NEWS & EVENTS

We have purchased a number of poetry titles in honor of the following event. Come and see!

Poetry Reading

and Book sale/Book signing                            by    Baron Wormser        

at Waldoboro Public Library
7p.m., Monday, August 18
no admission charge

Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1948. He grew up in Baltimore and went to high school at Baltimore City College and to college at the Johns Hopkins University. He did graduate studies at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Maine.

In 1970 he moved to Maine with his wife Janet. For twenty-five years he worked as a librarian for SAD 59 in Madison, Maine. Also he taught poetry writing at the University of Maine at Farmington. From 1975 to 1998 he lived with his family in Mercer, Maine, in an off-the-grid house on forty-eight acres. His memoir, The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid, (see "Publications") concerns that experience.

In 2000 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Maine by Governor Angus King. He served in that capacity for six years and visited many libraries and schools throughout Maine. Also he read his poem "Building a House in the Maine Woods, 1971" (see under "Poems") at Governor Baldacci's inauguration in 2003.

He currently resides in Cabot, Vermont, with his wife. Since 2002 he has taught in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. (See "Talks" for his commencement address in 2005). He works widely in schools with both students and teachers.

Wormser has received the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry and the Kathryn A. Morton Prize along with fellowships from Bread Loaf, the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2000 he was writer in residence at the University of South Dakota. For eight years he led the Frost Place Seminar at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire.

(Poet's bio and picture are from his own Web site,  www.baronwormser.com)

We are looking for educational, literary, artistic, historic, or just plain fun displays for our lobby display cabinet.  If you have a hobby, collection, or other interesting material to share with the town, please call the library at 832-4484.

Wireless Internet Access @ Your Library

  Thanks to a Gates technology grant, a wireless Internet connection is available for use by all patrons at the library. The connection is broadcast and readily visible to anyone who has a wireless card in his or her computer, as long as the security measures on the patron’s computer allow the connection. The user should beware of sending confidential information (usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, etc.) unless communicating with a site that supports a secure encryption scheme.

 Anyone under the age of 18 is required to have an Acceptable Use Policy form on file, signed by a parent/guardian, in order to use the library’s computers and Internet access. Patrons using the wireless connection are expected to have up-to-date virus protection on their computers and to be aware of the library’s Wireless Internet Policy.

Genealogy Work Sessions

 The Waldoboro Public Library plays host to a monthly meeting of people interested in researching their various families (local and otherwise).  The meetings usually are scheduled for the second Monday of each month. See our Calendar link for dates and times.

 Randy Gross, resident genealogist, guides participants through reference books and other print resources. Gross is on the Board of Directors for the Waldoboro Historical Society’s Museum and is President Emeritus and the Archivist for the Old Broad Bay Family History Association.

 Anyone interested in offering a special program of general interest at the Library can call 832-4484 or email wplstaff@waldoboro.lib.me.us.

This page was last updated:  08/18/2008

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