Beflast Free Library

Rain Gardens and Other Water Management Techniques for Your Property
2023-02-02 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual Program on Zoom
A presentation with Rebecca Jacobs of the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District.
Do you have excess water on your property following a rain event? A rain garden could be an effective and attractive solution for helping to direct and infiltrate the runoff or pooling on your property. Learn the ins and outs of properly installing a rain garden as well as other water management techniques that could benefit your property.
Register for the zoom link here.
At our second ABCD Community Climate Conversation event on October 18th, on the topic of “Creating Resilience to Big Storms and Flooding”, attracted an engaged audience of 40 citizens. Attendees were energized by brainstorming actions the community could take together – most particularly the idea of creating a rain garden in a public location in Belfast and using it as an educational model.
We are excited to have lined up this follow-up event about rain gardens on February 2, 2023 (with snow date of February 9), “Rain Gardens and Other Water Management Techniques for Your Property” with presenter Rebecca Jacobs of the Knox County Soil & Water Conservation District. Mark your calendars for Thursday, February 2 at 6:00 PM at the Belfast Free Library, and in the meantime, let’s get excited to plan a community rain garden!

Friends of the Library Book Sale Postponed until February 11th
2023-02-04 10:30 - 13:00 | Library Lobby

Music Together Postponed until 2/11/23
2023-02-04 10:30 - 23:10 | Abbott Room
Music Together was postponed from 2/4 and moved to 2/11 due to frigid weather. Please join us on 2/11/2023 for this popular program.

February "Take and Make" for Teens
2023-02-07 | Children’s Floor
Amazing solar system mobiles are available to “Take and Make”, starting Tuesday, February 7.
Pick up on the second floor.
While Supplies last!!
All Materials provided by the Anonimo Foundation.

February "Take and Make" activity
2023-02-07 09:30 - 18:00
Children’s craft activity. Pick up materials from the second floor of the Belfast Free Library.

LEGO Club
2023-02-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Abbott Room
LEGO Club – all supplies provided, come join the fun and take the building challenge if you like.

Community Climate Conversation: The Future of Transportation in Belfast & Waldo County
2023-02-09 18:00 - 20:00
Did you know transportation accounts for 49% of greenhouse gas emissions, both in Belfast and statewide? Join us for this program in our series of community climate conversations that began on June 14th, 2022 seeking public input to develop a climate action plan for Belfast.
The event, co-sponsored by All of Belfast Climate Dialogues (ABCD), a project of the Belfast Free Library and the City of Belfast Climate Crisis Committee (CCC) will take place in the Abbott Room of the Library. A hybrid zoom option is available. To register please go to http://belfastlibrary.org/abcd-events/.
Electric vehicle use, transitioning buses and municipal fleets, reducing vehicle miles traveled through increased access to broadband, public transit, and opportunities to bike and walk… these are all part of Maine’s strategy to reduce transportation emissions.
What about Belfast and Waldo County? Come learn about what has already been accomplished and what opportunities are available, hear what others are doing, and share your questions, ideas, and priorities.

Storytime
2023-02-10 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-02-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Abbott Room
Storytimes promote early literacy and social growth.

Music Together on 2/11/2023
2023-02-11 10:30 - 11:15 | Abbott Room
Music Together will occur on 2/11/23 instead of 2/4/23

Friends of the Library Book Sale
2023-02-11 10:30 - 13:00
The theme of the book sale is Valentines Day. An arts and crafts table will be set up for you to make your own Valentine’s Day cards. Supplies will be provided.

Valentine Making Party
2023-02-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Abbott Room
Stop by and make a Valentine for someone you like, love or appreciate!
Drop in anytime!
All ages welcome!
We will have all the supplies!
For questions contact cvaccaro@belfastlibrary.org

James Munyon: America’s Medicine Man
2023-02-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Abbott Room
James Monroe Munyon (1848-1918) was a chemist and an outstanding marketing entrepreneur. He made millions of dollars manufacturing and selling his many “cures” for every possible malady, at a time when the average worker earned less than $600 per year. His advertisements appeared everywhere in America, including the Republican Journal. His personal life was also unusual. He was married three (maybe four) times, always to women several years younger than he, including an actress 36 years his junior who was described as one of the most beautiful actresses of her time. One of his former employees, Hawley Harvey Crippen, later became associated with a grisly murder in London.
Rick Davis, Munyon’s fifth cousin (twice removed) and President of the Wawenoc Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society, will present plenty of juicy details about his noteworthy ancestor’s life at the chapter’s February 15 meeting.
All are welcome! This event is free and open to the public.

Monthly meeting of the Wawenoc Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society. These meetings are now in a hybrid format. To receive the Zoom link or for more information, please email Sharon Pietryka at spietryka@belfastlibrary.org.

Waldo County Peace and Social Justice Program
2023-02-15 18:00 - 19:30 | Abbott Room

Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition Book Group
2023-02-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Abbott Room
Read with the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition Book Group.
Here at Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition (BBWC), we think that winter is a great time to read! We’ve chosen three books with elements of fiction, memoir, history, politics, class, ecology, economy. . . something for everyone. But these books are more than just entertainment. Each book and following discussion will prompt us to reflect on what it means to be a good steward of our watershed. How do history, economics, and culture affect the choices that humans make about the natural world ?
Join them on February 16, 2023 for a discussion on, The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier by Colin Woodard.
The author describes this book as a little understood saga of war and betrayal, of clashing empires and ethnic cleansing, of an intra-English civil war and a 170 year colonial occupation of the province that we now know as Maine. These events explain some of Mainers’ most impressive virtues and most frustrating faults, as well as the still fraught relationship between this land’s real natives and the rest of us whose families came “from away” at some point in the past four hundred years. Facilitated by Kathleen Reilly.
For more information contact Jennifer Craig, 617-899-0111.
