Skidompha Public Library – Connecting Community in Damariscotta, Maine

Welcome to Skidompha Public Library!

Skidompha Library is located in the center of Damariscotta, and serves the communities of Damariscotta, Newcastle, and Nobleboro. We hope to see you soon!

In 2025, Skidompha Public Library will celebrate our 120th anniversary! In 1905, the Skidompha Library Association was incorporated and its collection of 1476 books was given to Damariscotta, Newcastle, and Nobleboro as the start of a Free Public Library, and we have been honored to be a part of this community ever since. We are looking forward to sharing this milestone with all of you! If you would like to share your stories and memories of Skidompha, click here!

Take a peek below to see what’s happening at the Library!

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DiversiTEA Book Club⁠
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Next week!⁠
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DiversiTEA Book Club⁠
Wednesday, April 30th | 3:15pm - 4:15pm⁠
Skidompha Library | Carpenter Room | Teens and Adults⁠
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Broaden your reading horizons by joining us to enjoy tea and authors from a different country! April will highlight yerba mate and Argentinian authors. Suggested reading is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

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Free Screening of Free for All: T

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Free Screening of Free for All: The Public Library⁠
Thursday, April 24 | 6:00 PM⁠
Lincoln Theater⁠
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Free for All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the "Free Library Movement" to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institutions where everything is free and the doors are open to all. Join Skidompha at the Lincoln Theater for a free screening of the documentary. An opportunity for discussion will follow the film.

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Earth Day Celebration!⁠
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This afternoon!⁠
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Earth Day Celebration!⁠
Tuesday, April 22nd | 1:00 - 2:30pm⁠
Skidompha Library | Teen Room ⁠
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Join Hearty Roots at Skidompha Library to make posters celebrating Earth Day!

Thanks to everyone for making Peep-a-palooza fun!

Thanks to everyone for making Peep-a-palooza fun!

Ready for Peep-a-palooza?? We have peeps and craft

Ready for Peep-a-palooza?? We have peeps and craft materials in the Atrium for a fun spring craft!

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Next week!⁠
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SAFE CROSSING: A Special Event with Author Kari Percival and Midcoast Conservancy⁠
Friday, April 25 | 10:00am |Porter Hall⁠
All Ages are Welcome!⁠
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Join us for this very special event that celebrates citizen science, migratory amphibians, and Percival’s new book: Safe Crossing. The event will include a reading and book signing with the author, a frog calling contest, a vernal pool bean bag game, and a chance to learn more about the related work done right here in Lincoln County. Percival, who also wrote How to Say Hello to a Worm: A First Guide to Outside, shares a bit about why she wrote Safe Crossing:⁠
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I wrote SAFE CROSSING to inspire young readers to get to know the nature neighbors in their own backyards. This book shares a story about the spring migration of salamanders, frogs and toads, but this is just one example. Everywhere on Earth, even where you live, might be somewhere special and important to other wild living things. Who are your nature neighbors? Where do they go? What wild foods grow that they need to eat? Where do their babies grow? What habitat do they need to live? Is there something we can do to be a good neighbor to them? ⁠
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We hope you will join us for this exciting event.

Tomorrow!⁠
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PEEP-A-PALOOZA!⁠
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Tomorrow!⁠
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PEEP-A-PALOOZA!⁠
Saturday, April 19 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM⁠
Skidompha Atrium⁠
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Come join us for Skidompha’s First Annual PEEP-A-PALOOZA! These perennial little confections are a sure sign of spring, and they make for some great art projects! Stop by to create your own Peep diorama. We’ll provide the Peeps and lots of craft supplies- you supply a box or cardboard base for your Peep creation, and whatever other props or materials which inspire you. We hope you’ll join us for some light-hearted (and sticky-sweet) fun!

Coming up!⁠
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Virtual Book Club: Fuzz by Mary

Coming up!⁠
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Virtual Book Club: Fuzz by Mary Roach⁠
Wednesday, May 21 | 6:30 - 7:30 PM⁠
Zoom | Registration Required⁠
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Join us online for monthly book discussions to meet new people, discover new genres and titles, and share the joy of reading with others. To join, please email info@skidompha.org or call the library at 207-887-0919.⁠
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Join "America’s funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.⁠
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What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.⁠
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Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque.⁠
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Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to "problem" wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem―and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.

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