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DID YOU KNOW...
you can request the N.Y. TIMES TOP TEN
Hardcover Fiction & Non-Fiction
through Minerva? Give it a try!
Click here to check it out!
Paperback Book Sale
July 19, 9 am - 1 pm
QUILT & HOOKED RUG RAFFLE
The Friends of the Library are selling
raffle tickets
for these 2 beautiful handmade items.
$1 each or 6 for $5
There will be 2 winners (1st drawn name has their choice).
QUILT ~ Red, White and Black (37 1/2" x 50")
Designed and quilted by PAT SWEENEY
WOOL RUG ~ "LONG POND"
Designed and hooked by PATTI WHARTON
The raffle will be drawn and announced at
The Friends of the Library Tea on October 16th
THE COMPANY OF WRITERS
MDI's new writing group
Next Session:
Wednesday, July 9th, 6-8 pm
In the Clark Room. Contact Terry-Anya 917-536-7440
Also, August 13.
A World Of Drums:
The Magic of Rhythm is for Everyone!
Tuesday, July 22
Instructor, Barbara Gail of Rhythm Inlet.
There will be two 75 minute sessions of 40 people each.
It is for multi-age, but younger than 4 is not encouraged.
Parents should decide if it is right for their child in order
to keep spaces for those who can really participate.
Session 1 : 5:30-6:45 pm
Session 2 : 7:15-8:30 pm
Pre-registration required! 244-7065
SUBMERGED ARCHAEOLOGY
IN THE MOUNT DESERT ISLAND AREA
Wednesday, July 23, 6:30 pm
Franklin H. Price will be giving a talk
about ongoing submerged archaeology
and maritime history projects around MDI.
The presentation will focus on the Blue Hill Bay
Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes Survey,
a NOAA-funded project involving the exploration
of areas where area fishermen have brought up artifacts
while scalloping. This ongoing project involves using
remote-sensing to reconstruct prehistoric shorelines
and potential areas of human habitation.
THE POLITICS OF SPORT:
LENI RIEFENSTAHL'S OLYMPIA, 1936
Saturday, July 26, 2 - 4 pm
In the Holmes Room at the library
The library will show parts of the film,
"The Festival of the Nations"
by Leni Riefesnstahl
followed by a discussion
led by Bill Baker.
From August 8 to August 24, the Beijing Olympics will signal China's
emergence as a prominent player on the world stage of modern culture.
This international mixture of sport and politics is nothing new. For much
of the twentieth century, democratic, fascist, and communist powers wove
political themes around quadrennial Olympic Games. Invariably,
popular opinion and national media played key roles, especially with
radio, television, and documentary film
Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, for example, immortalizes the Berlin Olympics
of l936, the "Nazi Olympics" that celebrated the resurrection of Germany
from the ashes of military defeat and economic disaster. Like the
forthcoming Beijing Olympics, the Berlin Games provoked protests
from around the world.
For obvious reasons, Riefenstahl's Olympia ignored those protests.
Instead, she focused on several nationalistic themes that shaped
her brilliant presentation of athletic events.
For this viewing of a classic documentary, William J. Baker
will provide commentary. Baker, recently retired as
Professor of History at the University of Maine,
now resides in Bass Harbor. Amid his ten books are a
survey history of sports in the western world and a
best-selling biography of Jesse Owens,
the American star of the Berlin Olympics.
July Wall Artist
Jacki McCreary
Maine Reflections
Reception Friday, July 11, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Jacki McCreary is a signature member of the Texas Watercolor Society
and has been included in juried shows in Texas, Louisiana, and Norway.
She has studied painting at the Museum School in Houston, Texas
since 1988. She first visited Mount Desert Island at age five when
her father was a visiting professor at the University of Maine.
She has returned with her family every summer for the past
twenty-seven years. Many of the works on exhibit reflect scenes
and images from Southwest Harbor and the Cranberry Islands. Jacki's
work may also be seen at Islesford Artists on Little Cranberry Island.
July Display Case
Beginning on July 11
Barbara Fleming
Jewelry Artisan
Jewelry making can take the designer in many directions, and I have
followed several of those paths. The lure of turquoise, Southwestern style,
the fire of glass with rich, subtile, luminous colors, and the complimentary
elements of metals, especially silver, copper, brass;
all these tug at my creative instincts.
The malability of clay, the simple, yet exacting techniques
necessary in clay's formation as objects of art, the variety
and complexity of color as a prime element of clay's allure -
all of these elements carried me surely and wholeheartedly into
polymer clay beadmaking. It is one of the most fulfilling methods
of creation I have discovered in the world of jewelry making, and
this collection forms a large portion of my repertoire. I am fascinated
with the "summer" quality of these beads, they are bright and cheerful,
lightweight, smooth to the touch, and comfortable to wear.
I hope you enjoy looking at them.
Don't hesitate to ask a librarian to open the case
for you to touch, feel, try on, these magic strands.
May you find a piece that suits your fancy.
Thank you for looking!
Do contact me if you wish a custom piece, or wish
to learn how to make these beads.