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Music Together
Informal community music class for parents and caregivers with toddlers, infants and preschoolers. Build musical competence through play. Join an experienced early childhood music teacher for instrument jams, parachute dances, finger plays and call and answer songs. Put aside 45 minutes a week to have fun learning with your child and other families,
Find out more »Preparing Coastal Communities for Sea Level Rise
A 90 minute interactive learning experience presented by Gayle Bowness, Science Education Program Manager at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Find out more »Celebrating the Classics – PFL’s Annual Event
Come celebrate the library's collection of books on the arts, music, and literature. This year's annual fundraising event will feature hors d'oeuvres & cash bar, a dessert buffet, the Windswept Quintet, trivia games, and a silent auction.
Find out more »What does Winnegance Mean? Wabanaki Place Names in Context
Maine's First Ship Spring Lecture Series Joe Hall teaches colonial, American Indian, and environmental history at Bates College. He is currently researching the history of Wabanakis, Maine's indigenous peoples. He is particularly interested in the ways that Wabanakis continued to cultivate ties to their homeland even as colonial peoples sought to dispossess them of it. In his lecture he will be speaking about the ways that Wabanaki place names offer some clues not only to how Wabanakis inhabited their homelands…
Find out more »Friends of the Zorach Fountain Annual Wine Reception
Friends of the Zorach Fountain host the annual wine reception, brief business meeting, and presentation by Natasha Goldman, Ph.D., Bowdoin College Art Department, Public Art and Social Engagement. Public welcome.
Find out more »LED Hoop Jam
Join Spin Art Hoops for an LED Hoop Jam on Friday night 7 - 9 pm at Bath Dance Works (72 Front Street in Bath on the third floor). Bring your light-up hoops, poi, levitation wands, and other flow toys. You're welcome to come and use your regular hula hoops and flow toys too. There will be regular hula hoops, poi, levitation wands, and glow sticks to share. There will be low lighting, so it won't be a safe place…
Find out more »Indoor Yard Sale
Lots of gently used household items! No reasonable offer will be refused! Parking available in our lot off High Street, sale inside our lovely church at 876 Middle Street in Bath.
Find out more »Twice-a-Day Island: A Virtual Tour of Bath’s 1792 Peterson Canal
Brenda Cummings and Tim Richter, who have participated in or led the annual Peterson Canal walk since at least 2005, will lead our virtual tour of the canal. As the Assessor for the City of Bath, Brenda considers the Canal walk part of her duty to review Bath’s boundaries. Tim Richter is a local history buff who has been collecting information on the Canal for many years. The annual meeting of the Bath Historical Society will precede the Canal talk.
Find out more »Belle of Amherst: Emily Dickinson (theatre)
The audience is invited into the world of Emily Dickinson as portrayed by Ginger Grace. Enter the world of Dickinson, with all of its secrets, eccentricities and passions. In her own words, Emily says “Every town must have its local character – and that’s what I am!” Witness how Emily Dickinson is compelled to “stop the world” as creativity starts – and her poems come to life in the unique voice that defied the conventions of her time. It’s a…
Find out more »CHILDREN’S BOOK SALE at Patten Free Library
In celebration of National Children's Book Week, the Friends of Patten Free Library are hosting a CHILDREN'S BOOK SALE! Gently used books for all ages await new readers and homes. Donations only. All supports the Patten Free Library!
Find out more »Music Together
Informal community music class for parents and caregivers with toddlers, infants and preschoolers. Build musical competence through play. Join an experienced early childhood music teacher for instrument jams, parachute dances, finger plays and call and answer songs. Put aside 45 minutes a week to have fun learning with your child and other families,
Find out more »Mayfair and Citywide Yard Sale
Music, sidewalk sales, and City-Wide Yard Sales and more! https://visitbath.com/events/mayfair/
Find out more »Harpeth Rising (chamberfolk trio)
Harpeth Rising is comprised of three classically trained musicians playing original music who are unapologetic genre-benders fusing Folk, Newgrass, Rock and Classical into something organically unique. Hallmarks of their music include expansive three-part harmonies, consummate musicianship and a deft, yet soulful, lyrical perspective.
Find out more »Tidal Predictions, Tidal Patterns, and Tidal Power: How the Ebbs and Flows Affect Your Life
Maine's First Ship Spring Lecture Series MFS volunteer Jim Parmentier will review the fundamental principles of tidal generation and prediction, describe some of the effects of tidal patterns on biological diversity, and discuss efforts currently underway to harness tidal power for electrical generation. Ocean tides are primarily caused by gravitational attractions between the earth and the moon. But the observed tide levels and current flows at any particular location depend on the interactions of ocean tides with local geographies, weather-related…
Find out more »Maine’s First Ship Annual Dinner and Silent Auction
Cannon naming rights, Arnold explorer, on tap at MFS’s Annual Dinner This year's auction includes the naming rights to one of two bronze “swivel guns” purchased through a generous grant from the Salem Van Every Foundation and Tomm Tomlinson. The guns are currently being cast by Campbell Cannon and Carriage Works of Florida, one of the country's premier cannon makers, specifically for the Virginia. Tomlinson has named the first gun "Barbari Odio", Latin for "Hated by Barbarians." The winning bidder…
Find out more »Music Together
Informal community music class for parents and caregivers with toddlers, infants and preschoolers. Build musical competence through play. Join an experienced early childhood music teacher for instrument jams, parachute dances, finger plays and call and answer songs. Put aside 45 minutes a week to have fun learning with your child and other families,
Find out more »“Mysteries, Thrillers and Suspense—Oh My!” An Evening with Kate Flora, Barbara Ross, and Joseph Souza
Kate Flora is the author of the Thea Kozak mysteries, the gritty Joe Burgess police procedurals, and two true crime books, Death Dealer and Finding Amy (co-written with Joseph Loughlin, a Portland Deputy Police Chief). She and Loughlin teamed up again for Shots Fired: The Misunderstandings, Misconceptions, and Myths about Police Shootings. She was co-author with Roger Guay of A Good Man with a Dog: A Game Warden’s 25 Years in the Maine Woods. Barbara Ross is the author of…
Find out more »Monthly Wine Tasting
Join us for our monthly wine tasting on the second Thursday of every month. Our tastings are FREE, and there is no need to sign-up. We provide light appetizers and tasting notes.
Find out more »Virginia wants you! Volunteer Docent Training
Don't know one end of a chisel from the other? Can't hit a treenail to save your life? Don't know what a treenail is? You are just what we want: Looking for people who like to talk, spin a good sea yarn, and tell the story of *Virginia*, answering such questions as, "Why is Maine's First Ship called *Virginia*?" Volunteer training Saturday May 12 from 1-3 at Bath Freight Shed. No experience required.
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