Page B, The Bridgton News, July 10, 2014
Country living
North Bridgton public library news The North Bridgton Library will hold its Second Annual Glow For It! 5K and 1-mile walk on Saturday, Aug. 9, at 8 p.m. This is a nighttime glow in the dark run/walk with a family-friendly After Glow Party with a DJ and dancing. Early
bird registration runs through Monday, July 21. For only $30, runners/ walkers will receive a Tshirt, glow necklace and bracelets and free entry into the After Glow Party. Form a team and you could get free entry. Form the largest
team and get prizes and a trophy. Check out the website, www.glowforit.org for more information. E-mail Race Coordinator Shelley Thurlow at glowforit5K@gmail.com if you would like a sponsor sheet to help raise money for your entry fee. Team captains also get free registration. The next Mystery Book Club will meet Wednesday, July 9, at 4 p.m. Read any Jo Nesbo book from the Harry
Hole series. Knittervention, the library’s knitting group, has decided to knit for charity. Please join the group to knit or crochet baby hats and blankets for the hospital to give to local families. All skill levels are welcome. The group knits for various charities throughout the year. Join the fun and help the community. Knittervention meets on Mondays at 1:30 p.m. Their
current project is newborn hats for Bridgton Hospital. For more information and updates see Knittervention on Facebook. The library is looking for new volunteers to help with shelving books, filing cards, updating the collection and filling in for the librarian. Please contact the library or stop by for more information. Save the date — Thursday,
July 17, at 7 p.m. That’s when Caroline Grimm will join the NBPL to discuss her new book, Beneath Freedom’s Wings. Library hours are Monday 1 to 5 p.m., Thursday 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The library has Wi-fi, laptops and wireless printers for public use. The library is located at 113 North Bridgton Road. For more information, call 647-8563.
Narramissic Farm is open If you’re looking for something to do this summer, take a trip back in time to the 1850s on one of the prettiest hillside farms in northern New England, “Narramissic,” the Peabody-Fitch Farm, in South Bridgton. Most days, thanks to Bridgton Historical Society’s summer intern, Ben Rideout, you can expect to be greeted PARKING LOT FLOWERS — by local artist Jean by a costumed interpreter, and Randall is a print that will be sold via a Silent Auction you might get to meet Ansel to benefit the East Otisfield Free Baptist Church. It was Fitch, who was born on the donated by Marian Culbert. farm in 1836. Ansel’s brother, Edwin, left us his memoirs, Ninety Years of Living, so we know a great deal about the family’s life, and many of the furnishings are original to the house. This year, the old gift shop in the attached shed has been re-designed to provide an orientation center for visitors, along with a few books for sale on the house and other local history topTAKE A WALK BACK IN HISTORY by visiting Narramissic in South Bridgton. FARM, Page B OTISFIELD — The East Otisfield Free Baptist Church will hold a silent auction of a Jean Randall print, titled “Parking Lot Flowers,” that was donated to the Scholarship Fund by Marian Culbert who, along with Rev. Gertrude De Coteau, started the fund. The print is approximately 8”x8” and is double matted and • Sunday, Aug. 17 — Dog pick up summer reading or Raymond Village Library At a Glance: framed to approximately 14”x14”. It features yellow flowers • Tuesday, July 29 — Safety with Classic Paws. that special book to add to this year was amazing. The against concrete and a brick wall. The composition is unusual. Family Star-Gazing Party at These all take place at 10:30 your personal library. There library thanks all those who It is #6 out of eight prints and is signed. It will be on view at Hacker’s Hill, Casco, after a.m. outside the Raymond are a variety of books from worked in organizing, arrangthe Saturday, July 19 Flamingos and Fleas Sale at the Otisfield Village Library. In case of which to choose, all at low ing, pricing and making it dark. Community Hall. • Thursday, July 31 — Book rain, they will be held at prices. This sale will continue happen. The selection was Jean’s family, the Harrisons, stayed at the Cape on Lake Group meets at the Hawthorne the Raymond Public Safety through August, during regular wonderful, thanks to all those Thompson in East Otisfield when she was a child in the midBuilding. For more informa- library hours, with new books who contributed. The