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September 28, 2023 Weekly Newsletter In this Issue |
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Tuesday, October 17th, 12pm-1:30pm YA Room Come in to learn about creating a character for Dungeons and Dragons! Creating a character is often one of the more arduous and confusing elements when starting up a campaign, especially for new players and those who wish to play spellcasters. From the number crunch side of character creation to the narrative aspects of making your character feel real, we'll roll up character sheets, dive into characterization tips and tricks, explain the rules and options, and more! Snacks and refreshments will be provided! This program is for teens and young adults. Please feel free to contact us for more information by calling 508-457-2555 x2923. Note: October 17th is an early release day for Falmouth Public Schools. |
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Tuesday, October 24th, 6:30pm-8pm Hermann Meeting Room "For nearly fifty years, the Lady of the Dunes was Cape Cod’s most enduring mystery. Found savagely murdered and mutilated in the remote dunes of Provincetown in 1974 it seemed her identity would be forever unknown. In 2022 she was finally identified as Ruth Marie Terry. Filmmaker Victor Franko worked tirelessly for two years attempting to give the Lady of the Dunes her name back through his documentary film, The Lady of the Dunes (2022). The process led to visiting rustic dune shacks, creepy cemeteries, iconic Provincetown night spots, Boston’s infamous Combat Zone, and correspondence with convicted serial killers. Over time the project became about more than just a dead girl in the dunes. The documentary shone new light on the Lady of the Dunes case. This book pulls the curtain back on the Wild West that was Provincetown in the 1960s and 1970s thanks to those who were there at the time." This event is free. Please register by clicking the button below, or call the Reference Department at 508-457-2555 x7! |
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Tuesday, October 24th, 7pm-8:30pm Online via ZOOM Join us for a virtual event with author Emily Franklin, as we dive into her novel, The Lioness of Boston. A deeply evocative portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. The Lioness of Boston is a portrait of what society expected a woman’s life to be, shattered by a courageous soul who rebelled and determined to live on her own terms. This program will include a passage reading and Q+A with Emily, so share your questions and comments! Registration is required and please submit your questions for the author on the registration form. To register, click the button below! Emily Franklin is the author of more than twenty books including The Lioness of Boston. Her work has been published in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Guernica among other places as well as long-listed for the London Sunday Times Short Story Award, featured on National Public Radio, and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. This event is partnered with Falmouth Public Library, Chillmark Free Public Library, Brewster Ladies' Library, Hyannis Public Library, Yarmouth Port Library, and Centerville Public Library. Sponsored by the Falmouth Public Library Board of Trustees. |
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Pelican Point by Irene Hannon"The crumbling lighthouse he inherited in Hope Harbor, Oregon, does not fit into Army doctor Ben Garrison's plans for life after the military, but Hope Harbor Herald editor Marci Weber is determined to save the Pelican Point landmark. Sparks fly as the two come together to decide the fate of the lighthouse."
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Weekly Programming for Children Fridays: Scavenger Hunt from 2pm-7pm at the North Falmouth Branch Saturdays: Scavenger Hunt from 9am-12pm at the East Falmouth Branch Monday: Block Party: Legos in the Library! from 4pm-5:30pm at the North Falmouth Branch Tuesdays: Stories, Songs and Instruments from 10am-10:30am at the East Falmouth Branch Stay & Make Drop In Craft from 10am-2pm at the North Falmouth Branch |
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Weekly Programming for Teens and Adults Thursday: Book Bike at Farmer's Market from 12:30pm-1:30pm at Marine Park Tuesday: Sit n' Stitch from 10am-12pm at the East Falmouth Branch Genealogy Help Session from 2pm-4pm in the Reference Room |
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Accessible Falmouth Walking Trails Thursday, September 28th, 1:30pm-3pm Hermann Meeting Room The Falmouth Public Library in partnership with Neighborhood Falmouth presents a talk on Falmouth's handicapped accessible open spaces by Vicky Lowell, a founder of The 300 Committee Land Trust. This event is free and open to all. Please register as space is limited. Neighborhood Falmouth is a non-profit organization that provides support services to seniors in the Falmouth community. The organization aims to help seniors live independently and maintain their quality of life by providing services such as transportation, grocery shopping, yard work, minor home repairs, and friendly visits. Neighborhood Falmouth operates on a volunteer-based model, where volunteers from the community are matched with seniors who need assistance. This allows seniors to receive personalized support while also fostering a sense of community and connection among volunteers and seniors. |
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Kanopy Movie Club - Based on a True Story Thursday, September 28th, 3pm-4pm Bay Meeting Room The Falmouth Public Library has a new movie club! It's like a book club but for movies! Watch the selected movie from the comfort of your own home prior to the movie discussion meeting using Kanopy which is free with your Falmouth Public Library card. Then join us in-person at the library for an in-depth discussion of the movie. This movie is rated R and is for mature audiences only. Movie synopsis: "In this WWII thriller, Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson are courageous parents driven to an extraordinary act of resistance against the Nazi regime. Based on true events."
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Falmouth Together Memory Cafe
Monday, October 2nd, 1pm-2pm East Falmouth Branch The Falmouth Together Memory Café is a welcoming place for people living with memory concerns and their families or care companions.
Come join us for the guest artists or the coffee and refreshments! Both are good reasons to give it a try!
