
2022-07-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
Scientists tagging humpback whale near Neko Harbor, Antarctica.
Humpback whales feed mainly on krill and small fish, but how these 25,000 – 30,000 kg baleen cetaceans find sufficient food for sustenance without echolocation remains a mystery. An ongoing, multi-year, science-industry collaboration is attempting to solve this conundrum by testing the hypothesis that an engimatic organ beneath the lower jaw of humpbacks senses chemicals associated with plankton consumption by krill. This presentation focuses on the inaugural collaborative expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula in March 2019, including a 30-minute film encompassing both scientific and tourism activities.
Marine geophysicist Mike Coffin investigates interactions between the oceanic environment and the solid Earth. After growing up in Bangor, he was educated Dartmouth College (AB) and Columbia University (MA, MPhil, PhD). Ever since, he has pursued an international career that reflects the boundless nature of the global ocean. He has worked in Australia (1985-1989; 2011-present), the US (1990-2001), Japan (2001-2007), and the UK (2008-2010). He has also held visiting positions in the US (1982, 2002, 2016-present), Norway (1992, 1996), Australia (2000), and France (2001). Mike has led or participated in 37 blue-water research expeditions, focused mainly in the Southern, Pacific, and Indian oceans.

Belfast Free Library Summer Reading Program: Family Fun Fest on the Harbor
2022-07-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Gazebo at Steamboat Landing

Kids & Teen End of Summer Reading Celebration
2022-07-26 15:30 - 16:30 | Belfast Boathouse

Storytime
2022-08-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-08-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-08-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Abbott Room
Storytimes from the Belfast Free Library

Kids & Teen Take & Make: Diamond Art
2022-08-09 09:30 - 18:00
Pick up Diamond Art supplies on the children’s floor, for kids & teens!

LEGO Club
2022-08-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Abbott Room
Join us for LEGO Club!

Me & Martha Concert
2022-08-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Abbott Room
Native Belfast resident Martha Hills and her husband Donald DePoy, touring as Me & Martha, will perform a free concert in the Abbott Room at the library on Wednesday, August 24th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.
Martha and Don first began performing together in Belfast in 2003. In 2022, they were awarded top Wedding Band by Virginia Living Magazine. They are members of America’s Old-Time Country Music Hall of Fame and host Mountain Music, a weekly broadcast television show that reaches over 1.3 million households in eight states, including Maine. As part of the Mountain Music series, they have collected more than a hundred living histories for the American Folk Life Collection of the Library of Congress.
The concert is free and open to the public. Bring the entire family to hear Me & Martha’s entertaining, often funny, and surely educational presentation of an authentic uniquely American music. Doors open at 6:30 pm, concert starts at 7:00 pm.
