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"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
US, TOO, Anne Shirley! The colors are dazzling, the air is sweet. We're resurrecting our best soup recipes and breaking out our coziest socks.
This month it is our distinct honor to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo. It will be the second event in the Dan Bancroft Memorial Lecture Series, named for our beloved Board President who passed away last year. Mr. Russo was Dan's favorite writer - and Dan would be overjoyed to welcome this prestigious guest to YPL. We hope you can join us.
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October is Membership Month at the Library! DID YOU KNOW York Public Library is owned by a nonprofit organization, the York Public Library Association, and support from Association Members helps us continue to offer the many resources, programs, and materials that you enjoy each year? If you can, please consider supporting The York Public Library Association.
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Thu. 10/3
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Small Town, Big Oil: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World – and Won Thursday, October 3 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Community Meeting Room
Author David Moore and former N.H. State Representative Dudley Dudley will share the fascinating story of how three women led the fight to save Durham, N.H. and the Seacoast from environmental devastation. This story has been told in David Moore's book, "Small Town, Big Oil." Dudley Dudley was one of three female activists involved in this fight for the Seacoast.
Program partners, York Ready for Climate Action and The York Land Trust will also share information on their current environmental and climate advocacy efforts.
After the program, The Booktenders of York Maine will be in attendance to sell books and David Moore and Dudley Dudley will stay to sign books.
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Tue. 10/8 |
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Candidate Forum | Tuesday, October 8 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Hybrid Event: Community Meeting Room and Via Zoom
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The event will offer an opportunity to hear candidates’ views on social and racial justice issues, education policy, housing, and more. All candidates running for office in York County are
invited to participate. The Candidates Forum will be moderated by Jeff Barry, a veteran teacher of Social Sciences at York High School, and he will be joined by York County High School students.
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This program is co-hosted by the Maine Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Committee and Southern Maine for Racial Justice. In order to receive the Zoom link for this program, you must register in advance.
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Wed. 10/9 |
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Youth Democracy Panel:
Teens on Politics and Activism with students from York High School and Scarborough High School
Wednesday, October 9 6:00 - 7:30 PM A Virtual Event |
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This discussion is an opportunity for students to share the issues that matter to them during this presidential election year. What do future voters feel is important, and why do they feel like political engagement is so important for people of all ages? Presented in collaboration with The Camden Conference, Maine Students Vote, and Scarborough Public Library. This program is for all ages.
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Sat. 10/5
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Wisdom of Poetry Saturday, October 5 10:00 - 11:30 AM Wheeler Room
Cheryl Perreault offers an opportunity each month to come together with others interested in exploring how poems can provide wisdom for daily life. All are welcome to bring a poem to share that they believe offers wisdom through life observations, story, humor or otherwise. No previous background in reading or writing poetry is necessary.
Alternatively, you can also come to listen and learn and meet others. Bring your morning coffee or tea! Tasty treats will be provided.
Cheryl Perrault is a resident of York, Maine who has a background in psychology and education. She has hosted programs of poetry, storytelling and song for communities including 15 years as producer at HCAM-TV for Wake Up & Smell the Poetry. She is also co-editor of two anthologies of community poetry.
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Tue. 10/15 |
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Tuesday, October 15 6:30 - 8:00 PM Community Meeting Room
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The Center for Wildlife will provide an informative talk about bats - learning about what they provide for us, how they live and what they look like up close! Have you ever seen one flying in circles at dusk? How do they talk to each other and what do they use to hunt? What are the common misconceptions that bats face from the public? What unique adaptations do they have to help them survive? Answers to these and more will be discussed when you come meet and say hello to the Center for Wildlife bat friends!
The Fall 2024 Wildlife Series is cosponsored with the Center for Wildlife. Join us again on November 12 (Owls) and December 10 (Birds of Prey).
