LABOR DAY WEEKEND HOURS
The library will be closed from Saturday, August 31, through Monday, September 2, for Labor Day weekend. Our regular weekend hours (Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 2-5) resume on Saturday, September 7.
TREASURES FROM THE CAGE
The “Library Cage” is an area on the library mezzanine that houses some of the library’s local history collection. We recently rediscovered some lovely photos of historic Wayland buildings that look to be part of a display put up in the 1970’s or ‘80’s. In a salute to Wayland’s 375th anniversary, we decided to re-display some of those lovely photos. The original explanatory notes were still with the photos, so we have mounted the original notes and photos in the library foyer for the month of September.
NEEDLEWORK/HANDWORK GROUP
This fall our Needlework/Handwork group, facilitated by Ann Moses, will meet on the first Wednesday of each month from 10–11:30 a.m. in the Raytheon Room. The first meeting is on Wednesday, September 4. This is a group for people to work on needlework and handwork projects together. Any adult who quilts, embroiders, knits, or does any type of hand work is welcome. The point of the group is to share ideas and resources, as well as chat and socialize. If anyone has questions concerning a type of needlework, we can usually head them in the right direction. This would be a good time to start a new project or get back to one that’s been sitting in your closet for years! For more information, contact Ann Moses annmoses@verizon.net or 508-358-7113. Dates for the rest of 2013 are Oct. 2, Nov. 6, and Dec. 4.
ALAN POWERS TO SPEAK ON GIORDANO BRUNO
On Monday, September 16, at 7 p.m., Dr. Alan Powers will give a talk in the Raytheon Room on the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher, friar, mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Giordano Bruno. Sixteenth-century Italian philosopher, friar, mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Giordano Bruno of Naples was hired by students on a committee at the U of Toulouse, but later sent to the Inquisition by one bad student evaluation in Venice. Kepler said Galileo took the idea of other habitable worlds from Bruno. Dr. Powers will address some of these questions: What were the education reforms Bruno urged, so hazardous to his life? Why was he celebrated by many of the founders of the new Republic of Italy with a statue in Rome (1889), on the place where he was executed? What is NASA’s latest estimate of habitable planets in our Milky Way Galaxy alone?
TALK ON THE IMPROVING REAL ESTATE MARKET
On Tuesday, September 17, at 7 p.m. local realtor Brian Cichella will discuss the leading indicators for a locally improving home selling and buying market. These include more new home starts, larger inventories of previously owned homes, sold prices closer to asking, lower days on market, multiple bid situations, and stabilized mortgage rates. His presentation will also examine the reported surge of new home sales and purchase prices vs. what is real in our area market. Brian is Senior Real Estate Specialist at Coldwell Banker in Wayland.
POETS JASON TANDON & KARINA BOROWICZ
Following in the success of “Wayland Reads Poetry” last year, the library is pleased to present a poetry reading with poets Jason Tandon and Karina Borowicz on the evening of Monday, September 30. This program has a distinctly local connection because Jason’s wife, Whitney, is a music teacher in the Wayland Public Schools. Currently a teacher in the BU College of Arts & Sciences Writing program, Mr. Tandon is the author of three collections of poetry and winner of the 2006 St. Lawrence Book Award for a first collection. His poetry and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and magazines and have also been featured on Verse Daily and on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Jason earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. from the University of New Hampshire, where he taught writing and literature, served as an intern poetry editor at the Paris Review, and was awarded the Young P. Dawkins III prize. Karina Borowicz’s collection The Bees Are Waiting was selected by Franz Wright for the Marick Press Poetry Prize and has been named a 2013 Must-Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her work has appeared widely in literary journals and her translations have been featured in Poetry Daily.
FALL STORY & MOTHER GOOSE TIMES
Children’s Librarian Pam McCuen will be leading StoryVine, a story/craft hour for preschoolers ages 2.5 to 5 years most Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. She will also lead Mother Goose Time, an interactive program filled with songs, rhymes, stories, and movement for babies and toddlers on most Thursday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Registration is not required for these programs.