The Falmouth Together Memory Cafe is hosted by Dr. Donna Jackson. |
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Joy of Learning People, Land, and Climate Change with Skee (R.A.) Houghton
4 Mondays, 10/2, 10/16, 10/23 and 10/30, 2pm-3 pm, (does not meet 10/9) Hermann Meeting Room The primary driver of climate change is carbon dioxide. What adds CO2 to the atmosphere? What removes it? How has the concentration changed over the last 170 years and longer? What can we do to slow or reverse the rise in CO2? This course will emphasize the role of land and land use in the global carbon cycle and in the management of future changes in climate. Skee (R.A.) Houghton is senior scientist emeritus at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth. He was an active researcher at the Center for 35 years, studying the effects of land-use change on terrestrial carbon storage and climate change. He received a Ph.D. in ecology from Stony Brook University in 1979. He has worked at the Marine Biological Laboratory, at NASA, and has participated in numerous IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) assessments. Register by clicking the button below. This will register you for all 4 sessions. |
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Joy of Learning Station Eleven Discussion with Monica Hough
4 Tuesdays, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17 and 10/24, 4pm-5 pm Bay Meeting Room Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, depicting life after a devastating pandemic destroys most of the world’s population, took on new significance in 2020, reminding. readers that “survival is insufficient,” and demonstrating the power of art, relationships, and maintaining humanity in an inhumane world. This discussion-based course will explore the ways in which Mandel uses structure and style to support her themes and create deeper meaning. As the characters question the importance of remembering and understanding the past, we will investigate Mandel’s incorporation of allusions ranging from Shakepespeare to Sartre to Star Trek to illustrate the value of collective memory and the restorative potential of art. Mandel has described her novel as a “love letter to the modern world, written in the form of a requiem,” and Station Eleven reminds us of the beauty of life on Earth. Participants should read the novel before the start of the course. It will be available to borrow at the Reference Desk. Please note that our fiction book club will read her recent book, Sea of Tranquility, for the November meeting-all are welcome! Monica Hough has been teaching English at Falmouth Academy since 1986. She holds a B.A. in English from Yale University. Station Eleven is part of her ninth-grade English curriculum. Please register by clicking the button below. This will register you for all 4 weeks! As this is a discussion, space is limited to 20. |
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Joy of Learning Poems of Emily Dickinson with David Webb
4 Wednesdays, 10/4, 10/11, 10/18 and 10/25, 10:30am-12pm Bay Meeting Room Emily Dickinson is a candidate for "The greatest American Poet" award. While many Americans know this about her, very few have actually read much of her poetry. In spite of her unusually limited life-style -- she had modest schooling, lived at home with her family in Amherst, Massachusetts, travelled very little, never married or really had a partner-- she enjoyed a rich and lively intellectual and spiritual life. She wrote about 1775 poems, most of these secretly, and she published just seven, all anonymously. As she said to her would-be publisher and mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." David has chosen 32 poems for this offering, eight per session, and hopes that a few friends of the Falmouth Library will choose to read, wrestle with, and discuss these poems with him. David Webb has taught Joy of Learning classes in October on short story writers, since 2016. David is a 1964 graduate of Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, 1968 from Wesleyan, and he holds two advanced degrees from Columbia University. He spent his entire career at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT, where he taught English, Mathematics, and Architectural Design and did college counseling. He is now retired and lives with his wife in Cotuit. Please register by clicking the button below. This will register you for all 4 weeks! As this is a discussion, space is limited to 20. |
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Joy of Learning Texture of Memory with Rae Nishi
Meets for 4 Wednesdays 10/4, 10/11, 10/18 and 10/25, 3pm-4pm Hermann Meeting Room This course will cover how memories are formed, what happens when these processes are damaged, and how memories shape our identities, culture and history. Rae is a retired neuroscientist with a PhD in Biology, and resides in Falmouth year-round. Prior to retirement, she was Director of Education at the Marine Biological Laboratory, and prior to that, she was a tenured full professor in the Neurological Sciences Department at the University of Vermont. Please register by clicking the button below. This will register you for all 4 weeks! |
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Joy of Learning Written Language Past and Present with Ryan Budnick
4 Thursdays, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19 and 10/26, 2pm-3 pm Hermann Meeting Room Writing is one of the most widespread and influential technologies in the world (that you are using right now!), and has taken many forms across space and time. This course covers the history of writing systems, from ancient Cuneiform and the recently deciphered Mayan through to modern spelling reform movements. Different types of writing systems are surveyed, demonstrating how the particular system used by a community may be the result of a combination of historical accident, political expression, and functional need.
Ryan Budnick has a bachelor's degree in Linguistics from Princeton University and recently completed his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. While his research focuses on the formal modeling of language acquisition, he has a deep interest in bringing accessible linguistics education to general audiences. Please register by clicking the button below. This will register you for all 4 weeks! |
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Narrative Nonfiction Book Club - Empire of Pain (Pages 1-219)
Thursday, October 5th, 4pm-5pm
Hermann Meeting Room & Zoom Please join us for the monthly meeting of the Narrative Nonfiction Book Club as we discuss this month's selection Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (PAGES 1-219) by Patrick Radden Keefe. The group will meet in the Hermann meeting room and for those who wish to join us from home, you can join us via Zoom. The Zoom link will be provided upon registration. Come pick up a copy of the book at the reference desk and then join us to share your thoughts! "Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis." |
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Main Library East Falmouth Branch Text-A-Librarian 833-209-9922 Mon, Tue 9:00am-5:00pm Mon, Thurs-Sat 10:00am-5:30pm Wed 9:00am-1:00pm Tue, Wed 10:00am-8:30pm Thurs 1:00pm-7:00pm Sat 9:00am-1:00pm North Falmouth Branch Mon, Fri 2:00pm-7:00pm Tue, Wed 10:00am-3:00pm |
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