Preschool Storytime
2025-11-26 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Spaulding Memorial Library, 282 Sebago Rd., Sebago, ME, 04029, United States
Join Spaulding Memorial Library for some low key gentle reading time during preschool Storytime before your high key Thanksgiving plans. We will be reading stories, singing songs, and doing activities themed around the holiday and gratitude. We are grateful for you and the chance to see you every week.

Holiday Card Making Party
2025-11-29 09:00 - 13:00
Join Zach this Saturday as we make some holiday cards to send to our loved ones. Store bought cards are so expensive! If you like to send holiday cards, but can’t justify the cost, this event might be for you. Or maybe you just like to get crafty on a cool fall weekend. Or maybe you just want to be social with some crafty folks. Either way, stop by!
The plan is to use up old holiday cards that we have saved from years past by cutting them up into new works of art. Sometimes that is a matter of cutting off a perfectly good card cover and repasting it onto a fresh new piece of cardstock. But we can also let our imaginations run wild and follow where they take us. Collaging is fun with others because you get exponential amounts of inspiration from peeking at the designs around you.
We will try to have some materials like glue sticks and cardstock. You might want to bring your favorite paper cutting scissors. We will also need a good supply of old holiday cards. Old pieces of wrapping paper and ribbon might be something you could bring, as well.
We may not be able to make enough for our whole holiday card lists in this one sitting, but we can at least make a start. Depending on feedback, we could have one or more card making parties in the next month.

Preschool Storytime
2025-12-03 13:00 - 14:00
Join us every Wednesday at 1pm (holiday hours may shift to 11am) for stories, songs, and play time. Check Facebook, the Shopping Guide, Bridgton News, or our sign for theme announcements.

Orson the Therapy Dog's December Visit
2025-12-03 16:00 - 17:00
Orson the therapy dog is coming back to the library the first Wednesday of December. Looking for something to do after school and just before dinner? A visit with Orson is just the ticket. Last month, he proved that he is a distinguished gentleman. He is really good at performing tricks for treats, although only his handler is allowed to give him treats per therapy dog rules. He also really liked our Storytime rug. To him, the planets were balls that he thought he could move with his paws. There’s nothing like the unconditional love that a dog can give, so come get a small dose from Orson.

Therapy Dog Louis
2025-12-06 11:00 - 12:00
Louis the Therapy Dog is coming back to the library in December. This first visit comes on Santa Claus day. Do you think that is a coincidence? Maybe Louis is a secret messenger for Santa and you can bring him your wish list and make your case for being on the nice list this year. Louis is a pretty good judge of character. Or you could just come in to read a story, get a cuddle, and feel a little better about your day. Louis isn’t picky. He’s here for you. Come on in and see him.

Preschool Storytime
2025-12-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-12-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-12-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-31 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for Storytime every Wednesday at 1pm (holiday hours may shift to 11am) for stories, songs, and play time. Check Facebook, the Shopping Guide, Bridgton News, or our sign for theme announcements.

Knitting in the Library
2025-12-13 09:00 - 13:00
Knitting is a fun indoor activity in the winter. It can be a lonely project at home, or a fun social event you share with others. We’re inviting you in to make it a social event this winter. This is our first of two Saturdays in December when we’ll be offering some knitting time. Maybe we should call it fiber arts time, because you should feel free to bring in your other cross-stitch, darning, mending, or any other hand projects you are working on. Bring your questions for your fellow artisans. Bring your knowledge for your fellow artisans. Get encouragement. Feel inspired. Share your recent accomplishments.

Cookie Walk 2025
2025-12-14 14:00 - 16:00
The most wonderful time of the year is upon us, the Spaulding Memorial Library’s annual Cookie Walk! We will have tables positively laden with delicious cookies and sweet treats set up in the middle of the library. You will purchase a box to fill.
Large boxes are $10 and small boxes are $5.
Take your box for a walk around the table, filling it with whichever cookies or treats look the most tempting. Or be daring and try one of each. As long as your box closes, you’re good to go. If it doesn’t close, no big deal. You can always buy a second. You’re worth it! Santa isn’t the only one who likes cookies and milk this time of year. After the Cookie Walk you will be well stocked for you, Santa, and that holiday potluck you forgot about.

Therapy Dog Louis
2025-12-20 11:00 - 12:00
We are in the middle of the 10 darkest weeks of the year, so come to the library to let the light of Louis the Therapy Dog shine upon you. The longest night is just around the corner as we approach the Winter Solstice. A hug from this pup can warm you like a summer’s day. Your day will feel brighter just for having visited him. We all need a boost sometimes and that is what Louis is here for. He’s no frills, no pressure. Just come with your authentic self and Louis will love you for it. Sit quietly together, read him a good winter story, you’ll know what to do.

Knitting in the Library
2025-12-27 09:00 - 13:00
Knitting is a fun indoor activity in the winter. It can be a lonely project at home, or a fun social event you share with others. We’re inviting you in to make it a social event this winter. This is the second of two Saturdays in December when we’ll be offering some knitting time. Maybe we should call it fiber arts time, because you should feel free to bring in your other cross-stitch, darning, mending, or any other hand projects you are working on. Bring your questions for your fellow artisans. Bring your knowledge for your fellow artisans. Get encouragement. Feel inspired. Share your recent accomplishments.

