The Main Library had to be closed at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, June 23, due to an unexpected problem with the air conditioning system. Repairs are currently under way. The East Falmouth (9 a.m.-5 p.m.) and North Falmouth (2-7 p.m.) are open normal hours. An update to operating hours for the Main Library will be posted here as more information becomes available. We apologize for the inconvenience. Brian Stokes Library Director

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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

Holiday Arrangement Presentation with Anna Holmes

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Neighborhood Falmouth and the Falmouth Public Library are jointly offering this program on Friday, November 8th at 1:30 pm, which is open to the public.  This month’s speaker will be Anna Holmes, the owner of Flowers by Anna in Catumet. Please register by going to our online calendar, calling us at 505-457-2555 x 7 or emailing us at info@falmouthpubliclibrary.org.

This presentation will cover sourcing materials, how to select the designs for your space, and design techniques. You will learn about creating the shapes, tools and other professional tips.

Flowers by Anna is a home-based business and has been in this location for the past 19 years. Anna has been in the floral industry since 1973. She is a certified master floral designer and a floral consultant. You can learn more about her business and her work at flowersoncapecod.com.

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.

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

New Stories about Old Bells with author Ken Peal

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Neighborhood Falmouth and the Falmouth Public Library are jointly offering this program on Wednesday, October 16 at 1 pm, which is open to the public!

Author Ken Peal is continuing his investigations of bells in town that were not included in his book (Bells of Falmouth, 2023). This talk will add them to his inventory of town treasures. He is also following and participating in renovation projects. And you will hear about an important cache of artifacts that he was shown in a banker’s box in the basement of the school administration building. He will trace Teaticket elementary school and its bell through many different schoolhouses and locations – was the Zylinski house (demolished to make way for Town Fair Tire) originally one of those buildings? Copies of his book will be available to buy from Eight Cousins Books.

If you are planning to attend this event, please register with the Falmouth Public Library by going to falmouthpubliclibrary.org/events, or call the library at 508-457-2555 x 7. (note: our calendar is currently down, so call us or email us at info@falmouthpubliclibrary.org if you are unable to register online).

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.

Great Zoom talks in October to watch at home!

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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. Note that we have the author of Remarkably Bright Creatures!

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

Writings of Carson McCullers with David Webb

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David Webb has taught many Joy of Learning classes at the library; this October, he will teach a class on beloved Southern writer Carson McCullers’ novella The Ballad of the Sad Café, and several short stories! She is also the author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Member of the Wedding. Please note that our Joy of Learning program is being revised, and will continue in 2025!

It will meet on four Wednesday mornings from 10:30 am – noon starting on October 2nd. Please register, as space is limited. Please register once for the whole series by clicking this link. Copies of the book will be available to pick up at the reference desk. 

for October 2: read Ballad, pp. 3-37, stop at “So let the slow years pass…”
for October 9, conclude Ballad, from “So let the slow years pass” from p. 37 to the end, pp. 37-71
for October 16, read “The Jockey” (pp. 93-99) and “Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland” (pp. 103-112)
for October 23, read “The Sojourner” pp. (115-125) and “A Domestic Dilemma” (pp. 129-140)

We thank the Board of Library Trustees for sponsoring this program.

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.

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.

 

 

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

Register by clicking here.  We thank the Trustees of the Falmouth Public Library for sponsoring this concert!

The American Healthcare System

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We are happy to welcome Dr. Edward Hoffer on Tuesday evening, September 10th at 7 pm, to talk about the American healthcare system. This talk will focus on why Americans pay more than citizens of any other country for health care and yet have, at best, mediocre health statistics, and will suggest both global solutions and practical things you can do to pay less and get better care. Click here to register. Please note that this will not be recorded or on Zoom by the library-Falmouth Community Television may come film for later viewing. 

Dr. Edward Hoffer is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical School and did his residency and fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. For 45 years he combined clinical practice of Internal Medicine and Cardiology with research on the applications of computers and AI to medical care, and continues to work half-time at the MGH Lab of Computer Science. He has written and lectured extensively on the problems of the American healthcare “non-system.”