In: Community, Events, Music, News, Outdoors

We’re looking forward to two upcoming events featuring live music at the library!

Join us on Thursday, August 8 at 6:00 pm for a performance by the Harold J. Crosby Community Band of Dexter. Bring your blankets, beach towels, or lawn chairs for this family-friendly outdoor concert!

Then mark your calendars for Thursday, September 19 at 6:00 pm for Susan Ramsey (violinist), Ruth Fogg (cellist) and Isleen Halvorsen (harpist). The trio will perform a variety of music, including Celtic, contemporary, and classical.

Both concerts are free and open to the public.

In: Community, Resources, Technology

The National Digital Equity Center will offer free digital literacy classes at the Thompson Free Library every Wednesday in August from 10-11:30 am. Sign up to participate at: http://digitalequitycenter.org/events-classes/.

  • Aug. 7: Connecting through Basic Technology. In this introduction to computers and devices, learn about desktops, laptops, tablets, Kindles, and smartphones.
  • Aug. 14: Protecting your Digital Presence. Learn how to protect your online presence, and how to identify fraud and scams.
  • Aug. 21: Using Technology for Better Health. Find out more about software apps and devices, such as FitBits, that can help you to monitor your health.
  • Aug. 28: Getting What you Need Online. Learn how to stay connected and engaged through social media.

In: Community, Events

Getting away to get away from it all? Lost in the woods, skinny dipping, or at a sleepaway camp from hell? Unplugging in your home away from home?

School’s out, so rough it with us for an evening of stories on the theme of UPTA CAMP.

Prepare a 4-8 minute story about a vacation, Vacationland, a steamy summer vacationship, or what happens when the days are hot and long. Pitch a tent, pull up a lawn chair, grab some s’mores and sunscreen for stories on summer lovin’, outdoor adventures, and stories best told around a campfire–or on stage at The Commons at Central Hall!

Donations from this event benefit the Piscataquis Regional Food Center. A cash bar will be available courtesy of The Spaulding Room.

Please contact the the library if you’d like to share a story! Here are the rules:

  • Come prepared to tell your story on stage, unscripted without notes. A personal, true story, that happened to you where you are the central character. Though we love fiction, we’re interested in the truth. Your truth. Spill all of the details.
  • Stories must be within a 4 to 8 minute time frame.
  • Tell ONE story with a beginning, middle, and end containing a series of events that grow to a climax. Though we love stand up comedy, this is not a stand up set.
  • We’re only interested in the thoughts, feelings, and emotions you experienced through this ONE story from your life that you’ve prepared.
  • Practice, practice, practice!

For more information about the Voices from Home Oral History project visit: www.thompson.lib.me.us/voices-from-home/

In: Children, Community, Events, Outdoors

Parents, teachers, and students are invited to attend two Middle School Summer Get Togethers–on Thursday, July 11 at SeDoMoCha and Thursday, August 8 at the Thompson Free Library.

Come between 5 and 7 pm to enjoy paint and sip, lawn games, frisbee and yard yahtzee–and to snack on hot dogs, popsicles, lemonade and popcorn! Ms. Michelle will be on hand with a variety of books to check out, and on August 8, the HJ Crosby Community Band of Dexter will play starting at 6 pm.

Hope to see you there!

In: Children, Community, Events, Outdoors

Pollinators are vital to food production all over the world. In Maine, examples of well-known pollinators include butterflies, birds, beetles and of course, bees. In June, the Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District worked with local volunteers to plant our Pollinator Sunflower Garden, a garden space for the public to enjoy, observe and learn about native pollinators. In celebration of this new addition to the Law Farm, the PCSWCD will be holding a free Pollinators! event on Friday, August 16th from 10 am – 12 pm at the Law Farm.

The PCSWCD is hosting Maine State Apiarist Jennifer Lund and Miss Michelle from Thompson Free Library for a morning of fun and learning for this event. Jennifer Lund will share fun facts and information with participants about native pollinators and Miss Michelle will hold a pollinator-themed story time in the center of the garden. Afterwards, participants can join our guests and PCSWCD staff for a “Pollinator Search & Find” at the Law Farm!

We hope you will join us for the Pollinators! event. RSVP is required to attend and appreciated. For more information about the Law Farm, or any program or event offered by the Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District, please contact us at 207-564-2321 ext. 3, info@piscataquisswcd.org, www.piscataquisswcd.org.