Beflast Free Library

Wiggle and Rhyme for Babies and Toddlers
2024-03-18 10:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Abbott Room
Content is prepared for birth through age 2. First 20 minutes are rhymes, songs and literacy followed by play time and social time with bubbles.

The Wheelbarrow Poets Meet
2024-03-19 09:30 - 11:00, 2024-03-26 09:30 - 11:00 | Abbott Room
The Wheelbarrow Poets meets weekly on Tuesdays in the Abbott Room from 9:30-11:00 a.m. Writing prompts are sent in advance of the gatherings by Belfast Poet Laureate Maya Stein, and participants share work and discuss. Open to writers ages 18 & up. Email hello@mayastein.com for more information and to register.

Belfast Garden Club Program: Gardeners Questions Answered
2024-03-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Abbott Room
With: Viña Lindley and Kate Garland, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Click here to register for Zoom
Our March meeting will be an opportunity to have your gardening questions answered by experts. Please submit your questions in advance to Hilary so that Lindley and Garland can prepare their answers. We are hoping to cover a broad range of topics to solve our many challenges and puzzles.
Viña Lindley is based in Waldo County and works on a variety of youth and family food systems projects, including managing the state-wide FoodCorps program. FoodCorps is a nationwide team of AmeriCorps leaders who connect kids to real food to help them grow up healthy. Lindley also chairs the board of the Maine School Garden Network, serves in the Maine Farm to School work-group, and collaborates with a variety of networks and organizations in her work.
Kate Garland helps gardeners improve efficiency and build skills through a number of educational avenues including workshops, newsletters, social media posts, and one-on-one support. Additionally, Garland works with school and community gardens to develop plans that will build sustainability and improve community impact and coordinates the Master Gardener Volunteer program, which offers over 50 hours of in-depth training in the art and science of horticulture. In return, they volunteer their time and expertise towards educational or food security projects.

Come Boating! Winter Adventure Series
2024-03-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
It’s a Dog’s Life – with Dan Miller: The story of Belmont Boatworks.
Just a few miles from Belfast are a group of dogs seemingly running one of the areas best boatyards. Their owners are a crew of 16 talented tradesmen and women who make up Belmont Boat Works. Their leader and founder is Dan Miller, a familiar face to most everyone in Belfast along with his giant St. Bernard Gloria, who goes everywhere with Dan, ostensibly supervising the activities at hand.
On Tuesday, March 19th Dan will give a talk on the history of Belmont Boat Works, from its humble start as a small carpentry, one work space shop to the huge facility it is today, plus tales of some of the most interesting projects he and his gang have undertaken.

This program will take place in the Abbott Room, with a zoom option. Register for the Zoom link here.

Giving Context to a Photograph: In Praise of Newspapers
2024-03-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Abbott Room
In this presentation, Deborah Nowers will explain how the discovery of a photograph led to a quest to learn about basketball and the players in her family.
Deborah Nowers is the Membership Secretary for the Maine Genealogical Society and the State Registrar and Penobscot Expedition Chapter Registrar for the Daughters of the American Revolution. She has published research articles in the NEHG Register, The Essex Genealogist, The Mayflower Descendant, and The Maine Genealogist, as well as American Ancestors magazine.
All are welcome! These meetings are now in a hybrid format with the option to join in-person in the Abbott Room or to join online over Zoom. To receive the Zoom link or for more information, please email Sharon Pietryka at spietryka@belfastlibrary.org.

Knit2Together
2024-03-20 16:00, 2024-03-27 16:00 | Abbott Room
Knitters, crocheters, yarn enthusiasts of all experience levels are welcome to join us every Wednesday , from 4:00-5:30 pm in the Abbott Room.
This drop-in event is a chance for knitters- and crocheters too- of all ages and experience levels to chat, get tips, and learn from each other while working on their own projects. Library staff will have computers available to demonstrate how to use Ravelry.com and other websites to help find patterns and organize your work. Registration is not required. For more information please call 338-3884 ext.10
Contact bharrington@belfastlibrary.org to sign up to to join the knitting group.

