Community Calendar

Every Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Book Time for Babies with Miss Amy (In Person). Children's librarian Miss Amy hosts an outdoor story time in the Camden Amphitheatre Wednesdays, from 10 to 11 a.m., themed for toddlers and babies. Weather permitting. For information, email Miss Amy: alhand@librarycamden.org.

Please join us on Wednesday, May 31 at 6:15pm for an event featuring Chuck Collins, author of Altar to an Erupting Sun.

Altar to an Erupting Sun is a near-future story of one community facing climate disruption in the critical decade ahead. Rae Kelliher is a veteran environmental activist and pioneer in the death-with-dignity movement. Facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, she engages in a shocking suicide murder, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his role in delaying responses to climate disruption. Seven years later, Rae’s friends and family gather at her Vermont farm community to try to understand her violent exit and the rapid social transformations around them.

Chuck Collins is a campaigner and storyteller who has worked for decades on environmental and economic justice campaigns. He is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is co-founder of DivestInvest.org, a global movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions; and trustee of the Post-Carbon Institute and Resilience.org. He lives with his family in Southern Vermont. Altar to an Erupting Sun is his debut novel.

An Evening of Poetry with Maya Williams and Ian-Khara Ellasante, Katya Zinn, and Catherine Weiss
In partnership with Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance & PRINT: A Bookstore

Every Thursday and Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Indoor Preschooler Story Time (In Person). Children’s librarian Miss Amy will be hosting in-person story times and crafts in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library. These story times are geared for preschool-age children, but all ages and families are welcome!

Thursdays and Fridays, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Indoor Preschooler Story Time (In Person). Children’s librarian Miss Amy will be hosting in-person story times and crafts in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library. These story times are geared for preschool-age children, but all ages and families are welcome!

Belfast author Eddie Adelman will give a free talk and read from his new collection of (mostly) humor essays called, "Don't Get Me Started." He will also sign books after the talk. In 2002 and 2003, Adelman was a weekly colimnist for the Portland Press Herald. Since 2013, dozens of his essays have appeared on the Op-Ed pages of the Bangor Daily News. Mr. Adelman also read his essays on Maine Public Radio's evening newscast, "Maine Things Considered" from !998 -2003 One of those radio essays won the "AP Award for Writing in Broadcast Journaism" in 1999.

As part of the Ann P. Hammond Memorial Poetry Series, Scarborough Public Library is pleased to welcome Wesley McNair, Maine's Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2016, on Thursday, June 1, 6:30pm.

Wesley McNair is the author and editor of more than twenty books. He has been awarded, amongst other prizes, the Robert Frost Prize, the Theodore Roethke Prize, the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book, the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal for distinguished contribution to the world of letters, and the PEN New England Award for Literary Excellence in Poetry. McNair served as Maine Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2016. A teacher for several decades, he is currently professor emeritus and writer in residence at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Every Thursday and Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Indoor Preschooler Story Time (In Person). Children’s librarian Miss Amy will be hosting in-person story times and crafts in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library. These story times are geared for preschool-age children, but all ages and families are welcome!

Thursdays and Fridays, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Indoor Preschooler Story Time (In Person). Children’s librarian Miss Amy will be hosting in-person story times and crafts in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library. These story times are geared for preschool-age children, but all ages and families are welcome!

Join us for a special event on Saturday, June 3 at 5:15pm featuring Patrick Asare, author of The Boy from Boadua: One African’s Journey of Hunger and Sacrifice In Pursuit of a Dream.

The Boy from Boadua is a true story of growing up in the remote Ghanaian village of Boadua and one man's journey on the pursuit of higher education. Faced with poverty, hunger, and other obstacles, Patrick dedicated his free time to studying and was able to pass the common entrance exam to attend an elite secondary school. From there he was able to receive an engineering degree in the Soviet Union before making his way to the United States where he taught Russian and math. His story reads as an adventure story that is full of inspiration and hope.