WOODSTOCK – Two programs are coming up at the Whitman Memorial Library. During the first, resident Herbie Dunham will speak at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, about his book, “A Pebble on a Faraway Beach.”

The book is a memoir of his service in Korea during the Korean War. The program is free and light refreshments will be available. Dunham will offer his book free to anyone interested. All are welcome.

Mary Alice Standard discussed her book, “A Window into the Past,” at the January program. She wrote her memoirs of life in southern Mississippi during the depression for her grandchildren.

The library will participate again in the Oxford Hills area program, One Book/One Community. This year’s book is “Here if You Need Me” by the Rev. Kate Braestrup, chaplain for the Maine Warden Service.

She will be at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School at 7 p.m. Monday, March 3, at at the kick-off program for the book discussions and activities. Whitman Memorial Library will hold a discussion of the book at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13. Copies are available at the library and in other libraries around the area. The cost is $8.

There are bookmarks available that list the associated activities that will go along with the book.

One activity will be collecting books to send to a school in Africa with which Braestrup and her brother are associated. The goal is to collect 1,000 new or almost new books for young children.