The Peace & Social Justice Forum/Waldo County POETRY EVENING
2024-03-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Abbott Room
Celebrate Women’s History Month : VOICES OF PEACE & RESISTANCE
The Peace & Social Justice Forum/Waldo County will hold a POETRY EVENING to share the words of women and people in struggle, in this time of both war and peace. Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 6 pm in the Abbott Room, Belfast Free Library.
We invite all poets and poetry lovers, to choose a poem or 2 to share, written particularly but not exclusively by women, as we witness this challenging time in support of the quest for peace and justice. Join local poets and readers to share work by poets offering their determination, resilience, humor and grief.

Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition Program
2024-03-21 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
Mainely Mammals – with Laura Craver Rogers, Education and Outreach Coordinator at Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Learn about Maine’s mammals and their exciting, yet often misunderstood lives. With a wide variety of mammal species in Maine, each has its own unique adaptations to be an important part of Maine’s ecosystems, as prey, predator, and even scavenger. We will talk about interspecies relationships, unique features of certain mammals, and some key identifiers of each species. This program is for adults and older youth.
Laura Craver-Rogers has a background in wildlife biology and environmental education. She has worked for US Fish and Wildlife Service, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and the Dennison Pequotsepos Nature Center. While pursuing a career as a biologist, she found a love for sharing information about wildlife with the public. She and her husband love to spend time outdoors paddling, fishing, bird watching, hiking, foraging, hunting, and so

Preschool Storytime at the Belfast Free Library
2024-03-22 10:00 - 23:00 | Abbott Room
Content is prepared for ages 3-6 with read alouds, felt and flannel stories, puppets, songs, fingerplays and action rhymes. Concludes with an easy craft.

Wiggle and Rhyme for Babies and Toddlers******Cancelled for March 25th!!!***************
2024-03-25 10:00 - 23:00 | Abbott Room

Book Discussion with BBWC - "Landslide" by Susan Conley
2024-03-26 15:00 - 17:30 | Abbott Room
The final book in the “Read with Us this Winter” series is Landslide by Susan Conley.
In Landslide, Susan Conley describes a mother working to keep her family together in coastal Maine after her husband is injured in a fishing accident and hospitalized in a distant town. Her teenaged boys are struggling to grow up. The fishing industry along with the whole coastal economy is beginning to slide. As she waits for her husband to come home, she is holding the family together while trying to keep her artistic career going. Full of tender moments as well as the clash of family dynamics, Landslide visits contemporary Maine economic and environmental issues for working class families. Discussion to be facilitated by Ann Kennedy.
Books available to request at the Belfast Free Library.

In Full Bloom: Container Gardens with Rebecca Goldenthal
2024-03-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
This program is the final one in the 2024 Belfast Garden Club Evening Lecture Series co-sponsored by the Belfast Free Library. The program will be offered in person in the Abbott Room with a Zoom option. Register for the Zoom link here.
A container can hold so much more than you think: long-blooming beauty, variety, and visual surprises. Through this presentation, we’ll learn how to add color and interest to our gardens with container plantings, including native plants.
Rebecca Goldenthal grew up with a passion for gardening, inherited from a long line of Maine gardeners. She is the founder of In Full Bloom, a Portland company.

Teen Instagram Takeover- Canceled for 03/28- Rescheduled for 04/16
2024-03-28 15:30 - 16:30 | Conference Room
Looking for Teens 11-17 who are writers, and fans of books. This is what we will do in this program..
~Write a letter to your favorite author.
~We will post it on our library teen Instagram. If willing, we can video you reading the letter.
~ Wait for a response!
This is a great way for you to showcase your letter, and hopefully, to get a response from your favorite author! Come on down to the library, and give it a try!
