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EVENTS
You are invited to Fogler Library’s public events! Stay up-to-date by following our social media accounts listed at the bottom of this email, and check out our website for a complete listing of events.
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5 Days to Understanding PFAS: Protect your Health and the Planet
This fall, Fogler Library is proud to host a sustainability-themed email challenge on PFAs entitled “5 Days to Understanding PFAS: Protect Your Health and the Planet.”
The challenge will run from September 22–26, 2025. When you register, you will receive an email each day from Monday–Friday designed to expand your knowledge and awareness of forever chemicals, their prevalence, and steps toward mitigating their impacts. The challenge will cover what PFAS are, their environmental and health impacts, how to minimize exposure, and what steps can be taken for advocacy and long-term sustainability.
If you have questions contact librarians Christopher Clark or Meg Colbert.
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NEWS
Stay updated on events, resources and projects at Fogler Library and across UMaine Libraries. Discover what’s new and exciting in our library community!
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New installation at Fogler Library honors Penobscot history and art
Fogler Library is pleased to share a new permanent installation that highlights the rich cultural history and enduring presence of the Penobscot Nation.
The display features giclée reproductions of two 19th-century oil portraits, courtesy of the Tarratine Club of Bangor:
- Mary Pelagie (Molly Molasses), Penobscot Elder (painted posthumously by Isabel Graham Eaton)
- Sarah Polasses (Sarah Molasses), a Penobscot woman and daughter of Molly Molasses and Old John Neptune (painted by Jeremiah Pearson Hardy in 1835)
Both portraits frame a contemporary beaded medallion by Jennifer Galipeau, a citizen of the Penobscot Nation and member of the eel clan. Galipeau’s piece, Beaded Medallion (2024), incorporates glass beads, sweetgrass, abalone shell, birch bark, and brain-tanned deer hide. The medallion shows Molly and Sarah watching over the Penobscot River, offering protection for the ancestral waterway “until the sun and the moon no longer rise on the dawnland.”
Also included in the installation is an 1839 letter from Penobscot Governor John Attean and Lieutenant Governor John Neptune to Maine Governor John Fairfield. In it, the authors describe the profound impact of settler encroachment on Penobscot lands, natural resources, and lifeways.
Fogler Library would like to thank Gretchen Faulkner, Director of the Hudson Museum, which is part of the University of Maine, for her generous assistance in helping bring this installation to fruition.
This new installation serves as a space for reflection on Penobscot and wider Wabanaki history, land, and sovereignty. We invite all visitors to engage with these works and consider the long-standing and continuing relationships between Indigenous peoples and the lands now called Maine.
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Special Collections and Projects receives Libby manuscripts
Special Collections and Projects recently received a donation of manuscripts of “Thoughts While Shaving” columns authored by former University of Maine President Winthrop C. Libby (1969–1973). The articles were published in the “Ellsworth American” from 1973 through 1991 and offer a wonderful insight into a variety of topical issues ranging from vehicles to retirement. The columns also offer fascinating details of Libby’s time as president and life growing up picking potatoes in Caribou, Maine.
The articles were kindly donated to Special Collections by Libby’s son Dr. Lawrence (Larry) W. Libby ’62, pictured looking at photographs of his father from the University Archive. Also pictured below (right) is President Winthrop C. Libby.
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UMaine Libraries Companion Animals Feature: Gaius and Frankie Frinklepod
This month’s companion animals come to us from Rosie Seaber, administrative specialist and assistant financial manager at Fogler Library.
First up Gaius, who is an 18-year-old European Burmese. Seaber and her sister/housemate adopted Gaius and his sister, Drusilla, last year at the age of 17. Sadly, Drusilla succumbed to advanced age a few months later, but Gaius is still going strong and is a wonderful, loving and very loud cat — typical of the Burmese breed. The other feline in the family is Frankie Frinklepod, a tiger and white girl who was adopted from P.A.W.S. in Camden three years ago. She is believed to be around 13 years old, but she dashes around the house like a delinquent 2-year-old. Both cats are very much adored and totally rule the roost in the household.
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FEATURED RESOURCE
Find unique databases and online resources available through the UMaine Catalog to enhance your research, teaching and learning. Explore something new each week!
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Oxford English Dictionary
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