The August art show Life Line of Color by Dottie Hayes is up! Join us for the opening and her 90th birthday (!) tomorrow-- see below.

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Monday, August 4, 2014-- In this issue:

•  Events this week... 
•  Art Show Reception and 90th Birthday Party!
•  Weekly Book Sales Continue Through August 23
•  Author Event: Nina Munk
•  More From Master Sculptor: Edward J. Fraughton

Join us TOMORROW, Tuesday August 5 from 4:00 to 6:30 PM for the opening reception for Dottie Hayes' art show, Life Line of Color, AND her 90th birthday!  We couldn't be more pleased that she will spend a portion of this landmark day with us at the Library.  Please stop by and wish her a happy birthday and see her beautiful art show of recent work in watercolors and high fire enamel on copper.

Friends of the Library book sales will continue weekly through August 23.  The sales will be open from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM each Saturday in the Library's basement "Book Nook." Starting in September the sales will go back to the first Saturday of the month. As usual, there is a wide variety of good quality used books for children and adults, and most books are still only a dollar or two!
 

Volunteers have been getting ready for Saturday's sale-- these are just some of the books that will be available!

No one has to wait until Saturday though; there is an ongoing fifty cent paperback sale on the Library's second floor, accessible anytime the Library is open.

Book sale proceeds enable the Friends to sponsor many of the special programs offered at the library, for both children and adults, and to make special purchases of books, dvds, etc., and equipment for the library.  Donations of books and DVDs both for adults and children are always welcome.  Guidelines for donated books are available at www.bluehill.lib.me.us/book_donations.html. For more information contact the Library at 374-5515.

Local author Nina Munk, a summer resident on the Blue Hill peninsula, will read from and talk about her new book, The Idealist : Jeffrey Sachs And The Quest To End Poverty, at the Library on Thursday August 14 at 7:00 PM. Widely praised by reviewers as incisive and deeply reported, The Idealist chronicles the initial success and eventual disappointment of the Millennium Villages Project, a daring experiment designed to validate the economist Jeffrey Sachs's formula for ending extreme poverty in rural Africa.

Nina in Koraro, Ethiopia. © N. Munk

Munk, a prize-winning journalist and Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, spent six years reporting from Africa, accompanying Sachs on his official trips, meeting with heads-of-state, humanitarian organizations, and development experts, and immersing herself in the lives of people in two remote villages in Kenya and Uganda. The more time she spent in Africa, the more questions she had: Can people be lifted out of poverty, or do they have to lift themselves? Does foreign aid spur or inhibit good governance? How does sustained economic development take root in villages where there are no roads or power or running water, and where most people are illiterate and unlikely to live past the age of 55? In The Idealist, Munk seeks to answer these important questions. The result is a profound and moving story of what happens when the abstract theories of a brilliant, driven man meet the realities of human life.

Born in Canada, Nina Munk lives in New York City and Penobscot with her husband, Peter Soriano, and their three children. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Fortune. Among other literary prizes, she has been honored with three Business Journalist of the Year Awards and three Front Page Awards, and shortlisted for the Gerald Loeb Award, the Governor General's Award, the Lionel Gelber Prize, and the National Business Book Award.

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.  

The Library is very pleased to host this special exhibit, Master Sculptor: Edward J. Fraughton, featuring mainly western-themed sculptures for which he is well-known. The exhibit is made possible through the generosity of Robert Baird and the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art in Utah.

...Now He Belongs to the Ages.

Monarch of the Plains

Clearing the Haulway

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