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.

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In a talk combining themes from "No Meat Required" and the forthcoming "On Eating," author Alicia Kennedy will discuss the ways in which our imaginations, nostalgia, and traditions hold us back from creating space for new ways into a sustainable future of food based on abundance, regionality, and biodiversity.

Speaker bio: Alicia Kennedy is a writer from Long Island. She is the author of the best-selling No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating, and her memoir On Eating: The Making & Unmaking of My Appetites will be out in spring 2026. Her newsletter on food culture, politics, and media, From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, is read by over 30,000 people weekly.

Freeport Folio is proud to announce the return of its quarterly Open Mic Poetry Series with Featured Poet artist, educator and Rockland Poet Laureate Carol Willette Bachofner. Carol is a poet of Scottish and Abenaki descent and her work has been featured in Dawnland Voices- Indigenous Writing From New England and the Northeast.

The event will take place Saturday, January 17th from 1:00 - 2:30 PM in the Bradley Room at Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot Street, Freeport. The event is free and open to the public with open mic sign-ups available at the door.  We welcome students, seasoned poets, first-time readers and those who want to bask in the power of poetry and the spoken word. Seats are limited, free and there is a link on our web site.