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This meeting has been rescheduled from January 26.

This month at Open Book Society, we’re celebrating For the Love of Books, the stories that stole our hearts and never let go.

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell.

This month at Open Book Society, we’re leaning into all the good feelings with the theme Connection and Community.

Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior.

“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”