Using the Internet Safely with Jeff Brody

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Neighborhood Falmouth and the Falmouth Public Library are jointly offering this program on Wednesday, December 18th at 1:30 pm, which is open to the public. Click here to register!

Modern technology can be useful, entertaining and rewarding, but it can also be frustrating, complicated and with its security risks! Jeff will teach commonsense ways to have a healthy and safe online life, including best safe practices for email, a secure home computer system, a secure mobile phone and protecting your privacy. You will also learn where to get help.

Jeff Brody is an information technology and information security professional with over 40 years of experience. He is a former CTO and holds certification as a Certified Information Systems Security Specialist. Jeff has taken special interest in assisting people and small businesses in using computers to their greatest advantage while being safe and secure on the Internet.

Neighborhood Falmouth is part of a growing national movement to promote continuing community residence for older Americans. Neighborhood Falmouth members, staff, and volunteers work together to help older Falmouth residents continue to enjoy our multi-generational community from the comfort of their own homes .They partner with other organizations in Falmouth that provide services for seniors. Learn more about them at neighborhoodfalmouth.org or call 508-564-7543.

27th Friends Annual Winter Book Sale!

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The time is here again! The Friends of Falmouth Public Library will host their 27th annual Winter Book Sale in the Hermann Foundation Meeting Room.! Come get some nice holiday gifts-or just something for yourself!

(Wednesday Dec. 4th – Members Only Day from 12-5 PM)

Thursday, Dec. 5th, Friday, Dec 6th and Saturday, Dec 7th from 10 AM-5PM-open to all!

With funds raised from membership dues, donations, and Book Sales, the Friends have provided the following gifts and services to the Library and the community of Falmouth:

Museum Passes for Boston and local area museums

Generous funding for Children’s Programs at all three locations throughout the year

Contribute to new Furniture for the Chill Zone, the Tween area, in the Children’s Room

A new Circulation Desk for the East Falmouth Library

Provide additional funds for eBooks

Support for area book clubs

Upgrades to library technology

Great Zoom lectures in November!

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We have some great Zoom author talks this month! Some are brought to us by our membership in the Library Speakers Consortium, funded by the Library support fund. We also get great talks shared with us by other libraries, some funded by the Board of Library Trustees! Click the links after the title to register and get more details, and you will receive the Zoom link! Please note that these events are virtual only, and do not take place in the library.

Thursday, November 7th, 10:30 AM, Norman Rockwell, an American Phenomenon, click here for details and registration.
Thursday, November 7th, 7 PM, The Paranormal ranger with Stanley Milford Jr., click here.
Tuesday, November 12th, 5:30 PM, dietician Judy Palken; register for this one on our online calendar, or call 508-457-2555 x 7.
Wednesday, November 13th, 10:30 AM, Migration Marvels with Mass Audubon, click here.
Thursday, November 14th, 4 PM, Javier Zamora, author of Solito, click here (please note the library is closed that day).
Wednesday, November 20th, 7 pm, Susan Power, author of Council of Dolls, click here.
Tuesday, November 26th, 10:30 AM, Living with Wild Turkeys, click here
Tuesday, November 26th, 2 PM Armchair Travel to Australia, click here
Wednesday November 27th 7 PM Native Nations and the Beginning of the United States, click here

Edward Gorey “Sinister Cozy”

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A Talk with the Director of the Edward Gorey House, Gregory Hischak

On Tuesday, October 22nd, we welcome Gregory Hischak, the Director of the Edward Gorey House and Museum to speak on Gorey’s achievements and his wonderfully amusing oddities. The presentation will run from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM in the reading room in front of the fireplace. He will be giving a presentation of Gorey’s natural creepy and hilarious artwork in his books, theater sets, and many other mediums.

Terrible things unfold in an Edward Gorey Book—children are swept out to sea, abducted by murderous insects, fall into unsavory company, or get carried off by giant birds. Sometimes they die of boredom. Edward writes, and draws, about everyday life and, for reasons that will likely come up in this presentation, his books are a delight and extremely funny. Mostly. Gorey’s work as a book artist, an illustrator, and designer is frequently categorized as Whimsically Macabre, though we prefer the term “Sinister Cozy”. His work looks a hundred and thirty years older than it is yet he consistently remains thirty years ahead of us at all times.

Please come join us on this spooky evening with “Sinister Cozy”. Registration is required.

Hope to see you soon!

Paranormal Activity with Don DeCristofaro

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Don DeCristofaro, a professional ghost and paranormal activity investigator, will be joining us on October 17th at 4:30 in the Library’s Herman Meeting Room. He has worked in the Lizzie Bordon house, as well as the house that inspired the hit movie The Conjuring.

His most recent investigation of paranormal activity is on the USS Salem. The USS Salem was a World War 2 Heavy Cruiser. He spends at the least once a week there using the technology that has been developed.

The presentation will include showing the tools that they use to monitor possible “other worldly” guests. Since Don has been investigating the USS Salem, Don became to have “relationships” with those have who have passed on and left behind.

At the end of the presentation, Don is offering his very own expertise and advice to any patrons who may have suspicion that there is another room mate who never pays there rent. All ages event! You can give us a call, email a request or register online!

Please come! Registration is required.

Great Zoom talks in October to watch at home!

