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We are pleased to welcome accomplished translator, French instructor and Fulbright Scholar in Twentieth Century French Literature, Paulette Boudrot, on Wednesday evening, November 18th at 7 p.m., for a Zoom presentation! Boston, My Blissful Winter follows a young French banker experiencing Boston for the first time as an intern at a downtown bank in the 1980s. Seeking to overcome his solitude, he visits the city’s concert halls, jazz clubs, businesses, museums, cafes, theaters, antique shops, fine restaurants and local diners. He rubs elbows with Boston Brahmins, academics, a struggling musician and a librarian, among others. With vivid images of winter and a keen eye for detail, these twelve short stories bring the unique character of the city to life and offer a glimpse into the heart and soul of the thoughtful narrator. Paulette will discuss the book, and her translation process! Author Alain Briottet devoted his life to a career in French diplomacy. He served in Europe, America, and Asia, and held several positions in collaboration with the French Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Paris and throughout the world. Paulette Boudrot earned a BS in Education from Bridgewater State University, an MA in French Language and Literature from Middlebury College Vermont, and a diploma in Twentieth Century French Literature from the Sorbonne, University of Paris, as a Fulbright Scholar. Paulette taught French and ESL in elementary schools, colleges, and universities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. During the 1980s, she transitioned from education to administration at the French Cultural Services at the French Consulate in Boston. In 2010, she was awarded the status of Chevalier in the Order of Academic Palms by the French government. Paulette resides in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Boston, My Blissful Winter is her debut literary translation. This event is free and appropriate for adults and teens. Registration is required, by 5 p.m. on the day of the event. Please register by clicking here! If you have any questions or need assistance, call the Reference Desk at 508-457-2555 x 7. |
Category: Miscellany
Visiting the Beyond-a Zoom presentation!
Have you ever wondered what the inside of a REAL haunted house looks like? Join paranormal researcher Curt Strutz, on an interactive Zoom presentation for Falmouth Public Library, on Saturday, October 24th at 4 p.m.
“Visiting the Beyond “is an historical journey to several locations around the U.S. Curt has personally visited haunted homes, asylums, prisons, hospitals, public places, and other locations, and taken photographs. The audience will be able to select specific haunted properties off of a “menu”. It may even bring chills down your spine- just in time for Halloween!
Curt has nearly 10 years of experience in giving these presentations, at hundreds of libraries and museums, and has been a past guest speaker at Troy Taylor’s Haunted America Conference.He was a keynote headline speaker for the Illinois Paranormal Conference a few years back. He also was on a nationally televised cable access TV program known as Paranormal Generation that aired for two seasons in 12 states. His episodes at Paranormal Generation can be found on YouTube.
This event is free and appropriate for adults and teens, and is sponsored by the generosity of the Trustees of the Falmouth Public Library. It is a Zoom event, and registration is required by noon on the day of the event. Click here to register. If you would like to register after it has closed, please call the Reference Desk!at 508-457-2555 x 7!
The Point, Books About Color, Part Two
It was a pleasure to have Laura Reckford, Executive Director of the Falmouth Art Center, return to the monthly book show on CAI this morning. We had so much fun talking about books having to do with color last month, that we ended up with part two this morning. Below you will find the list of all the books that were mentioned. Thanks so much to those of who added to our lists, as well as those that were listening. If you have an idea for a theme for a future book show, let me know! You can write to me at jerickson@falmouthpubliclibrary.org.
Laura’s Picks
Color Theory: An essential guide to color from basic principles to practical applications by Patti Mollica
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
Color Me Beautiful by Carole Jackson
Confident Color: An Artist’s Guide to Harmony, Contrast and Unity by Nita Leland
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Eric Carle
Mouse Paint by Ellen Walsh
An Atlas of Rare and Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums Forbes Pigment Collection
Colour: Why the World Isn’t Grey by Hazel Rossotti
The Color Collector’s Handbook by Leah Martha Rosenberg
Chromophobia by David Batchelor
Jill’s Picks
My Private Property by Mary Ruefle
The Primary Colors by Alexander Theroux
The Secondary Colors by Alexander Theroux
Essays by Henry D. Thoreau, a fully annotated edition. Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Particularly the essay “Autumnal Tints”
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Colors in Fashion edited by Jonathan Faiers and Mary Westerman Bulgarella
Pure Sea Glass: discovering nature’s vanishing gems by Richard LaMotte
Fairfield Porter: the collected poems with selected drawings. Edited by John Yau with David Kermani
Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy
The Book of Greens: a cook’s compendium by Jenn Louis with Kathleen Squires
The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse by Eric Carle
Listener’s Picks
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s practical guide to liberation on the land by Leah Penniman
The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywait
Colour: travels through the paintbox by Victoria Finlay
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
What Color is Love by Joan Walsh Anglund
Frederick by Leon Lionni
Artists Handbook and Materials Methods by Robert Mayer
Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O’Neill
Zoom presentation: Successful Selling through Online Yard Sales
We are pleased to welcome Deb Colameta Saturday morning, October 3rd, at 10 a.m., for a Zoom presentation! Deb is an expert seller, and has made thousands of dollars (and created extra space in her home) by using the power of online yard sales.
