Editor: David Mills
AUGUSTA, ME - The first in a four-part sustainability series in May hosted by Lithgow Public Library will be an informational program about the proposed Maine Woods National Park. On Thursday, May 3 at 6:30 p.m., Tom and Lee Ann Szelog return to Lithgow Library with a multi-media presentation featuring the music of legendary folk singer Pete Seeger along with Tom Szelog’s stunning nature photographs. Since 2007, the Szelogs have put a face to the land and wildlife of the proposed 3.2 million-acre park in northern Maine through their “Maine Woods National Park Photo-Documentation Project.”
The program will take place in the Reading Room and is free and open to the public.
Maine’s Great North Woods is one of the last unprotected and undeveloped wilderness areas within the United States. This 3.2 million-acre forest, explored by Henry David Thoreau more than 150 years ago, encompasses an area larger than Yellowstone and Yosemite National parks combined.
For the past 30 years, Tom Szelog has been a professional wildlife photographer. Lee Ann Szelog is a professional speaker. The husband and wife team are award-winning authors of By a Maine River: A Year of Looking Closely, and Our Point of View: Fourteen Years at a Maine Lighthouse. The couple lives in Whitefield.
Other programs in Lithgow Library’s sustainability series include solar energy contractor Tom Fullam on Thursday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. and Thursday, May 24 at 6:30 p.m. Fullam will talk about building and renovating homes for extreme energy efficiency and low fuel bills.
Chuck and Danny Piper of Sundog Solar Store in Searsport will give a presentation on solar energy on Thursday, May 17 at 6:30 p.m. Lisa Turner of Laughing Stock Farm, author of the Eat Local Cookbook published by Down East Books, will give a program on Thursday, May 31 at 6:30 p.m. Laughing Stock Farm is a four season, certified organic, family owned vegetable farm located in Freeport.
Lithgow Library is located at 45 Winthrop Street in Augusta. For more information, call the library at 626-2415 or visit www.lithgow.lib.me.us.
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