Sargentville Library's upcoming Program of Events with the theme Legacy + Lore

The stories, heritage and traditions that shape our sense of place

Sunday, May 17th @ 4pm, book club, discussion led by group

Still they Remember Me: Penobscot Transformer Tales by Carol A. Dana, Margo Lukens, Conor M. Quinn are “thirteen stories…transcribed for the first time into current Penobscot orthography and with a new English translation…[focusing on] lessons that help shape the Wabanaki landscape and bring into balance all the forces affecting human life… and offer a window into the language and culture of the Penobscot people.” 

Thursday, June 4th @ 6pm,poetry reading by author

Bea Gates’ newest book of poetry The Burning Key  is described as “ a meditation on hope as resistance” and “a testament to the communities and legacies that sustain intimate relationships and bridge intergenerational social movements.”

Monday, June 15th @ 5:30pm,book club, discussion led by group

Spoonhandle by Ruth Moore, is set in a small Maine island community and written in the 1940s, but the issues remain surprisingly contemporary and certainly universal: “the struggle between love and meanness of spirit, between human dignity and greed.”

Wednesday, July 15th @ 5:30pm,book club, discussion led by group

Arundel by Kenneth Roberts is called “one of the most thrilling of all novels of America’s past.” “Backwoodsman Steven joins Colonel Benedict Arnold’s small expeditionary force in the fall of 1775 to help guide him through the northern [now Maine] wilderness to attack British-held Quebec.”

Sunday, July 26th @ 4pm, book club, discussion and reading by author

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson asks in her book What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures, “What if we act as if we love the future? Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side.” 

Thursday, July 30th @ 5:30pm, presentation and reading by author

In Captain Drew's World:  Dispatches from the Age of Global Sail, W.H. Bunting’s narrator was “a superlative chronicler of life at sea [and a] keen observer of foreign lands and cultures… [who]  wrote to preserve the record of the passing of an age [the decline of the once pre-eminent American deep water fleet] and his place in it.”

Wednesday, August 5th @ 5:30, reading and book signing by author

“In his riveting crime debut, New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks turns his literary talents [to] a rich and dynamic crime novel, Everyone Knows But You, that brings a unique part of  America to vivid, thrilling life.”

Sunday, August 9th @ 4pm, presentation and performance by author

Ian Ludders and Tony Scott present The Log of the Herring-Pumper Beryl, an “extraordinary book [that] resurrects a 1950s herring logbook and weaves it together with family lore, oral history, and song, creating a living archive of memory, music, and maritime life.”

Saturday, August 15th @ 10am-2pm, workshop

David Elsenbroich and Andrea Tzvetkov lead a sacred harp shape note sing followed by potluck lunch. Join in on a piece of local living history! Shape note singing schools were popular in Sedgwick, as noted in Abel Sawyer’s journal 1843-1846. Abel lived just down the road from the Sargentville library. 

Wednesday, August 26th @ 5:30, book club, discussion and reading by author

In her debut novel, Moorings of Mackerel Sky “Exquisite. In prose as haunting as any siren’s song, MZ brings to shimmering life the seaside town of Mackerel Sky, where the legendary exists seamless besides the everyday.”

September

George Fields leads a field trip and speaks to local geology lore, such as Sargentville’s old silver mine. Date to be announced. 

Bill Haviland reads from his latest book, Indian History on Deer Isle. Date to be announced. 

Alongside the abovementioned events, the library will be open in the summer of 2026 from June 15th to September 15th, Mondays 4-6, Wednesdays 4-6, Saturdays 10-2, and at other times by appointment.

Discover your own local legacy and lore through old photos and historical materials  at the extraordinary Sargentville Library archive. The archive can be viewed at www.sargentvillemainelibraryarchive.org/

About the Sargentville Library Association

In 1875, with books piling up in their private collections at home, the ladies sewing society in Sargentville formed the Library Association. Any lady could become a member by signing the constitution and any gentleman by the payment of twenty five cents. Their first motion? To raise money to build a library. The rest is history. Come join us this summer to learn more!