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Summer

Summer ! Being outside ! Cook-outs !

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 And all hail to Marjorie Standish and her down-home Maine recipes.  Marjorie was a local resident who was the longtime food columnist for the Maine Sunday Telegram.  Her two books of collected recipes – Cooking Down East and Keep Cooking – The Maine Way – are both available to borrow from the Gardiner Public Library.

Check out her delicious and classic recipes for:
                Melt-in-your-mouth blueberry cake
                Baked beans
                Barbecued chicken
                Dilled string beans
                Dump bars
                Baked stuffed lobster
Now those would make a great cookout meal !

Summer Reads

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Summer reading allows us to escape the dreariness of winter while allowing us to enjoy the sun and imagine ourselves in another setting.  Some new items at the Gardiner Public Library that folks may enjoy this summer are:
Still life with bread crumbs by Anna Quindlen.  Broken by city life, an aging woman moves to a small cabin the middle of nowhere where she finds peace, inspiration, and the unexpected love of a husky roofer 30 years her junior.
Cell by Robin Cook.  This medical thriller is about the smartphone’s new role in medicine – and will both please and scare fans of the genre.  A medical app called iDoc seems to be killing patients.  Has it been hacked?
The flight of the Silvers by Daniel Price.  A thrilling genre-bending saga about six extraordinary people whose fates become entwined on an Earth far different from their own.
You can date boys when you are forty by Dave Barry.  The funny man discusses parenting and other tops about which he knows very little.
Maine Coast & Islands by Christina Tree.  Here is an explorer’s guide to help you find some new places in Maine just waiting to be discovered by you.
Five-plant gardens by Nancy Ondra.  Here are 52 ways to grow a perennial garden with just five plants.
Our web site at www.gpl.lib.me.us<https://www.gpl.lib.me.us>  will direct everyone to our hours and services, including using your library card to download audiobooks or ebooks  from home.

Maine Movie Marathon!

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Ah, summer in Maine!  For those who can’t experience it in person, there is the charm of a movie set in Maine during the summer.  Two you may not have seen are The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold (2008), a comedy action adventure starring artist William Wegman’s Weimaraner dogs and set in the Rangeley area and the Disney film Summer Magic (1963) starring Haley Mills and Dorothy Maguire.
 
 
Remember A Summer Place (1959) with Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, and Dorothy McGuire set at a Maine resort? The remake of The Parent Trap (1998) with Lindsay Lohan set at a Maine children’s camp? Andre(1994) about that famous seal from Rockport?

 

Here are a few movies you have probably seen…..but do you know wherethey were filmed in Maine?
Message in a bottle (1999) Kevin Costner, Paul Newman, and Robin Wright Penn starred in this 1999 hit movie filmed in Phippsburg (at Popham Beach), Bath, New Harbor, and Portland.

 

Peyton Place (1957) This 1957 film starring Lana Turner and Hope Lange was filmed in Camden and Belfast, and is still a classic.

 

Carousel (1956) This 1956 classic starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones was filmed in Boothbay Harbor and Newcastle.

 

The Whales of August (1987) with Bette Davis and Lillian Gish, was filmed on Cliff Island near Portland.
 Scott Handville, Assistant Director