Are you moving? Minimizing? Tidying and de-cluttering have become timely topics, and this workshop will teach you Deb’s best tips for making money while purging your home!
Also, by upcycling, freecycling, and selling your extra things, you can avoid contributing to landfills. Deb Colameta is the author of “Best Offer, Best Life! Deb’s Quick-Start Guide to Creating Wealth through Online Yard Sales“, which will be available for purchase during the presentation.
Besides using virtual yard sales to create space and earn cash, Deb is an adjunct professor at Northeastern University and runs a consulting practice.
This event is free and appropriate for adults, and is sponsored by the generosity of the Trustees of the Falmouth Public Library. Registration is required, by 5 p.m. on the day before he event. Please register online by clicking here, or contact the reference department at 508-457-2555 x 7.
Postcards from Falmouth
We are delighted to celebrate our historic postcard collections with three talks related to the history of Falmouth and postcards. Join us for any or all three talks which will be held digitally via Zoom on Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:00 AM, Wednesday, September 23rd at 10:00 AM, and Thursday, September 24th at 10:00 AM.
On Tuesday Tom Turkington will talk about his memoir Before I Forget: A Boyhood of Little Drama, Wednesday will be Gus G. Widmayer talking about his postcard collection and his books A Gentleman’s Guide to the Belvidere Plain in Falmouth, Massachusetts and The Belvidere Plain Revisited, and finally on Thursday, September 24th will be Mary L. Martin discussing her newest book A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards which was just published by Whitman Publishing, as well as her job of being the owner of the world’s largest postcard shop!
Feel free to bring your favorite Falmouth postcard, and tell us why it is your favorite. This event is made possible thanks to FCTV, The Trustees of the Falmouth Public Library, and an LSTA grant administered through the MBLC. You can register for one or all by going to our online calendar.
Zoom talk: Whaling in New England
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We are pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Pregot on Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m., for a Zoom presentation by the Falmouth Public Library! Many different forms of whaling have been seen in Cape Cod. Drift, shore, herding, deep sea and arctic whaling have all been practiced at one time or another. Each specific form of whaling has a small history connected with it. In the early 1800’s, whaling was among the most profitable enterprises in United States, second only textiles. It remained strong for four decades. Michael will explain why whale products are so valuable, and discuss the historic rationales as to why the whaling center moved from Nantucket, to New Bedford and eventually to Providence. The storied lives of a few extremely successful Cape Cod whaling captains make the session come alive. Dr. Pregot has spent over a half of a century in the field of education. He has served as a high school principal, a district-wide school superintendent, a professor of education and as a University Director of an Educational Leadership Department. He has published several articles and a textbook on the dispositions needed to be a respected school official. He has lived on the Cape for several years with his wife, Judith. He is still an on-line professor and author. The maritime history of the Cape has caught his attention for the past few years. He is currently studying the contributions that each Cape Cod town has made to the overall richness of maritime life. This event is free, and geared for adults, although all are welcome. It is a Zoom event, and registration is required by 5 pm on the day of the program. To register, please click here-the link will be sent to you before the event. NOTE: Downloading the Zoom application previous to the start of the event is required to participate. If you need assistance with this, please contact the reference department at 508-457-2555 x. 7. |
Zoom event: Liz O’Donnell, author of Working Daughter
We are pleased to welcome Liz O’Donnell, author of Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Earning a Living, on Wednesday evening, September 16th, at 7 p.m. at the Falmouth Public Library. Liz will share her own experiences, both darkly humorous and heart-breaking, and pass on her lessons learned. Rescheduled from spring, and even more timely now!
Working Daughter is a revealing look at adults caring for their aging parents, and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage eldercare along with raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It shares Liz’s story- she was enjoying a fast-paced career in marketing and raising two children when both of her parents were diagnosed with terminal illnesses on the same day. The book will be available for sale by Eight Cousins, online or in the store.
Liz is the founder of Working Daughter, a community for women balancing eldercare, career, and more. An award-winning writer, Working Daughter is her second book, which Library Journal named one of the Best Books of 2019.
A former family caregiver, she is a recognized expert on working while caregiving and has written on the topic for many outlets including The Atlantic, Forbes, TIME, WBUR and PBS’ Next Avenue and has delivered keynotes on the topic to many audiences including Harvard University, MIT, the Marketing to Moms Conference, and the Women Leading Government Conference.
This event is free and appropriate for adults, and is sponsored by the generosity of the Trustees of the Falmouth Public Library.
This is a Zoom event, and registration is required by 5 pm on the day of the program. To register, please click here-the link will be emailed to you before the event!
