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Alfie and His Friends (Summer Reading Program)

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Alfie the African Grey Parrot invites you to join him and his friends to celebrate his belated 31st birthday. Meet Freya the four-foot snake, baby parakeets Simon, Theodore, and Alvin, baby hedgehogs, and baby guinea pigs. See how Hop the big rabbit has grown and visit with his friend, Dandelion, the tiny rabbit.

No registration is required. Refreshments will be served.

The Millinocket Memorial Library Summer Reading Program is made possible through the generous support of the Katahdin Federal Credit Union.

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William Geller (Maine Heritage: People & Place)

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Historian and author William Geller will be visiting the Millinocket Memorial Library to discuss his book, Within Katahdin’s Realm: Log Drives and Sporting Camps. Dr. Kreg Ettenger, Director of the Maine Folklife Center, will lead a conversation with Geller to discuss 151 years (1825-1976) of logging and sporting camps in the Katahdin Region.

This event will be recorded and archived as the first live audio interview in the Katahdin Story Booth Project. The Katahdin Story Booth Project is a community initiative to record and share the personal stories of the people that have lived, worked, and shaped the Katahdin Region we know today. Through sound recordings, the Katahdin Story Booth Project invites people to tell their stories to each other, helping preserve our past as we prepare for the future.

The event is open to the public and will kick off the library’s “Maine Heritage: People & Place” series. Other programs in this series include Acadian fiddler, Gus La Casse, on July 10th at 7pm and local author Tim Caverly presenting, “So You Think You Know Maine” on July 17th at 7pm.

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Gus LaCasse, Acadian Fiddler (Maine Heritage: People & Place)

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Acadian fiddler, Gus La Casse, will be performing a mix of standards and original material at the library. From his website:

“With both speed and savage energy, Gus La Casse’s repertoire reflects his innovative spirit and dedication to the Cape Breton and Acadian fiddle traditions, playing both standards of the genre and his original material.

“Based in Downeast Maine, Gus maintains an active performance schedule as a solo artist and with other musicians including guitarist Peter Lindquist.

“Gus’ music has also taken him beyond Maine. He was the 2014 student in residence at The Acadia School of Traditional Music, appearing on the Canadian international television broadcast from the Congrès Mondial Acadien 2014. He traveled to Ireland as part of the Young Tradition Vermont touring group in 2016, and has enjoyed playing the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, MA.”

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Jamie Sayen: Guest Author Series

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Jamie Sayen, author of You Had a Job for Life, will be here on Tuesday, June 26th at 7PM. He will be sharing his story of the Groveton Papers Mill in Groveton, NH from its beginning in 1891 and sudden closure in 2007. Drawing on the conversations with former mill employees, Sayen is able to paint a picture of the history of the mill and the community that it supported. This is a story that resonates with our local communities and the aftermath of the closure of our own mills. This is an event you won’t want to miss!

Jamie, who lives with his wife in Groveton, NH, has been a newspaper reporter and environmental activist. He has also written two books, Einstein in America [1985] and You Had a Job for Life [2017]. Copies of his book You Had a Job for Life will be available for purchase for $25 the evening of his presentation.

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So You Think You Know Maine? with Tim Caverly (Maine Heritage: People & Place)

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Local author Tim Caverly will present a program titled, “So You Think You Know Maine.”

According to Caverly’s website:

“Tim Caverly has spent his life in Maine’s outdoors. Growing up shadowing his father who was a fire warden with the Maine Forest Service and his brother, a ranger in Baxter State Park, it was natural for him to seek a career in the outdoors. Tim is originally from Skowhegan, Maine and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree and a teaching certificate from the University of Maine at Machias.”

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