CAMDEN — The Camden Public Library will host a series of speakers and an exhibit during “Discover History Month” at the library during October. To kick off Discover History Month, The Camden-Rockport Historical Society and the Camden Public Library will co-host a display of vintage articles from the collection of the Historical Society.

Heather Moran, author of Camden and Rockport Revisited, will give a gallery talk and book talk at the library on Thursday evening, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. Moran is the director of the library’s Walsh History Center and also currently the vice president of the Camden-Rockport Historical Society. The exhibit will draw from the society’s collection of clothing from the 1840s to the 1960s.

Other events in the lecture series will include:

•Tuesday, Oct. 13, 7 p.m. — Maine Historical Society presents “Mystery History Photos.” Bring your mystery photos and spend an evening sorting through old photographs and historic objects that may be missing some identifying details. We need your knowledge and memories to help us name people, places, and events.

•Tuesday, Oct. 20, 7 p.m. — “The Maine Home Front in World War I.” Maine State Historian Earle Shettleworth will present a new lecture looking to the 100th anniversary of America’s entering World War I in 1917, a lecture based largely on real photo post cards that tells the story Maine and World War I.

•Tuesday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. – Chris Glass on “The History of the Labyrinth,” a review of the history of the various uses of labyrinths and mazes, from prehistoric graffiti through classical ornaments to medieval religious icons, renaissance pleasure gardens and today’s resurgence of the device as a form of walking meditation.

•Thursday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m. – Best-selling author Kenneth Davis will visit the library to talk about his latest book, The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah, just published in May. Davis is also the author of Don’t Know Much about History. The Hidden History of America at War is a unique, myth-shattering, and insightful look at war; why we fight, who fights our wars and what we need to know but perhaps never learned about the growth and development of America’s military forces.

Camden and Rockport Revisited, published this spring, is a new illustrated history of Camden and Rockport compiled by Heather Moran. The towns of Camden and Rockport have had a rich, intertwined history since the first settlements in the mid-1700s. Until 1891, they were one town, built on the abundant natural resources of coastal Maine. Many residents in the early 19th century were farmers that carved out a living from the soil, or fishermen that harvested the teeming waters of Penobscot Bay.

As the towns grew, successful industries were established that sustained the communities through the mid-20th century. These included fishing, textile mills, lime manufacturing, an anchor factory, and shipbuilding. Majestic schooners were built in the shipyards, and businesses such as the Bay View House hotel, S.B. Haskells clothing store, numerous livery stables and harness shops, Joseph Brewsters Shirt Manufactory, and Knowlton Brothers Foundry lined the main thoroughfares.

In Rockport, the Shepherd Company supplied lime, and the Rockport Ice Company cut ice on Lily Pond to be shipped as far as the Caribbean. These tight-knit villages, nestled where the mountains meet the sea, weathered fires and wars, celebrated the launches of massive sailing vessels, and welcomed summer rusticators who helped form a lasting legacy of arts, culture, and learning that continues to draw visitors today.