Wednesday, February 11 at 6 p.m.
During the 1990s, Freeport-based attorney and photographer Jack Montgomery created portraits of 20 Holocaust survivors who settled in Maine.
At the outset of the pandemic, he set out to collect their first person accounts as they had told them in interviews, books they had written and speeches they had given, letters and poems. Published in August, 2025, ‘From the Holocaust to Maine: Testimonies of the Survivors‘ highlights their testimonies.
Most were children during the dark years of fascism in Europe. Some were forced into ghettos and then on to the death factories of Auschwitz and other camps. Some fled to the woods where they survived with partisan bands resisting the Germans and others who hunted for Jews. All of them survived through a combination of great fortitude and good luck.
Jack Montgomery will be at the library to talk about his 30-year journey in telling the stories of these remarkable Mainers. He fervently hopes his book will educate readers about what he calls “closely related viruses embedded in the human body politic”—antisemitism, racial hatred, and authoritarianism.
Thursday, February 5 at 6 p.m.
Join us for pizza and the 2025 Smurfs movie!
Please register so we don’t run out of pizza!
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Thursday, January 29 at 6 p.m.
Meet one of our marine educators and dive deep into the life of the whales that call the Gulf of Maine Home. In this presentation, you will learn about interesting adaptations, whale research, and how to help whales.
The ocean may look vast and blue, but hidden challenges threaten its health. Warming waters and human impacts such as pollution, noise, entanglement, and vessel strikes endanger the Gulf of Maine and its marine life.
Since the late 1990s, we have focused our research on Jeffreys Ledge, a rich but understudied habitat located just 20 miles off the NH/MA coast. This unique area supports an incredible diversity of marine species, including endangered whales.