• Author Talk with Children’s Author/Illustrator Will Hillenbrand

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Award-winning author and illustrator Will Hillenbrand will shares insights and inspiration from his decades of creating stories for children in this special presentation that is a joint program with the Southwest Harbor Public Library as part of the occasional series Reading with Wings. Copies of his new book Light as a Feather: Fifteen Phenomenal North...

    Free
  • Third Annual Community Potluck at Carding Brook Farm, Celebrating Local Food

    Carding Brook Farm 4 Carlton Way, Brooklin, Maine

    Join us for delicious food and lively music at beautiful Carding Brook Farm at our third annual summer community potluck picnic, celebrating local food. Sponsored by the Brooklin Climate Response Committee, Brooklin Food Corps, and Friend Memorial Library Book Club.  We will be looking at sustainable food sources again, this year exploring native foods.  Penobscot...

    Free
  • Third Annual Community Potluck Picnic

    Carding Brook Farm 4 Carlton Way, Brooklin, Maine

    The Brooklin Reads Book Club, hosted by Friend Memorial Library in collaboration with the Brooklin Food Corps, will be partnering with the Brooklin Climate Response Committee to host another Community Potluck Picnic! Swing by the Carding Brook Farm in Brooklin (4 Carlton Dr) on Saturday 7/25 at 4:30 p.m. to try some tasty indigenous food...

    Free
  • FREE Waterfront Concert – The Bow Tides

    Linwood E. Temple Waterfront Park 61 Commercial St, Bath, ME 04530, Bath, ME, United States

    The Levitt AMP Bath Waterfront Concert Series presents the Bow Tides, a sophisticated Irish traditional group and Irish dancer, performing on the riverfront stage in Bath Waterfront Park. 5pm-6:30pm. FREE! Bring a chair, a blanket, and your friends and enjoy music on the Kennebec. Learn more and check out the full series of shows at...

    Free
  • “A Line Is…” with award-winning children’s illustrator and author Will Hillenbrand

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Award-winning children’s author and illustrator Will Hillenbrand leads this special presentation, “A Line Is…” at the Gilley. This is an exciting journey through the evolution of illustration in Hillenbrand's favorite books. This is part the occasional series Reading with Wings that is part of a collaboration with our friends at the Southwest Harbor Public Library....

    Free
  • Armenian Picnic

    Searsport Shores Ocean Campground 216 W Main St, Searsport, ME, United States

    Twenty-five paintings created by children in Armenia have traveled to the Maine coast, where visitors to the sixth annual Armenian Picnic will help choose a People's Choice Award during a day of food, music, dancing, and community celebration. The artwork, created by children ages 8 to 14 from the community of Berdavan (pronounced "Bertevan") and...

    Free
  • SEED Community Paddle

    Thomaston Boat Launch Thomaston Boat Launch, Public Landing, Thomaston, ME, United States

    Join us for a three-hour community paddle through the calm waters of the St. George River from Thomaston Harbor to Trolley Marsh Preserve in Warren and back again. Each boat will receive a seed sculpture to carefully transport on our journey. We'll paddle together and deliver seed sculptures to the river at different spots along...

    Free
  • FREE Waterfront Jazz Concert – Jamie Saft Trio

    Linwood E. Temple Waterfront Park 61 Commercial St, Bath, ME 04530, Bath, ME, United States

    The Levitt AMP Bath Waterfront Concert Series present the Jamie Saft Trio, playing live jazz on the Kennebec at Bath Waterfront Park. Bring a chair, a blanket, and your friends to enjoy live music on the river in Bath. And it's absolutely FREE! To check out the full concert series, visit https://www.levittampbathmaine.org/

    Free
  • Flash in the Pans in East Blue Hill

    East Blue Hill Library 9 Curtis Cove Road, Blue Hill, ME, United States

    On Monday, July 27, the East Blue Hill Library will host a “Party in the Park” event featuring the popular steel drum band Flash! In the Pans at the East Blue Hill town park on Curtis Cove Road. This family-friendly, alcohol-free event is a chance to gather and dance for a good cause. Half of...

    By donation
  • People-Nature-Art with sculptor and photographer Alex Turanski

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Alex Turanski began balancing stones (never in the national park!) in 2018 as a therapeutic practice. It was a way to exercise pure, raw focus and to dissolve his distractions. “The act of balance fully engages me in the raw present-moment,” he says. “In a way, I feel that I become as present and still...

    Free
  • By Land or By Sea: A day of Activities at Steamboat Landing and the Boathouse

    Belfast Boathouse 34 Commercial Street, Belfast, ME, United States

    As part of the "Revolutionary Belfast" series of events to commemorate America’s 250th Anniversary, the Belfast Free Library invites everyone to join us for a day of Revolutionary-era activities for all on Steamboat Landing and in the Boathouse on the waterfront in Belfast. Scheduled Activities: By Land – Belfast Flying Shoes will lead dance of...

  • Brooklin Reads Group Discussion

    Friend Memorial Public Library 1 Reach Road, Brooklin, ME, United States

    Join the Brooklin Reads Book Group at Friend Memorial Public Library in Brooklin (1 Reach Road), next meeting Wednesday 7/29 from 1 to 2 p.m. This month we will be reading "What We Can Know" by Ian McEwen. Anyone is welcome to join!

    Free