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Limited opening
Welcome back! Readers Circle Fall 2020
Annie's Ghosts-- Thursday, October 29 @7pm Halloween Virtual Trivia Night!
Friday, 30 October 2020 - 7:00pm Stephen Hobson
Wildlife and Landscape Photography

Library Hours

Curbside pickup every day
Open with limited occupancy Tues. & Thur.
Monday 11am - 5pm
Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday* 10am - 1pm
Sunday closed
*Closed on Saturdays in July & August and Holiday Weekends.

Announcements

  • We’re opening the doors, Tuesday, September 15!

    Information about the reopening of the library

  • COVID Task Force

    The Yarmouth Community Coronavirus Task Force is still ready with information and resources.

    Need groceries, information, resources, or a person to talk to?
    Call 207-846-4763 (the library’s phone number).
    All calls will be returned within 24 hrs.
    Visit the group on Facebook.

  • Can’t find it in the catalog?

    Are you searching for a book that you are unable to find? Perhaps the book is brand new, and none of the libraries have a copy of it yet. You can still request it.

    Fill out this form with as much information about the book as you know, include your name, card number, and your email address or phone number, and we will consider purchasing it for the library. You will be the borrow it if we do.

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Staff Picks

  • Ennio Morricone and the “Spaghetti Western”

    The Italian composer Ennio Morricone died at the age of 91 in July. He was a very prolific writer of scores for films of all genres, but he might be best known for scoring a number of films made in Italy, France, and Spain that were set in the Old American West, films that are known affectionately “Spaghetti Westerns”. The most famous of Morricone’s themes and the most famous European Western was The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the third in the “Man with No Name” Trilogy. Morricone scored all three, Sergio Leone directed all three, and Clint Eastwood starred in all three. The Spaghetti Western Canon is not terribly deep; very few besides the “Man with Name Name” trilogy have been available at libraries in Maine. In remembrance of Ennio Morricone, I purchased a few of the films he scored in the 1960s. They are available now at MML.

    • The Great Silence (1968), directed by Sergio Corbucci (the other Sergio), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski. Available on DVD.
    • The Big Gundown (1966), directed by Sergio Sollima (the other other Sergio), written by Sergio Donati (the other other other Sergio), and starring Lee van Cleef and Tomas Milian. Available DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
    • A Pistol for Ringo (1965) and The Return of Ringo (1966), directed by Duccio Tessari, starring Giuliano Gemma. Both films are on one Blu-ray Disc.