Edible Island: Food • Culture • Community
SPL and Healthy Island Project (HIP) invite you to our kitchen. Thanks to funding from Maine Humanities Council (MHC), SPL and HIP are teaming up to bring back an old series with a new look, Edible Island: Food • Culture • Community.
Our island represents diverse culinary talent, developed right here or picked up from around the world. Islanders cook meals every day that originate from old family recipes, global travel, or deep dives into cookbooks. Over the next several months, SPL and HIP will co-host four workshop and tasting events, featuring dishes from around the world. Each event will feature a workshop with limited space and a community tasting and conversation open to all. Workshop attendees will learn how to make a dish—or two or three—from a community member with deep ties to the featured cuisine. Following the workshop, the public is invited to taste the prepared dish(es) and engage in a moderated discussion about the culture and community that we experience around food. All participants will receive recipes to try at home and recommended reads to explore more.
Edible Island: Food • Culture • Community will kick off on Saturday, June 17, with Spanish tapas presented by Martha Spector at the Community of Christ Church, 91 South Burnt Cove Road. The workshop will run from 2:00-3:30pm with space for 18 attendees, and the community tasting and conversation will follow from 3:30-5:00pm. Come right around 3:30pm for the tasting and stick around for the moderated discussion. You can register for the workshop online, or call 367-5926 or email stonington.public.library@gmail.com to reserve a space. We also encourage anyone interested in the presented foods and cultures to check out more resources at SPL, including new additions to SPL’s cookbook collection with funding from the MHC grant.
Paper Flower Workshop
Saturday, May 27, 2-4pm at SPL
A craft for adults & teens: learn how to make crepe paper poppies with Alicia Condon, Oceanville Flowers. Supplies provided; we recommend participants bring a good (sharp) pair of scissors. Tea and snacks will be served.
Register online, or email stonington.public.library@gmail.com or call 367-5926 to reserve your seat.
Poetry Open Mic with featured poet jelal huyler
Tuesday, June 6, 6-7pm at SPL
jelal huyler is an Oakland, CA born poet plus emcee who does not condone linear time. he enjoys long walks on the beach and longer walks through the city, and he currently lives in Deer Isle, ME. Failed Tattoo is a self-published chapbook and will be available for sale. jelal’s debut poetry collection, A Man Was Lynched Today, will release in July 2024 with GAME OVER BOOKS.
Poetry Open Mic will take a break in July and will return on Tuesday, August 1.
Walker Pond Massacre: Sanitizing and Forgetting the Past
Thursday, June 22, 6-7pm
Sometime in the seventeenth century English militamen raided the indigenous community of Archimagam located on Walker Pond in what is today known as Brooksville. These “rangers,” as they were called, fell on the community at dawn after an annual celebration of the green corn and massacred every man, woman and child. This massacre, remembered in Euro-American memory as The Battle of Walker Pond seems emblematic of several elements of early American history. This talk will explore the colonial violence that led to the military defeat of the Wabanaki's French allies and the seizure of their land as well as the ways that subsequent historians sanitized the past and turned a massacre into a battle.
Email stonington.public.library@gmail.com to request the Zoom link. No registration required to attend in person.
Book Bingo 2022-2023
You’ve got 8 more days to fill SPL’s 2022-2023 book bingo card. Entries must be received by 6pm EDT on Thursday, June 15, to be eligible to win a Blue Hill Books gift card (teens & adults) or an Out on a Whimsey Toys gift card (kids). Readers can drop bingo cards at the library, email a photo to stonington.public.library@gmail.com, or send by post to SPL, PO Box 441, Stonington, ME 04681.
Can’t get enough? Sign up to receive the 2023-2024 book bingo card as soon as it drops for teens & adults or for kids. Our youngest readers can participate in 1000 Books Before Kindergarten right up until their first day of school. Sign up here.
Graphic Novel Workshop
Application deadline extended to June 15
Instructed by Molly Gotwals. Read and discuss four graphic memoirs and create an original graphic story. Learn more about the workshop and the selected titles here. Limited to 6 participants. Open to anyone ages 16+.
To apply, email stonington.public.library@gmail.com or call 367-5926 by 6pm EDT on Thursday, June 15. Applicants will be notified on or before Tuesday, June 20.