Book Group: Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
2025-02-11 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
February 11: Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
According to goodreads:
The final novel from a great American storyteller.
Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old’s imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for “female trouble” in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate–bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical—is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can’t seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But as it turns out, Donal isn’t traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way.
Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.

Book Group - Where You Will Find Me by Ty Gagne
2025-03-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Where You’ll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova

On Feb. 15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the Northern Presidential Range in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Late the following day, rescuers carried her frozen body out of the mountains amid some of the worst weather ever recorded on these deceptively rugged slopes.
At thirty-two, Matrosova was ultra-fit and healthy and had already summited much larger mountains on several continents. Her gear included a rescue beacon and a satellite phone. Yet, despite their best efforts, more than forty expert search and rescue personnel, a New Hampshire Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter, and a Civil Air Patrol Cessna airplane could not reach her in time to save her.
What went wrong?
Where You’ll Find Me offers possible answers to that question, demonstrating why Matrosova’s story–what we know and what we will never know–represents such an intriguing and informative case study in risk analysis and decision-making.

Book Group: North Woods by Daniel Mason
2025-04-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
March 11: North Woods by Daniel Mason
According to goodreads:
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants . An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins survive war and famine, only to succumb to envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave, but finds the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a conman, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle; as each one confronts the mysteries of the north woods, they come to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.
Traversing cycles of history, nature, and even literature, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment and to one another, across time, language and space. Written along with the seasons and divided into the twelve months of the year, it is an unforgettable novel about secrets and fates that asks the timeless how do we live on, even after we’re gone?

Movie - The Times of Harvey Milk
2025-06-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
The Denmark Public Library will be hosting a film in honor of PRIDE month, “The Times of Harvey Milk”, the 1984 Academy Award winning documentary. This will be open to the public. We are hoping to educate and also have a dialogue as requested by attendees.
This film is not rated. Unaccompanied children will not be admitted. The film will begin at 6 pm, on Thursday, June 12 at the Denmark Public Library downstairs.

Denmark Authors Series - Shannon Bowring
2025-06-22 17:00 - 18:00 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Come to hear Maine author Shannon Bowring talk about her new book: Where the Forest Meets the River.
Sunday, June 22 at 5:00 at the Denmark Arts Center.

“Shannon Bowring demonstrates once again that she understands exactly where the heart of a story lies. Where the Forest Meets the River is a poignant return to the small town of Dalton, Maine whose inhabitants continue to startle and humble both themselves—and us.” Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76990876-the-road-to-dalton?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=JmzNrQROD2&rank=1

Featured on the Maine Public Radio Book Club, Shannon has also been recognized on such short- and long-lists as the Maine Literary Awards, the Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition and the New Millennium Writing Awards. Her debut novel, The Road to Dalton, received a Kirkus Starred Review and was included in the June 2023 Indie Next List.

Ice Cream Social At Sweetie Pies
2025-06-26 16:00 - 18:00
Help kick off the summer reading program with an ice cream social at Sweetie Pies

Film "Will and Harper"
2025-07-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Join us for the film “Will and Harper”
TOMORROW, Thursday, July 3 at 6:00 at the Library.

“When Will Ferrell’s good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.” Letterboxd
Mature teens welcome with parents
Participants are invited to stay afterwards for an open discussion.
This is the last in The Denmark Library’s series of award-winning films about the LGBTQ experience.

Hayley Barret, Children's Author Reading The Tiny Baker
2025-07-09 10:00 - 11:00
Listen to this great story read by the author. We will have the reading along with crafts and snacks.

AUTHORS SERIES EVENT - Lois Lowry - Tree, Table Book
2025-07-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Sunday, July 13th at 5
Lois Lowry – Tree, Table Book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176742720-tree-table-book?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_15

Inside the Whale
2025-07-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Experience what it is like to be in a whale’s belly.

AUTHORS SERIES EVENT - Lewis Robinson - The Islanders
2025-08-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Sunday, Aug 3rd at 5
Lewis Robinson – The Islanders
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214482846-the-islanders?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_22

What Miss Mitchell Saw - read by Hayley Barrett
2025-08-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
A great reading with crafts and snacks

Chewonki Program - Biomes
2025-08-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Explore rainforests, deserts, oceans, forests, and grasslands.

Author - Hilary Crowley author, The Power of Energy Medicine
2025-08-28 17:00 - 18:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Please join the author, Hilary Crowley, as she discusses her book The Power of Energy Medicine. Books will be available for purchase.

