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Blue Hill Peninsula - Opera, Theatre, Book Readings, Lots of Culture

On Tuesday, Feb. 2, 7:00pm - Blue Hill Public Library hosts local author Susan Hand Shetterly reading from her new book, Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town.  This new collection of essays focuses on the nature around her home, her observations and experiences.  According to Shetterly, "I live on land that has not surrendered the last of its wildness.  It keeps secrets, and those secrets prompt us to pay attention, to look for more."....374-5515

 

On Thursday Feb. 4, 3:00pm - Blue HIll Public Library hosts an opera preview of Giuseppe Verdi's Simone Boccanegra which comes to The Grand on Saturday, February 6th by live simulcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.  To help music lovers prepare to this event, the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and Friends of the Blue Hill Pubic Library join together to introduce and study this political thriller.  The legendary tenor Placido Domingo, who is in his fourth decade of his Met career, will make history by singing the title role which is written for a baritone....374-5515

 

On Thursday Feb. 4, 7:00pm - Opera House Arts presents Brilliant Traces, live theater with stars from NYC.  This dramatic, dark comedy is set during a blizzard in Alaska and will give your Maine "cabin fever" a whole new look!  Starring your favorite Shakespeare in Stonington comedian Tommy Piper, last see as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream....367-2788

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham Lincoln Traveling Exhibit in Castine, Maine

November 6-25 at the Castine Historical Society, the Abraham Lincoln: Self-made in America travleing exhibit will be on display 1-4 pm daily or by appointment.  Castine in one of only 40 location across the United States to host this exhibit and 1 of 2 in New England.  This 200th birthday celebration of our 16th president is free of charge and open to the public.

 

The exhibit covers Lincoln's childhood, education, careers, family life, election, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation and assassination.  The reproduction artifacts on display are all modeled from originals in the Presidential Museum.  Some of the artifacts on display include: books, toys, nameplate from his home, his hat, a presidential campaign banner, an axe, his gloves and other items.

 

For other details please visit the castine site http://site.castinehome.com/Abraham_Lincoln_Exhibit.html

the Historical Society site

http://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/

or The Wilson Museum

http://wilsonmuseum.org/

Jeff Lewis Book Signing

As part of Castine's Summer Writer Series sponsored by the friends of Witherle Memorial Library, Castine resident, honored writer and two time Emmy Award winner Jeff Lewis will read from "Adam the King", the final novel in the Meritocracy Quartet, at the Unitarian Universalist Church parish House Wednesday, August 6, at 7:00 PM. Lewis will answer questions about his critically acclaimed Meritocracy Quartet, completed in 2008.