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GHS Events CalendarSat, June 2, 10 am to Noon Sat, June 9, 10 am to Noon Sat, June 23, 7 pm Sun, June 24, 1-3 pm Sat, June 30, Exhibit Opening 10am-Noon Tue, July 3,7 pm Books available for purchase at event. Tue, July 17, 7 pm July 22, 12-4 pm Tue, Aug 21, 7 pm Tue, Sept 18, 7 pm Tue, Oct 16, 6 pm Potluck* 7 pm Program
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Dahlov Ipcar's Stripes and Spots Book Signing Saturday, June 2, 10 am to Noon The Georgetown Historical Society is honored to host the premier of the latest reissue of a Dahlov Ipcar children's book, Stripes and Spots, with a book signing on Saturday, June 2 from 10 am to noon. In this book, a young tiger sets out on his own to explore and hunt, determined to catch things with stripes. Meanwhile, a young leopard sets out on his own to explore and hunt, determined to catch things with spots. And, when the two youngsters meet, their adventures more than double! In Stripes and Spots the playful cats personify the exuberance and innocence of youth. Full of curiosity, the young cats swagger through a jungle full of stripes and spots determined to catch their own striped and spotted suppers, but when danger looms, perhaps they are not as independent or as brave as they think they are. Georgetown's beloved artist continues to work and paint every day and, while her art is in the permanent collections of numerous renowned museums, her books reside in the hearts of generations of children of all ages. Copies of Stripes and Spots will be available for purchase at GHS, along with many other of her reissued books. All proceeds benefit the Georgetown Historical Society. For more information, contact GHS at 371-9200, georgetownhistorical@gmail.com, or www.georgetownhistoricalsociety.org.
Georgetown Historical Society 2012 Spring Exhibit Saturday, April 7 through Friday, June 15. Georgetown Historical Society, Center for History and Culture, 20 Bay Point Road, Georgetown, Maine Contact Info: Kristen Start, 371-9200, georgetownhistorical@gmail.com On Saturday, April 7 the Georgetown Historical Society greets spring with an exhibit by painter Stuart Ross whose work has captured that island’s coastal scenes and its people over the many years he has painted them.
The artist will greet visitors and give remarks at an opening reception on Saturday, April 14, from 3-5 pm. GHS gallery hours are Wednesdays 10am -5pm, Saturdays 10am - Noon, and during other scheduled GHS program events.
Mr. Ross has taught in various colleges in Michigan, New York, as well as at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He and his family first came to Georgetown in the late nineteen sixties. He has painted and exhibited in mid-coast Maine since then and currently teaches painting, drawing, and printmaking at Midcoast Senior College in Bath. He and his wife, Nan, now live in Bath but still have property in Georgetown. For more information, contact the Georgetown Historical Society at 371-9200, email to georgetownhistorical@gmail.com new
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Says Mr. Ross, “Georgetown presents to the landscape painter a wide mix of natural systems; rocky headlands with pounding surf, salt marshes, tidal flats, coniferous woods, rock pools, an intertidal zone teeming with more life than an Iowa cornfield, and much more. It took a while for me to see the flats and marshes as exactly the visual environment that I needed. Over the years they have provided me with an endless variety of visual material, changing from season to season, day to day, hour to hour, even minute to minute. Georgetown truly is a painter's paradise.”
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