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A couple weeks ago, a patron came into the Library and took a book from our free shelf. Nothing unusual about that. Then the next day, she gave the book back to us, and it looked like this! Wow!!     I highly recommend checking out her website, finkymadethis.com, to see more of her cool … Continue reading Amazing book art!

Today we held our Annual Meeting at the Library. We bid a fond farewell to departing board members and officers: Iris Miller, Susan Finkin, Kim Murdock, our excellent Vice-President, and Candis Kerns, our stellar President of 3 years. (Candis will remain on the board ex-officio) And we said hello to new board members and officers: … Continue reading A new era: Annual Meeting and Librarian’s Report for 2014

    At long last we are pleased to announce our beautiful Butterfly sculpture by Bernard "Blackie" Langlais has been hung in the Library! And perhaps this timing was unintentionally fitting, since yesterday would have been the artist's birthday. We hope to install our second sculpture, a barnyard scene, before the end of the summer. … Continue reading Bernard Langlais Art Trail

Video Link BERNARD LANGLAIS Restoring and Preserving the Legacy Created and Produced by Yoke and John DiGiorgio Nature's Art Productions LLC http://www.naturesartproductions.com Naturalist, filmmaker and author, Yoke Bauer DiGiorgio’s work tells stories of the human connection to wildlife and the natural environment.  Yoke collaborated with her husband John, an accomplished fine art and wildlife photographer, … Continue reading BERNARD LANGLAIS Restoring and Preserving the Legacy Video

Each year from January to May, a group of 6-10 Monhegan residents read books and gather to discuss them every 4-5 weeks. We will soon be making our selections for the year and would love to hear from you what you have been reading recently. As well, if you would like to read along with … Continue reading Winter book club

Thanks to the generosity of the Kohler Foundation, the Monhegan Library is now the proud owner of two sculptures by the late Bernard (Blackie) Langlais! After being lovingly restored, the sculptures arrived on the island this week. We will install them in the Library later this year, so you can see them for yourself next … Continue reading Bernard Langlais sculptures have arrived!

Today we are pleased to announce the establishment of the Ann Mitchell Memorial Fund for Children's Literature, started by Dave Mitchell in memory of his wife. Ann Mitchell was a longtime member of our summer community and the Library was close to her heart. She had a special interest in Children's literature and helped build … Continue reading Ann Mitchell Memorial Fund for Children’s Literature

Join us on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 at 7:30pm for our final book discussion of the summer....Reginald Hill's "On Beulah Height,"  #17 in the famous Dalziel/Pascoe mysteries! As one reviewer noted, "You can read On Beulah Height for the grim mystery tale, or for the hard-boiled cop story, or simply for the fine writing, and come away satisfied. … Continue reading On Beulah Height: A Dalziel/Pascoe Mystery

On August 14th at our Annual Meeting here at the Library, we covered routine business as well as some new items of special interest. We elected/re-elected to the board: President Candis Kerns, Vice President Kim Murdock, Treasurer Don Abbott and Board Member Sue Bolman. We heard Annual Reports from the President, Vice President, Finance Committee,  Book Committee, as well … Continue reading Wifi at the Library and Tea-by-the-Sea: Continuing the Discussion

          Join us for…        An Evening of Poetry with Steve Rogers Wednesday August 7th  7:30pm     Monhegan Memorial Library   Free, donations appreciated  Steve Rogers is a poet and historian from Mount Rainier, Maryland and a summer resident of New Gloucester, Maine. His historical essays, literary criticism, poems, translations, and other publications have appeared in several journals … Continue reading An Evening of Poetry With Steve Rogers