Adult Services

Every Tuesday! Sign up at the Circulation Desk!

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

We have moved our discussions to Zoom.

October 13 — Lifeboat (1944)

October 27 — Dead of Night (1945)

Watch the films on your own, and join on Zoom to discuss them. Email Jeff at jeastman@yarmouthlibrary.org for an invitation to the meetings.

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

 

 

Go to yarmouthlibrary.org/art-gallery for more information.

Phuc Tran, local Maine author of the excellent memoir Sigh, Gone, spoke at an online event Thursday, June 3. Video of the discussion is now available.

Readers’ Circle book club discussed Sigh, Gone on Thursday, May 27. New voices are always a welcome treat.

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.