Thursday, November 5

6:30 – 8:00 pm
via Zoom

It’s essential for everyone to know how to be proactive, what to expect in the aftermath of a crisis, and the importance of individual and community resilience before and after disaster hits. Wherever you live, there are things you can do on a personal level—neighbors helping neighbors. Learn how federal, state, and local governments prepare for disaster and what you can do to help yourself, your family and your neighbors. Chief Thurlow’s 44+ year career with the Scarborough Fire Department has developed his expertise in crisis response and disaster preparedness. The Chief’s overview will last an hour and will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Fire Chief B. Michael Thurlow is a life-long Scarborough resident who graduated from Scarborough High School and attended Southern Maine Community College.  He followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and uncles by joining the Scarborough Fire Department as soon as he was old enough at the age of 16.  Michael has served as a member of the Pine Point fire company for nearly 45 years.  He was appointed the Town's part-time Emergency Management Director in 1980, a position he has held for 40 years.  Four days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 Michael was appointed as Scarborough's career Fire Chief.  Michael is married to his wife of 33 years Malvina, and they have a son, Michael, who was the 4th generation of the family to serve on the fire department, and now serves as a career Scarborough Police Officer.

Registration is required for this program.

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Our Town: A Live Reading
Written by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Janie Downey

Saturday, November 7
2:00 pm
via Zoom

Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners, NH and the everyday lives of its citizens during the early years of the 20th Century. Careful readers of our Community Read 2020 book selection, This is Chance!, will be aware of the central thematic role that Our Town plays in the book. Still one of the most performed plays anywhere after more than 80 years, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town is widely considered an American classic and a long-time staple of local and high-school theater productions. Come join us as a talented local cast drawn from the Lyric Music Theater, Royal River Community Players, and a host of other great local theaters performs a live reading of Our Town. You won’t want to miss this unique communal experience of watching Wilder’s classic celebration of community and human life along with your friends and neighbors. It’ll be an intimate COVID-style virtual theatrical experience! A Q&A with the cast and director will follow.

Registration is required for this program.

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Everything Moves: Stories from the Great Alaskan Earthquake 
co-hosted with Anchorage Public Library

Saturday, November 14
3:00pm-4:30pm
via Zoom

We’ll be joined in this afternoon program by the patrons and librarians of Anchorage Public Library, who will be sharing their memories and photographs from the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964, and their reflections on how the effects of the quake have impacted Anchorage in the decades that followed. After the presentation, there will be time for questions and conversation with our friends from Anchorage, so be sure to bring your curiosity and your earth-shaking questions about life in Alaska, then and now. Come join us in expanding the idea of just how big a Community can be!

Registration is required for this program.

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Traces the story of mid-twentieth-century spy Virginia Hall, detailing her pivotal role in coordinating Resistance activities in Europe that helped change the course of World War II.