PARENT/CHILD BOOK GROUP
Children’s Librarian Pam McCuen leads a monthly book discussion group for children in fourth and fifth grade, with a parent. Our September meeting will be on Monday, September 23, at 7 p.m. and the book is One Dog and His Boy by Eva Ibboston. The group will decide together what next month’s book will be. For more information, call 508-358-2308.
Drop-In Craft: Make Your Own Toy
On Wednesday, September 18, from 3-5 p.m. kids ages four and up can come to the Raytheon Room for a drop-in craft program to make and decorate their own slotted building discs
from colored paper and then build structures from these beautiful discs. Featured discs are from Made by Joel.
SURGICAL MISSION TO HAITI
Our 2013-2014 Great Presenters Series starts on Tuesday, October 1, at 7:30 in the Raytheon Room with a presentation by Dr. Robert C. Eyre on his “Surgical Mission to Haiti.” Haiti, ravaged by natural disasters, diseases and generations of systemic poverty, is in need of recovery. For the 500,000 residents living in southeastern Haiti, whose only public hospital was severely damaged in the 2010 earthquake, lifesaving medical care and surgery are often unavailable. In 2012 and 2013, Dr. Eyre made three trips there to provide surgical care. He will describe the social and healthcare conditions he witnessed and ongoing initiatives to improve access to quality healthcare for the Haitian people. Dr. Eyre is Associate Professor of Surgery (Urology) at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Urology at the Faulkner Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess-Needham Hospital. He has spoken widely to lay audiences and is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on urologic oncology. He has been selected annually since 2002 for inclusion in Best Doctors in America.
eBOOKS FOR iPADS
Did you know that the Library has e-books to read and e-audiobooks to listen to available for download to your iPad? On Friday, September 27, from 1-2 p.m., bring your own iPad to the library’s Raytheon Room and join us to learn about how to access these resources. We’ll focus on “OverDrive Read” which allows you to borrow and read e-books right in your browser, without any additional downloads. These instructions are suitable for other devices as well, but we’ll focus on iPads and we’ll also tell you about the new iPads we have for lending out to use in the library. This program will be repeated in the evening later in the year.
Magic Show with Matias the Magician
Kids, mark your calendars for an upcoming interactive magic show in the Raytheon Room with Magician Matias and his Bunny Bowtie, who will spark children’s imaginations with magic and illusion. For ages 3 and up. Saturday, September 28, at 2:30 p.m.
AUTHOR APPEARANCE BY TILIA JACOBS
On Tuesday, September 24, at 7 p.m. local author Tilia Klebenov Jacobs will be in the library’s Raytheon Room to talk about writing her recently published novel, Wrong Place, Wrong Time.
BAKERS NEEDED!
The Friends of the Wayland Library are looking for bakers to contribute confections to the fall and spring book sales. Baked goods attract sweet lovers of all ages to the sale and add substantially to the bottom line. Bakers will receive a reminder call the week before the sale. This year’s sale will be held on October 25-27. If you’re interested in being added to our call list, please contact Anne Heller at 508-358-4515.
LINDA THOMPSON EXHIBIT
Continuing in September, artist and long-time Wayland resident Linda Thompson presents what she calls “eclectic retrospective” exhibits entitled “Celebrating Creativity” and “Don’t Be Afraid to Try It!” on the lower level and in the Raytheon Room. The overarching theme is the exploration of different media (including watercolor and acrylics, collage, needlework, Japanese block prints and weavings) as well as trusting in your own process. There is a short multiple-choice quiz about the art/crafts in both exhibits (with answers provided, of course).
ESOL Tutor Training
The Wayland Library has sponsored an ESOL Program for 21 years that has trained hundreds of tutors. We have a waiting list of learners who need help, but currently lack a corresponding number of volunteers willing to tutor them a couple of hours a week. Program director Ginny Steel is currently enrolling prospective tutors for the five-session course that starts on October 16. The class will meet at the Wayland Library on five consecutive Wednesday evenings, from 6:00-8:50. No prior knowledge of a foreign language is needed, just an openness to other cultures and the desire to share your knowledge of English. The training is free, although it is necessary to purchase a textbook for about $20. For more information or to enroll in the tutor-training course, you can phone Ginny Steel at 508-358-7517 or email her at virginia@thesteels.com.
