Join Ms. Janet for a musical storytime.She'll bring her ukulele, rainbow bells, and puppets!
We will meet in the Children's Room.
For ages birth through age 4, with caregivers.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Kids are invited to a Pokémon card trading day at the library.
Come with cards you are willing to trade!
For ages 7 to 11. Please register.
Cancelled -- Reschedule Date TBD
Teens! Create this felted doolder.
Needle felt this charming little guy using a barbed needle and wool roving. Pop up Art
School will show you step-by-step how to sculpt the basic shapes of the body and how to
put them together. You'll also learn how to add the mini pencil to the doodler's hand and
take home the tiny book as well!
For teens in grades 6 and up. Please register.
- Piecemeal
Kathryn Pauline’s Piecemeal offers main dishes, appetizers, sweets, and salads. Her strong suit is the repertoire of sauces, dips, marinades and condiments. These additions, or “pieces” of each meal, promise to steal the show, every time! Invent a good roasted garlic for example, and soon you can profit on a Monday from the rest of Sunday’s meal. She builds lovely culinary zingers and with each recipe courteously points toward 3 ideal ways to savor them.
- 5:30 arrival
- 5:40 eat promptly - 6:30 (short this evening)
- bring your own cutlery, serving utensils, waterbottle, plate
- regular library location, not Town building
Temporarily, WFPL's Music program follows closely after us so we'll be prompt breaking down the meal at 6:30, thank you for understanding
October Meeting Dystopian/Sci-FI Book Group
Thursday, October 17th, 2024 7-8:30pm
Join us for a lively discussion of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu!!
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time. nbsp; Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician--part counselor, part gadget repair man--steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he's the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him--in fact it may even save his life. nbsp; Wildly new and adventurous, Yu's debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space-time.
Copies of the book are available at our Circulation Desk.
Please email ekatz@minlib.net for Zoom Link.
The influence of Latin American music on American popular music comes mostly from South American and Cuban dance music, starting with The Peanut Vendor in 1928 and The Carioca, an Oscar winning dance hit for Fred Astaire in 1934. The 1940s ushered in the popularity of Latin hits by Xavier Cugat (Brazil), Stan Kenton (Tampico) and Jimmy Dorsey (Besame Mucho), while Carmen Miranda and Desi Arnaz sizzled on the big screen. In the fifties chart success came to mambo king Prez Prado with Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White and Mexican rock & roller Ritchie Valens with La Bamba. The 1960s was a mixed bag with the folky Guantanamera, Herb Alpert’s pop mariachi instrumental, The Lonely Bull, and Grammy winner Girl From Ipanema by Getz & Gilberto. Move your feet or sing along with this high energy, upbeat program!
John Clark grew up in a small town in Ohio, attended college in Illinois and graduate school north of Boston. In Atlanta he taught adult education for twenty years for Emory University and Mercer University, creating classes on Bob Dylan, Fifties and Sixties music and a series called Lyrics as Literature. From 2008-2014 he was a high school history and English teacher. Since moving to Boston ten years ago, he has taught adult education for Brandeis, Tufts, Cambridge, Newton and Brookline. In 2023 he presented over 300 American Music history lectures for senior living communities and Councils on Aging. His is also an occasional guest disc jockey on MIT’s radio station, WMBR (88.1).
Practice your English skills! We will read a short story or article and discuss it. No preparation is needed. This group is best for intermediate or advanced speakers.
September 13 and 27
October 4 and 18
November 8 and 22
December 6 and 20
9-10 a.m. in the Wayland Library Raytheon Room
Registration is required. Limited to 10 people. We will keep a waitlist in case there are cancellations.
Contact Amy Conway at aconway@minlib.net or ask for her at 508-358-2311.
Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, fastidious Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul--determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is inevitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp by entering into relationships with other women. Set in Lawrence's native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers (1913) is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.
Kids will learn chess with an educator from Chess Wizards.
All skill levels are welcome.
For children ages 5 and up.
Chess Wizards is so popular with kids because of our unique structure. First, we let kids get the wiggles and giggles out with 10 minutes of free play and review of past taught topics. We then go right into the week's lessons. We separate students based on skill levels and teach different lessons best suited to their individual needs. All lessons have an activity and homework to accompany them and we have well over 80 different lessons to keep challenging our little wizards! Chess has been taught for thousands of years because of its emphasis on logic, tactics and sportsmanship. Let us coach your kids to a higher level of education!
This outdoor storytime encourages early literacy and caregiver-child interactions with lively songs and rhymes, bounces, books, and body-awareness.
Best for babies & toddlers, with a caregiver.
We will meet in the Children's Room.
Every year, nearly 30 million Americans sit on a therapist’s couch—and some of these patients are therapists. In her remarkable book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb tells us that despite her license and rigorous training, her most significant credential is that she’s a card-carrying member of the human race. “I know what it’s like to be a person,” she writes, as a crisis causes her world to come crashing down.
Virtual. Register here.
Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. In her book, Lori explores the inner chambers of her patients’ lives—a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can’t stop hooking up with the wrong guys (even one from the waiting room)—she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb reveals our blind spots, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.
We invite you to join us as Gottlieb shares her wisdom on examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves to help us breakthrough what is holding us back and getting in the way of living the life we desire. Register now to start your journey!
About the Author: Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, which has sold over two million copies and is currently being adapted as a television series starring Kristen Bell. In addition to her clinical practice, she co-hosts the popular “Dear Therapists” podcast produced by Katie Couric and writes The Atlantic’s “Dear Therapist” advice column. She is a sought-after expert in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR’s “Fresh Air” and her TED Talk was one of the Top 10 Most Watched of the Year. She is the creator of the Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Workbook: A Toolkit for Editing Your Story and Changing Your Life and the Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Journal: 52 Weekly Sessions to Transform Your Life. Learn more at LoriGottlieb.com or by following her on Instagram @lorigottlieb_author and X @LoriGottlieb1.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings while an author talk is happening on the Main Floor.