NOTE: Downloading the Zoom application previous to the start of the event is required to participate. If you need assistance with this or with registering, please contact the Reference departnment at 508-457-2555 x 7.
Review: Transformers Vs. G.I. Joe, Vol. 1-6 by Tom Scioli
One line review: If Jack Kirby and David Lynch teamed up to make a 1980s afternoon cartoon, it would look a lot like this.
Writer/artist Tom Scioli has been a darling of the underground comics scene for years. He’s won multiple awards and huzzahs from his peers, and was personally sought-out by pop star Gerard Way when Way launched his own line of comics with DC in 2016.
The reason for this is that Scioli’s comics have a very unique tone to them. There is a playful austerity to them, a po-faced silliness. He blends the dynamic art of 1960s Marvel superhero comics with an almost Cormac McCarthy approach to scripting. The mix is both heady and a headtrip. And kinda goofy.
With the comic book series, ‘Transformers vs. G.I. Joe’, Sciloi was given free reign to do whatever he wanted with two of Hasbro’s best-selling toy lines. He could change their backstories, rewrite their futures, and kill off as many characters as he saw fit. Nothing was off-limits. No one was worried about how it would effect toy sales. The result is one of the most imaginative and unpredictable comics I’ve ever read. At times, it feels like a ‘men on a mission’ movie. At other times it feels like Lovecraftian mythology. Then there are the times it just feels like you’re watching some scarily-smart kid smash their toys together on the floor of their bedroom.
Some stand-out moments include issue 0, a brief intro to many of the leads and a pretty good litmus test as to whether or not you’ve going to want to stick around, and the majorly meta issue 7, wherein the evil Doctor Mindbender makes Scarlett, “a crossbow-toting southern belle with a history in martial arts”, believe her entire existence is a lie and that she and everything else are actually — gasp! — toys.
I read this series 3 years ago, and imagery and ideas from it still pop into my head every week or so. That’s gotta be a good thing, right?
(reviewed by Josh)
All six volumes of this series are currently available to read — FOR FREE! — via the Hoopla app, if you’re a Falmouth Public Library, West Falmouth and Woods Hole cardholder! Click here.
For information on how to get a Hoopla account, click here!
Digital Collections@Falmouth Public Library
Have you visited the Digital Collections@Falmouth Public Library?
We just created a new webpage that organizes all of the Library’s locally significant digital content onto a new webpage for easier access. Take a look!
In addition to the very popular digital versions of the Falmouth Enterprise, the Annual Town Reports, and the Falmouth Public School Yearbooks, the Library has also added a few unique collections described below.
Postcards from Falmouth, a Library project with the express goal to capture, collect, and digitally preserve and share the evolving history of Falmouth. Share your stories of Falmouth “back in the day” by clicking on the historical postcards.
Read the Ships Logs of Falmouth whalers. In fact, the Library is in the process of transcribing the logs. Contact us if you’re interested in helping out.
Follow along as we upload images of the Library’s art collection, which includes the work of many local artists.
And don’t forget to check out our community created content, too:
The Upper Cape Camera Club Summer Exhibit
Falmouth at Home, a collection of photographs that document our days staying close to home during the pandemic. Send us your photos!
An Australian Celebration with Didgeridoo Down Under!
The Falmouth Public Library is pleased to host 3 online Zoom events on Tuesday, July 28th! Events will be available on our YouTube for all to view for the next week!
3 pm- Didgeridoo Down Under (variety show for all ages!)
Didgeridoo Down Under is an energetic fusion of Australian music, culture, puppetry, comedy, character building, storytelling and audience participation. The didgeridoo has been played by Aboriginal Australians for at least 1,500 years, and is known for its otherworldly sound. But DDU is more than music. It’s interactive, educational, motivational and super fun for all ages!
4 pm Aussie Funk Jam (workshop for tweens and teens)
Aussie Funk Jam is a one-of-a-kind musical experience. In this hands-on workshop, participants learn how to play the didgeridoo — including vocalizing, creating simple rhythms and more — with homemade beginner instruments. The Funk Jam is cool, funky and unique … ideal for teens and tweens, but OK for ages 8 and up (even adults). Interested participants will either need to have a couple paper towel tubes available and tape, or pick up some from at the Main Library. Watch social media for more details.
6:30 pm Music & More from the Land Down Under (concert for adults)Music & More from the Land Down Under takes the audience on a musical journey to Australia and beyond, as the performer plays an assortment of didgeridoos and percussion instruments … mixed with colorful stories and humor. Our performers play a modern style, mixing fast-paced rhythms with relaxing soundscapes and organic sound effects. This program is best for adults, but is OK for kids with parental accompaniment.
These events are free. Participation by Zoom, must register (separately for each). Downloading the Zoom application previous to the start of the event is required to participate. To register, please go to falmouthpubliclibrary.org/events. If you need assistance, please contact the children’s department at 508-457-2555 x 6.