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Chebeague Island Library

846-4351 phone • 846-4358 fax cheblib@hotmail.com http://chebeague.chebeague.lib.me.us/ winnebago/search/search.asp

Did you know? • Students print for free. Students have access to our box of school supplies (i.e., poster paper, markers, notebook paper, and other stuff.) • The Library has a guillotine cutter, paper punch for your use, and laminator and office supplies for purchase.

Note: unfortunately, our online catalogue isn’t functioning. Please either call or email if you are looking for a book. Poet Sheila Jordan’s new collection of poetry “Blue Ceiling” is for sale. All proceeds to benefit the Library.

Volume 10 of the Island Reader , sponsored by the Maine Seacoast Mission, is available, and the publishers are looking for submissions of poetry and stories for their next volume.

Winter Hours

NEW MOVIES My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Hunt for the Wilderpeople The Shallows Hello, My Name is Doris Poldark, Season 1

Sun & Mon

Closed

Tuesday

4 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Wednesday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Thursday 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. Friday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

One Man’s Island by Bob Libby

On our island the eleventh month enters like the eleventh hour. Soon the trees will mostly stand bare; a stubborn few will hold worn dry leaves like tattered battle flags. Even the evergreens have dumped mounds of needles to be raked and heaped around the roses. We are saddened by the shortened days; light deprivation is real to our psyches. We who are early risers like to walk the beaches and ledges as our place on the planet turns toward the sun. In November that dawn arrives three hours later and much colder than a few months ago. One might not walk barefooted by the shore. Sand and grasses crunch with frost. Now the commuters ride the Islander in darkness and return in darkness. October’s full harvest moon rose over the recently shuttered Chebeague Island Inn reflecting a path across the bay toward Cousins Island wharf and illuminating a multicolored foliage quilt thrown over the island’s flanks. November’s next full moon will rise over bare trees in dark skies. Out in the garden and woods now, we hear sporadic gunshots and the herd of deer that we have observed all summer under the apple trees on the golf

course and nibbling daylilies in our garden has headed to the low bogs of the back shore. As we amend the soil and plant the garlic bulbs, the scent of wood smoke permeates all.We look forward to evening with another oak log thrown on the hearth and Paula’s warm stew steaming on the plate. How ironic that Thanksgiving is celebrated in November and families eagerly come to our island to celebrate family traditions. We will be thankful that the ugliest election cycle of our lifetimes will be over and we can turn our attention to the real problems that our community faces. The evidence of the effects of climate change are beyond dispute. The ocean surrounding our island is changing in ways that will challenge the resilience and innovation of our citizens. The optimists among us work now to make the future better, bulbs are planted, compost piles are turned. The fishing, clamming, and aquaculture groups are discovering methods to protect the harvest from the sea. We have dark days ahead, but we will persevere, and experience teaches us that spring will come again.

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NOVEMBER 2016 CHEBEAGUE ISLAND COUNCIL CALENDAR