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Plant Sale
Saturday, May 19 from 8:00am-noon
Come get a jump start on your garden and purchase plants supplied by Islandscaping as well as Master Gardener Elise Felton. Items will include hanging baskets, annuals, perennials, and more!
A Historic Perspective on the Civilian Conservation Corps and Judy Taylor's Painting Trail Workers
Tuesday, May 29 at 5:30pm
Historian Jack Russell will speak about the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as it relates to the two individuals depicted in Judy Taylor's piece entitled Trail Workers. What brought the two young Civilian Conservation Corps workers in the painting to Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park in the 1930s? How did their Maine families get through the Great Depression? What work did these two men and their CCC buddies do in Acadia and for the towns of our island?
Join us in the Holmes Reading Room to discover the answer to these questions and learn about this cornerstone of Acadia National Park's history here on Mount Desert Island.
ARTISTS OF THE MONTH
"Hook & I"
Handmade Hooked Rugs
The show is dedicated to the group's fearless founder Patti Wharton.
Exhibition pieces include works by: Cristy Benson, Judith Burger-Gossart, Elaine Dow (her work, Sailing, shown here), Sugar Fenton, Patsy Fogarty, Mary Hays, Cookie Horner, Karen McFarland, Anne Molavi, Nancy Weingarten, Patti Wharton, Melina White, and Sandy Wilcox.
JUNE ARTISTS OF THE MONTH
Painters
Albert P. Neilson
The sea and the coastline in the M. D. I. area have always interested me. I was taught to sail by men who hauled their lobster traps in gaffed-rigged sailboats. So, my experience of the sea was dominated by sailboats and later by active duty in the U. S. Navy. This was a duty which took me around the world. The coast of Maine, for me, competes favorably with any that I have seen worldwide. When I began to paint, coastal subjects demanded my attention. Therefore, in this exhibit the vast majority of my paintings have to do with local marine subjects.
Barbara Strubell
I started painting seriously in 2008 after a long hiatus from art to run my business Artful Designs Hair Care and raise my daughter. I decided to make the time to pursue my passion. I own and operate my hair salon full time year round. I decided to take one day a week to paint in the winter and study art history on my own. My preferred medium is oil, although this year I am taking a few watercolor and drawing classes and am planning on doing more narrative works along with my landscapes and still lifes. Realism is my style now and I am looking forward to exploring abstract art. I love to paint and am finding the more I paint and learn, the more excited I get about it. This is my second show and I am thrilled to be here at the Southwest Harbor Public Library. (Painting entitled Summer Serenity)