CUNDY’S HARBOR — The Cundy’s Harbor Library will host a lecture and reading on Harpswell women writers at the library on Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m. Snow date will be Thursday, March 14, at 7 p.m.

The speaker is Karin Woodruff Jackson of Cundy’s Harbor, who retired from teaching English at the University of Maine at Augusta in 2008. During the 1980s she taught at Westbrook College in Portland (now part of the University of New England), where she researched Harpswell women writers as part of a grant from the Maine Humanities Council on the Maine Women Writers Collection at the college. In her talk, she will focus on images and impressions of Harpswell in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “The Pearl of Orr’s Island,” Marie Peary’s “The Snowbaby’s Own Story,” part of which tells about the Peary family’s life on Eagle Island, and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem, “Ragged Island.”

Woodruff will be assisted by Beth Dunlap Muldoon of South Harpswell, who will read selections from the various works. Muldoon is an accomplished actress, and participated in a dramatic presentation as part of the grant that Woodruff directed at Westbrook College. They presented the program to the Harpswell Historical Society at their annual meeting in August, and at the Orr’s Island Library in the fall.

For more information, call Karin W. Jackson at 725-4227 or email kzjackson40@gmail.com.