Movie Discussion Group: “Wonder Women!” Week 5: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1964) Thursday, March 4, 6:30 p.m. via ZOOM. “Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy.” Join our movie discussion group to enjoy this award-winning Italian comedy! All you have to do is watch the movie before the meeting. …
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Join Susan Conley virtually as she discusses her new novel, Landslide, with author Richard Russo. Susan grew up in Woolwich and attended Bath Middle School and Morse High School. She is the author of five critically acclaimed books; her previous novel, Elsey Come Home, was a Most Anticipated/Best Book at Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, Amazon, Pop Sugar, Huffington Post, Southern Living, Fodors, and others. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Virginia…
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In 2015, Peter and Coco embarked on a journey to bicycle from China to Italy via the ancient Silk Road. Peter grew up in Pownal, Maine and Coco hails from the town of Seregno in northern Italy. They both studied Chinese language in college/university and their love of Chinese culture drew them both to the city of Kunming in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province where they first met. Not long after meeting they devised a plan to travel by bicycle from China…
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Get your limited edition PFL Sea Bags tote! 15% of the bag purchase will be donated to Patten Free Library. Hurry - there are only 200 of these beautiful bags available. Buy yours today! Available exclusively at Maine Street Design Co.
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On Thursday, March 25th, live at 5pm on Now You’re Cooking’s Facebook Live, Louisa Edgerton presents a free cooking demo for One-Pan Pomegranate Chicken. Her recipe features pomegranate molasses and aromatic spices – sumac and cardamom – and is sure to delight your palate and evoke epicurean adventures along the Silk Road.
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Join us for our monthly trivia night for adults. Many different categories, lots of informal fun. Make it your happy hour! Friday, March 26, 5 to 6:15 p.m. Click here to get the registration link for this event.
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The Ox-bow Incident (1943) Thursday, April 8 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Join us for the discussion of this great American western about frontier justice, directed by William A. Wellman and starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Mary Beth Hughes. The cast also includes Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan, and Jane Darwell. It is based on the book of the same name by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and is part of our month-long movie discussion series, “Order in the…
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For National Poetry Month, Malcolm Hamilton will lead a discussion of Roger D. Skillings’s poem, King’s Dock. The poem is about growing up in Bath and growing to understand it’s history.
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Anyone interested in author Ernest Hemingway will want to tune in to a new, three-part documentary directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, to air on Maine public television on April 5-7, at 8 pm. For more information, click here. After you enjoy the series, you can join our Q&A session with Patten Free Library corporator Susan Beegel, a Hemingway scholar. She served as an advisor to the film and was interviewed by Ken Burns, and will share her…
Find out more »| Monday | 10-1 Open | 1-5 Curbside |
| Tuesday | 10-1 Open | 1-5 Curbside |
| Wednesday | 10-1 Open | 1-7 Curbside |
| Thursday | 10-1 Open | 1-5 Curbside |
| Friday | 10-1 Open | 1-5 Curbside |
| Saturday | 10-2 Open | No Curbside |
| Sunday | Closed | |
