Creative Kids Art Time begins on Wednesday, November 7!
This new after-school program will meet the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month from 3:30-4:30 pm. The library will provide materials for creative art exploration, for children ages two and up.
Wesley McNair, Maine’s former poet laureate, will return to the Thompson Free Library on Thursday, November 29 at 5:30 pm to read from his latest volume of poems, “The Unfastening.” His presentation will also offer insights into the creative process used in the writing of the book.
“In a dark time, unfastened by loss and despair, how does one find one’s way back to the world again?” asks McNair. “This book seeks to answer this question through poems of sorrow, and hope, and joy. My presentation will explain the complex, unexpected process through which the book reached its final form, weaving selected poems into the discussion.”
McNair, who lives in Mercer, is one of New England’s most celebrated contemporary poets. The author of nine volumes of poems, he has been selected for a United States Artists Fellowship as one of America’s “finest living artists.”
During his long writing career, McNair has won grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations, two Rockefeller Fellowships, two grants in creative writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Emmy Award. He has twice been invited to read his poetry by the Library of Congress, and has served five times on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. In 2015, McNair was named as the recipient of the PEN New England Award for Literary Excellence in Poetry.
Attention book lovers and deal seekers! The next Friends of the Thompson Free Library Ten Cent Book Sale is coming up November 8-10. The sale will be held in the library’s downstairs meeting room and proceeds will benefit children’s programs. Included in the sale are weeded and donated paperbacks and hardcovers, cookbooks, romances and fantasy, mysteries, young adult and children’s books, audio-books and puzzles. Everything is just ten cents!
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Learn about the many ways you can help your community as an American Red Cross volunteer.
Drop by the Thompson Free Library on Tuesday, Oct. 16, any time between 4-6 pm. Red Crossers from the Northern and Eastern Maine Chapter of the American Red Cross are looking forward to meeting you!
Red Cross volunteers make a significant impact on the community. In the past fiscal year, they’ve responded to 92 disasters in the Northern and Eastern Maine Chapter, assisted 288 individuals affected by home fires and other disasters and assisted 96 service members, veterans or their families.
Volunteers make up 90 percent of the American Red Cross workforce. By mobilizing the power of volunteers, the Red Cross responds to a disaster every eight minutes, providing shelter, food, emotional support and other necessities to affected individuals and helping them begin their road to recovery.
The Red Cross also provides 24-hour support to members of the military, veterans and their families at home and around the world, collects 40 percent of the nation’s blood, trains people in first aid, water safety and other lifesaving skills and makes communities safer through disaster preparedness measures.
Consider joining the Red Cross today. To learn more about volunteering with the Red Cross, call 941-2903 x 115.