AUBURN — Auburn Public Library will host several indoor events as part of the 11th annual Auburn Winter Festival.

On Thursday, Feb. 3, Douglas Hodgkin will present a program called “Winter Life in Lewiston-Auburn Before the Electric Age,” in which he’ll draw from diaries and newspaper accounts to show how ancestors worked, got around, stayed warm, prepared food and entertained themselves through the long winter months before the age of electric lighting, four-wheel drive, space age fabrics and gasoline powered snow removal.

Hodgkin, a Lewiston native, is professor emeritus of political science at Bates College and the editor of the Androscoggin Historical Society newsletter, Androscoggin History. His most recent books on various aspects of Lewiston-Auburn history include “The Lewiston and Auburn Railroad Company, 1872–2009” and “The Baptists of Court Street, Auburn, Maine.”

It is a free Brown Bag Lunch program that begins at noon in the library’s Androscoggin Community Room. Attendees are welcome to bring a bagged lunch if they like, or to order at the Library Café.

Other Winter Festival events taking place at APL include a screening of the family movie, “Snow Buddies,” 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29; Frank Capra movie, “Lost Horizon,” 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1; and a children’s program of “Family Snowman Stories,” 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 4. Admission to Lost Horizon is 50 cents; all other programs are free.

For more information, see the library Web site at www.auburnpubliclibrary.org or call the reference desk at 333-6640, ext. 4.