Greetings!
We hope you will participate in this year's virtual version of our "Edible Book Festival." We're inviting bakers of all ages and experience levels to create book-themed confections and share pictures of them. At the end of April, we'll share all the photos we receive, and award some prizes. We can't wait to see your edible books!
Details are outlined below in the "Adult News and Resources" section.
Be well.
Lesley Dolinger
Library Director
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Wow! Read-A-Thon Update
A huge "thank you" to all of our read-a-thon participants! We are quite impressed with everyone's efforts during this new event.
Our top three readers included the Kirk Family (1080 minutes), Hayden (810 minutes), and Emerson (73 books).
We'd also like to acknowledge our top three fundraisers: Henry for collecting $645, Gracie & Eden for collecting $630, and Danny & Harper for collecting $585.
Lastly, we'd like to give special thanks to the 154 people who supported a reader. Your generosity and encouragement mean so much to our readers, and to all of us here at Patten Free Library. Thank you!
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News and Resources from Adult Services |
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Movie Discussion Group: "Wonder Women!"
Week 8: Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
"Once More with Feeling"
(Season 6, Episode 7)
Thursday, March 25, 6:30 p.m. via ZOOM.
Slight departure next week from classic movies. We will be watching an episode from the supernatural drama television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If you'd like to join the discussion, watch Season 6, Episode 7 (known as the musical "Once More With Feeling") before our weekly meeting night next week.
Movie buff Al Fick is our fearless discussion leader. We've extended his “Wonder Women” series -- classic movies (and television shows!) with strong female leads -- through the end of Women's History Month. Open to all.
Click here for the ZOOM link for this event.
Silk Road Alchemy Bags! (While Supplies Last!) Drop by Now You’re Cooking to pick up your free goody-bag, which holds your magic “ticket” for journeying the Silk Road! The bag contains fragrant sumac and cardamom spices - generously donated by Gryffon Ridge Spice Merchants - along with a recipe card for Pomegranate Chicken and a special invitation to join PFL’s Armchair Traveler webinar, Biking the Silk Road. And if you want to join Louisa's free cooking demo to get her expert tips and tricks on how to make the dish, join her for Now Your Cooking's Facebook Live Event on Thursday, March 25th at 5:00 p.m.
If you missed the fabulous presentation about bicycling the Silk Road by Peter Robbins, you can view the video by clicking here.
Adult Trivia: Last of the Season!
Friday, March 26, 5:00 to 6:15 p.m. via ZOOM
Many different categories, lots of informal fun. Make it your happy hour! Click here to get the registration link for this event.
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Edible Book Festival : Make a Book Cake!
Our tasty annual celebration of food and literature - Edible Books - has gone virtual and been expanded to include all ages! We’re devoting an entire month to “stirring” up enthusiasm for our Edible Book Contest. Start now imagining what favorite book or book cover will be the subject of your decorated cake.
Local baker extraordinaire Kaite Thayer of Thayer Treats will offer a series of short, instructional videos on cake baking, frosting, fondant, and decorating. Her guidance will help you (or your family) create of a book-inspired masterpiece! Her cooking demo postings are scheduled to air on the Patten Free Library YouTube site on these dates:
Friday, March 26, 4:00 p.m.
Making a Vanilla Sheet Cake
Friday, April 2, 4:00 p.m.
American Buttercream Frosting
Friday, April 9, 4:00 p.m.
Making and Handling Marshmallow Fondant
Friday, April 16, 4:00 p.m.
Decorate an Edible Book
(LIVE DEMONSTRATION)
We will accept photo entries of your edible book creation from April 1 through April 30. You can email your entry to Roberta at rjordan@patten.lib.me.us. There will be prizes!
Women's History Month Reading. We have a great virtual carousel of fiction and nonfiction books for Women's History Month. You can browse these selections (and other new titles in our collection) by clicking here.
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News and Resources for Young Adults |
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It's Time to Cast Your Ballot! Voting has begun for the inaugural year of the North Star YA Award—Maine’s new Young Adult readers’ choice award! If you have read any three of the nominees, then you are eligible to vote for the winner. You can vote through your school library, or you can use the backside of our paper handout to vote through Patten. Submit your handout through our exterior book drops. Or email your name and your pick for the winning title to laurel@patten.lib.me.us.
New YA Blog Entry. With the arrival of longer, warmer days, it's time to get outside! Check out Laurel's blog this week for recommended books in the YA collection about the natural world. Click here to browse, and click on any title to request or learn more.
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News and Resources for Youth and Families |
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News from Ms. Katy:
Community Science: Maine Big Night! Are you interested in being part of a community science project focused on protecting and collecting data on amphibians during their annual spring migration here in Maine? We've got what you need to join this program, including the training manual, vests, headlamps, clipboards, data sheets, and ID cards. Call The Children's Room at 443-5141, ext. 16, or email Ms. Katy for more information at kdodge@patten.lib.me.us.
Page Turner Adventures. We're so excited to partner this Emmy Award winning program to provide our K-3 patrons with an interactive story experience. Children and their caregivers can experience and participate in comedy shows, animated stories, and craft and cooking projects. Click here for more information and the weekly program themes for April. Call or email Ms. Katy with your questions.
This Week's "Grab and Go" Craft! Bear is waking up because spring is coming! This week we have a spring flower crown kit in our grab and go kids' craft bags! Bags will be out at the curbside table on Friday afternoon by 1:30. This week's craft is sponsored by Maine Street Design Co.
Voting for Maine State Book Award continues! Maine Student Book Award Challenge (for grades 4-8, and interested adults)
Wondering what to read next? Ms. Sarah has a weekly book review available from the Children’s Room website! She loves reading and writing about new books at PFL! There are also a few more of Sarah's STEM bags available through curbside pick-up.
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News and Resources from the History Room |
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The Bath, Maine City Directory: A General Directory of the City and the Towns of Arrowsic, Georgetown, Phippsburg, Richmond, West Bath and Woolwich, Vol. II, 1922-'23. “Bath Business Directory, 1922”, (Beverly, Mass. : Crowley & Lunt, 1922), 474. |
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How are you looking ahead?
Maine Contemporary Archives marks a year of COVID collecting with a new website and virtual exhibit. The statewide collaboration showcases the efforts of Maine's libraries to collect current history during the pandemic and into the future.
How will you observe the anniversary of a week that made history? You could:
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Women's History Month
The History Room has many resources that illuminate women's history in our communities. Our collection of city directories holds specific annual data about women in the workforce, like this list of Bath music teachers in 1922.
Women who worked as dressmakers, nurses, milliners, music teachers, and boarding house matrons are listed in the business directory section, while housekeepers, cooks, maids, cashiers, school teachers, and librarians are identified in the name directory. Contrast this local data with the national reports and studies featured in the Library of Congress research guide, Women in Business and the Workforce. Many Bath directories are available online though Ancestry Library.
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History Room Live returns in April
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Staff Picks : What We're Reading (and Watching) |
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This week's book review is by Jill Piekut Roy, our Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, "a genre-defying tour de force" by a New York Times best-selling author.
Click here to read Jill's full review.
To request a copy, click here.
To access all our "Staff Picks" reviews, click here.
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