Events

The ROCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY will be the site for Town of Rockport residents to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 4, from 8 AM to 8PM. Voting will take place in the lower level of the library, and the main level of the library will be CLOSED. For more information about voting in Rockport, including items on the ballot, CLICK HERE.

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 6 p.m., the Rockport Public Library will host Maine author Barbara Kent Lawrence for an event introducing her new book, Both Sides of the Pond — My Family’s War: 1933 - 1946. The presentation will incorporate artifacts and highlight the author’s “Ah-ha” moments while conducting background research. The book tells the story of Lawrence’s mother Barbara Greene, a young British actress who met Joe Kennedy, Jr. (son of the American Ambassador) in January of 1939. Their relationship would lead to her emigrating to the United States and learning to pilot a plane. The book also cover the experiences of Lawrence’s uncle Kent (Barbara Green’s brother), his bitter retreat from Dunkirk when he left England in January 1940 to fight in France, and his subsequent service on the frontlines in Cornwall, North Africa, Sicily, and Burma. Evan Thomas, author of two New York Times best-selling books, including Road to Surrender states, “Barbara Lawrence has given us an intimate, harrowing, and vivid portrait of two young people engulfed by a world war . . . For anyone who wants to know what it is really like to have your world turned upside down, read this book and be shocked, thrilled, and...