Knitting Group every Saturday at10
2024-05-04 10:00 - 23:00, 2024-05-18 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-05-25 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
All crafters welcome

Mahjong Group every Tuesday at 3
2024-05-07 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-14 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-21 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-28 15:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Everyone Welcome

Knitting Group every Saturday at10
2024-05-11 10:00 - 11:00

Book Group: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
2024-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
On May 14 the book group will discuss The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
According to GoodReads:
On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally–and willing to fight to the end.
In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports–some released only recently–Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments.ds:

Annual Plant Sale
2024-05-25 09:00 - 13:00
Plants, Pies, and raffles!

Come support the library and get some great things.

Coffee Cafe
2024-06-07 09:00 - 11:00, 2024-07-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Join others in relaxing conversation and light refreshments on the first Friday of the month 9-11.

Book Group: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
2024-06-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
On June 11 the book group will be discussing Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
According to GoodReads:
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.

Children's Author Jennifer Schmidt
2024-06-26 10:30 - 11:30 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Reading from her book “Magical Meadows” with an arts and crafts project

Book Group - The Boys in the Boat
2024-07-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
July 9, at 4:00 The Boys in the Boat by D. Brown

Children's Book Author Leigh Hayes
2024-07-11 10:30 - 11:30 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
A reading from her book “The Giants Shower” and fairy house building

Children's Author Jen Comeau
2024-07-17 10:30 - 11:30
A reading from her book “The Inside of Me” and a presentation with her illustrator Suzie Linden

Author's Series - Betty Culley - 5:00 at the Denmark Arts Center
2024-07-21 17:00 - 18:30 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Sunday, July 21, Betty Culley author of The Name She Gave Me
5:00 at the Denmark Arts Center

Coffee Cafe
2024-08-02 09:00 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Come in for some great conversation.

Story Time - Big Bang
2024-08-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Story Time at 10am Deb Johnson, from the Maine Gem and Mineral Museum in Bethel, will astound us with the Story of the Big Bang followed by craft projects and snacks.

Smokey the Bear's 80th Birthday!
2024-08-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Saturday, August 10 at 10am we will celebrate Smokey the Bear’s 80th Birthday! The Denmark Firefighters will join us with their fire truck. Make a morning of it!
Start with the Denmark Congregational Church’s pancake breakfast that morning from 8 – 10 at 70 E Main St, Denmark.

Author's Series - Meghan Gilliss - 5:00 at the Denmark Arts Center
2024-08-11 17:00 - 18:30 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Sunday, August 11, Meghan Gilliss author of Lungfish
5:00 at the Denmark Arts Center

Fire-pits and Stargazing
2024-08-14 19:00 - 20:30 | 28 Dunn Dr., Denmark,ME, 28 Dunn Dr., Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Wednesday, August 14 from 7:00 – 8:30, Katie Dunn, Denmark Librarian, will host the Denmark Library Children’s Program at her camp at 28 Dunn Dr. off Mountain Rd. in Denmark. Join us to make firepits and enjoy some stargazing.

Ants on a Log Concert
2024-08-27 10:00 - 11:30 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
Tuesday, August 27 at 10 am the Denmark Arts Center will present the Ants on a Log Concert. Families are invited to a morning of fun and interactive songs, full of humor and harmony, justice and joy! Recommended for ages 4-11. Everyone welcome! The Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Maine St, Denmark. 207-452-2412

Coffee Cafe
2024-09-06 09:00 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States

Coffee Hour - Writing your own obituary
2024-10-04 09:00 - 11:00 | Denmark Public Library, 121 East Main Street, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
This month at Coffee Cafe, Jen Bella will guide particpants in writing their own obituary.
This slightly tongue in cheek exercise aims to put the announcement of your death back
in your hands as opposed to your survivors. This hour will emphasize your lives as opposed
to what may be usually bland details. With the goal of normalizing this chore,
this practice can help participants gain a different perspective on something we all face:
our eventual death.

Jen is a licensed clinical social worker in Maine and on the board of trustees for the Denmark
Public Library.

Book Group - “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks
2024-10-08 16:00 - 17:00
On October 8th the book group will talk about “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks

According to Goodreads
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history
Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.
New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.
Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse–one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.
Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.

Authors Series - The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters
2024-10-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
“Amanda Peters, author of The Berry Pickers, at the last Authors Series Event
Sunday, Oct 20 at 5:00 at the Denmark Arts Center. Register at https://denmarkarts.org

We are very excited to welcome Amanda Peters talking about her debut novel The Berry Pickers! She has been featured as part of the The Maine Public Book Club series and at other venues around the state.
In her novel, “a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.
July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.
For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.” Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123036004-the-berry-pickers?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=xCD7Sbe1Zc&rank=1
All Authors Series Events are held at the
Denmark Arts Center
and are pay-what-you-can. Refreshments are available.
Sponsor Bridgton Books will be onsite with The Berry Pickers for sale and signed by Amanda Peters. This presentation is supported by a grant from the Onion Foundation~Thank you!
The Denmark Author Series is a collaboration of Denmark Historical Society, Denmark Library & Denmark Arts Center & a generous community ANGEL who thought to pay it forward –
so much thanks!
The Denmark Arts Center is located at 50 W. Main St., Denmark. 207-‭452-2412‬
For more information and registration, go to the Denmark Arts Center at https://denmarkarts.org/events/
Books are available to borrow from the Denmark Public Library,
121 E. Main St., Denmark. 207-452-2022

Pumpkin Carving
2024-10-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
On Halloween day Come to the Arts Center for
games, yummy treats, and a pumpkin walk.
On Sunday, October 27 we’re carving pumpkins
at the Arts Center 3-5 pm. You can carve it here
or take it home. Please return it by Wednesday
October 30th 5pm for display.

Pumpkin Carving
2024-10-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark, ME, 04022, United States
On Halloween day Come to the Arts Center for
games, yummy treats, and a pumpkin walk.
On Sunday, October 27 we’re carving pumpkins
at the Arts Center 3-5pm. You can carve it here
or take it home. Please return it by Wednesday
October 30th, 5pm for display.
Presented by the D.A.C, Library and recipeforliteracy.org
