Sing and sway along with new and familiar nursery rhymes and songs. This storytime is for little ones and music lovers, with lots of songs and one short story at the end. New every Thursday! Just go to our YouTube Channel or Facebook page.
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Daniel Bookham
The Camden Conference and Rockland Public Library will present Dan Bookham in a Zoom presentation on Thursday, October 1, at 6:30 p.m. on his “Adventures in Ammassalik.”
In early June 2019, Dan Bookham received a cryptic message from an Icelandic friend asking him to call her when he got a second. Six weeks later he was bobbing in a 24-ft boat on the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Greenland, 500 miles from the next nearest humans, and scanning the shoreline for Inuit and Norse ruins. In his talk, Bookham will unveil what the expedition found, saw, and experienced along the way.
Born, raised, and educated in Britain, Bookham moved to Maine in 1995 and has spent his career in the Pine Tree State, living or working in Bar Harbor, Camden, Belfast, and Rockland. Fascinated by the Arctic and the high north from a young age, in recent years Bookham has been able to realize his dreams of exploring and adventuring in both Iceland and Greenland thanks in no small part to increasing commercial and cultural ties between Iceland and Maine following the relocation of the Icelandic shipping line Eimskip’s US HQ to Portland and the friendships that followed. A former Camden Conference board member, among his other interests Bookham serves on the advisory boards of both the New England Ocean Cluster and the Journal of the North Atlantic and Arctic, and is an occasional contributor of both articles and photography to the latter. He proudly lives in Rockland with his wife and daughter.
The program will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Please email sbillings@rocklandmaine.gov to request a link to attend.
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Susan Conley
Susan Conley will present a virtual reading and conversation on Thursday, October 8th, at 6:30pm. Conley is the author of four critically acclaimed books, including The Foremost Good Fortune, which won the Maine Literary Award for Memoir, and the novel Paris Was the Place, which was an Indie Next Pick. Her most recent novel, Elsey Come Home, was published by Knopf in 2019 and was a Most Anticipated/Best Book at Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Huffington Post, Southern Living Magazine, Maine Women’s Magazine, and others. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Harvard Review, The New England Review, and Ploughshares. She has received multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, as well as fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Maine Arts Commission, and the Massachusetts Arts Council.
Susan Conley grew up in Maine and has lived and worked in Vermont, California, Boston, and Beijing. She currently resides in Portland, where she is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine. She is the co-founder of the Telling Room, a creative writing lab for kids in Portland.
Conley will read from Elsey Come Home and answer questions about her books and writing career. The program will take place via the Zoom platform. To request the link to attend, please email sbillings@rocklandmaine.gov by 4pm on the day of the event.
For more virtual events from us and around the State of Maine go the Statewide Virtual Calendar
For more virtual events from us and around the State of Maine go the Statewide Virtual Calendar.
For more virtual events from us and around the State of Maine go the Statewide Virtual Calendar.
To sign up to share a story or to request a Zoom Link to attend, contact King at pking@rocklandmaine.gov. This event is intended for adults and teens as content may not be child-friendly.
For more virtual events from us and around the State of Maine go the Statewide Virtual Calendar
For more virtual events from us and around the State of Maine go the Statewide Virtual Calendar.
For more virtual events from us and around the State of Maine go the Statewide Virtual Calendar.
Sarah Crosby has been singing since she was two years old, with her first ever gig being with her Gram in church. Sarah taught herself some basic chords on the guitar at age 13 and began to grow her confidence in high school by participating in multiple musical classes. In her early twenties, Sarah began playing paying gigs in the Hallowell area. Since then, she has played in many other places around the state, both solo and with other musicians. Today, her love for music is just as passionate as it has been since she was a toddler.
The concert will take place via the Zoom platform. To request the link to attend, please email pking@rocklandmaine.gov by 4pm on the day of the event.
For more virtual events from us and around the State of Maine go the Statewide Virtual Calendar
For more virtual events from us and around the State of Maine go the Statewide Virtual Calendar.
For more virtual events from us and around the State of Maine go the Statewide Virtual Calendar.
Central Maine Ghost Hunters
Central Maine Ghost Hunters was founded in 2012 by Dustin Marcia. The group consists of 8 Paranormal enthusiasts who share a common goal: to find, study, and research the ethereal beings that exist in the shadows of our world. Their virtual talk will cover their ghostly findings, their own personal experiences with spirits, explanations of their equipment and gear, and their process when conducting a full-scale investigation. To request the link to attend via Zoom, please email pking@rocklandmaine.gov by 4pm on the day of the event.
The City of Rockland has always benefited from a unique combination of geography and economics that has made it one of the most beautiful and practical destinations on the coast of Maine. Its nearly 8,000 residents live at the heart of Midcoast Maine, an area world famous for its mountainous and rocky shore with hundreds of harbors and inlets, and for some of the best cruising waters anywhere for sailing and boating for pleasure or sport. A nearly mile-long granite breakwater protects Rockland Harbor and lighthouse making it one of the finest shipping and recreational boating harbors on the East Coast of the United States.
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270 Pleasant Street Rockland, ME 04841
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