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Sponsored by Friends of the Blue Hill Public Library May 2013

Letter from the President

Town Meetings "If you have a garden and a Thank you to everyone who attended your Town library, you have everything Meetings and voted for funding for our Library. Your support is the best way to publically show how that you need." important the Library is to our community. -- Cicero

Annual Plant Sale Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 18th, Library Post Cards between 8 and 11 am for our yearly plant sale. We At last month’s meeting, the Friends of the Library have already collected an unusual collection of agreed to fund the printing of three images from plants for the sale and are asking for your help to the Library’s Art Collection to be used as post increase that collection. We can always use more cards. Sometime over the next couple months we plant divisions and seedlings for the Sale. As you hope to have these ready for sale on the start your seedlings please consider starting a flat of Reference Librarian’s desk. These post cards will flowers or vegetables for the Library. celebrate the Library’s varied and important art collection and will be yet another fund raising Now that the snow has finally disappeared, the bit project for the Library. of warn weather w have had has encourage some slow growth of perennials. As you survey your I will hope to see you at the Plant Sale! gardens please consider what needs dividing and pot up and set aside any spare divisions for the Clifton Page Sale. As always, we will have a supply of pots in the President, Friends of the Blue Hill Public Library Library shed.

If you have a perennial garden that needs to be divided up but which is just too much for you to Must See Movie Series handle, please let us know and we will send a Thursday, May 9, 7pm team of gardeners out to divide your plants with (1960) any extra going to the Sale. Just give the Library a call. Join us for ' THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN As in past years, the Sale will also include a silent (1960) with , Eli auction, a bake sale (pick up your breakfast!) and Wallach, Steve (we hope) a beautiful Spring Morning. This is yet McQueen, Charles another great way to support your Library and help Bronson, Horst Bucholz, us meet our annual budget goals. Brad Dexter and . The film is Friends of the Blue Hill Library modeled after Akira Officers & Board Members Kurosawa's THE SEVEN Clifton Page President SAMURAI. Donna Scheutzow Vice President Ellie Andy Secretary Bonnie Copper Co-Treasurer Nina Fleming Co-Treasurer Rich Boulet Library Director

Lisa Arhontes-Marshall, Lucy Benjamin, Michael Donahue, Jane Garfield, Leslie Goode, Kay Grover, Ken Schweikert, Linda Slaven, Anne Smallidge, Mary The Library Page: May 2013 - page 1 Ulbrich. Play Reading Group Art Adventures Wednesday, May 15, 6:30 Photographing the Maine Coast. The Country Girl, by Clifforn Odets (1950) Thursday, May 23, 7pm.

Playwright Odets first came on to the scene with his groundbreaking play WAITING FOR LEFTY (1935).

The Blue Hill Public Library Play Reading Group welcomes inexperienced and experienced readers alike. The only criterion is the love of plays and the joy of reading them aloud among like-minded theatre fans. For further information, contact the Noted local photographer Francoise Gervais will Blue Hill Library at 207-374-5515 or Michael present Photographing the Maine Coast in the Donahue at 374-5248, or [email protected]. library's Howard Room. Francoise suggests that participants bring one of their landscape images to share in discussion if they wish. The program is free Children’s Corner and no registration is required. Pat Horton, Youth Services [email protected] A passionate desire to honor the absolute beauty Toddlers and of nature is what drives Françoise Gervais to create preschoolers her photographic landscapes. One is awestruck by enjoying Music & the drama and timelessness of her fine art black & Movement with white of our Maine downeast, offering us visuals Deb Reinke. that help us see with fresh eyes that which is always Another program there. funded thanks to your FoL Françoise's intense photographic relationship with membership. the natural world began in college, while she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of New Hampshire in 1973 and a Children’s Programs Bachelor of Arts in Industrial and Scientific •Storytime: Tuesdays,10:30-11am. Stories, singing, Photography from California's Brooks Institute of puppets and more for children up to age 4. Photographic Art and Science in 1977; during this •Playgroup: Wednesdays, 10:30am-12pm. For time she built a strong and balanced foundation babies and toddlers up to age 3. Gluten-free snack from which she creates her imagery with light. provided. This presentation is part of the monthly Art Adventures series sponsored by the Friends of the Public Library.Contact Margret Baldwin at the library or visit the Events Calendar listings on the library website to learn more.

