Author: Clint Johnson

Jedi Academy At Falmouth Public Library Main Branch

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Want to be a Jedi? Come to Falmouth Public Library on October 21, 2025 (Falmouth Public School Early Release day) and live the life of a Jedi!

 

From lightsaber dueling to force pushes, you’ll be ready to go save the galaxy! The event will begin at 1:00 PM at the Falmouth Public Library (300 Main Street, Falmouth). Please check in inside the library before heading outside to the training grounds. Registration is required and the recommended age is 10 and up. Please visit our calendar via our website (falmouthpubliclibrary.org) or give us a call at 508-457-2555 to register or if you have any questions. In case of rain, the event will still be held inside! Nothing stops a Jedi.

Padawans, and soon to be Jedi, will have a safe, hilarious, and action packed experience. The events will be fast paced and no need for a hyperspace light speed jump! Learn lightsaber dueling skills, force pushes with controlled movements, dodge ball with lightsabers, and even a real life game of Hutt Ball!

Safety will be the number one priority followed by defeating the Sith lords! Come spend the early release day learning new skills, having fun, and spending time with your friends!

Again, the event will be held on 10/21/2025 at 1:00 PM at Falmouth Public Library – Main Branch, rain or shine. Registration is required and can be accessed via our online calendar or by giving us a call at the library! If you have any questions, you may also contact our Young Adult Librarian, Clint Johnson, at cjohnson@falmouthpubliclibrary.org.

Thank you to the Falmouth Public Library Support Fund for making our Early Release Programming possible.

Amazin’ Gamin’ Video Game Truck!

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Kick off the first school year’s early release day by visiting the Falmouth Public Library’s Main Branch for a HUGE truck filled with video games for all ages. On Tuesday, September 23, from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM,  get ready for a full blown multi-player experience, the game truck’s theater has 5 gaming stations on the inside that support up to 20 players with space available for 10 additional friends to watch the fun on our stadium seating. In addition, when weather permits, there are 2 more gaming stations on the outside that will support up to 8 additional players.

There is no registration required to come play and access is 100% free. The Gaming Truck will be parked in the library’s side parking lot on Shore Street Extension. The truck will be open from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM. If you can’t find the truck, just come in to the library and ask! We’ll point you in the right direction.

All ages welcome! We kindly ask that if the patron is under 10, an adult accompany them.

The truck will be here rain or shine! So don’t let a few drops of water stop you!

This is the Gamin’ Truck’s 2nd appearance at FPL! If you missed it on CapeCon, here’s your chance to join in on the fun! Also, the Gamin’ Truck is a local Cape Cod business, so let’s bring the community together!

This program and all Early Release Day programming is generously funded by the Falmouth Public Library Support Fund.  

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to cjohnson@falmouthpubliclibrary.org or by phone at 508-457-2555.

Thank you to the Falmouth Public Library Support Fund for making our Early Release Programming possible!

CapeCon 2025

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6/21 – 10:AM – 4:30 PM – Falmouth Public Library Main Branch (AND parking lot)

So…What is CapeCon? First off….

IT’S FREE

Let the comics and manga/anime breakdown differences such as age, language, race, economic situation, and/or neurodiversity. CapeCon will include a video game truck, panels and Q&A featuring the voices behind animated shows, table top games, comic strip creation, and much more.

Schedule

Voice Acting Panel – 10:30 AM: Hermann Room featuring:

  • -Tom Antonellis
  • -Jenn Henry
  • -Diana Kennedy
  • -Mike Previti
  • -Lau Lapides

Cosplay Contest – 12:00 PM: Library Lawn (If the weather isn’t helping, the dome of the library)

Voice Acting Panel – 1:00 PM: Hermann Room featuring:

  • Ace Cordelo
  • Evan Packard
  • Megan Souza
  • Jayson Verria

Mindful Doodling with Cara Bean – 2:00 PM: Young Adult Room

Acting with Logan Raposo – 2:00 PM: Bay Meeting Room

Super Smash Brother’s Tournament – 3:00 PM: Hermann Room

Zine Making with Catherine Zhang – 3:00 PM: Young Adult Room

Neurodiversity and Authenticity with Logan Raposo – 3:00 PM: Bay Room

All Day

  • Video Game Truck!
  • Polaroid Photo Shoots!
  • Dungeons and Dragons Drop-ins
  • Create Your Own Dungeons and Dragons Tokens!
  • Pokemon Scavenger Hunt
  • Studio Ghibli Showing

 

 

CapeCon Sign

CAPECON 2025

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Falmouth Public Library’s very own CapeCon on 6/21/2025 (June 21st, 2025) from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM.

The event will take place throughout Falmouth Public Library! AND in the parking lot…

The Library is located on Falmouth Main Street!

