The Brewer Public Library is pleased to host the one-woman show by Brewer native, Lynne Lydick, Follow the Cannon: The Civil War Letters of Clara Barton. Join us as she brings to life the inspired stories of the famous hospital nurse, humanitarian, educator, and Founder of the American Red Cross. In the Conference Room

Join Miss Shelley for stories, a snack, and a craft. Newborns to five years old.

Join Miss Shelley for stories, a snack, and a craft. Newborns to five years old.

Balloon-Powered car! For second grade & up.

Join author Philip C. Baker at the for a discussion of and reading from his first novel Hunger Hill, an exciting crime thriller set in Portland! Detective Basil Keene must solve the murder of the unlikeable butcher of Hunger Hill. The cast of characters includes the sinister Russian,  Silk Rhenko, the young, charming Eileen Mack, and oligarch Fyodor Umarov, the mastermind behind an underground scheme of money laundering and human trafficking.    

All are welcome!

Maine played a key role in one of the most important movements for African Americans seeking freedom from slavery: the Underground Railroad. The great escape out of bondage in the South in 1850s/1860s is told through the dramatic and danger-filled story of one young man, Tice, in Mark Leslie's book, "True North." Follow Tice's desperate journey to freedom as he makes his way from Kentucky to Maine on the Underground Railroad. A book signing will follow. For more information, please…