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Monday, March 28, 2016

Camden Public Library Events March 31 through April 14

Thursday, March 31

Tim Seymour will present a slide talk on the John Muir Trail, the “premier hiking trail in the United States,” 7:00 pm at the Camden Public Library. The trail starts in America’s treasure, Yosemite National Park, and continues 211 miles through the Ansel Adams Wilderness.


Sunday, April 3

Poetry of the Sea with Gordon Bok and Carol Rohl, 2:00 pm at the Camden Public Library. In celebration of Maritime Month at the Camden Public Library, Gordon Bok and Carol Rohl will present selections of maritime poetry, stories, and music. And in celebration of Poetry Month, Carol will include poetry inspired by her recovery from a stroke in 2004.


Tuesday, April 5

Author Padma Venkatraman will speak at the Camden Public Library at 4:00 pm about the status of women in India and throughout history. Venkatraman was born in Chennai, India, and is now an award-winning American author living in Rhode Island. She will also briefly address paradoxes associated with being a woman in India, discuss her experience growing up in that culture, and touch on her family's history, which is fictionalized in her award-winning debut novel, “Climbing the Stairs.”

Gallery talk on “The Allure of the Lighthouse” 7:00 pm at the Camden Public Library, to accompany the exhibit of vintage B&W photographs from the Penobscot Marine Museum. Captains Bob Pratt and Paul Dilger will give an illustrated talk on the lighthouses as part of the Library’s Maritime Month theme.


Wednesday, April 6

“Exotic Jewish Communities” Coastal Senior College class begins at the Camden Public Library, led by instructor Steven Shaw. The class will continue for eight Wednesdays, 12 noon to 2:30 pm, April 6 to June 1. To register contact Coastal Senior College at 800 286 1594.


Thursday, April 7

Camden Library Coffeehouse features Meteora, 7:00 pm. Meteora is a trio of Will Brown of Lincolnville and Jim Loney and Kat Logan of Friendship, who perform a repertoire that includes originals plus new arrangements of folk, Indie, world folk, blues, traditional songs and dance tunes, “and some pop songs from your parent’s record collection.”


Friday, April 8

“How the Modern Documentary Can Shape the Public Mind” Coastal Senior College class begins at the Camden Public Library, led by instructor William Solomon. The class will continue for eight Fridays, 1:00 to 3:00 pm, April 8 to May 27. To register contact Coastal Senior College at 800-286-1594.


Sunday, April 10

Camden-Rockport Historical Society hosts Kerry Hardy, speaking on the old Indian highways and roads of the early days in Knox County, 2:00 pm at the Camden Public Library.

  
Monday, April 11

“Prevent Lyme and Tick-borne Disease” presented by Paula Jackson Jones and co-founders of Midcoast Lyme Disease Support, hosted by Destination Wellness Midcoast Maine in a Brown Bag Lunch format, 12:00 noon at the Camden Public Library.


Tuesday, April 12

“Your Next Career Move: Tools to Get Started” two-hour workshop led by Melinda Wildes of New Ventures Maine, 10:00 am at the Camden Public Library. Call 593-7942 to register.

Leer y charlar is Read and chat, a Spanish language discussion group, 1:00 pm at the Camden Public Library, all who are proficient in Spanish are welcome.

Tuesday Book Club, 1:00 pm at the Camden Public Library, discussing “The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America” by Mike McIntyre, FMI call Nina at 470-7473.

Reading Group of the Camden Philosophical Society, 4:00 pm at the Camden Public Library, discussion based on selected writings of Karl Marx, the nineteenth-century German philosophical, economic, and political thinker.

Gene McKeever will lead a discussion with local schooner captains on what it’s really like to run a sailing business on the Maine coast, 7:00 pm at the Camden Public Library, part of the library’s Maritime Month speaker series.


Thursday, April 14

Meteorologist Ken McKinley will present “An Analysis of Weather Factors Affecting Recent Big Ship Disasters,” 7:00 pm at the Camden Public Library, part of the library’s Maritime Month speaker series.

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