Let the Friends treat you to the Museum! Thanks to FoL, enjoy FREE ENTRY for up to four people at the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor. Reserve a Day Pass by calling 374.5515 x17.

The Library Page: May 2013 - page 2 From the Director’s Desk previews with a humor borne out of a genuine love Rich Boulet, Library Director, [email protected] of the art. He used cryptographic handouts that showed that week’s opera characters represented Author’s Note: This was a piece submitted to Maine as stick people in various poses: wielding daggers Policy Reveiw. Sadly, they rejected it. Their loss, your (for malicious intent), with beating hearts gain. -Rich. (representing love for one or more of the personnel in the opera) or with umbrellas (representing the Opera Previews in Blue Hill: a brief history protection one character might enjoy from As you probably know, Blue Hill village is another). They were charming puzzles that bookended by two libraries. On the one end there endeared his audience to him. Tone advised we are, the Blue Hill Public Library, just you climb opera-goers that if they became too bored at any Tenney Hill in the direction of Brooklin, Sedgwick, given opera, they might spend their time looking Brooksville or Deer Isle. At the other edge of the for the harpist, whom he advised was probably village, at the base of Green’s Hill, you will find one easy on the eyes. of the most unique libraries anywhere, the Bagaduce Music Lending Library. BMLL offers a Suddenly, our village of about 2,500 people had vast collection of 250,000 sheet music titles, two, one could say competing, opera previews. deliverable around the world, and a dedicated Something had to be done. We (BHPL) had the corps of musically-talented volunteers. facility, an audience and good audio-visual equipment, they (BMLL) had the Grand Poobah of About five years ago the Grand Auditorium in opera previewing and his own audience. nearby Ellsworth started simulcasting the Metropolitan Opera’s HD Live series, allowing Ed, if nothing else, was a born communicator who nearby residents to attend the opera, yet still be absolutely loved any event that brought neighbors back home in time to tend the woodstove. with common interests together, and he somehow Suddenly, opera fans in our midst were primed for brokered a marriage of the two opera previews. the Met’s seasonal offerings. Blue Hill would have just one, with Tone’s charming One such fan, a newbie to the opera world who presentation moving across the village where he pursued his interest with the zeal of a convert, was would enjoy and the audio-visual razzle dazzle the late Ed Schneider. Ed was, among many other previously found at the public library’s previews. things, Blue Hill’s Pied Piper of library programs. He had already launched many successful programs The co-sponsored previews have continued all such as regular community movies, playreading these years. After Ed Schneider passed away his groups, etc., and he was passionate about portrait attended the previews in his stead. bringing neighbors together around the arts. Eventually Tone’s health slowed down and his Ed decided Blue Hill needed an opera preview voice grew faint, so he ceded his podium to a new event to teach beginners about opera and generation of presenters. Nowadays opera educate them about what they would be seeing enthusiasts David Porter and Linda Lesko put on the on those Saturdays. Forthwith on Friday afternoons show, both of the libraries continue to co-sponsor during opera season, he gathered an opera expert the previews, around twenty-five attendees have and an audience in our community room, showed their “opera eves” enriched with the fellowship DVD performances and sampled audio tracks of offered at the library, and our community is a that week’s opera. A very informed presenter better place because of it. prepared massive flowcharts explaining relationships and characters in what resembled a complex calculus to the casual observer. Brown Bag Book Club 1st Thursday of the month It was brilliant, well-attended and somewhat 12noon academic. Howard Room Read the chosen title, bring your lunch, and Meanwhile, back at the Bagaduce Music Lending enjoy lively discussions. Library, the always charming and very funny Alton “Tone” Downer—one of the music library’s many To find out what we are reading, check the volunteers—was entertaining his peers with a library bulletin board or ask a staff member weekly preview of his own. Tone approached his

The Library Page: May 2013 - page 3 Saturday, May 18 -- 8am-11am Blue Hill Public Library Annual, Vegetable & Herb Seedlings Breakfast Sale & Coffee/tea Bake Plant Sale 374.5515 or [email protected] Herbaceous Perennials Herbaceous Perennials Soft FruitSoft Divisions Garden Book Sale Garden Silent Auction Rain or Shine Rain featuring:

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Library Hours Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & Friday: 10:00am-6:00pm Thursday: 10:00am-6:00pm Saturday: 10:00am-2:00pm Closed Sunday

Friends Book Sale First Saturday of the month. 10:00am-2:00pm. Downstairs in the Book Nook.

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