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Join Native Gardens at 49 South Street in Blue Hill between 10 and 2 on Saturday, July 26 for a celebration of summer. Take a garden tour or mini-workshop, enjoy music, tea tasting, and ice pops, or ask your most pressing garden question. Visit the www.nativemainegardens.org for a schedule of events
Stop by the Friend Memorial Public Library in Brooklin (1 Reach Road) to support local kids at the Young Entrepreneurs Market. Check out their handmade crafts and goods on the library lawn Saturday 7/25 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
This summer, Dooryard Farm invites the community to gather around and celebrate the flavors of the season with At the Dooryard Table, a new series of cooking demonstrations, tastings and conversation. Each session will feature fresh produce right off the farm as well as agricultural products from Dooryard’s community of local food makers. Held every...
On Saturday, July 25, Leslie Cummins and Tim Seabrook, along with volunteers Torrey Luker and Cori Carter, will guide visitors through the reconstructed historic orchard at the Fisher House at 44 Mines Rd. in Blue Hill, and discuss Fisher’s original design and planting, as well as the process of re-establishing the orchard based on the...
Paddle the Passagassawakeag with Deb and Tom Murphy on July 25 (rain date July 26). We'll paddle upriver on a helpful rising tide, watching for eagles, ospreys, and ducks, and back downriver on the falling tide. Meet at the Belfast Boathouse at 1:30 pm. Bring boat, paddle, PFD, water, binoculars. FMI 603-289-1637
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
The Blue Hill Public Library and Blue Hill Historical Society will present a talk with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Mainer Alan Taylor on Saturday, July 25 at 6:00 p.m. in the library's Pearson Room. Taylor's talk will examine the experiences of a young Continental Soldier in the American Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin, who...
Anyone who has been watching Ken Burns’ most recent documentary will recognize Dr. Taylor as the main “talking head” in the documentary. Dr. Taylor is a local guy, who graduated Colby College before finding fame as a historian. He has authored 11 books dealing with Maine and American history, including “Liberty Men and Great Proprietors:...