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![Poetry Open Mic N...](javascript:xlightbox('<div class="qem "><div class="qem-icon"><div class="qem-calendar-medium" style="margin:0 7px 7px 0;"><span class="day" >05</span><span class="nonday" ><span class="month"><em>Jul</em></span><span class="year">2022</span></span></div></div><div class="qem-medium"><div class="qemright">
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<h2 class="qem_title"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/poetry-open-mic-night-july/">Poetry Open Mic Night</a></h2><p class="start" >From 6.00 pm until 7.00 pm</p><p>MC Catherine Weiss, local poet and artist, hosts SPL’s monthly Poetry Open Mic Night. Share a poem, lyric, (super) short story<span class="JsGRdQ">—read an original piece or share a favorite poem. Don’t have any material? We’ll have some on hand you can choose from. All voices welcome.</span></p>
<p>Come early<span class="JsGRdQ">—5:30pm—for sign ups, mic test and light snacks.</span></p><p class="readmore"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/poetry-open-mic-night-july/">Find out more...</a></p><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div>'); ){kind=link}
![Stu Kestenbaum: P...](javascript:xlightbox('<div class="qem "><div class="qem-icon"><div class="qem-calendar-medium" style="margin:0 7px 7px 0;"><span class="day" >06</span><span class="nonday" ><span class="month"><em>Jul</em></span><span class="year">2022</span></span></div></div><div class="qem-medium"><div class="qemright">
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<h2 class="qem_title"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/stu-kestenbaum-poems-from-here/">Stu Kestenbaum: Poems from Here</a></h2><p class="desc" >SPL Seaside Series: weekly open-air events in Small Cove Park every Wednesday in July and August</p><p class="start" >From 12.00 pm until 1.00 pm</p><p>Stuart Kestenbaum will read his own poems as well as a selection of poems by other Maine poets that were featured on Poems from Here, a weekly series he developed for Maine Public Radio. The show aired from 2016-2021, coinciding with Kestenbaum’s term as Maine’s 5th poet laureate.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stuart Kestenbaum is the author of six collections of poems, most recently </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Things Seem to Be Breaking </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Deerbrook Editions 2021), and a collection of essays </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The View from Here</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Brynmorgen Press). He was the host of the Maine Public Radio program </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Poems from Here</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and was the host/curator of the podcast </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make/Time. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">He was the director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts from 1988 until 2015. More recently, working with the Libra Foundation, he has designed and implemented a residency program for artists and writers called Monson Arts. Stuart Kestenbaum has written and spoken widely on craft making and creativity, and his poems and writing have appeared in numerous small press publications and magazines including Tikkun, the Sun, the Beloit Poetry Journal, the New York Times Magazine, and on the Writer’s Almanac and American Life in Poetry</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> He served as Maine’s poet laureate from 2016-2021. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser has written “Stuart Kestenbaum writes the kind of poems I love to read, heartfelt responses to the privilege of having been given a life. No hidden agendas here, no theories to espou—se, nothing but life, pure life, set down with craft and love.”</span></p>
<p>SPL’s Seaside Series is free and open to all. We encourage participants to bring their own seating—a camp chair or even just a blanket—plus enough sunscreen and bug spray to keep them happy. In case of rain, the event will be moved indoors to SPL.</p><p class="readmore"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/stu-kestenbaum-poems-from-here/">Find out more...</a></p><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div>'); ){kind=link}
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<h2 class="qem_title"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/kimberly-ridley-inciting-wonder/">Kimberly Ridley: Inciting Wonder</a></h2><p class="desc" >SPL Seaside Series: weekly open-air events in Small Cove Park every Wednesday in July and August</p><p class="start" >From 12.00 pm until 1.00 pm</p><p><b>An Invitation to Wonder: Program and Book Signing</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nature writer Kimberly Ridley will share wonders from her new book </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wild Design: Nature’s Architects, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and her award-winning books for children, to inspire people of all ages to see the world around us with new eyes. From bird’s nests and seashells to underground networks that shape the grand design of forests, Ridley will discuss stunning forms created by animals, plants, and other organisms — and what we can learn from them. Discover how to transform a walk through the forest, along the shore, or even down the street into an adventure of discovery. A book signing will follow. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maine native Kimberly Ridley is a science writer, essayist, and author of nature books for adults and children including the award-winning </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Secret Pool, The Secret Bay</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Extreme Survivors: Animals That Time Forgot</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Secret Stream</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, her newest book, will be published by Tilbury House Publishers in October. Kimberly lives in Brooklin, Maine, with the painter Tom Curry and their cat Andy, who is named after E.B. White.</span></p>
<p>SPL’s Seaside Series is free and open to all. We encourage participants to bring their own seating—a camp chair or even just a blanket—plus enough sunscreen and bug spray to keep them happy. The rain date for Inciting Wonder is Thursday, July 14 from 12-1pm in Small Cove Park. </p><p class="readmore"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/kimberly-ridley-inciting-wonder/">Find out more...</a></p><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div>'); ){kind=link}
