Program evolves from ‘The Maine Woods’

BANGOR – Bangor Public Library’s schedule for Bangor Reads!, a community reading program of “The Maine Woods” by Henry David Thoreau, is as follows:

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

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

. Jan. 13, 2 p.m. “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.

. Jan. 14, 6:30 p.m. “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.

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

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

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

. Jan. 21, 7 p.m. “An Evening with Harriet Tubman.”

. Jan 22, 5:30 p.m. “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.

. Jan. 23, 4 p.m. “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.

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

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

. Jan. 28, 6 p.m. “Readings.” Local poets read Thoreau’s poems, selections on transcendentalism and Thoreau inspired works.

. Jan. 29, 4 p.m. “Maps and Mapmaking.” Mary McDonald of the James W. Sewall Company 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.

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

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

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

For information, call the library at 947-8336.