Hay Break by Kevin Mizner

Kevin Mizner is a self-taught artist who has been painting Maine and her people for over forty years. His work will be on display at the library during September. For the past ten years, he has been painting full-time at his home in Pittston, Maine. “Everything I paint is from my own experience, observation, and emotion. I feel that authenticity and emotion in a painting cannot be conjured, it must be real.”

His technique is based on traditional oil painting practices, utilizing photographs, sketches, and studies, both on site and in the studio — anything I can use — to make the best painting I can produce. Because in the end, only the painting can tell the story.”  See more at kmizner.com Continue reading

Let’s Talk About It is a group for people who want to talk about books. The books and facilitator, John Zavodny, will be provided by the Maine Humanities Council in collaboration with the Maine State Library. We will meet Wednesdays for five sessions. All sessions will begin at 7:00pm at the library for approximately 90 minutes.

Exploring Human Boundaries: Literary Perspectives on Health Care Providers and Their Patients. A disease or a sick person? Health care professionals do not always focus on what is most important to the patient and the patient’s family. These classic 20th-century accounts of illness, death, and dying dramatically illuminate these complex issues.

• Sep. 26 – The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• Oct. 24 – The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Nov. 28 – The Plague by Albert Camus
• Jan. 23 – The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
• Feb. 27 – W;t by Margaret Edson

For more information about the books and the program.

Books for those who signed-up are available. Stop by the library to pick them up. There are a few extra. If you want to participate in the book discussion, contact bworcester@liberty.lib.me.us.

It is that time of year to get those knitting needles clicking and those crochet hooks looping so we may again provide warm hands and heads around our community.  We are collecting children’s mittens (small sizes are most needed) for the Walker School and small sized mittens and hats for  WaldoCAP Headstart.  Our adult hats and cowls go to the Belfast Soup Kitchen and to the TRIAD program which distributes warm winter clothing to our senior citizens in need. There is free yarn for this project in the library along with a basket for the finished mittens, hats, and cowls.  We thank you so much for your continued support!

Simple 2-needle mittens: 3-4 yrs,  4-6 yrs, & 6-8 yrs.
A simple pattern for hats can be found here. Another Stockinette Watch cap pattern.

We also collect yarn and needles for Jen Gunderman who delivers these to organizations assisting New Mainers transitioning to life in Maine. They in turn make hats and mittens for other refugees who are in camps awaiting permission to be allowed into other countries to begin making new lives for themselves and their families.

Several knitters are getting together informally to knit and chat on Wednesday mornings at 10:00 at the library. Anyone is welcome to join them.