@Blue Hill Library

Tuesday, June 10, 2014-- In this issue:

•  Events This Week...  
•  Book Talk: Maine Beyond the Usual 
•  Film: The Show That Shook the World 
•  Have a Blast at Your Library 
•  Play Reading: A Midsummer Night's Dream 
•  More From Design By Hand 

• The Friends of the Library Film Series continues THIS THURSDAY, June 12 at 7:00 PM with Remember the Night (1940), directed by Mitchell Liesen and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. The film is a romantic comedy/drama about a woman arrested for shoplifting that is ultimately proposed to by the attorney who is supposed to prosecute her.  

One of the sites covered in the book, a statue of a Passamaquoddy woman at the  St. Croix Island National Historic Site

Longtime Orono residents Marisue and John Pickering will share photographs and short essays from their new book, Maine Beyond the Usual: A Travel Guide, at the Library on Thursday, June 19 at 7:00 PM. Published in 2013 by Maine Authors Publishing in Rockland, Maine - Beyond the Usual takes travelers to 50 "beyond the usual" Maine sites, each presented through John's photographs and Marisue's short essays.


The Pickerings both have decades of experiences as educators and a shared interest in exploring Maine's historical and cultural heritage as well as its natural world. John has taught at both elementary and university levels, including the University of Maine's College of Education and Human Development.  Marisue is a University of Maine Professor Emerita. John's photographs have appeared in International Travel News, institutional newsletters, and other media. Marisue's travel essays have appeared in Echoes, The Maine Scholar, Northern New England Review, Route 66 Magazine, Episcopal Life, and International Travel News.

One of the places featured in the book, the Orono Bog Boardwalk is currently closed for repairs and will open up again in July.

Books will be available for sale and signing. This event is sponsored by the Library. There is no charge, and everyone is welcome. For more information, call the Library at 374-5515.

Filmmaker Richard Miller will present and talk about his new film, The Show That Shook the World: Marcel Duchamp and the 1913 Armory Show, at the Library at 7:00 PM on Friday June 20. Reportedly, "one of the most influential events in the history of modern art," occurred on February 17, 1913 at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue in New York. A huge exhibition of modern art, featuring a large selection of "unknown" European artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Gauguin, drew 80,000 viewers.

The show created a big stir and drew much negative criticism, including the now iconic painting, Nude Descending a Staircase, by Marcel Duchamp who did a presentation about the 1913 show at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, NY, 50 years later. Filmmaker Richard Miller was on the staff at the Institute and filmed Duchamp's presentation in 1963, now the centerpiece of his new film. In it Duchamp discusses a number of the works that were on display in the Armory show.
This event is sponsored by the Library. There is no charge, and everyone is welcome. For more information, call the Library at 374-5515.

Non-readers and readers ages 4 through 11 are invited to the kick-off party for the Library's summer reading program on Saturday June 21 from 10:30 to 11:30 AM. The party will be hosted by a mad scientist who will do some exciting science experiments (we hope without blowing up the Library) and create some sparks with fun games to play.  Terrific scientific refreshments will be served.

Our in-house mad scientist will be visiting local classrooms to publicize the great summer reading program events we'll be having

Kids can sign up for the summer reading program at the party and power up with books. This year's theme is "Fizz, Boom, Read!"-which means all things science. Every week there will be a Sensational Saturday Science event when kids can electrify their minds with hands-on science explorations. Kids in the program can read books about science or any subject and will keep track of how many books they read throughout the 8 week program.  They will receive incentives to celebrate their reading accomplishments.

Kids can also sign up for the program after the party, by stopping by the library's investigation station.  For more information, call the Library at 374-5515.  The program is free of charge thanks to the Friends of The Library.

The public is invited to participate in the Library's Play Reading Group on Wednesday, June 18 from 6:30 to 9:00 PM at the Library-the last play reading until fall. This month the group will read William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing. William Blake. c.1786

This play involves three interrelated plots having to do with the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, and the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, controlled and manipulated by the fairies that inhabit the nearby forest. This play is one of Shakespeare's most popular and is widely performed.

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).  

This month in the Britton Gallery and Roland Howard Room, the library is featuring featuring "analog draftsmanship" from a variety of local architects.  There are many works on exhibit In addition to the samples below, as well as a selection of draftsman tools. Our appreciation goes to Brooksville architect, Eric Chase, for organizing the show.

A number of images by Bruce Stahnke of Stahnke & Kittagawa Architects.

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