LIBRARY BOOK GROUPS
Our two book groups are starting up again. The first meeting of our evening group, led by Andy Moore, will be on Monday, October 7, at 7 p.m. We will be discussing Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman. Our Noontime Book Group will meet on Friday, October 11, at noon and will be discussing Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The noon group is facilitated by Sandy Raymond. New members are welcome at these groups, and the book lists can be found in the “Readers’ Corner” section of our website. For more information, call the library.
PUBLISHING YOUR BOOK IN TODAY’S CHANGING WORLD
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 new novel, Wrong Place, Wrong Time and getting it published. Do you have a book, or an idea for a book? Are you wondering how best to get it out to the reading public? Today’s writers have more options than ever before, from books to e-books, large publishers to small, and traditional publishing to independent. This friendly and informative presentation will let you know what’s out there and help you decide what’s best for you. Handouts will be provided; please bring writing materials. Jacobs is a graduate of Oberlin College, the Harvard Divinity School, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has taught writing at all levels, including in two Massachusetts prisons.
THE SPIRIT OF WAYLAND
On Sunday, September 22, from 2:15-4:15 p.m., Doug Harris, the Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Narragansett Indian Tribe will provide an interesting perspective on what has come to be known as King Philip’s War, which took place during Colonial times here in Wayland.
ALAN POWERS TO SPEAK ON GIORDANO BRUNO
Dr. Alan Powers will give a talk at the library entitled “NASA Helps Giordano Bruno Find New Worlds” about the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher, friar, mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Giordano Bruno. Monday, September 16, at 7 p.m.
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, fewer 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 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
We have two preschool storytimes. StoryVine is a story/craft hour for preschoolers ages 2.5 to 5 years most Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Mother Goose Time, for babies and toddlers, is an interactive program filled with songs, rhymes, stories, and movement 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.
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.
TREASURES FROM THE CAGE
In our 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
Our Needlework/Handwork group, facilitated by Ann Moses, meets on the first Wednesday of each month from 10–11:30 a.m. in the Raytheon Room. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, October 2. This is a group for people to work on needlework and handwork projects together. For more information, contact Ann Moses annmoses@verizon.net or 508-358-7113. Dates for the rest of 2013 are November 6 and December 4.
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. A series of five tutor training classes is scheduled at the library on Wednesdays from 6-8:50 p.m., starting on October 16. 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.
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.
