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Trivia Night has a new date, Friday, April 30 at 7PM. Register yourself or your team at tinyurl.com/MMLKids

Thursday, April 29, 2020, 7:00 p.m

Join us to discuss Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett.

Register for the Zoom link at tinyurl.com/MMLReadersCircle

Readers Circle meets the fourth Thursday of the month, eight months out of the year.

This event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, April 14, 8:00pm, on Zoom

We have moved our discussions to Zoom.

A noted writer on film named James Harvey died in 2020, and although he did not publish many books, those he did were long and thorough. In 1987 he wrote Romantic Comedy in Hollywood from Lubitsch to Sturges. This month we will look at two romantic comedies, from Sturges to Lubitsch, starting with The Palm Beach Story (1942, dir. Preston Sturges), and followed by Trouble in Paradise (1932, dir. Ernst Lubitsch). Please watch the films on your own and then join us online to discuss them.

April 14 — The Palm Beach Story

April 28 — Trouble in Paradise

Email Jeff at jeastman@yarmouthlibrary.org for an invitation to the meeting.

Merrill Film Society is an informal gathering of community members to view great works of cinema with one another. Everyone is invited.

 

 

This January, Merrill Memorial Library and Falmouth Memorial Library hosted two Camden Conference community events, and recordings of the lectures are now available online.

January 19, Jeff Thaler, a professor of practice at the University of Maine School of Law, associate university counsel for environmental, energy, and sustainability projects for the University of Maine System, and associate faculty member of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, presented “Comparing Impacts of Climate Change upon Maine and Greenland.” Watch a recording on our channel on YouTube or download a PDF of Professor Thaler’s slides.

January 26, Geneviene LeMoine, curator of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center at Bowdoin College, presented “Melting Away: Disappearing Archaeology in the Arctic,” looking at the damage climate change is doing to prehistoric and historic archaeological sites across the Arctic and the ways archaeologists and northern communities are coping with this emerging problem. To request a recording of the presentation, please contact jeastman@yarmouthlibrary.org.