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Town History Series 2025

Town History Series 2025

The Sagadahoc History and Genealogy Room announces the twenty first annual Town History Series! The Town History Series is a long-standing Patten Free Library tradition that brings together Patten Free Library’s member communities to learn about and celebrate each town’s local history. The town of Arrowsic and the historical societies of Bath, Georgetown, West Bath,

Death Café

Death happens. Let’s talk about it! Death Café is a space for coming together with your fellow mortals to discuss our shared fate and to enjoy some delicious cake while we’re at it. This group will facilitate open, informal conversations about death and dying; it is not intended to provide grief counseling or end-of-life planning education.

Let’s Learn About: Cellos

Let’s Learn About: Cellos

Saturday, January 25 10:30am Kids and Families Our series will start with Ellen and Lisa of the Midcoast Cellistas teaching us all about the musical instrument the cello. This will be a multi-part series led by Ellen and Lisa and afterward will branch out into other areas of learning. Bring your musically minded young ones (and

New Merch Alert!

New Merch Alert!

New Merch alert! Design Contest Winner Tiffany McFarlin’s designs are now available to purchase via our online store. We will have limited availability at the library soon, but if you just can’t wait you can shop online today and find the perfect gift for the library lover in your life. We will have a limited

Design Contest Winners

Design Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners of our Design Contest! The winning design by Tiffany McFarlin will be featured on new merchandise, which will be available for purchase next month. The designs by the runners up will be saved to be used in future projects. You can see all the terrific entries we received on display at

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