Greetings!
Next week is Children's Book Week, and Ms. Katy has a ton of fun activities and programs to help you celebrate.
Be sure to check out the details below.
Be well!
Lesley Dolinger
Library Director
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Celebrate Small Business
May 2-8 is National Small Business Week. Here at Patten Free Library, we are so grateful to the local small business community for supporting our programs with generous Business Partner sponsorships. We show our appreciation with public thanks on our book return boxes, Grab n Go crafts, Cloud Library shelves, via social media tags, in our eNews and programming promotion, by offering display space for brochures and wares, with branded periodical sponsorships, and more. Next time you're in the library, check out our Businss Supporter wall or click here for a list of our partners. When you shop local with these businesses, be sure to thank them for supporting the library! You can also learn more about our Business Partners program on our website.
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News and Resources from Adult Services |
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Movie Discussion Group
Coming in June: Let's Talk about Hitchcock!
The Movie Discussion Group decided to take a brief hiatus in May, but we're already working on themes for the next series. A leading contender is the lesser-known films of Alfred Hitchcock. Would you like to join the group when we resume meeting? Add your name to our e-mail list by clicking here.
Movie buff Al Fick is our fearless discussion leader. We're so grateful to him for sharing his time, knowledge, and enthusiasm.
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News and Resources for Young Adults |
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Fantastic Edible Book Festival! Thank you to everyone who submitted a incredible edible book. Our expert baker, Kaite Thayer of Thayer Treats, will help us review al the submissions next week. Look for a gallery of all submissions and the award winners in next week's eNews!
Pictured at right. Morse High School student Iris submitted her representation of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
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News and Resources for Youth and Families |
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News from Ms. Katy:
Kick Off Children's Book Week! Join our "Level UP" kaReading Group. Are you between the ages of eight and 12? Do you like to read, journal, and share? Ms. Katy has 50 summer reading "Badge Books" with reading challenges, stickers, a calendar, and an app companion to get you started today! Available while supplies last at the Children's Desk starting Monday, May 3.
The Reading Group will meet via ZOOM one Monday per month, starting Monday, May 10, at 3:30 p.m. Sign up by clicking here.
Email Ms. Katy at kdodge@patten.lib.me.us with questions, or call her at 443-5141, ext. 17.
Celebrate Cinco De Mayo with Ms. Katy's eLibrary. Ms. Katy has created a virtual book shelf with eBooks about Cinco De Mayo. You can access it through the Children's Room Blog, or reach it directly with this link.
This Week's "Grab and Go" Craft! Don't let the pigeon make a craft! This week we are celebrating Children's Book Week with a handprint pigeon craft and a few drawing activities. Bags will be at the curbside table by 1:30 on Friday afternoon. It is also Small Business Week, so thanks to our many small businesses who have generously supported our grab-and-go craft bags over the past year!
Outside Storytimes Begin Friday, May 7! Spring into stories with Ms. Katy! Join her in the Gazebo at 10:00 a.m. for a 30-minute, appropriately socially distanced gathering. All ages welcome!
Check Out the 2020-2021 Maine Student Book Award Nominees. There is a dedicated book shelf in the Cloud Library with this year's nominees for the Maine Student Book Award. Click here to sign in and browse, or to learn how to access from your phone or a tablet.
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News and Resources from the History Room |
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367 Years Ago at Merry Meeting
What is the oath of fidelity? Charles Evans made a study of the various "Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New England," published in the October 1921 issue of the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. He examined several examples of such oaths.
In brief, the oath relates to the formation of a government, which Baker considered—after the Popham Colony and the emergence of trade on the Kennebec—the start of a third act in our region's colonial history.
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The History Room is Open by Appointment!
To make a 2-hour research appointment in the History Room, please email Jill at history@patten.lib.me.us or call 207-443-5141 extension 18.
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with a Picture and a Poem |
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This is our last National Poetry Month entry from Shannon (who is also our book reviewer this week!). This week's selection is from Ada Limon's poem "Instructions on Not Giving Up." Thanks to Shannon for sharing some of her favorite poems and pictures this month.
...Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.
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What We're Reading (and Watching) |
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This week's book review is by Shannon Bowring, our Tech Services Coordinator. She gives the thumbs up to Mill Town, a new and well-researched book about Mexico, Maine (where the author grew up), and the environmental and health impacts of the paper industry on its residents. Read Shannon's full review here.
Click here to request a copy.
Click here to access all our staff reviews.
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Puzzles Puzzles Puzzles!
Need entertainment for a rainy day?
How about restocking your supply at
the cottage? Grandchildren visiting
this summer?
Dozens have come in recently.
Come see the selection!
Open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Patten Free Library | 33 Summer Street | 207-443-5141 | www.patten.lib.me.us |
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