Announcing Jaed Coffin as Recommending Author for Read ME 2024Coffin’s selections for our 2024 statewide summer read will be announced in January with library registration opening in February. Jaed Coffin is the author of the memoirs A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants and Roughhouse Friday. His essays and stories have been featured in the New York Times, The Sun Magazine, […]
Over $6,000 supporting seven projects across maineFranco-American Heritage CenterBooks and Stories at the Franco CenterLewiston$1,000Chebeague Island Historical Society1890 Passamaquoddy Wax Cylinder Recordings and Native Legends Through Song and DanceChebeague Island$925Whitefield Library AssociationThe Petra and Mo Show at Whitefield LibraryWhitefield$1,000Millay House RocklandNever Through Me Shall You Be Overcome: Poets in Resistance & SolidarityRockland$1,000ArtWavesStanding StoriesNortheast Harbor$1,000Maine Maritime […]
Over $15,000 supporting 10 projects across MainePortland Parks ConservancyUnderstanding the Complex History of Portland’s Riverton Trolley ParkPortland $2,000Pejepscot History Center40th Anniversary of the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum: Theatrical Performance and LectureBrunswick$1,441Messalonskee Middle SchoolAward Winning ReadersOakland$1,500Paris Public Library AssociationPassport to the World Summer Reading ProgramSouth Paris$2,000Liberty Library‘Northeaster’ Presentation and Discussion by Cathie PelletierLiberty$350Maine Coalition to End […]
Over $96,000 supporting 14 projects across MaineMaine State LibraryJason Reynolds at Reading Round Up 2023Augusta$5,000Italian Studies Program, Colby CollegeItalian Trans Geographies: A Film SeriesWaterville$5,500Maine Adult Education Association Nourishing Educators 2023Dover-Foxcroft$6,850Island Readers & Writers‘Dear Teacher….’ A Celebration of Literacy and Rural EducationMount Desert $7,412The Kneeling Art Photography Project Taking a Knee for Change WorkshopsPortland$7,500Penobscot Theatre CompanyTransformer TalesBangor$7,500Wild […]
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Announcing the Featured Books for Summer 2023!Recommending Author Colin Woodard has made his selections for the MHC’s statewide community read—Morgan Talty’s debut shorty story collection Night of the Living Rez and Meghan Gilliss’s debut novel Lungfish.“Raw, powerful, loving, this is a book that many Mainers will feel especially close to.”…there’s the beauty of place and nature […]
Over $4,000 supporting five projects across maineMechanics’ HallParticipatory Arts at Mechanics’ HallPortland$1,000Museum L-AThe Mainer Project: A Community ConversationLewiston$2,000Penobscot Marine Museum From Maine to Around the WorldSearsport$975Halcyon MusicAfter All: A Musical Reflection on the Trajectories of Our NationRockland$1,000University of Southern Maine Art GalleriesBraiding CirclesGorham$1,000
Over $14,000 supporting eight projects across maineMaine Multicultural CenterBangor$1,000Saco School DistrictSaco$2,000Frenchman Bay LibrarySullivan$2,000Literacy Volunteers of KennebecAugusta$2,000ArtsFarmingtonFarmington$1,791Holycon MusicRockland$2,000Portland Public LibraryPortland$2,000Portland OvationsPortland$2,000
MWPA is partnering on MHC’s statewide community readStarting this year, the MHC and Maine State Library are joining up Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance to make Read ME even better. The Read ME summer reading program has always aimed to elevate the work of up-and-coming Maine authors–in part by enriching the ways we bring together […]
Colin Woodard chosen as recommending author for Read ME 2023Colin Woodard is the author of six books including American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America; Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood; and The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier. […]