Adult Services

Presented by Professor Jeff Thaler

Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 7:00 pm via Zoom

Join us online when we welcome Professor Jeff Thaler who will present “Comparing Impacts of Climate Change upon Maine and Greenland.” Jeff Thaler is a professor of practice at the University of Maine School of Law, and the associate university counsel for environmental, energy, and sustainability projects for the University of Maine System. He is also an associate faculty member of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute.

This lecture is sponsored by Falmouth Memorial Library and Merrill Memorial Library as one of the Camden Conference Community Events leading up to the 34th annual Camden Conference, the Geopolitics of the Arctic, a Region in Peril.

This lecture has already happened. Watch a recording on our channel on YouTube or download a PDF of Professor Thaler’s slides.

Presented by Genevieve LeMoine

Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 7:00 pm via Zoom

This talk will look 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. Starting with her own work at Etah, Greenland, arctic researcher Genevieve LeMoine will illustrate the various ways sites are being destroyed, and the efforts to save them.

Genevienve LeMoine has been doing archaeological fieldwork in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland for over 30 years. Her research has taken her from the Mackenzie Delta all the way to northern Ellesmere Island and northwestern Greenland. She is curator of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, Bowdoin College.

This lecture is sponsored by Falmouth Memorial LIbrary and Merrill Memorial Library as one of the Camden Conference Community Events leading up to the 34th annual Camden Conference, the Geopolitics of the Arctic, a Region in Peril.

To register to receive the link for this meeting, contact Jeannie at jmadden@falmouthmemoriallibrary.org or Jeff at jeastman@yarmouthlibrary.org.

Wednesday, January 13, 8:00pm, on Zoom

We have moved our discussions to Zoom.

The next three film discussions will cover the Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone westerns sometimes called The Man With No Name Trilogy. A third collaborator’s name should be right up there with Eastwood and Leone: Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), who scored all three films along with hundreds of others. The tune for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is as famous as the film itself.

January 13 – A Fistful of Dollars

January 27 – For a Few Dollars More

February 10 – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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.

 

 

Thursday, January 28, 2020, 7:00 p.m

The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett, is a novel about identical twin sisters who grew up together in a small, southern, black community. As adults, one still lives in her hometown while the other sister has moved away, passing for white, and not telling her husband about her past. Still their lives, their fates, and their daughters’ lives are intertwined.

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.