Masons to host

bean supper

A public baked bean supper will be held Saturday, Dec. 3, from 5-6:30 p.m., at the Casco Masonic Lodge, 20 Mill St, Yarmouth. Served will be three kinds of baked beans, macaroni and cheese, cole slaw, pies and biscuits, all made from scratch, and hot dogs and beverages. The cost is $10; $4 children under 12.

Library hosting

poet laureate

Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum will read from his collections of poems and essays on Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m., at Merrill Memorial Library. Kestenbaum is the author of four collections of poems, “Pilgrimage,” “House of Thanksgiving,” “Prayers and Run-on Sentences” and “Only Now,” and a collection of essays, “The View From Here.” The director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts from 1988 to 2015, he has written and spoken widely on craft making and creativity, and his poems and writing have appeared in numerous small press publications and magazines. He was appointed Maine’s poet laureate in 2016.

Group’s next book,

‘Boy, Snow, Bird’

“Boy, Snow, Bird,” a novel by Helen Oyeyemi, is the next Reader’s Circle selection and will be discussed Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m., at Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St.

In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives in a small town in Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beauty, the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his daughter, Snow, and then gives birth to Bird, whose dark skin exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African-Americans passing for white.

Film matinee

“Love Actually,” the 2003 comedy, will be screened at Merrill Memorial Library Monday, Nov. 28, at 1 p.m. Headlined by a cavalcade of stars, the film follows eight couples whose lives intersect shortly before Christmas.