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The Blue Hill Library will present a discussion series with local retired teacher, Bill Case, on the book American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor. The discussion starts Tuesday, June 30 at 1:00 p.m., and continues July 14, and July 21, leading to a lecture with the author Alan Taylor on Saturday, July...
Music and Movement Storytime is back for the summer! Starting Monday, June 15 at 10:30 a.m. preschool kids and their caregivers are invited to join Ms. Jen each week at the Blue Hill Public Library for Music and Movement Storytime. We will sing songs, play instruments, dance, and read stories. The rhythms, rhymes, and patterns...
Teens are invited to join Teen Services Librarian Kendall at the Blue Hill Public Library on Friday, July 17 at 2:00 p.m. for a special anime club movie screening. We will be watching the movie The Tale of Princess Kaguya and will enjoy some Japanese snacks, along with popcorn and drinks. Rated PG, with a...
Kneisel Hall Children’s Concerts are back at the Blue Hill Public Library this summer! Five weekly concerts will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday July 3, 10, 24, 31, and August 7 (there will be no concert on Friday, July 17). Musicians from Kneisel Hall’s Young Artist program will be performing a variety of...
Kids and their families are invited to a special program with Blue Hill Bach on Friday, July 17 at 10:30 a.m. at the Blue Hill Public Library. In partnership with the Ellsworth Community Music Institute, children will learn how to make their very first violin using recycled materials. Participants will also have the chance to...
The Blue Hill Public Library will present a poetry reading with poets Christine Yurick and David Yezzi on Thursday, July 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the library's Howard Room. David Yezzi’s latest books are "Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—A Poet’s Life" (St. Martin’s Press) and More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems (Measure Press). He...
Kids and their families are invited to come build a birdhouse with Charles Cannon, Park Manager of the Holbrook Island Sanctuary, and two summer interns. Participants will learn how to assemble wooden birdhouses designed for black-capped chickadees. There will be two opportunities to participate in this popular program, one on Thursday, July 16, and one...
On Wednesday, July 15 at 1:00 p.m., teens and tweens are invited to join Kendall, Arlee, and Ali for the first of three Skein Stitchers fiber arts workshops offered throughout the summer In this first workshop, participants will learn how to hand sew their own scrunchie to keep, see a demonstration for making one on...
Join the Blue Hill Library for a talk with UMaine Professor of History Liam Riordan about the American Revolution and the impact felt in Maine on Tuesday, July 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the library's Howard Room. This illustrated lecture explores how the American Revolution began in Maine, as well as the significance of Revolutionary...
The Blue Hill Library will present a discussion series with local retired teacher, Bill Case, on the book American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor. The discussion starts Tuesday, June 30 at 1:00 p.m., and continues July 14, and July 21, leading to a lecture with the author Alan Taylor on Saturday, July...
Music and Movement Storytime is back for the summer! Starting Monday, June 15 at 10:30 a.m. preschool kids and their caregivers are invited to join Ms. Jen each week at the Blue Hill Public Library for Music and Movement Storytime. We will sing songs, play instruments, dance, and read stories. The rhythms, rhymes, and patterns...
If you were out and about on the Blue Hill Peninsula recently, you may have seen artists capturing a local landscape on canvas as part of the Blue Hill Public Library’s annual Paint the Peninsula fundraiser. More than ninety artists will create over one hundred paintings for the week-long auction, which starts Monday, July 13th....