The Whitefield Library

Whitefield Writes
2026-03-14 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Join us March 14 at 2:30 P.M. for our free, monthly generative writing group. Writers of all experience levels are invited to come together, write, share, and connect in a welcoming, supportive environment.
Our group meets monthly, and each session focuses on generative writing, using prompts and guided exercises designed to spark creativity and help participants generate new work. Writers are encouraged to share their work, in an environment that focuses on exploration and creativity rather than critique.
The writing group is free to attend and open to the public, and reflects the library’s commitment to fostering creativity, literacy, and community connection.
For more information, including upcoming dates, please visit whitefieldlibrary.org or email Kristin@whitefieldlibrary.org.

First Friday Art Night with Jon Luoma
2026-04-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Join us Friday, April 3 for a reception welcoming artist Jon Luoma.
Jon Luoma has lived in Maine since 1975. He has a B.A. in studio art and has studied traditional Chinese painting in Sichuan, China. He works at a painting studio in Gardiner.
Jon has been an illustrator/artist for the Maine Times and for Maine and New England environmental organizations, and he has exhibited paintings in midcoast and central Maine galleries. He is an enthusiastic hiker, canoeist, and cross-country skier, and visits northern and downeast Maine frequently, which often provide subject matter for paintings. Many of his landscape watercolors combine Western and Chinese techniques, approaches, and materials.
He exhibits paintings at the Pemaquid Art Gallery at Lighthouse Park in South Bristol, late May(through mid-October.
Two of his paintings of Baxter State Park are reproduced in Art of Katahdin by David Little (Downeast Books, 2013). His original illustrations for a limited letterpress edition of Thoreau’s The Maine Woods are in the collection of the Portland Museum of Art.

ENCORE! Free Concert for Children
2026-04-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Le Barn, 132 Waldoboro Road, Jefferson, ME, USA, Jefferson, ME, 04348, United States
Join us on Saturday, April 11 from 2-4 P.M. at Le Barn in Jefferson, for a concert featuring Clary Lake Musicians and Hall-Dale Taiko Drummers! Kids tickets are FREE, and adults are $10 each. To get your tickets, CLICK HERE or visit the library!

Whitefield Writes
2026-04-11 14:30 - 16:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Join us April 11 at 2:30 P.M. for our free, monthly generative writing group. Writers of all experience levels are invited to come together, write, share, and connect in a welcoming, supportive environment.
Each monthly session focuses on generative writing, using prompts and guided exercises designed to spark creativity and help participants generate new work. Writers are encouraged to share their work, in an environment that focuses on exploration and creativity rather than critique.
The writing group is free to attend and open to the public, and reflects the library’s commitment to fostering creativity, literacy, and community connection.
For more information, including upcoming dates, please visit whitefieldlibrary.org or email Kristin@whitefieldlibrary.org.

Free Community Talk With Dementia Friends Maine
2026-04-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Do you have a friend, family member, or partner who is living with dementia?
Join us for a free talk at the library.
Dementia Friends is a global movement that is changing the way people think, act, and talk about dementia. This talk is designed to help our community understand what dementia is, how it affects people, and how each of us can make a difference.

Author Talk Series - Genie Dailey
2026-04-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Genie Dailey is the owner of Fine Points Editorial Services in Jefferson, Maine. Genie earned a BA in English from The College of New Jersey and later worked at Prentice-Hall, where she was trained and mentored by two experienced textbook editors. After a few years freelancing in Connecticut with her husband, Jim, an artist and book designer, the couple moved to Maine in 1974. Over her many years of editing experience, Genie’s work has included fiction and nonfiction, textbooks, memoirs, poetry, and children’s books. She sees every new project as a challenge to enjoy and to learn from, and she never imagined she would still be doing this work she loves well into “retirement.”
During her Author Talk on April 19th, Genie will share some of the writing she does when her thoughts wander or she’s inspired by something in nature. She’ll also discuss a few key things about her work as a book editor and take questions after her presentation. Her own book, Mind Your P’s and Q’s (and Your A, B, C’s)–with the tagline “Tips for Writers from an Editor’s Point of View”—will be available for purchase at the event.

An Evening of Poetry
2026-04-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Join us April 24 at 5 P.M. for an intimate evening of poetry with two local writers.
Michelle Menting is a resident of Whitefield. She teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Southern Maine, and directs Gibbs Library in Washington, Maine. She is the author of three poetry collections and her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Passages North, Cincinnati Review, diagram, One Art, and other magazines and anthologies. Michelle holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska, an MFA and MA from Northern Michigan University, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin.
Jefferson Navicky was born in Chicago and grew up in Southeastern Ohio. He earned his MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He is the author of four books, most recently Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands (2023), a Finalist for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose (2021) won the 2022 Maine Literary Award for Poetry.
This event is free and open to the public.

