Join us for a photo tour of Portland architecture and a brief discussion with PPL’s Archivist & Special Collections Librarian Abraham Schechter. Photo: a decorative corbel on a building in Portland.
Kids playing at the library during Bring Your Child to the Library Day
Author Gunnel Larsdotter and illustrator Jaime Hogan discuss their new release, "The Milky Way"
"I have always been drawn to portraits. I was the little girl who would sit next to my grandmother and ask her to go through her old family photo albums. I was the one who wanted to hear the story behind every picture." Explore the brilliant art of Bisa Butler.
Join us for a Book Club-style Page to Stage with the Portland Stage. Check out your copy of the script and join us two weeks before previews of each Mainstage Production.
Join us for a free film screening of "The Black Press," a documentary about the development of African American newspapers.
SOUTH PORTLAND, ME – JANUARY 21: Matondo (we are not using her full name) and her one-year-old daughter in their room at the hotel they are living at in South Portland on Friday, January 21, 2022. Matondo, her husband and their daughter have been in Maine for about a month and are just one of the hundreds of families seeking asylum that are living at hotels. (Staff photo by Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer)
Community Read events of Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower"
Woman holding a stack of books, asking, 24 books in 12 months: will you accept the challenge?