library House, 7 p.m. 1950s. Later, she and her husband brought their children to the especially wishes to thank • Tuesday, Aug. 12 — tion, call the library at 655- being added each week. Cape along with friends from Connecticut where they lived. the Raymond Village Florist Book Group Family Star-Gazing Party at 4283. Like many who enjoyed Otisfield as children, she returned to The Orchardist, by Amanda and Maple Springs Farm in A grant from Loon Echo Hacker’s Hill, Casco, after Otisfield to live. She designed her own home, a passive solar Trust has made it possible to Coplin, is the book chosen Harrison for their generous dark. contemporary building with a studio, on Forrest Edwards Summer Reading Program have two Family Star-Gazing for the July meeting. This donation of plants. Most of Road. “Fizz, Boom, Read” is the Nights on Hacker Hill off of is a story of a solitary man all, they need to thank all She made prints of houses, barns and nature of the surtheme of the Summer Reading Quaker Ridge Road in Casco, named Talmadge who tends those devoted gardeners who rounding area. Her method was to draw the outline of her comProgram at Raymond Village in collaboration with the his grove of fruit trees. He is came and purchased flowers position, carve woodblocks, roll the colors on the woodblocks, Library for children and teens. Casco Public Library. Join Ed a gentle man who finds solace and plants. It takes all of these and print about 10 images of each idea. She then burned her Weekly prizes will be award- Gleason from the University of in his life. One day, while dedicated people to make this woodblocks so each set would be a limited edition. Jean died ed to participants. This pro- Maine Planetarium, and David in town to sell his fruit, two important fundraiser such a in 1984. gram, sponsored by Gorham Manchester, a member of girls, barefoot and dirty, steal success. “Parking Lot Flowers” was bought by Rev. De Coteau and Clynk — Recycle bottles Savings Bank, will conclude Southern Maine Astronomers, apples from him and later given to Culbert. It has been appraised, and the minimum bid and cans on Sunday, Aug. 17. July and on Tuesday, July 29, and appear at his door. This is a is $60. To see the print before the sale, call 330-8217 for an In the warmer months, peoTuesday, Aug. 12, after dark man who disrupts the lonely August programs include: appointment. The bids will be opened on Sunday, July 20, and • Wednesday, July 16 for meteor showers and star- harmony of a quiet life when ple often use more beverages the buyer will be notified by phone. — Origami, create and race gazing. For more information, he opens his heart to let the in cans and bottles, especially Send bids to: East Otisfield Free Baptist Church, 231 call the library at 655-4283 world in. The meeting will be with summertime company. paper airplanes. Rayville Road, Otisfield, ME, 04270. Mark the envelope held at the Hawthorne House One of the easiest ways to • Wednesday, July 23 — and wish for clear skies. “Randall Print Bid,” please. Include your name, address, on Raymond Cape Road on contribute to your library is to Children’s Story Time Experiment: create a volcano phone number and e-mail address along with your bid. There will still be story Thursday, July 31, at 7 p.m. utilize the green plastic bags and watch it explode. The Scholarship Fund has awarded eight scholarships to • Wednesday, Aug. 6 — times for children on most The book will be available available at the library to collocal college students this year. The church’s major fundraisers Fire Safety: Raymond Fire Mondays at 10:30 a.m. upon request at the library. For lect your recyclable cans and are the Flamingos and Fleas Sale, held the third Saturday in July throughout the summer. Please more information, please call bottles. When filled, just bring Department. at the Otisfield Community check with the library by call- the library at 655-4283. This it down to the local Hannaford Hall on Route 121, and the group welcomes all interested Supermarket. The library will ing 655-4283. Christmas Sale the first readers and they especially receive the money from the Annual Book Sale Saturday in December. The library’s Annual Book look forward to seeing sum- deposit to benefit the library’s material and services. Ask for Sale will be held on Sunday, mertime members. OXFORD HILLS the recycle bags the next time Many Thanks July 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Plant Sale at the you come into the library. This is a great opportunity to
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