Tips and Tricks to Deal With Stress: A Free Talk
2026-04-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Join Ellen Dolce for a community talk at the library about dealing with day-to-day stress. This event is free and open to the public.

First Friday Art Night
2026-05-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Join us for a very special art show featuring the paintings of local artist Julian Sacks.
Julian began his artistic career as a child and sketched and painted until the end of his life.
When he retired from the practice of psychiatry in 1994, art became his primary occupation.
Through the years he studied art in New York, California, Boston and Maine. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Maine, Massachusetts and Germany.
Although he worked predominantly in watercolor, his interest extended to oil painting, pastel drawing and printmaking. His paintings emphasize movement and color. His subjects included landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes in Maine, Alaska, New York, Italy, France and Germany. Julian died on May 18, 2015.
100% of the proceeds of Julian’s painting sales will be donated to the Whitefield Library to continue Julian’s love and support of the arts and culture.

Author Talk Series: Gerry Boyle
2026-05-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Join us May 7 at 6 P.M. as our author talk series continues!
Gerry Boyle is a crime novelist based in Maine. Boyle is the author of 17 novels, including the acclaimed Jack McMorrow mystery series, featuring ex-New York Times reporter Jack McMorrow and his social worker partner Roxanne Masterson.
Boyle also is the author of a second mystery series featuring rookie Portland cop Brandon Blake.
Boyle also lent a hand to his daughter Emily Westbrooks as she wrote a stand-alone crime novel set in Ireland, THE DEAD SAMARITAN.
Boyle last last Jack McMorrow novel, HARD LINE, published by Islandport Press in 2024, won bronze medals from the Independent Publishers Book Awards, for mystery novels, and from the Independent Publishers of New England, for genre fiction.

Boyle lives in China, where he and his wife raised their family.
When he isn’t writing, Boyle is boating, cycling, working on their 200-year-old house, and spending time time with his family.

Whitefield Writes
2026-05-09 14:30 - 16:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Join us May 9 at 2:30 P.M. for our free, monthly generative writing group. This will be our last gathering before we take a break for the summer.
Writers of all experience levels are invited to come together, write, share, and connect in a welcoming, supportive environment.
Each monthly session focuses on generative writing, using prompts and guided exercises designed to spark creativity and help participants generate new work. Writers are encouraged to share their work, in an environment that focuses on exploration and creativity rather than critique.
The writing group is free to attend and open to the public, and reflects the library’s commitment to fostering creativity, literacy, and community connection.
For more information, including upcoming dates, please visit whitefieldlibrary.org or email Kristin@whitefieldlibrary.org.

When a Loved One is Dying: A Presentation on End-of-Life Care
2026-05-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
On Thursday May 14 at 2 P.M., join us for a thoughtful and deeply human presentation with Maureen Groden, RN, hospice nurse and educator. This event is free and open to the public.
In her book, When a Loved One is Dying, Groden shares true stories of families navigating the final chapter of a loved one’s life. This presentation will help explain universal emotions, decisions, and realizations that can emerge during end of life care. It can also help with the realization that although death brings undeniable sorrow, it can also deepen bonds, cultivate resistance, and offer moments of profound beauty.
Maureen Groden has been a hospice nurse and educator for several decades. She obtained her undergraduate degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts and her graduate degree from the University of Connecticut. Maureen holds certification as a Hospice and Palliative Care Registered Nurse from The Hospice and Palliative Care Credentialing Center.
Throughout her career, Maureen has held leadership positions at Mass General Brigham/Cooley Dickinson and Holyoke Medical Center/Hospice Life Care. In addition to clinical leadership, she has taught community health nursing at several baccalaureate nursing programs, primarily University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has presented widely at conferences and in the community on advanced directives, palliative care and hospice. Maureen has a passion for helping families navigate the health care system and assisting with peaceful end-of-life transitions.

Roaring 20s Swing Jazz Music at the Speakeasy: A Fundraising Gala
2026-05-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Le Barn, 132 Waldoboro Road, Jefferson, ME, USA, Jefferson, ME, 04348, United States
Join us for an unforgettable evening of dancing, food and drink at Le Barn in Jefferson! We are celebrating the roaring 20s in an epic fundraising event for Whitefield Library. Ticket price includes buffet appetizers, bubbly, wine, beer or soft drinks, and music all night long! This event is not to be missed. Tickets can be purchased at the library or by clicking here.

