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What's Happening

Storytime - Fridays @ 9:30

Sit & Stitch resumes Wednesdays @ 3:30-5

September 2nd & 16th Babies and Bumps @ 10:30

September 12 - Book & Bake Sale

September 28th @ 5pm Book Club

October 1st @ 4pm: Guest Speaker Joe Hall

Happy 250th Birthday America!

Monday, September 28th @5pm: Book Club

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

A female writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal communities. Here, lives are molded by the long Maine winters, rock-filled fields and strong resourceful women.

Throughout Sarah Orne Jewett's novel and stories, these quiet tales of a simpler American life capture the inspirational in the everyday: the importance of honest friendships, the value of family, and the gift of community.

Saturday, September 12th

9-2

Greene Village Day is back! Morse Library will be particpating with a Book & Bake Sale. We will have lawn games too!

Please let us know if you'd like to bake a little sweet something for our sale.

Thursday, October 1st @4pm

Guest Speaker: Joe Hall

Why the Fourth of July and not the second?

Hall will unpack the historical reasons behind America’s chosen Independence Day and what the alternative date reveals about the nation’s founding.

Joseph M. Hall Jr. is an Auburn local and Bates College historian whose teaching and research center on colonial North America, environmental history, and Native American history, with particular focus on Indigenous-European relations before 1850. After publishing a book on trade and gift-giving dynamics in the Southeast (1350–1740), his current project examines how Wabanaki communities preserved ties to their homelands throughout European-American settlement in western Maine.

Don’t miss this chance to hear a fresh perspective on a familiar holiday.

What: Why do we celebrate the Fourth of July and not the 2nd?

When: 10/1/2026

Where: Julia Adams Morse Memorial Library, Greene, Maine

Why: It is America's Semi-quincentennial Anniversary

Who: Joseph M. Hall, Jr.

What we are reading:

Lynn: One Summer: American, 1927 by Bill Bryson

Ileshea: The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor

Donna: The Book of Forbidden Words by Louise Fein

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