Community Calendar

Join the Lewiston Public Library for Baby Storytime in-person in the Children’s Department weekly on Tuesdays* from 10:15am to 11:15am.
*(The Library will be closed on Tuesday, November 11th in observance of Veterans Day.)

Recommended for children ages 0 – 3 years old and their caregivers.

Enjoy an interactive storytime with your baby that includes early literacy fun with books, songs, rhymes and body movement. Play and social time immediately follow the program.

This program is free, open to the public, and no registration is required. Siblings are always welcome.

Please stay home if you or your child are sick and not feeling well.

The Lewiston Public Library is located downtown at 200 Lisbon Street at the corner of Pine Street.

More information on Storytime programs is available by contacting the Lewiston Public Library at 513-3133 or LPLKids@lewistonmaine.gov.

Denis Ledoux is known for writing his family stories (his mother’s, We Were Not
Spoiled/A Franco-American Memoir; his spouse’s, A Sugary Frosting/Life in a New
England Parsonage; and his own, French Boy/A 1950s Franco-American Childhood).
He has now taken his family writing into the far past with Here to Stay/Lives in 17th
Century Canada. In this latest book, he writes of four early family members from
the 1660s, and by placing them in a carefully delineated historical context, has
created a glimpse into the first century of French Canada as our ancestors
struggled against odds to maintain a foothold on the continent. Here to Stay is a
book filled with heroic effort, profound tragedy and perilous survival. “They were
not like us," he concludes. “They were epic heroes!”

On Thursday, October 16, at 10 AM, Maine Fibershed founder Pat Harpell will be a guest at the Rockport Library’s weekly story time and introduce toddlers and pre-k children to the wonderful wooly world of weaving. The free program will include a story time, signing, movement activities, and a weaving craft — along with a look at the most kid-friendly, hands-on parts of the library’s month-long Maine Fibershed exhibit.

Join us at the Lewiston Public Library this fall for a monthly meeting of Horror Book Club! Connect with fellow readers over these creepy titles.

September 18: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
October 16: The Only One Left by Riley Sager
November 20: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Recommended for ages 18+.

For more information contact us at 513-3135 or LPLReference@gmail.com.

Join us for an incredible evening with local Maine author and historian Michael Connolly for the launch of his latest novel/memoir “As the Twig is Bent”!

Littoral Books and Print: A Bookstore invite you to join us in celebrating the publication of Positivity Bias: Maine Writers, Defiantly Happy Endings, a book of 13 stories by 10 Maine writers. Seven of the contributing writers will read from their stories and discuss the challenge and necessity of writing stories with happy endings in difficult times.

Join us to hear Norma K. Salway, a retired educator from SAD 44, speak about her writing journey to become a Maine author of 7 books, including The Spirit of Songo, Touched by a Hummingbird, and I'm Just a Kid.

Her new book for children, Going Green with Grandma, will be released later this fall!

Light refreshments will be offered.

Join the Lewiston Public Library for Baby Storytime in-person in the Children’s Department weekly on Tuesdays* from 10:15am to 11:15am.
*(The Library will be closed on Tuesday, November 11th in observance of Veterans Day.)

Recommended for children ages 0 – 3 years old and their caregivers.

Enjoy an interactive storytime with your baby that includes early literacy fun with books, songs, rhymes and body movement. Play and social time immediately follow the program.

This program is free, open to the public, and no registration is required. Siblings are always welcome.

Please stay home if you or your child are sick and not feeling well.

The Lewiston Public Library is located downtown at 200 Lisbon Street at the corner of Pine Street.

More information on Storytime programs is available by contacting the Lewiston Public Library at 513-3133 or LPLKids@lewistonmaine.gov.

The Company We Keep is a psychological horror novella about Jake Warren, a father who accepts an uncanny job at Ortus Solutions, a company that hires him without an interview. The office seems perfect: smiling coworkers, looping hallways, glowing badges, and screens that feel like they’re watching back. Each day, Jake rises through “alignment” tiers while photos of his daughter begin to blur and vanish. When policies turn ritual and HR whispers, “You were always meant to be here,” he must choose between belonging and the self he came to save. Lean, eerie, and grounded in work-life anxiety, this is an October pick for fans of corporate-cult stories.

Please join Maine author, Elizabeth DeWolfe at 6:00pm, for a discussion about her new non-fiction book, Alias Agnes- A Gilded Age Spy. Jane Armstrong Tucker was a Boston stenographer scrabbling to get by as a single woman in the Gilded Age, until she was offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance. Madeleine Pollard was a Kentuckian with humble roots who had used charisma to work her way into the parlors of the Washington, DC, elite. Tucker hid behind an alias—Agnes Parker—but Pollard had a secret, too.
Alias Agnes details the true story of Jane Tucker, who took a job as an undercover detective with a ten-week mission. Her target: Madeleine Pollard, former mistress of Congressman William C. P. Breckinridge, whom she had sued for breach of promise when he failed to marry her. Exploring the intricacies of this trial and a scandal that captivated the nation, author Elizabeth A. DeWolfe demonstrates that a shared lack of power did not always lead to alliances among women. DeWolfe uncovers the strategies women used to make their way in the world, drawing parallels between the previously forgotten and incomplete tales of Tucker, Pollard, and the women who testified in the trial—from formerly enslaved persons, to white socialites, to single government clerks, to divorced physicians. Written in engaging prose with all the intrigue and suspense of a detective tale, Alias Agnes chronicles the lives of women at the cusp of the twentieth century—the opportunities that beckoned them and the challenges that thwarted their dreams.