Category: Event

Robert Spencer’s second historical novel, PROSPECTS, will be released on March 15, 2020. It is based on the life of Clarence Potter, a Canadian miner who moved from the backwoods of Northern Ontario to Maine in 1897 to make a fortune in the mines of Oxford County and to find a new wife. Spencer captures the tenor of an era when opportunities for improvement n life were growing for both men and women. 

Robert Spencer is scheduled to be here at the Bridgton Public Library in May, we will keep you posted…

We are very pleased to offer another Maine Author Series through the spring beginning in April.

Please join us on Saturday, April 18th, 1:00-2:00 in our Main Reading Room for a reading and discussion by the author of Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage.  We’ll explore Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk, which lasts about 40 minutes.

Robert W. Spencer will be back for a reading and discussion of his new novel, Prospects on Saturday, May 16th. 

The third author in this series is Matthew Cost, who has written several historical novels. His most recent is I Am Cuba; Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Previous works include Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War. He will be at the BPL on Saturday, June 20th.

All of our Maine Authors will be in the BPL Main Reading Room, and each event is from 1:00-2:00pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Registration is requested for these events.