Power of Energy Medicine
Your Natural Prescription for Resilient Health
MONTH:February
$16.99 ($22.99 CAD) Paperback World • CQ 34
ISBN: 978-1-5107-5822-3
6 x 9 • 240 pages
Ebook ISBN 978-1-5107-5938-1 Health & Fitness/Healing

Learn how to connect to your own good medicine and discover the powerful energy healing that will bring authentic wellness, health, hope, and joy into your life.
Hilary Crowley is the resident energy healer at a general family medical center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Working alongside surgeons, physicians, nurses, and holistic practitioners, she uses energy medicine modalities and hands-on techniques to facilitate her clients’ healing. In this book, Hilary sheds light on questions surrounding energy
medicine by sharing stories from cases including cancer battles, suicide attempts, and chronic pain. She shares how to find healing through the good medicines in your own cabinet: things like connection, grace, forgiveness, creativity, and more.
In a healthcare system that has become increasingly focused on specialization and treating specific ailments or organs, the concepts of energy medicine and treating the whole patient are, unfortunately, often lost. Hilary aims to revolutionize the conversation about our body and spirit in the healthcare industry by speaking directly to patients and medical providers.
Our bodies have the power to heal, and simply need guidance and awareness to access this vital energy for prevention and recovery. Through practical insights, inspiring stories, and thoughtful questions posed to the reader, this book is more than a guide to energy healing; it offers you the key to unlocking your good medicine cabinet and discovering holistic health and wellbeing.
Hilary Crowley discovered the healing arts as the grandchild of three doctors. In her early career, she worked as a Pediatric Continuing Education and Recruitment Specialist at both University of Massachusetts Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Since 1995, she has studied with leaders in energy medicine and medical intuition. Hilary teaches on topics of energy medicine and health throughout New England, New York, and abroad. She is a pre- and post-operative energy care provider, working with the Wentworth Douglass Hospital’s Integrative Care Center. She lives in Dover, New Hampshire.

AUTHORS SERIES EVENT - Jessica Anthony - The Most
2025-08-31 17:00 - 18:00 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Sunday, Aug 31st at 5
Jessica Anthony – The Most
https://goodreads.com/book/show/201626978-the-most?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16

Pumpkin Carving!
2025-10-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Create jack-0-lanterns at the library!
We’ll be carving pumpkins in our holiday best at the Library on Thursday October 30 from 4-6pm

Halloween party at Denmark Arts Center!
2025-10-31 17:00 - 19:00 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
FAMILY FUN DAYS:FAMILY HALLOWEEN PARTY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 5-7PM
Halloween Friday, October 31 from 5-7 will be a Family Halloween Party at Denmark Arts Center early evening filled with games, sweets, and other delightful treats keeping in the Halloween Spirit. THEN a lit pumpkin walk in Bicentennial Park at 6:30. Much lurks in the PARK after DARK!!

Day of the Dead!
2025-11-01 10:00 - 12:00
Day of the Dead talk and celebration at the library.
Treats will be served.

Happy Cards Workshop
2025-11-12 10:30 - 12:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Come Create Happy Cards
As the seasons change and uncertainty swirls all around us, what simple things make you feel connected and happy?
Let’s get together and have some fun crafting personalized “Happy” note cards and envelopes with paper, scissors and glue.
All instruction and material provided. No special skills needed. Let’s create!
Sign up at the Library or call (207) – 452-2200
Donation for artist requested.

Mahjong
2026-01-13 14:30 - 16:00, 2026-01-27 14:30 - 16:00
Come learn this fantastic game.

Book Group - Boston Girl
2026-01-13 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for this month’s book group meeting.
Reading Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

From GoodReads
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century.
Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie’s intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can’t imagine – a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love.
Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her “How did you get to be the woman you are today?” She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naïve girl she was and a wicked sense of humor.
Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Anita Diamant’s previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman’s complicated life in twentieth-century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world.

Majong
2026-01-20 14:30 - 16:00

Postpartum Mom Meeting
2026-01-28 10:00 - 11:00
On the 4th wed of the month, there will be a meeting for Postpartum moms from newborn to 2 yrs. This is put on Sacopee Valley Midwives.

2nd Annual Indoor Plant Sale - Date changed
2026-01-31 10:00 - 12:00
2nd Annual Indoor Plant Sale Jan 31th from 10-12 .
Come join us and pick out some nice plants for your home and bid on locally donated Raffle items…please bring any donations in before the sale during library hours. Thank you

Book Group - West with the Night
2026-02-10 16:00 - 17:00
The book will be West of the Night by Beryl Markham

From good reads –

This 1942 memoir (not a complete autobiography) by Beryl Markham chronicles her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa) in the early 1900s, and her stellar careers as racehorse trainer and bush pilot.
Markham was the first woman in East Africa to be granted a commercial pilot’s license, piloting passengers and supplies to remote corners of Africa. She became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west.
Considered a classic of outdoor literature and ranked #8 by National Geographic Adventure in 2008 on its list of the 100 best adventure books.

Mahjong
2026-03-03 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-10 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-17 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-24 15:00 - 16:00
Play and learn this fun game.