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<h2 class="qem_title"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/jim-sullivan-unsinkable/">Jim Sullivan: Unsinkable</a></h2><p class="desc" >SPL Seaside Series: weekly open-air events in Small Cove Park every Wednesday in July and August</p><p class="start" >From 12.00 pm until 1.00 pm</p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">James Sullivan grew up listening to his great uncle, Frank Gallagher, tell the story of visiting his brother John on the USS </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plunkett </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">before he was lost in the Second World War, but, like many of his generation, Gallagher gave few details about what life was really like as a young soldier. Haunted by the untold sides of this family story, Sullivan set out to investigate for himself what happened to his lost great uncle, and countless men like him. The result, compiled from war diaries, action reports, letters, memoirs, and dozens of interviews, is <em>Unsinkable</em></span><em>: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett</em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. A thrilling and vividly rendered account of the Navy destroyer that endured the most harrowing attack of WWII, and the men who served and made their home on the ship, this illuminating history transcends appreciation of a single battle to tell the timeless story of young men stepping up to the defining experience of their lives. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i>Unsinkable </i>traces the individual journeys of five men who served on the USS </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Plunkett</em> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">during World War II: Jim Feltz, a water tender third class still living today outside St. Louis, MO; Ken Brown, lieutenant and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">gunnery officer whose entrance into the Naval Academy was aided by politicians in his hometown of Chicago; Ed Burke, commander, captain of the </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plunkett</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who would receive the Navy Cross for his actions in the battle at Anzio; John Simpson, the first lieutenant who led the ship’s damage control parties; and of course, John Gallagher, a Boston native who would never return from war but whose story would inspire his great nephew years later to investigate what life was really like on the </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plunkett</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, both in and out of battle. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we follow the ship through its five most notable battles – in Casablanca, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio – where it was nearly destroyed in the most prolonged, savage attack on a destroyer committed by German forces during the war – and finally, to its reappearance at Omaha Beach on D-Day, we see these everyday men forced by circumstance into acts of bravery and heroism, even as they try to hold onto who they were before they embarked on the shipped. The </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Plunkett</em> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and its crew played an integral and dramatic role in the European theater of WWII, and <i>Unsinkable </i></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">seeks to honor that legacy, and is a vital addition to the canon of wartime literature. </span></p>
<p>James Sullivan <span style="font-weight: 400;">was born and raised in Quincy, Massachusetts and has an MFA </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has written for the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Geographic Traveler</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the magazine. He lives with his family outside </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Portland, Maine, 3.4 miles from the birthplace of film director John Ford, who </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">steamed into Omaha Beach on the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plunkett</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p>SPL’s Seaside Series is free and open to all. We encourage participants to bring their own seating—a camp chair or even just a blanket—plus enough sunscreen and bug spray to keep them happy. In case of rain, the event will be moved indoors to SPL.</p><p class="readmore"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/jim-sullivan-unsinkable/">Find out more...</a></p><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div>'); ){kind=link}
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<h2 class="qem_title"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/the-garden-project-story-time-july/">SPL Story Time at The Garden Project</a></h2><p class="desc" >Garden and food themed story time at The Garden Project</p><p class="start" >From 12.00 pm until 1.00 pm</p><div class="gmail_default">Chris will read garden and food themed picture books at The Garden Project on June 27, July 25 and August 22 from 12-1pm. Bring a blanket and a picnic, and enjoy a beautiful garden, a delicious lunch and mouthwatering books about good food.</div>
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<h2 class="qem_title"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/bipoc-women-tanya-talaga/">BIPOC Women: Tanya Talaga</a></h2><p class="desc" >Book club discussion of Talaga’s history of racism toward Indigenous peoples in Canada</p><p class="start" >From 6.30 pm until 7.30 pm</p><p>SPL book club meets on the fourth Monday of every month. 2022 is a yearlong exploration of recently published books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) women. Titles alternate between fiction and nonfiction. To join our Zoom discussions, register below.<br /><br /><em>Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City </em>by Tanya Talaga<br /><br />In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied.<br /><br />More than a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave home and live in a foreign and unwelcoming city. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Jordan Wabasse, a gentle boy and star hockey player, disappeared into the minus twenty degrees Celsius night. The body of celebrated artist Norval Morrisseau’s grandson, Kyle, was pulled from a river, as was Curran Strang’s. Robyn Harper died in her boarding-house hallway and Paul Panacheese inexplicably collapsed on his kitchen floor. Reggie Bushie’s death finally prompted an inquest, seven years after the discovery of Jethro Anderson, the first boy whose body was found in the water.<br /><br />Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning investigative journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this small northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.</p><p class="readmore"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/bipoc-women-tanya-talaga/">Register for this event</a></p><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div>'); ){kind=link}
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<h2 class="qem_title"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/leslie-landrigan-stonington-history/">Leslie Landrigan: Stonington’s Not-So-Hidden History</a></h2><p class="desc" >SPL Seaside Series: weekly open-air events in Small Cove Park every Wednesday in July and August</p><p class="start" >From 12.00 pm until 1.00 pm</p><p>The walkways, wharves and island-studded harbor of Stonington overflow with stories. Tales of Indian fighters, adventures at sea and the rough-and-tumble boom years of the granite quarries. You’ll learn about the famous visitors drawn to the island’s quirky charm. We’ll even share the secret about why Stonington lobsters are so tasty.</p>
<p>Leslie Landrigan worked as a news reporter for many years in Washington, D.C., Boston and New Hampshire. She and her husband Dan moved to Stonington in 2015, and together they have written two books, <em>Bar Harbor Babylon</em> and <em>New England’s Hidden Past</em>. They also manage The New England Historical Society website, which they founded. Leslie also works as a reporter for Penobscot Bay Press and spends as much time as she can at her easel.</p>
<p>SPL’s Seaside Series is free and open to all. We encourage participants to bring their own seating—a camp chair or even just a blanket—plus enough sunscreen and bug spray to keep them happy. In case of rain, the event will be moved indoors to SPL.</p><p class="readmore"><a href="https://www.stoningtonlibrary.org/event/leslie-landrigan-stonington-history/">Find out more...</a></p><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div>'); ){kind=link}