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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

Library Hours Summer hours after Memorial Day.

The Seed Library

We still have seeds to spare. Come in and check out the selection.

Monday Tuesday

4 p.m. – 8 p.m.

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. & 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Wednesday

10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Thursday

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. & 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Friday

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Saturday

Sunday

CLOSED

NEW BOOKS Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo • The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson • The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson • The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson • Me Before You & After You by Jojo Moyes

NEW MOVIES The Lady Who Lived in the Van • Concussion • Max • Sisters • In the Heart of the Sea • Avengers, Age of Ultron

The new phone directory is well underway and will be on sale at the 4 th of July picnic.

One Man’s Island by Bob Libby

June has the longest days of the year, and still, we want more daylight. Traps and gear are hauled to the wharf, boats are freighted, and lobstermen head out to the early spots where experience has taught them that the first shedders will be crawling. Chebeague honors the fishing tradition, and parking is banned for the month on the southwest edge of the Stone Wharf so that piles of traps can be loaded onto boats and carried out into the bay to be set. Once again, we see the long-practiced traditions of fathers’ and sons’ moving the traps and setting the lines, so that each can be baited and dragged off the stern in a string. Learning by doing, one gains respect for a life of work lived at a chosen pace—one in which the tides control the pace of effort the way they always have. These are the longest days, and after supper light is available for some work or relaxation— planting a garden, watching a father’s guiding hand on the back of a young child learning that first balance on a bicycle, or casting a line from Chandler’s Wharf because the mackerel will arrive any day now and, after them, the blues or a striper might follow.

Some can remember when in the late, golden light, fathers and sons would grab gloves and a baseball and play toss and catch across the back yard, with Dad tossing long looping flies for his son to run under and squeeze in a glove. Do fathers and sons still play catch? It seems a long time since I’ve seen that old game. Or maybe Dad will take you out in the boat and let you row or let you take the tiller and head the boat up enough to heel her over. Years go by and suddenly the sons tower over their fathers and the family goes across to town to watch the sons and daughters playing sports in their school’s colors. All of a sudden they are all dressed up for graduations, and we old timers shake our heads because the time goes so fast. June is the month for Father’s Day, and I like to watch the fathers on the golf course with their sons and daughters “gripping and ripping,” as John Martin likes to say. My own son will come out, and we’ll shoot a rack or toss some shoes while the grill chars the steaks. These are long and special days to treasure.

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June 2016 CHEBEAGUE ISLAND COUNCIL CALENDAR