Unlocking the Myths of Grief - May 23
2026-05-23 13:00 - 14:30 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM A BROKEN HEART?
Did a death, divorce, or the end of a romantic relationship cause it? Or was it caused by any of the forty other losses that a person might experience? This free seminar demystifies common misconceptions about grief and provides a safe environment where you will be given specific tools to explore:
• What grief is
• The cumulative effects of grief over our lifetime
• The myths of grief, such as “time heals” or “replace the loss,” and how these myths keep us stuck in our heartbreak
Join us on May 23 from 1:00-2:30 P.M. for this free seminar.

First Friday Art Night
2026-06-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Our First Friday series continues with artist Jackson Gregory.
Jackson grew up in the Oldest House in Provincetown, MA, where his family was part of the sizable art
community. His parents and their artist friends encouraged Jackson in his early e orts at art making and after
graduating from High School he went o  to study art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(SMFA). Jackson spent most of the next ten years there as an undergraduate, then graduate student, then a
teacher. He began painting abstract paintings in acrylic in 1967 using underlying grids and basic geometric
forms: circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, etc. with an emphasis on color relationships.
Jackson has received a number of awards including: 47th Bartlett Traveling Fellow (SMFA) 1964; grant and
fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, MA, ’67, ’68; Boskop Foundation Grant,
’71; Mass. Council for the Arts and Humanities; Somerville, Mass. Arts Council, ’83. He has shown his work at
Cornell University; Tufts University; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Boston Cyclorama; DeCordova Museum,
Lincoln, Ma; Brockton At Center, Brockton, MA; City Hall, Boston; FAWC, Provincetown, MA;
Provincetown Art Association; and numerous other venues. His work is in many public and private collections.

Free Tool Sharpening Workshop
2026-06-11 16:30 - 18:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
The Maine Coast Craft School is partnering with Whitefield Library to present a free tool sharpening workshop. Kenneth Kortemeier, co-owner of the MAine Coast Craft School, will be leading this workshop, and registrants may bring three tools for sharpening. They will also leave with a free sharpener of their own!
Space is limited, so registration is required.
CLICK HERE to secure your spot, or email info@whitefieldlibrary.org.

Summer Film Festival with The Wild Seed Project
2026-06-13 13:30 - 16:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
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Wild Seed Project invites you to join us for an afternoon celebrating native plants and the vast, interconnected community of insects, wildlife, and humans they support. The event will open with a screening of the 60-minute documentary The Extraordinary Caterpillar. Featuring expert Doug Tallamy of Homegrown National Park (a beloved mentor of Wild Seed Project’s Seed Stewardship Director, Emily Baisden), this captivating film shines a spotlight on the crucial – but often overlooked – role that caterpillars play in our ecosystems.
We’ll take a brief intermission for delicious Maine-grown refreshments, social time, and a Q&A session with Wild Seed Project board member Andy Brand, Head Grower at Mt Desert Land & Garden Preserve, and cofounder of the Connecticut Butterfly Association.
Refreshed and ready to learn more, we will return to our seats for a screening of The Buzz on Native Plants. This film, featuring Wild Seed Project community members and other Maine residents, explores the relationship between native plants and pollinators. Buzz was an Official Selection at the 2024 Maine Outdoor Film Festival!

First Friday Art Night
2026-07-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Join us as we welcome artist Helen Fellows.
Helen Fellows is a painter and printmaker in Washington, DC. and has spent almost every summer of her life in Maine. Granite, White Pine and salt water is in her DNA and in her art.
Fellows worked in nursing for over 40 years but she never stopped making art. Traveling west with her late husband, a talented photographer, Fellows spent many summers sketching and painting in the outdoors. Drawn to remote, northern landscapes, her work in recent years has been inspired by travels to Greenland, Newfoundland, the Faroe Islands – and, of course, Maine.
Fellows studied painting and printmaking at The Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, Anderson Ranch, Snow Mass, CO, Pyramid Atlantic Print Gallery, Hyattsville, MD and The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA. Her work has been shown in multiple group shows in Washington DC, Boothbay Harbor, Damariscotta, and Wiscasset, ME, and solo in shows Washington, DC. During her nursing career, she designed a cover for Immunological Review, a major scientific journal. In 2025, she won Best in Show for ARTinMe, a Maine statewide large format competition.

Meet Children's Illustrator and Author Kevin Hawkes
2026-07-23 15:00 - 16:30 | Whitefield Library & Community Center, 1 Arlington Lane, Whitefield, ME, 04353
Kevin Hawkes is an author/illustrator of over 50 acclaimed picture and chapter books including the New York Times best seller Library Lion, Have a Look Says Book, Chicken Cheeks, The Librarian Who Measured the Earth, and Weslandia. His vibrant colors, unusual perspectives, and dry sense of humor are hallmarks of his work.
