Library selling books

All books at the South Windham Public Library, 857 Gray Road in Gorham, are for sale as the library is closing at the end of August.

Sale times and dates are 4-7 p.m. on Friday, July 13; 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, July 14; and, if needed, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4. The sale includes some furniture.

The library is the quaint, yellow building on the Gorham shore of the Presumpscot River. Additional parking is available nearby at Sawyer’s Store.

The Gorham Town Council was to decide fate of the building at its meeting Tuesday, July 3, after American Journal deadline. The building could face demolition as it is on private property.

Plowman

to attend UNC

Emily Plowman, who graduated from Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass., in June, will attend the University of North Carolina in at Greensboro in the fall. Plowman is the daughter of Bonny and Steven Plowman of Gorham.

Plowman participated in a number of student organizations on campus including the Association for Black and Latino Encouragement, the Gay-Straight Alliance, the Cultural Coffeehouse, and a group called Real Talk. She served as a captain of her varsity volleyball team and also played several seasons of junior varsity soccer, softball and lacrosse.

Author of ‘Mothers who Murdered’

to speak

Annette Dorey, author of “Maine Mothers Who Murdered 1875-1925: Doing Time in State Prison,” will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 12, at the North Gorham Public Library, corner of Standish Neck and North Gorham roads.

Using newspaper stories of their trials and other primary sources, Dorey wrote of their family lives and the desperate situations that led to their crimes.

The program is free. For more information, call the library at 892- 2575.

Baxter museum tours

The Baxter House Museum, 67 South St., in Gorham, is open 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays through August. The museum is also be open by special appointment.

James Phinney Baxter gave his family home built in 1797 to the town of Gorham in 1907 as a museum. Baxter was the father of a former Maine governor, Percival Baxter and the museum contains many Baxter family artifacts besides other Gorham memorabilia.

The museum is located next to Baxter Memorial Library.

Admission is free but donations are accepted. For more information, call Linda Frinsko, museum director, at 839-3878.