Posted by Jill on Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:54 am | 0 Comment(s)
This morning was our annual holiday books show on The Point with Mindy Todd. Melanie Lauwers (book editor of the Cape Cod Times), Mindy, and I had fun exchanging book suggestions, and here is the list of what we mentioned on air. As always there are some bonus books, because we…
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Posted by Faith on Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:08 pm | 0 Comment(s)
Do you love to read mysteries and suspense filled books by authors like Harlan Coben, Alexander McCall Smith and Faye Kellerman? But do you fear you’ll have to give up your riveting novels during this busy season so you can do all that holiday shopping, cleaning, cooking, decorating, crafting, traveling…
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Posted by Faith on Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:56 pm | 0 Comment(s)
If you’ve been reading our blogs for a while, then you’ve probably seen entries raving about our Mango Language database. The database is a wonderful way to learn a language at your own pace, online, anywhere in the world, provided you have a Falmouth Public Library card. We have shown Mango to numerous patrons who are visiting a foreign country…
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Posted by Jill on Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:31 pm | 0 Comment(s)
Looking for some cranberry recipes for Thanksgiving? Stop by the Reference Department and take a look at our copy of The Story of Cape Cod Cooking by Andrew S. Flagg. There is an entire chapter called “The Cranberry Growers” which includes everything from Cranberry Orange Nut Bread to Cranberry-Apple Stuffing for Poultry to…
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Posted by Staff on Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:01 pm | 0 Comment(s)
Hard to believe this is the fifth year for our Holiday Gift Workshop. It will be held on Tuesday, December 4th, 6:00-8:00 PM Session one will be held from 6:00 to 7:00 PM and session two will be held from 7:00 - 8:00 PM. You can sign up for two sessions or just one, whichever you prefer.
The…
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Posted by Faith on Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:02 pm | 0 Comment(s)
This month the Fiction Book Club discussed Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O’Brien. It is the third in our six month series of novels about real people. We began the series in September with The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson and continued with
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Posted by Kim on Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:07 pm | 0 Comment(s)
The focus of the fall issue of the ECRC@FPL newsletter is READING! Not only is reading one of the five activities that the ECRC@FPL is promoting in conjunction with our Every Child Ready to Read programming, but it is also Family Literacy Month in…
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Posted by Jill on Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:00 pm | 2 Comment(s)
As you may already know the town wide read for 2013 is Animal Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, with a more general theme of food related activities. This could be why we are so excited that today Maison Villatte has opened across the street from the library! We think…
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Posted by Staff on Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:12 pm | 0 Comment(s)
This blog was written by Ryan Carey, aka “Library Man”:
During the first Friday morning of every month a sort of “secret society” meets in the lower level of the Falmouth Public Library between the hours of ten and eleven, no earlier, no later. This “mysterious” group meets to discuss knowledge, wisdom, history, philosophy, science as well as…
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Posted by Staff on Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:21 pm | 0 Comment(s)
In observance of Veterans’ Day the Falmouth Public Library and branches will be closed on Monday November 12, 2012.
Veterans’ Day Observances
Sunday November 11, 2012 10:45 AM -12:45 PM
A Veterans’ Day Ceremony on the Library Lawn
Begins at 10:45 with the Brian Boru Pipe Band playing…
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Posted by Faith on Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:15 pm | 0 Comment(s)
Well, we made it through election 2012! President Obama and Governor Romney were gracious and praised each other in their election night speeches, despite their increasingly negative campaign ads during the last year and polarizing arguments over repairing the economy. The economy was the main topic, but the nation was also concerned with health care, the rise of the 1%,…
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Posted by Jill on Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:12 pm | 0 Comment(s)
More Storm Related Updates from Town Hall:
”Storm Debris
We will be picking up brush from Hurricane Sandy starting Monday November 5th. Plese leave brush at curbside. This is for storm related brush only, no landscape trimmings. We will also be accepting storm related brush ONLY from Falmouth resident’s at our Compost Facility located at 565…
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Posted by Staff on Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:08 am | 0 Comment(s)
The Falmouth Public Library is pleased to present a most unusual, eerie and chilling program for teens (ages 11-17), complete with shrunken heads, E.S.P. and bizarre tales that will make you shiver! Come to Falmouth Public Library for Tales From Beyond! Tuesday, November 6, 2012 from 1:30-2:30.
“This intriguing program is a little hard to explain, but then,…
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Posted by Staff on Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:07 am | 0 Comment(s)
The Presidential Election will be held this coming Tuesday, November 6.
Many folks have told us that they did not receive the familiar red Massachusetts Ballot Questions document this year. The Library has received a shipment of the Ballot Questions booklet. These are available free of charge at the Reference Desk, as long as the supply lasts. In…
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Posted by Jill on Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:00 am | 0 Comment(s)
After Hurricane
HURRICANE SANDY UPDATE
-Tuesday, October 30 10:00AM
Falmouth, MA
The major impacts of Hurricane Sandy have now passed. The local emergency is now behind us. It appears that overnight the Town fared considerably better than projections had anticipated. From a high estimated at 40-50% of the Town’s homes and businesses…
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