Orson the Therapy Dog
2026-01-07 16:00 - 17:00
Orson the Therapy Dog is going to make his first visit to Spaulding Memorial library for the new year! Come down for a visit. He’s super friendly.

Maine Teen Author Visit
2026-01-17 16:00 - 18:00
“How many of you are there?” the biggest organic asks with an angry tone and furrowed eyebrows. It’s a male human, with a heavy, sagging pink face and a cut on his lip from where Frankie must have punched him. I try to avoid looking at that; it’s wet and red there, organics are wet in so many different ways and it unnerves me.
— Excerpt from Factory Town
Ramona Rowe will be visiting Spaulding Memorial this January. This is a talk for all ages! Ramona is coming to talk about her new book Factory Town. She published the book through The Telling Room. The Telling Room empowers youth through writing and shares their voices with the world. Focused on young writers ages 6 to 18, they seek to build confidence, strengthen literacy skills, and provide real audiences for our students. They believe that the power of creative expression can change our communities and propel youth toward future success as published authors, community leaders, and agents of positive change.
There will be a time for a question and answer period after Ramona reads a selection from her book. Her books and others from different teen writers who have been published through The Telling Room will be available for purchase.
“We’re machines, kiddo. Humans can go to rusting therapy, or drink coffee, or get dogs. The best thing we can hope for is better data storage.”
— Excerpt from Factory Town
Ramona Rowe is a junior at Portland High School with a love of bad sci-fi, ridiculous fantasy, and her irritating cats. When not writing, she’s drawing supervillains and space aliens or scrolling through Wikipedia to learn everything about everything. Or if not everything, electrolarynxes, Star Wars, and Providence, Rhode Island. Factory Town is based on her love of science fiction and her family experiences in Worcester (which have always included less explosions and more Vietnamese food).

Jigsaw Puzzle Race
2026-01-29 16:00 - 18:00
Gather your team of 2 to 4 people to compete in this puzzle race. Your team will race other groups and the clock to see who can complete a 300 piece puzzle first.
Each team will be given the same 300 piece puzzle provided by the library. They will have two hours to complete the puzzle. The team who finishes first or completes the most before the time is called wins!
All ages are welcome! Registration is required as space is limited. One registration per team.
Please email us at spauldingmemoriallibrary [at] gmail [dot] com to register.

Maine Speaks Presents Elizabeth DeWolfe
2026-02-05 16:00 - 18:00
Mark your calendars for this midwinter event. University of New England professor Elizabeth DeWolfe is coming to Spaulding Memorial library to give us a historical presentation about Maine’s women who worked in factories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s titled Dangerous Temptations: Textile ‘Factory Girls’ in Fact and Fiction.
The 1849 “murder” of textile worker Berengera Caswell shattered the tranquility of life in Saco and Biddeford. In the wake of her death, authors published over a dozen tales set in Maine factory towns. To protect Maine’s young, female workforce throughout the state, short stories and novellas reviewed the “dangerous temptations” young people found in Maine’s cities, and offered advice on how to avoid Caswell’s tragic fate. These sensationalized, gothic stories were eagerly read cautionary tales that offered young women (and their nervous parents) guideposts to safety. But did the factory girls take the advice?
Elizabeth DeWolfe is Professor of History at the University of New England where she teaches courses in women’s history, archival research, and American culture. Dr. DeWolfe is a historical detective: she hunts archives for the traces of ordinary women, piecing together their all-but-forgotten lives from faint clues.
Dr. DeWolfe’s latest work, Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy, reveals the tale of a Maine stenographer turned undercover detective. Her previous work includes the award-winning book The Murder of Mary Bean which illustrates the great opportunities as well as the dangers for young women working in the textile mills of the 1830s and 1804s. DeWolfe has also written about the Shakers, Victorian hair jewelry makers, and a Maine woman’s battle with bullfrogs in the Great Depression.

Author Visit: Edith Netter
2026-03-12 16:00 - 17:00
In case of snow, the snow date will be Saturday, March 14th at 4pm.

Edith Netter is a retired lawyer, mystery fan, and world traveler. She uncovers and narrates in the voice of her grandmother stories about her family, Jewish-Germans who survived the Holocaust. She spent years actively researching the past, even retracing her grandmother’s journey to freedom. What she learned was harrowing, unique and new. Her family had not wanted to talk about the Holocaust.

Edith divides her time between tiny, beautiful Denmark, Maine and equally beautiful, but different Belmont, MA. She’s written and edited land use law publications, taught land use law in graduate programs and law schools, been a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, served on city and nonprofit boards. She co-produced a nationally-televised, award-winning documentary on women in prison.

“The House at Schumannstrasse 7”, Maine Authors Publishing (July 2025) is a Holocaust survivors’ tale preceded by an arrest and an internment in England during WWI, told in the author’s grandmother’s voice. A beloved home seized by the Nazis, a German concentration camp, several British internment camps, the Kindertransport and a never-before-chronicled account of a fraught journey by “sealed train” from Berlin to Lisbon are key elements of this survivors’ tale. The story captures the family’s grit, courage and refusal to let go of hope.

For more information, including where to purchase a paperback or a kindle version of my book, see: edithnetterauthor.com.

Maine Author Visit: Kalee Gwarjanski
2026-04-22 13:00 - 14:00
Mark your calendar for this Earth Day author visit. Kalee Gwarjanski is the author of Miss MacDonald Has a Farm and she will visit us for a special Storytime.
