Sunday, February 12
5:30 – 7:30
School Days – Remember When
Bring a casserole, salad or dessert to share.

Please do join us.

Wednesday, February 15 (Snow date 2/22)
12-1pm
Ricker Library Community Room
Hibo Omar
A Conversation about the Somali Experience in L/A
Bring your lunch – coffee, tea, water provided
Bring a friend
Check It Out!

Colonial House was a nationally syndicated PBS reality show set in Machias, Maine. The show followed 27 individuals for the United States and England, as they made their way back to the year 1628. It also featured members of the Passamaquoddy tribe. Over three months, colonists struggled to survive under difficult circumstances. Their day to day challenges were caught on tape and made into an eight episode series.

John Bear Mitchell is a member of the Penobscot Nation on Indian Island in Maine. He presently serves as the Outreach and Student Development Coordinator for the Wabanaki Center at the University of Maine in Orono. He is also an accomplished storyteller, author, and actor. His singing and storytelling can be heard in many Maine PBS tribal-sponsored awareness videos, and other documentaries with topics on Maine’s Native People. Recently his story, “Epsun and Grandfather,” was featured in, Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection. It was a winner of the 2011 Aesop Award and was nominated for best comic novel for the Comic-con award. John Bear is currently working on another children’s book and is also participating as an actor in the independent film, “Anatomy of Life”, which will open up later on this year at the Sundance Film Festival.

For those interested in his work as an author, there will be a book signing of the book Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection, at 6:30PM. This book is no ordinary graphic collection. It features twenty-one illustrated Native American stories. This will be a wonderful opportunity to meet John Bear before the program and to get a special signed copy of the book. We wish to thank Books N’ Things for making this possible. Books will be priced at $22.95.

This is a unique event and opportunity to meet John Bear Mitchell and get a glimpse of the work that he is done not only in Maine, but on a national level. This family event is free and open to the public. It was generously sponsored by the Friends of Ricker Memorial Library. In case of bad weather, the rain/snow date for this event will be Friday February 3rd.  For more information, please call Ricker Memorial Library at 998-4390. We hope you can join us for this very special evening with John Bear Mitchell.

Bring a lunch.     Bring a friend.

An antidote to cabin fever in the colder, snowier months of January and February and the mud season months of March and April is our Friends of Ricker program, Check It Out! These brown bag lunchtime gatherings will feature once-a month programs from 12 noon to 1pm on the third Wednesday of the month, January through April. (Snow date will be, automatically, on the following Wednesday, if the program must be cancelled due to weather.)

Our list of programs is eclectic, with the idea that we can keep our minds active and be introduced to some new things to think about. In January, local sculptor, Gloria Limoges, will tell us about her art of “found object creations”. She is a self-proclaimed “junk collector” who includes various types of materials in her art.

We will have a conversation with Hibo Omar in February. She is a Somali immigrant who lives and works in Lewiston/Auburn and has agreed to talk with us about some of the experiences of the Somali people living in our area.

The program for March will be musical and will be provided by the music department from Poland Regional High School.

Charles Plummer will entertain us with his impersonation of Joshua Chamberlain in April. This program will be our way to participate in recognition of the 150th anniversary of that war.

So mark down these dates: *
January 18, February 15, March 21, and April 18,
And plan to Check It Out! in the Community Room of the library, 12 noon – 1pm.  A prescription to ward off winter “blahs”.

*If you would like to be on our email list and receive a reminder notice just before each program, you may leave your name and email address at the library (998-4390).

Ms Hansen, artist and horsewoman, has been visiting Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park regularly since 1983 to ride and to paint. Her “show and tell” program should be very interesting.

As always, the evening will begin with a potluck supper and conversation hour. Please bring a casserole, salad or dessert to share. If you wish, you may bring, also, your own plate, cup and eating utensils – though we do have plenty of paper plates and cups and plastic forks and knives to go around. We want everyone to have an enjoyable meal together, with as little “fuss” as possible.

We learned late last night that Kate Braestrup will not be able to join us for tonight’s Person to Person program. She is chaplain for the Maine Warden Service and is heavily involved with this week’s accident in Rumford.

We will still hold the potluck supper and hope that you will still plan to join us for food and fellowship. We have a couple of suggestions for alternate programs and will let the group decide how we will use the second hour of the evening.

Sunday, November 13
5:30- 7:30
Ricker Library

Person to Person will be held on Sunday, November 13th in the Community Room of the library. The potluck supper and conversation hour begins at 5:30pm. Guests are asked to bring a casserole, salad or dessert for the table. The program begins at 6:30. Everyone is invited. Please come and bring a friend to share in this evening of food, fun, and fellowship.

Mr. Brooks’ address will focus on two early Shaker “families” – the Poland Hill and the Square Hill families. Shakers have been our neighbors since the 1700s and it should be interesting to learn more about their history.

It is a fitting topic for a presentation to a group that goes by the name of Person to Person and promotes neighbor to neighbor conversation and fellowship, wouldn’t you agree? Anyway, we hope you can join us.

October 9, 5:30 – 7:30
Ricker Library Community Room
Please bring casserole. salad, or dessert to share