Valerie’s flower show titled “A Shower of Flowers” will be on display at the Bremen Library from Sept. 6 through Sept.27th . Flowers on Monhegan Island, at the Boothbay Botanical Gardens, Pemaquid Lighthouse and her mom’s property, as well as in her own backyard, have offered an array of beauty that beckon her to paint them. Valerie will have framed and matted art, note cards of her flower paintings, and her poetry book The Wonder of It All – Revealed through Poetry and Art, which includes her artwork complementing each poem, on display for all to enjoy. An opening reception will be on Wednesday, Sept. 10th from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Reception is free and open to the public.

The Bremen Library will be hosting a book talk and signing by Don Loprieno, author of “Past and Present: Retracing Paths Now Mostly Hidden”.Don Loprieno has maintained a lifelong interest in education and history, and for nearlytwenty years developed and implemented interpretive programs for the public and schoolgroups at two Revolutionary War historic sites in the lower Hudson Valley – NewWindsor Cantonment and Stony Point Battlefield which he also managed.In 1996, he received the Rockland County New York’s Preservation Merit Award forPreservation Leadership. Don lives in Bristol, Maine with his wife Page Lockhart, andtheir cat Clio. Don has also written two other books- The Stony Point Whisker Club: MyTravels with Cato from the Hudson Valley and The Enterprise In Contemplation: TheMidnight Assault of Stony Point. This summer Don published yet a third book, this one called Past and Present .Someone once said that two-thirds of the word “history” is the word “story”; and if the story is told in an engaging and compelling way, it can generate an interest it may have lacked before. That’s the premise of Past and Present, a series of columns published weekly by the Lincoln County News and now for the first time brought together in a single volume. Each column - some thirty in all - is a story unto itself, some with photographs, most in color, all a catalogue of events and individuals famous in their own time, mostlyforgotten in ours.Don has been scheduling readings and signings in local libraries (three so far) with the nextone slated for the Bremen Library on Thursday September 11 at 5 PM. This program is free and open to the public. Copies of Past and Present will be signed and sold with the profits donated to the library.