LEWISTON – A Lewiston native whose latest book chronicles Benedict Arnold’s march north through Maine to Canada will hold a reading Monday in the Lewiston Public Library.

Thomas Desjardin will read from “Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec, 1775, ” just published by St. Martin’s Press.

And he’ll answer questions about the now infamous campaign against Britain’s Quebec City fortress.

To get there, unprepared American colonists became mired in the dense Maine forests.

Hundreds starved, drowned, froze or succumbed to smallpox.

Free and open to the public, the event will be at 7 p.m. in the library’s Marsden Hartley Cultural Center.

Desjardin, who lives in Pittsfield, also has written “Stand Firm, Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign,” “These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory” and “Joshua L. Chamberlain.”

Democrats to hear about TABOR

AUBURN – The City Democratic Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Community Meeting Room of the Auburn Police Station.

A general business session will be followed by a presentation by Ed Cervone of the Maine Center for Economic Policy on the topic of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights.

Refreshments will be available during and following the meeting.

All registered Democrats who live in Auburn are being asked to attend these meetings, which are the second Tuesday of each month at the same location.

Visitors are welcome.

For more information, people can call Ed or Sheila at 777-3125.

Lewiston Democrats to meet

LEWISTON – The City Democratic Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at 213 Lisbon St.

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