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Thurs. 10/17
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Teri Anderholm Thursday, October 17 6:30 - 8:00 PM Community Meeting Room
Inn Mates: An Innkeeper’s Memoir is about Teri and her husband Jeffrey Anderholm, who ditched their corporate lives in Boston and bought a once grand dilapidated inn destined for the wrecking ball in Bar Harbor, Maine. Creative chaos ensued before it was transformed into one of the top inns in New England. The inn was a passion, sometimes a prison while offering 5-star hospitality to a parade of guests who taught them lessons of gratitude, humility, love and laughter in the midst of life’s hurricanes.
Copies of Inn Mates ~ An Innkeeper’s Memoir will be available for purchase, and Teri will be on hand to sign her books after her presentation.
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Thurs. 10/24 |
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Thursday, October 24 12:00 - 1:00 PM Community Meeting Room
Serving Our Seniors - A Lunch and Learn Series
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If You Lost Your Thrill… How Do You Get It Back?
This presentation is based on a scripted TED talk of the same title by Shawn Shambo. Join us and learn the secrets to Living Ageless!
Shambo is an Occupational Therapist who has focused on maximizing senior’s functional abilities to assist in finding new ways of discovering their ultimate thrill, no matter the age. Shawn will highlight examples of seniors, mostly over 80, achieving incredible goals from which he creates short documentaries
Shambo will host a six episode docuseries to be sold to streaming companies such as Netflix, and Hulu. You will be the first to see the trailer for his show entitled Ageless: For Mature Audiences.
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Thurs. 10/24
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The Importance of a Free Press and Political Engagement Thursday, October 24
6:00 - 7:00 PM Virtual
Join Georges Budagu Makoko via Zoom as he addresses the importance of a free press, especially to people from countries without a free press. He will also talk about the origins of his newspaper, Amjambo Africa, and the importance of being aware of and involved in politics, even if one is ineligible to vote. For those new to the United States, he will emphasize the importance of an engaged citizenry and why all of our votes matter-- a detail that is missing in far too many places.
This talk is in association with the Camden Conference and partnering MECollab libraries: Baxter Memorial Library, Falmouth Memorial Library, Prince Memorial Library, Scarborough Public Library, South Portland Public Library, Thomas Memorial Library, and York Public Library.
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Wed. 10/30 |
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Wednesday, October 30 11:00 - 12:00 PM Wheeler Room
Join fellow readers to discuss and review forthcoming or recently published books. This is an informal and fun gathering where you will leave with many new book recommendations. Publisher advance reader copies will be available to participants. Light refreshments will be served.
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WHY I WRITE: An Evening with Richard Russo
Saturday, October 26 4:00 - 6:00 PM Upper Level |
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The Dan Bancroft Memorial Lecture Series continues in its second year with "Why I Write" - a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo. Richard Russo is the author of nine novels, most recently Chances Are..., Everybody’s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel Straight Man was adapted into the television series Lucky Hank. In 2017, he received France’s Grand Prix de LittĂ©rature AmĂ©ricaine. He lives in PortÂland, Maine.
Registration for this event opens Monday, October 7 at Noon. |
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THIS PROGRAM is funded by The Dan Bancroft Memorial Endowment for Civic Leadership and Engagement at York Public Library. The endowment was established in memory of Dan Bancroft, who served as president of the YPLA Board of Trustees from 2021 to 2023. Through his engagement in the York community as a dedicated volunteer and outstanding leader, as well as his gift for connecting with people, Dan left an enduring impact on our town. With this fund, the Library has chosen to honor Dan as a remarkable exemplar of the power of a single person to make a real difference in the community. Contribute to the fund here.
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Haunted New England Stories for Halloween |
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Thursday, October 31
5:30 - 6:30 PM Community Meeting Room
This is a one-hour slide presentation that utilizes present-day photographs of all the sites as well as historical period photographs. The presentation melds historical fact together with legend and myth to produce an interesting and fascinating new look at events that really happened and the stories of hauntings that followed them.
