Ruth Moore Days and Sardine Songs

This Tuesday night there will be a special program at the Bass Harbor Memorial Library, which is part of the Ruth Moore Days festivities in that area. The local paper says:

There will be a presentation called "Sardines, Herring and Weirs". Publisher Gary Lawless will discuss Eleanor Mayo's sardine plant photos and read Moore's related ballads, poems and prose. 7 p.m. at the library

The event is part of the summer-long Sardine Songs and Sardine Hymns events, the complete schedule of which is online. The organizers say, of these unique cultural events:

We want to spend the summer celebrating the herring, yes the sardines, the little silver darlings, but we also want to celebrate the human cultures which grew up around the sardine fisheries. We want to spawn and promote a number of events around the state centering on the sardine, and the disappearance of the sardine related industry and culture, another kind of extinction.Please join us, and keep watching here as we will have more events to post.