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

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

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

Discussion of Thomas Ricks’ First Principles: What America’s Founding Fathers Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country.

Wednesday, July 22nd @ 6 pm
The Library’s Annual Meeting. Open to all.

Satruday, July 25th @ 12 pm, 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.

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.”

Tuesday September 22nd @ 5:30 pm - Sargentville Library

Local Anthropologist Bill Haviland reads from his latest book "Indian History on Deer Isle" 

In the late 1700s, when the first Anglo settlers stepped ashore on Deer Isle, Maine, they were far from the first to do so. For thousands of years people had lived, loved and labored on this and other islands as well as on the mainland. Early French explorers, traders and missionaries, who knew far more about indigenous people than their English counterparts, referred to the region’s inhabitants as Etchemins, a people who occupied the entire coast from the Kennebec River down east as far as the Saint John River. Their descendants today are known as Maliseets, Passamaquoddies and Penobscots. So what do we know about these folks?

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 10-12, 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!