Intergenerational Literacy
The Banned Book Groups
2023 Symposium: Advancing Access and Equity
A Discussion of Wabanaki Sovereignty
Race and Equity: Many Voices
Lunar New Year in Waterville, Maine
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, Snap Judgment, Moth Radio Hour, Best American Travel Writing, and TED Channel. A contributing editor at Down East magazine, he teaches journalism and creative writing at the University of New Hampshire and has spoken at over twenty colleges and universities. He lives in his hometown of Brunswick with his wife and two daughters.
Books and Stories at the Franco Center
1890 Passamaquoddy Wax Cylinder Recordings and Native Legends Through Song and Dance
The Petra and Mo Show at Whitefield Library
Never Through Me Shall You Be Overcome: Poets in Resistance & Solidarity
Standing Stories
Engaging All: Inclusive Exhibition Research and Accessibility Planning, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences
The Joy Truck Project: Traveling Community Resource Center
Understanding the Complex History of Portland's Riverton Trolley Park
40th Anniversary of the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum: Theatrical Performance and Lecture
Award Winning Readers
Passport to the World Summer Reading Program
'Northeaster' Presentation and Discussion by Cathie Pelletier
Lifting Up Survivors' Stories
'Allagash: New England's Wild River' Presentation by Author Tim Caverly Funding
Edible Island: Food, Culture, and Community
Create Your Recovery
Scapegoat Garden's Liturgy | Order | Bridge
Jason Reynolds at Reading Round Up 2023
Italian Trans Geographies: A Film Series
Nourishing Educators 2023
'Dear Teacher….' A Celebration of Literacy and Rural Education
Taking a Knee for Change Workshops
Transformer Tales
Collecting and Presenting Stories of the Wild Blueberry Lands
Hidden Legacies: Uncovering Castine's African American History
Art in the Wake: Reckoning and Re-membering
Juneteenth Downeast Commemoration 2023: Illuminating the Continuum of the Black Experience in Maine
Where do you like to go? - Celebrating Maine’s changing identity in the 21st century
Taíno Language & Culture Summit
Growing an Audience for Maine’s Young Authors: The Telling Room’s 2023 Statewide Anthology Project
Collaborative Design & Facilitated Process to Establish a Director of Indigenous Teaching & Learning at Cobscook Institute
Join us at an upcoming community reception to meet Samaa Abdurraqib, MHC's Executive Director!
You'll hear a welcome from MHC's board chair, words from a community partner, and hear Samaa share her vision and goals for the coming years.
You'll also have a chance to chat informally with Samaa over light refreshments. We hope you'll join us.
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.”
Colin Woodard, Recommending Author
…there’s the beauty of place and nature and connectedness, the drama of families and marriage and parenting and living over the edge and out to sea.”
Colin Woodard, Recommending Author
Participatory Arts at Mechanics' Hall
The Mainer Project: A Community Conversation
From Maine to Around the World
After All: A Musical Reflection on the Trajectories of Our Nation
Braiding Circles
Starting 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 established Maine authors with folks just getting their voices out. We are excited to deepen our relationship with the vibrant community of Maine writers through this partnership.
“MWPA is happy to join with MHC and the Maine State Library on the Read ME program! We have long admired this program in which each year one wonderful Maine writer picks two Maine books (and two writers!) to focus on in the coming year through events and reading groups at participating libraries throughout the state. Maine is lucky to have so many writers who live here and are inspired by this place in all kinds of ways, and this program helps us all discover new work.
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, MWPA Executive Director