The library is open:

Monday: Story Hour 9:30am - 10:30am; Noon - 5pm
Tuesday: 3pm - 6pm
Wednesday: 3pm - 6pm
Thursday: 10am - 5pm; 7pm - 9pm
Saturday: 9am - Noon

When schools are closed for bad weather, the library is closed.

How to Find the Library
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From Boston and Points South:

On entering Maine at Kittery in the south, continue northward on Interstate 95 (same as the Maine Turnpike in southern Maine) for about 50 miles to the Portland area.

At Portland, take the Interstate 495 (formerly I-295) loop through the city, rejoining I-295 (formerly I-95) near Falmouth at exit 11 (formerly exit 15). Continue north on I-295. Do NOT take the Maine Turnpike (I-95) to Augusta. Take I-295 towards Falmouth, Yarmouth, Brunswick, and Augusta. Stay on I-295 North; do NOT take scenic US Route 1 towards Bath (unless you want to).

Driving to Appleton from the Portland Airport, you would miss the shortcut I-495 loop, getting onto I-95/Maine Turnpike northbound at exit 45 or 48 (formerly exit 7 or 8). Get off the Turnpike (which becomes I-95) at exit 52 (formerly exit 9) and get onto I-295 towards Brunswick and Augusta.

On I-295, about 50 miles from Portland and before Augusta, take exit 51 (formerly exit 28) and go east on US Route 9 to the business district of Gardiner.

As you enter the city of Gardiner on Route 9, you will turn left over the Cobbosseecontee Stream at the traffic lights across from the Post Office (there is a cute old-fashioned "A-1 Diner" built right on the bridge). In a few more blocks you will be at the Kennebec River. Leave Route 201 and go straight over this large bridge (over the Kennebec River, now on Routes 27 South and 126 East). While on the bridge, get into the right lane and turn right after crossing the bridge (so you are on the east side of the Kennebec River, heading south). Go about a quarter mile and turn left onto State Route 226 North (at the auto body shop on left side). This is poorly marked: if you get to Pittston, you missed the turn! Drive north on Route 226 until it T's into Route 17 at Abbot's Market & Deli (you must turn right or left). Turn right onto Route 17 and go eastward towards Rockland for about 30 miles, through Cooper's Mills, Windsor, Washington and then to Union.

From Route 17:

As you come into Union (you will not see the town itself because Route 17 bypasses to the north of the town common) you will see big signs for the John Deere and Kubota/New Holland farm equipment dealerships to the north. Turn northward onto Route 131, right between the John Deere and Maritime Farms gas station. The next town northward on Route 131 is Appleton, about five miles. Go north from Union on Route 131, past Sennebec Pond on the right, and then bear right where Route 105 joins Route 131, staying on combined Routes 131 and 105 northbound past the Appleton Village School on the left. When you reach the village of Appleton (signs say to slow to 25 mph) you will find the Library at the edge of the St. George River in the center of town.

From Camden/Rockport:

If you are starting on the seacoast in Camden, take Route 105 through Hope to North Appleton where 105 T's into Route 131 at Tri-corner market. Turn left (south) and drive about two miles until West Appleton Road enters at a slant on the right. The village is a quarter mile further on.