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     Unless otherwise noted these events are free and open to everyone. Many of these free events are made possible by generous funding from the  Friends of the Blue Hill Library. If you like what you see, thank a Friend. Or better yet, become one! There are many ways you can help support the Library.

• The Friends of the Library Film Series continues THIS THURSDAY, December 12 at 7:00 PM with a showing of the musical film Grease (1978), starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta.   

Lisette Oropesa as Nannetta, Angela Meade as Alice, Stephanie Blythe as Mrs. Quickly, and Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg Page in Verdi's "Falstaff." Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

• Join the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and Friends of Blue Hill Library THIS FRIDAY! December 13 at 1:00 PM for a preview of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff, which is coming to the Grand in Ellsworth this Saturday by live simulcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.  Everyone is welcome and no previous opera knowledge or experience is necessary.  

    The public is invited to participate in the Play Reading Group on Wednesday, December 18 from 6:30 to 9:00 PM at the Library, and every 3rd Wednesday of the month until next summer. The play selected for this month is Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound.

 

     A one-act play, The Real Inspector Hound is a parody of Agatha Christie-style murder mystery productions. It features two theater critics who are watching a play and get involved in the action, causing a series of events that parallel the action in the play.

 

     The group welcomes inexperienced and experienced readers alike. The only criteria are the love of plays and the joy of reading them aloud among like-minded theater fans. For further information, contact the Blue Hill Library at 374-5515 or Michael Donahue at 374-5248 (or Donahue.mg@gmail.com).

     Sedgwick native Levi Bridges will give a talk at the Library on Thursday, December 19 at 7:00 PM about his recent work documenting the life histories of Mexican migrant workers. Bridges, a 2001 graduate of George Stevens Academy, received a Fulbright research grant in Creative Writing last fall to begin work on a book about the experiences of migrant workers who come to the U.S. each year to find employment in agriculture and other low-skilled jobs. 

    After completing a year of research on Mexican communities that send high numbers of workers to labor in the apple, citrus, and traveling carnival industries in the U.S., Bridges decided to "embed" himself in the lives of migrant workers. This fall, Bridges completed the first part of his research in the U.S. by working on an apple farm in western New York on a crew of Mexican and Honduran migrants.

 

     Bridges first became interested in the subject of migration between the U.S. and Mexico while studying abroad in Mexico City as an undergraduate student. There he met many Mexican nationals who were deported from the U.S., leaving children and spouses behind, and was moved by their stories. Bridges says that U.S. media mainly focuses on the story of undocumented migrants trying to enter America by walking through the desert in Arizona, but he wants to tell the story of what happens to migrants before and after they are in the U.S.

 

Levi Bridges, pictured with the children of a Mexican family who Bridges interviewed and stayed with during his fieldwork in Mexico.

        While completing the fieldwork for his book, Bridges has sought to tell the more seldom-told stories of Mexican migrants, focusing on workers who have returned to Mexico instead of staying permanently in the U.S., and migrants who have tried to enter the U.S. legally on short-term labor contracts.

 

        The process of researching and writing his book will take Bridges over two years. For more information call the Library at 374-5515.

 

      The public is invited to the Library's annual Holiday Party on Saturday, December 21, from 2:30 to 5pm. The entertainment will include Noel Paul Stookey singing songs of the season, the traditional reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, music by the George Stevens Academy varsity combo "7UP," carols with Holly Weinberg, and plenty of refreshments. Children's entertainment will include magician Alan Drew and, back by popular demand, the zany antics of juggler Zachary Field.

Donated gifts for children can be left under the Library's tree, which has been beautifully decorated by volunteer Elvira Bass.

       Partygoers are asked to consider bringing a wrapped gift for a child, labeled with age and gender appropriateness. Gifts can be dropped off at the Library anytime from now through the day of the party. The gifts will be donated to the Tree of Life and The Emmaus Center where they will be distributed to families in need.

     The party is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.  For more information call the Library at 374 5515.

     The Brooklin Pottery Co-op show will be in the Howard Room cases for the month of December, a great time for our patrons to do a bit of holiday shopping. Stop by and take a look at the many reasonably priced items by the five members of the Brooklin Pottery Co-op, Mercuria Cumbo, Bunny Gorski, Cathy Rees, Elsie Sealander and Jane Story.
 



 

Don't hesitate to call us for more information at 207-374-5515.