300 Main St, Falmouth, MA 02540

Some folks may have heard of a ComicCon (short for Comic Convention). They are often held in big cities with hefty entrance fees. We’re doing the same thing here at Falmouth Public Library Main Branch on 6/21/2025 from 10:00am – 4:30pm…but at NO COST to attendees. CAPECON is all about bringing the community together with their shared interests. Let comics, manga, anime, animation and pop-culture break down differences such as age, language barriers, race, economic situation, and/or neurodiversity. Join us!

Except it’s… 

FREE!!!!!!!! AND ALL AGES!!!!!!!!

–Voice Acting Panels

-Video Game TRUCK

–Cosplay Contest

–Comic strip creation

–Polaroid Photoshoots

-Comics and Mental Health Presentation

–Origami

-Crafts and Geeky Cookie Making

-Dungeons and Dragons Drop-Ins

–Table Top Gaming

-All day Nintendo Switch in YA Room

-A Super Smash Bros. Tournament

No registration is required!

 

 

 

Henry Herbert Smythe Scholarship

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FALMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
NEWS RELEASE

Apply Using Form

 

SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE REQUIREMENTS: May 23, 2025 by 12 P.M.

Applications are now available for scholarship aid from the Henry Herbert Smythe Trust. The total
amount of each scholarship award is $800. The committee awards multiple scholarships each year.
The application deadline is FRIDAY, May 23, 2025 by 12:00 P.M. All supporting documents must be
submitted by that date in order for the application to be considered. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS will not
be CONSIDERED. Decisions will be announced by June 30, 2025. Applications for the Henry Herbert
Smythe Trust Scholarships are available by visiting the Falmouth Public Library website or emailing
jcarrara@falmouth.k12.ma.us . All applications must be received by May 23, 2025 and returned to the
Falmouth High School Guidance Office, 874 Gifford Street, Falmouth, MA 02540 or by emailing your
completed application to jcarrara@falmouth.k12.ma.us.
The Rev. Henry Herbert Smythe was the second rector for the Parish of St. Barnabas and served from
1890-1923. Rev. Smythe’s will stipulates that the money may be used for “boys or girls in Falmouth,
Massachusetts.” A maximum age of 24 years as of January 1, 2025 will apply. Only applicants who are
themselves voting residents of Falmouth (or whose parents are) are eligible for the grants.
Applications cannot be considered from families who have second homes in Falmouth.
Scholarship recipients do not have to be graduates of Falmouth High School; they may have attended a
private or parochial school in another town. Recipients may be pursuing a variety of post-high school
educational plans at any accredited college or technical school.
Scholarship money is available both to students currently graduating from high school and to those
already started in a post-secondary degree or training program. However, work beyond a bachelor’s
degree cannot be considered for scholarship aid. Post secondary applicants must submit evidence of
current educational progress (most recently completed college transcript as of May 2025). A copy of
your personal grade report for the spring semester can be accepted but an OFFICIAL transcript for the
fall must be submitted. All decisions are made by annual applications; no renewals are automatic.
INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS will not be CONSIDERED
The trust agreement states that “character be given equal consideration with scholarship,” and
evidence of both personal characteristics and school success is asked for on the application forms.
Financial need is a secondary factor in determining recipients.
The rector of St. Barnabas Memorial Church, Rev. Will Mebane; Superintendent of Schools in
Falmouth, Ms. Lori Duerr; and the Principal of Falmouth High School, Dr. Alan Harris are established by
the conditions of the trust as the committee which governs the granting of scholarships and which
makes the final selections. Bank of America administers the trust fund left by Henry Herbert Smythe.

Application Form

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

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Falmouth Public Library, Saturday, December 14th at 2:00 PM

The Original Radio performance revamped by the WatermelonAlligator Theatre Company

We cannot wait to welcome the WatermelonAlligator Theatre Company back for a live radio performance of Charles’ Dickens A Christmas Carol. The event will be held on Saturday, December 14th 2024 at 2:00 PM in the Hermann Room at the Falmouth Public Library.

The event is appropriate for all ages and will last 75 – 90 minutes. Please register on our main Falmouth Public Library Events page or call 508-457-2555 x 7. If you run into any trouble, please reach out and we’ll fix it right up!

Dickens’ iconic story of greed, compassion, magic, and redemption will come to life through acting, music, and live sound effects in this original radio play adaptation. Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge makes life miserable for everyone around him, especially his long suffering clerk, Bob Cratchit. One fateful Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business associate, Jacob Marley. A man who was as greedy and cold as Scrooge. Marley’s spirit warns Scrooge that if he continues to live so selfishly, he will spend eternity wearing the chains that his greed has built. Three more spirits visit Scrooge that night: The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, who show Scrooge his error in valuing money over people. Scrooge, frightened by the bleak picture of his life, awakes on Christmas morning a new man, promising to change his ways.

Get into the holiday spirit with a performance by professional working actors from the WatermelonAlligator Theatre Company!

There will be a discussion regarding Christianity and how the tale of Scrooge is truly a story of redemption. A light of hope in the darkness of the winter.

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.

Register here!

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.

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!

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!