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October 5, 2023 Weekly Newsletter In this Issue |
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Indigenous Peoples Day The Falmouth Public Library and its Branches will be closed on Monday, October 9th in observance of Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Thursdays, 5pm-7pm East Falmouth Branch Starting October 5th, the East Falmouth Branch has a new weekly gathering on Thursdays from 5pm-7pm! Come for a relaxing evening of knitting and crocheting. Feel free to work on a personal project or participate in creating hats, scarves, and mittens for those in need in our community. No experience necessary - we'll help you learn the basics of knitting and crocheting. Welcome to your new yarn-friendly community! This is a casual drop-in gathering.
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Friday, October 13th, 3pm-4:30pmHermann Meeting Room STEWART UDALL: THE POLITICS OF BEAUTY will be shown at the Falmouth Public Library. The new 78-minute documentary celebrates the life and legacy of former Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, arguably the most effective environmentalist in American history. He fought tirelessly for the protection of our planet and its natural beauty and was the first public official to speak out about global warming. Following the film, documentary filmmaker John de Graff will answer questions from the audience. This screening is free and open to the public. Registration is encourage.
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An Inside Look at a Novelist's Research Journey Friday, October 13th, 7:30pm-8:30pm Cornelia Clapp Auditorium & Zoom Geraldine Brooks’ 2022 novel, Horse, spent ten weeks on the New York Times best seller list. In this lecture, she will describe how the true story of the 19th century's greatest racehorse led her from the Osteo-Prep lab at the Smithsonian Support Center and the Necropsy Suite at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to some of the most famous art collections of the 20th century. A book signing will follow the presentation. Books will be available for purchase on event night from Eight Cousins Books. This lecture is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7pm and free parking is available in any MBL lot. No registration required for in-person attendance. Register below to attend virtually and to receive the Zoom link. Geraldine Brooks is the author of six works of historical fiction, including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner, March and most recently, the bestselling novel, Horse (Viking), which recently received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace prize. An award-winning former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, the Australian-born Brooks is also author of the non-fiction works, Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. She lives in West Tisbury, Massachusetts where she is a Conservation Commissioner. The Falmouth Forum is supported by the Falmouth Forum Endowment, the Bakalar Endowed Director's Discretionary Fund, and The Falmouth Fund of The Cape Cod Foundation.
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Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films by Nina Nesseth"Written with the affection of a true horror fam and the critical analysis of a scientist, this pop-science look at fear explores how audiences engage horror with both their brains and bodies and reveals how horror movies achieve this effect."
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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 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:BookBike at Farmer's Market from 12:30pm-1:30pm at Marine Park LAST DAY OCT 5 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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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 Bay 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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Friday Films Classic Edition - Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Friday, October 6th, 3pm-5pm Hermann Meeting Room "On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness ... and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises." This movie viewing is free to the public and is supported by the Friends of the Falmouth Public Library. Registration is required as seating is limited.
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Senior Center Book Club - Ask Again, Yes Tuesday, October 10th, 1pm-2pm Falmouth Senior Center (780 Main Street) The monthly book club for the Falmouth Council on Aging Senior Center is now being facilitated by Falmouth Public Library librarians! Join us as we discuss this month's selection Ask Again, Yes: A Novel by Mary Beth Keane! Copies of the book can be picked up at the book club meetings at the Senior Center or at the Falmouth Public Library's reference desk. "When a violent event forcibly ends their romance, the son and daughter of two NYPD rookies reconnect years later and struggle to prevent the past from triggering another separation."
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Joy of Learning Station Eleven Discussion with Monica Hough Tuesdays, 10/10, 10/17 and 10/24, 4pm-5pm 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 is available to borrow from 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. If you already registered once, you do not need to register again. Space is limited to 20 participants as this is a discussion.
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Autism at 18 and Older for Parents and Grandparents Tuesday, October 10th, 6:30pm-8pm Hermann Meeting Room We are happy to welcome Falmouth resident Lisa Jo Rudy back to the Falmouth Public Library on for a second talk on autism. What happens when an autistic child becomes an autistic adult? This workshop is a first step toward preparing your child or grandchild and yourself for adulthood. Topics include legal safety nets, SSDI, considering guardianship, special needs trusts, housing options, college, employment, and adult services. Start answering the question "what happens when I’m gone?” Lisa Jo Rudy is the mother of Tom Cook, a young adult on the autism spectrum. She began writing about autism in 2006, as the About.com Guide to Autism, and, for several years, was of the top bloggers on the topic. In 2008 she founded an inclusive summer camp program in Ambler, Pennsylvania, in cooperation with the local YMCA. Lisa is the author of Get out, Explore, and Have Fun!: How Families of Children with Autism or Asperger Syndrome Can Get the Most out of Community Activities, published by Jessica Kingsley Press, and her works on autism have appeared in multiple publications including the New York Times and Museum News. Lisa is currently a consultant on autism and inclusion and has worked with numerous museums and community organizations to set up and support inclusion programs. She is currently serving as lead advisor on a National Science Foundation-funded autism inclusion project in the Phoenix Arizona area. Please register by clicking the button below!
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Joy of Learning Texture of Memory with Rae Nishi Wednesdays, 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. If you already registered once, you do not need to registered again.
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Mystery Book Club: Death of a Red Heroine Tuesday, October 11th, 4:30pm-5:30pm Bay Meeting Room & Zoom Come join our the Mystery Book Club as we discuss this month's selection Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong. The group will meet in the Bay 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! "Inspector Chen must battle the political climate of Shanghai and seek the help of a former lover in order to solve the murder of a National Model Worker who was a celebrity of utmost probity."
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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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