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Library programs move online! This screenshot of a tweet advertises a literary lunch program with author Layne Witherell, in collaboration with Print: a Bookstore. Witherell will discuss his book, Wine Maniacs.

Exterior views of Veranda Asian Market, 695 Forest Avenue, Portland. The grocery market and takeout business, specializing in Vietnamese delicacies, at Woodfords Corner, opened in 2012.

I have an electric car. I try to limit going out to 1-2n days a week. The other day I noticed that a spider had made a web on my charger.

Tweets inspired by the events of the past month.

Exterior view of Tu Casa Salvadorena Restaurant, 70 Washington Avenue, Portland. The Salvadorean restaurant on Munjoy Hill was opened by Etlinda Alvarez in 2001. Among the Central American delicacies served are Pupusas revueltas (corn pancakes…

The last member of the older generation of my family was Aunt Sophie, who died in 2011. I wanted to pay tribute to them, and to her, by creating a piece of art. This came together during COVID as I had the time to work on it. The back panel is a…

What the pandemic experience has been teaching me.
This essay is more of an observation and less of a complaint about the human condition and how fragile and interdependent we humans ultimately are.

Abbott K, age 8, student
Scott K, Artist (he painted Moby Dick hanging in the PPL Atrium)
Gail K, School Occupational Therapist

This photograph and caption was submitted via email to a Portland Public Library staff member.