The topics addressed in the lecture will be Mercy Brown, the Vampire of Exeter Rhode Island, the cursed Freetown State Forest in Massachusetts, the horrors of the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River Massachusetts, a haunted forest in the wilds of Connecticut, the ghostly happenings at the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire, and evidence of ghosts at the John Alden House in Duxbury Massachusetts. |
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Liberating Latin American Genre Fiction: New York Times Bestselling Author of Mexican Gothic and Gods of Jade and Shadow
Wednesday, October 9 at 7:00 PM |
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Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: Examining the Truths and Fictions we Tell Ourselves
Tuesday October 22 at 2:00 PM |
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Ongoing Programs & Events |
Italian Conversation Group: Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 6:30 PM, Wheeler Room
Crafting Group: Thursdays, Oct. 3, 17 at 10:00 AM, Wheeler Room
Week in Review: Fridays, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25 at 3:00 PM, Wheeler Room
Wake Up to the Wisdom of Poetry: Saturday Oct. 5 at 10:00 AM, Wheeler Room
Alzheimer's Support Group: Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 2:00 PM, Wheeler Room
Walking Club: Mondays, Oct. 7, 21, 28 at 11:00 AM Meet in Lobby
Writing Group: Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 5:30 PM, Wheeler Room
Morning Yoga: Wednesdays, Oct. 9, 23, 30 at 10:15 AM, Community Room (Reservations are required)
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Annual Costume Closet |
THROUGH OCTOBER We're hosting our annual Costume Closet! Bring in your gently used, clean costumes and costume accessories. Select a new-to-you costume whether you donated or not. Through October 31.
Please make sure donated costumes are CLEAN and in a gently used, like new condition. We will accept all sizes babies - adults! |
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Tue. 10/8
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Firefighter Storytime | Tuesday, October 8 10:30 AM
Children's Room
We’re learning fire safety tips for Fire Prevention month! Meet a York firefighter, ask your questions, and enjoy a special storytime. This drop-in program is open to all ages. |
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York Land Trust Nature Storytime | Thursday, October 10 10:30 AM
York Land Trust
Join Barb at York Land Trust for stories, songs and an activity. This month: Nature's Plants. We're also putting the garlic to bed for a long winter sleep! Please register.
This is an OFF-SITE program. Plan ahead! Bring a picnic lunch and your boots. Enjoy a walk after the program. We'll meet at York Land Trust headquarters located at 1 Long Neck Marsh Road in York.
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Sat. 10/12
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Canine Cuddles | Saturday, October 12 10:30 AM
Children's Room
Cuddle with Millie, our certified reader pup, and her person Katie. There will be time to read with Millie. She's a very good listener! We’ll also have some other calming activities in our cozy sunroom corner. This is a drop-in program and open to all ages.
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Saturday Family S'moreytime | Saturday, October 26 10:30 AM
Children's Room
Join us for a Saturday family storytime. We’ll hear not-so-spooky campfire stories and make a tasty s’more trail mix treat! This program is free and open to all. This is a drop-in program! |
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Wed. 10/23
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Wednesday, October 23 3:00 PM Preteen Corner
Piece together a zombie doll of your very own. Make some-body to read a book with or to share with a friend. This program is for 5th and 6th grade. Please register.
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Mon. 10/28 |
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Nintendo Switch | Monday, October 28 3:00 PM
Preteen Corner Play Mario sports games on the Library Switch with your friends in the preteen space. This drop-in program is for 5th and 6th grade. |
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Thu. 10/10
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3:30 PM Teen Space
Visit the YPL Teen Hangout Apothecary for your spooky potionry needs! Create swirling, sparkling concoctions. This drop-in program is for 7th -12th grade. Supplies are limited. |
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Wed. 10/16 |
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4:00 PM Teen Space
Stop by the Teen Space and make some BOO-tiful upcycled art. Show off your fa-BOO-lous skills. Maybe read a BOO-ok when you’re done. This drop-in program is for 7th to 12th grade. |
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Wed. 10/23
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Wednesday, October 23 5:00 PM Teen Space
Make an unbe-leaf-able creepy potted pal for your room using some dill-lightfully disturbing decorations. This drop-in program is for 7th-12th grade. Supplies are limited.
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Teens!
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LIBRARY HOURS:
Monday - Thursday 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Sunday Closed
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