Swan’s Island Educational Society

Swan’s Island, Maine

Tag: This week on Swan’s Island

  • Island librarian passes away

    An island and Maine librarian passed away on February 26, 2017 at the age of 96. Charlotte Hall, librarian, lived on Swan’s Island for several years in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. She came to the island as the wife of Winslow Hall who served as pastor of the Advent Christian Church.

  • We’ve been busy….

  • MDI Y visits Swan’s Island

    Yesterday, Aaron Long from the MDI YMCA visited the library and provided a day camp for island youngsters. Fun was had during activities inside and out with Harry Potter as the theme.

  • Holidays 2014 festivities

    I don’t know about you but this past week has been all about sleeping late, eating lots of yummy leftovers and trying to do a bit of work.  I keep wanting to just take a nap.  I am showing a few photos from events at the library during December with more to be loaded into…

  • We Are Swan’s Island exhibit

    We are Swan’s Island opens to great reviews; great food, great conversation and lots of smiling faces.  The photographs shown here speak louder than any words I could write, so take time to browse. This exhibit will be hanging for a month or more so if you didn’t have the chance to stop in during…

  • Just what is a library anyway?

    Have you ever thought about this?   Is it a collection of world history and literature?  We have lost these collections many times. The Library of Alexandria is at the bottom of the Mediteranean Sea. Various political regimes or various zealots collected or destroyed written material at their whim.  There is an interesting book that…

  • The pumpkins are out on Swan’s Island

    Ellen Dyer paid us a visit to present information about CERC Maine.  CERC Maine, the Cultural Emergency Resource Coalition, initiated by the Maine State Museum, is here to help Maine’s cultural organizations – libraries, museums, archives, historic houses, and other keepers of our cultural heritage – plan for and recover from disasters.  SIES will take…

  • Almost Labor Day

    Well, I think it’s been a while since I posted anything….what a fun and event filled summer we’ve had.  Over the next week or so I should have photos and updates caught up and posted for you to see. Stay tuned….

  • An egg blew up in the library….

    Oh my goodness what fun we had last night. Egg shells went flying, hydrogen was exploding, peroxide became a flowing fountain of volcanic foam, and a purple liquid moved through the colors of the rainbow before staying orange.

  • This week on Swan’s Island

    What a busy time of year!  Craft fairs and Paw Prints Club, basketball practices, birthday parties and last night a great Holiday Concert performed by all of the students at the Swan’s Island School.  Grades K-8 preformed wonderfully as a choir even when the backup music decided not to work. A jazz ensemble and a…