Baseball season is here, and who doesn’t like exciting stories of homeruns and heroes?

Joseph A. Dane will give a reading and discuss his book, “Dogfish Memory: Sailing in Search of Old Maine,” at the Bailey Public Library in Winthrop on Tuesday, May 22 at 6:30 p.m., as part of the library’s Lakes Region Forum. Dogfish is a meditative, unconventional memoir, chronicling a lifetime of sailing the Maine coast.

Several years ago, a storm at sea forced author and sailor Darcy Scott to take refuge in the harbor at Matinicus — Maine’s most remote island and a place infamous both for its ongoing lobster wars and gun-toting, wild west-meets-beeper-generation lifestyle.

In late 1775, a few months after the first shots of the Revolution were fired, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand troops into Quebec to attack the British