Storytimes for Kids
Tuesdays at 10:30AM
Preschool Story and Craft
3 to 5 year olds with picture books, songs, flannel boards and crafts

Thursdays at 10:30AM
Tales for 2s and 3s with books, songs, puppets and fingerplays

Fridays at 10:00AM
Laptime for 0 - 18 months with fingerplays, songs, puppets and a book

Chickadee Stories:
Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. on
February 3,10,24, March 3rd
These Story Times are recommended for 5-10 year olds. We'll read from books nomonated for Maine Chickadee Awards, do some realted activities,and vote for our favorites.

Adult Programs: "The Ellsworth Pubic Library Book Discussion"

Saturday March 6- 10:30 am Special Story Time - PIZZA !SPECIAL STORY TIME: "Kookingwith Keli"- learn tomake pizza and help eat your final creation.

March 10 – The Future of Money and Financial Permaculture,
7:00 PM – Ellsworth Public Library, Riverview Room– Michael Anderson will present this important topic about Financial Permaculture,  a systems approach and permaculture techniques and philosophy that create a zero waste economy that cares for the earth, its inhabitants and distributes surplus material, currency and knowledge in a fair and equitable manner.  It also seeks to create mutually beneficial and symbiotic relationships while healing the ecology.  This talk will explain the parasitic nature of our current economic system and look at alternatives that include interest and inflation free money, local currencies, mutual credit clearing and green businesses. Money should be made to serve, not rule, to be used - rather than profit oriented - and to create abundance, stability and sustainability. Sponsored by Hancock County Towns in Transition. FMI contact Brenda Cartwright, 667-9062.

March 17 - Organic Gardening without Money. 
6-7:30 PM -  Ellsworth Public Library, Riverview Room.  Experienced or new gardeners welcome.  Come learn tried and true techniques in this informal and informative workshop led by John Whight.  A self proclaimed “botanist” at heart, John has 37+ years of energy and gardening knowledge.  John has studied and observed oriental, European, and domestic gardening techniques. Take advantage of John’s wealth of knowledge and unique and simple gardening techniques.  Sponsored by Sustainable Earth Training Center and Hancock County Towns in Transition. For more information call, Brenda Cartwright, 667-9062. 

Saturday March 20 - 10:00 to 11:30 am- Author Talk
Radio show host, DJ and author AnnieStilhvater Gray willjoin us with her newbook "Welcome Radio : tales from the general store.

Wednesday March 31 - 1:30 pm
Homeschool Storytime recommended for 5 to 10year olds

Book Signing by Wesley McNair
Thursday, March 24, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
in the Riverview room

ELLSWORTH – Be the first! Join us at the Ellsworth Public Library for the premier reading and signing of poet, Wesley McNair’s new book. book

Wesley McNair's new book, just released this month, is Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems. The recipient of numerous awards in poetry, Wesley McNair has held grants from the Guggenheim and Fulbright foundations, two Rockefeller fellowships, and two grants in creative wrWesley McNairiting from the National Endowment for the Arts.

He recently read his poems at the Library of Congress and was selected for a United States Artists Fellowship as one of “America’s finest living artists.” 
For further information, call the library at 667-6363.

Welcome Radio by Annie Stillwater Gray.
Saturday, March 20, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. in theRiverview room

gen store bookLifelong DJ Annie Stillwater Gray recreates her ten-year radio program The General Store Variety Show in this novel about the northern Maine border town of Angel's Notch. In an extraordinary twist, the radio station in the general store powers a vortex that opens a portal between the physical and spirit planes. Mythological characters use the magical doorway to appear as
 guests on the radio show, while the localannie inhabitants have their own stories to tell. In a setting of great natural beauty, tensions build as the community takes sides over buried treasure and the enduring quest for love and fulfillment.
For further information,
call the library
at 667-6363.

 

Display Case:
Art work of Siobhan Dhority

Art Show: Oil Paintings and other works by Rebecca (Reba) Nicolas of Sullivan. Call us at 667-6363 to be sure the Riverview room is open.

 

 

 

Library

Ellsworth Public Library
20 State Street Ellsworth
Maine 04605

YEAR ROUND HOURS
Sunday – Closed
Mon, Tue, Friday 9am- 5pm
Wed & Thursday 9am- 8pm
Saturday 9am-2pm

Please call the library for special hours.

www.ellsworth.lib.me.us

Adopt an Author

A new program we started in December, Adopt an Author, allows readers to "adopt" one or more popular authors from our list. Sign up to purchase their next new release or all of their new titles for the year. We will let you know when the item is arriving and how much you owe. Oh yes - you get to be the first to read the books you have adopted!

Ask at the Circulation Desk for a brochure with more informaiton and the list of authors.

 

 

 

Caregivers'focus Group:
The caregivers' focus group will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 2 PM in the Riverview Room. This is a monthly support group for anyone who is caring for someone else. You can attend one meeting or come each month. The group is facilitated by Janet Lewis of the Eastern Area Agency on Aging and Mary McKillop of the library staff.

Geneology: The Hancock County Genealogical Society will meet Saturday, February 20, at 2:30 PM. The election of officers for 2010 will be held. The society meets on the 3rd Sat. at 2:30 in the Riverview room.

Library Book Clubs

EPL Book Clubs meets Thursdays from 6:00pm to 7:30 pm. Pre-registration is encouraged. Call 667-6363 for more information.

Knitting Workshop

First Saturday of the Month, 10:00am to noon to 4:00pm
In the Poetry Corner