In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain we learned about the Mississippi River and its importance to the community.  Here in Maine in the 1840s and beyond what was happening on our own Union River? 

This exhibit explores shipbuilding in Ellsworth, woods camps, rusticators, logging along the river, mills in Ellsworth Falls and artwork of the river

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The exhibit contains, photographs, paintings, mill records, artifacts and stories loaned to the library by Ellsworth Public Library, the Courthouse Gallery, the Penobscot Marine Museum, Kevin Cline from the Union River Watershed Coalition, Michael Honey, University of Maine Folklife Center, Wayne Smith, Nancy Alexander and Dana Haynes.  The library is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9-5, Wednesday, 9-7 and Saturday, 9-1

This exhibit is part of The Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.  www.neabigread.org   and Island Readers and Writers    www.islandreadersandwriters.org