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October 2nd, 2-3 PM The Hidden World of Tropical Bats, click here for details and registration
October 9th, 10:30-11:30 AM A Closer Look at Chipmunks and Squirrels with Mass Audubon, click here
October 9th 7-8 PM Author Silvia Morena Garcia, author of The Seventh Veil of Salome and more, click here
October 15th 10:30-11:30 AM Armchair Travel to Paris, click here
October 22nd 2-3 PM Author Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Need to Talk with Someone, click here
October 25th 2-3:15 PM New England Ghost Stories, click here

Spooky Stories with the WatermelonAlligator Theatre Company

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On October 19th from 2-4 PM, enjoy some family friendly tales of ghosts, mysteries, and the supernatural performed by professional working actors. Maybe even outside if the weather is cooperating!

The tales are appropriate for all ages. Adults, children and everyone in between will enjoy it. Our horror and spooky fans in training will get a real kick with the whole family! Some spooky snacks will find their way down in the dungeon (nice meeting room).

There will even be a cauldron for witches to make their brews! All safe for inside too!

Some spooky stories from Edgar Allen Poe’s work and many classics like the red ribbon!

We are very excited for the WatermelonAlligator Theatre’s production as they always put on a good show no matter the conditions!

Registration is required. You can register here!

Volunteering: Help Your Community and Improve Your Personal Health!

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Neighborhood Falmouth and the Falmouth Public Library are jointly offering this program on Thursday, September 26th at 1:30 pm, which is open to the public. Volunteering is an act of giving back to build and improve our community and enrich the lives of others. But it is also a powerful way to find purpose and meaning in our own lives. Such purpose has been shown to be associated with a higher likelihood of healthy longevity. Hear Dr. Roger Landry, author of ‘Live Long, Die Short,’ speak about what it takes to enjoy a heathy longevity, and the role volunteerism can play in that journey.” Click here to register or call 508-457-2555 x 7.

Dr. Roger Landry is a preventive medicine physician, author of award-winning Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging and President of Brightside of Longevity, which provides older adults customized, multimedia, holistic content to achieve a healthy longevity. Trained at Tufts
University School of Medicine and Harvard University School of Public Health, Dr. Landry is also the host of The Brightside of Longevity, a podcast focused on health and resilience. There will be a question-and-answer period directly after the talk.

Take Flight, on Wing of Song: a Violin Concert with Joshua Peckins

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We are thrilled to welcome award-winning concert violinist Joshua Peckins back for a concert on Saturday, September 21st from 3-4 pm! Please register by clicking here. His previous appearances here were widely attended and loved. This concert will have something for everyone, from Bach’s glorious, final Partita for Solo Violin, to cutting-edge modernism combining the violin with recorded bird song, a fresh take on a centuries-old chord progression that drove medieval audiences wild, and a transcription from the beloved Spanish guitar music “Recuerdos de la Alhambra”. The repertoire details are: J.S. Bach: Partita No. 3 in E Major, Carola Bauckholt: Doppelbelichtung, Krzysztof Penderecki: La Follia and Francisco Tarrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra.

Joshua has been among the most active recitalists in New England, performing solo concerts of “particular brilliance” (Worcester Telegram) and with “a gift for capturing audiences’ attention” (Backyard News). He has presented solo recitals nationally and internationally in over 30 venues, including the renowned Figaro Hall of Palace Pálffy (where Mozart himself presented his “The Marriage of Figaro”), Crystal Hall in Japan and the Haydn and Mendelssohn Halls in Austria, as well on the Artist Series of the Bled Festival in Slovenia, the Salzburg Festival at the Mozarteum, the Orford Festival in Canada, and the Cervo Festival in Italy. He has performed chamber music on nationally syndicated TV/radio on three continents; is most active today as a recitalist. Photos are available here: https://www.joshuapeckins.com/press-kit

Back to School, Back to school, to Prove to Dad that I’m not a Fool

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Get geared up for success this coming year at Falmouth Public Library

It’s that time of year again! But you aren’t alone. The library is a tool for academic success, free thinking, and somewhere to have fun! At the main branch we carry a vast collection of resources, have author talks, events of all kinds, and a great place to get that extra credit to start off the year!

Falmouth Public Library devotes itself to serving our patrons (that’s you!) with the necessary materials that promote free thinking. We have newspapers, non-fiction, fiction (maybe more truth than non-fiction?), and reference materials ranging from local history to vehicle repair manuals. For the most part, if you need it, we will try our best to provide it. We are here to serve the community. This includes our English as a second language patrons. In the Young Adult room, we have been building up our own world language collection. We plan for the collection to expand and break down the language barrier which impedes on the inclusion we wish to provide. We also offer English as a second language classes which are available throughout the year.

We also host author talks (usually followed by some book signing), movie viewing, Dungeons and Dragons Club, and a room full of manga and graphic novels. Some big programs that we run are the CapeCon (ComiCon), spooky season talks and decorations, and films on Fridays!

We are here to help everyone succeed. Inclusion is one of the corner stones. In order to achieve the goal of all inclusion, barriers must be broken down. Language, economic status, race, religion, and all that stuff you aren’t supposed to talk about, only separates the community further. Our services and programs are a breaking point of the Berlin Wall! Once we realize we are more alike than different, it’s exciting to spend time and learn with others who have the same interest. Another thing we offer is video games! Super Smash Brothers does not care what language you are yelling in. It may as well be listening to whales, filled with emotion that we can all understand.

We warmly invite any one and any friends of the community to come and peruse our resources while you have a great time getting to know people. Many of which we very well may not have known!

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