Bangor Reads! program to feature Thoreau

BANGOR – Bangor Public Library has announced the schedule for Bangor Reads!, a community reading program of “The Maine Woods” by Henry David Thoreau.

The library has organized several programs to enhance the series and promote the community experience. Activities will be held at the library, 145 Harlow St.

For information, contact the library at 947-8336.

. 2 p.m. Jan. 4, Zip Kellogg, reference librarian at the University of Southern Maine and legendary canoe paddler, will share thoughts, slides and stories of Thoreau and the Maine woods, then and now.

. 7 p.m. Jan. 6, “Fly Rod Crosby Invites You Into The Outdoors She Loved.” Julia Hunter of the Maine State Museum and author of “Fly Rod Crosby: The Woman Who Marketed Maine,” will talk about Maine’s first guide.

. 7 p.m. Jan. 9, “Bill Green’s Maine.” Bill Green of WLBZ 2 will show videos and discuss stories from today’s Maine Woods.

. 2 p.m. Jan. 11, “Camping Equipment – Then and Now.” Bill Cook and Cadillac Mountain Sports will compare the equipment used in the 1840s to what is available today.

. 2 p.m. Jan. 13, “Journaling.” Kimberly Ripley, author of “Write Now! What Are You Waiting For?” shows the basics of journal writing and what you need to get started.

. 6:30 p.m. Jan. 14, “Tales of the Wabanaki.” John Bear Mitchell, interim director of the University of Maine’s Wabanaki Center, and a storyteller, will share legends and lore of the Wabanaki.

. 6 p.m. Jan. 15, “Burt Call’s Photography.” Frank Spizuko presents Burt Call’s photographs of the North Maine Woods and Katahdin taken from 1915 through 1939.

. 2 p.m. Jan. 16, Book discussion led by Marge Irvine.

. 1 p.m. Jan. 18, “Songs From the Maine Woods.” Jeff McKean of the Old Grey Goose Trio will perform songs from the logging camps with help from a squeezebox, a fiddle, a banjo and other instruments.

. 2 p.m. Jan. 18, “Maine’s Birchbark Canoes: A Builder’s Perspective.” Steve Cayard presents a slide show and discusses his years attempting to recapture the lost art of building a birch-bark canoe, a unique design of the Wabanaki Indians.

. 6 p.m. Jan. 21, “Readings.” Local poets read Thoreau’s poems, selections on transcendentalism and Thoreau inspired works.

. 5:30 p.m. Jan 22, “Camping with Thoreau.” Will LaPage, a member of the National Camping Hall of Fame and professor of Outdoor Literature and Environmental Interpretation at the University of Maine, discusses roughing it in the mid-1800s.

. 4 p.m. Jan. 23, “Being a Maine Guide.” Gil Gilpatrick, a Maine Guide and author of “Allagash: The Story of Maine’s Legendary Wilderness Waterway,” tells how he became a Maine Guide and shares highlights of “his” Maine woods.

. 6 p.m. Jan. 23, “Lumbering, Fashion and Food of the 1840s.” Bill and Kathy Cook show the styles in work, food and clothes.

. 2 p.m. Jan. 25, “Orienteering, or How Not to get Lost in the Woods.” Boy Scouts tell you how to find your way.

. 4 p.m. Jan. 29, “Maps and Mapmaking.” Mary McDonald of the James W. Sewall Co. discusses maps and mapmaking.

. “Flora, Fauna and Birds of Thoreau.” Judy Markowsky, director of the Maine Audubon’s Fields Pond Nature Center will show slides of flora, fauna and birds and discuss changes over the past 150 years.

. 7 p.m. Jan. 30, Book discussion led by Kathleen Ellis.

. 2 p.m. Fridays in January, Video showings of “Chasing Thoreau’s Ghost” and “Thoreau’s Maine Woods.”