Esteemed poet Charles Coe will read from his recent publication Charles Coe: New and Selected Works, which includes twenty new poems and twenty poems each from his first four collections of poetry.
"Charles Coe's poems achieve the remarkable quality of being simultaneously sturdy and wistful. They illuminate the material realities of our lives, and the ephemerality of them—showing us what makes us vulnerable and ultimately human."
- Danielle Legros Georges, former Poet Laureate, City of Boston
This event is free, and books will be available for purchase. This event is proudly co-sponsored by Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library.
Charles Coe is the author of five books of poetry, all published by Leapfrog Press: Picnic on the Moon, All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents, Memento Mori, Purgatory Road (Winner of a 2023 Boston Book Authors Notable Book Award) and Charles Coe: New and Selected Works. He is also author of Spin Cycles, a novella published by Gemma Media that depicts the life of a homeless man on the streets of Boston.
Charles has been awarded fellowships by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club and has been designated a “Literary Light” by the Associates of the Boston Public Library. He is adjunct professor of English at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island and Bay Path University in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where he teaches in both MFA writing programs.
Some animals like sharks, snakes and spiders we think of as scary, but are they really when we learn more about them?
Many seemingly “scary animals” have really important jobs in nature, even helping people! S
ee giant megalodon shark teeth and don’t miss meeting some not really so scary animals too!
Joy Marzolf from Joys of Nature will present this program. For children ages 3 and up with caregivers.
Training classes for new ESOL tutors are scheduled for five Wednesday evenings, 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Dates; 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13 and 11/20
Please note that only the last session will be held in-person in the Raytheon Room at the Library. The rest of the sessions will be held on Zoom.
Pre-registration is required. If you are interested in participating or have questions, please contact Ginny Steel, ESOL Program Director, at 508-358-7517 or email to esol@waylandlibrary.org
This book discussion group is for 4th and 5th graders.
We will be discussing The One Thing You'd Save by Linda Sue Park
We will meet in the Teen Loft.
Questions or to get a copy of the book contact Pam McCuen at pmccuen@minlib.net
The Origins and Evolution of Project 2025 with Professor Brian Conley
Project 2025 has been in the news lately but, for some, it seemed to come out of nowhere. Join Professor Brian Conley of Suffolk University, as we delve into the history of this document and it's origins during the Reagan Years. For instance, called, "Mandate for Leadership", Edwin Feulner, who led the Heritage Foundation when it was first written, explains that the idea for such a policy book originated at a 1979 meeting of Heritage's Board. Professor Conley will help us understand the origins of the Mandate which led to the current Project 2025 document.
Brian M. Conley, Ph.D. is a Professor and Chair of the Political Science & Legal Studies Department at Suffolk University. As Program Director of Suffolk's Masters in Applied Politics and MA in Global Public Policy, as he has researched and written The Rise of the Republican Right: From Goldwater to Reagan. Dr. Conley, an expert in electoral politics, political parties, and political marketing and branding.
Hosted by the Ashland Public Library ing collaboration with a multitude of MA & NH libraries. We look forward to having a respectful dialogue about this important subject with an expert in the field. Please register for this event and you'll receive the link in the confirmation and reminder emails - make sure to check your spam folder for them. The email will be coming from Zoom.
Recording Note: This program will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube Channel. Registrants will receive a video link within 48 hours of the event.
Join Ms. Janet for a musical storytime.She'll bring her ukulele, rainbow bells, and puppets!
We will meet in the Children's Room.
For ages birth through age 4, with caregivers.
Teens! Get spooky with a haunted house video tutorial paint-along! Re-create the haunted house painting, but using your choice of mediums and techniques.
Discover if the principles of oil painting can be translated to acrylic paint, markers, crayons and more! Use the art supplies provided or bring your own.
For teens in grades 6 and up.
This event has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule in the future.
Join Dr. Mai Hassan of MIT's Political Science Department for an overview of the origins of the conflict in Sudan, Sudan’s history of authoritarianism and Islamist rule, the country’s fragmented internal security apparatus, and regional and ethnic divisions. Learn also how regional actors – namely the UAE, Egypt, Russia, and Saudi Arabia – have fueled this conflict for geopolitical gain. Hosted by the Watertown Public Library in partnership with several Massachusetts libraries.
About Dr. Hassan: Mai Hassan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. Her work examines topics that span across authoritarian regimes, bureaucracy and public administration, and contentious politics.
Her first book, Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya, was selected as a Best Book of 2020 by Foreign Affairs, won the American Political Science Association’s 2021 Robert A Dahl Award, and was the recipient of the African Studies Association 2021 Bethwell A. Ogot Award. Professor Hassan’s other research has been published in numerous outlets, including the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, and the Journal of Politics. She earned her PhD in Government from Harvard University. Before arriving at MIT, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
This storytime encourages early literacy and caregiver-child interactions with lively songs and rhymes, bounces, books, and body-awareness.
Best for babies & toddlers, with a caregiver.
We will meet in the Children's Room.
In this 6-session early literacy program children will sing, move, build vocabulary, early literacy skills, and a love of books.
The Red Bag Lending Library provides families with 4 new books each week that are returned and exchanged the following week.
Jodi Levin from Family ACCESS Community Connections will lead the program.
Wednesdays, September 25, October 2, October 9, October 16, October 30, and November 6 (No session on October 23).
For children ages 0-3 with caregiver. Register for all 6 sessions HERE. Limited to 10 families.
Halloween is here! Join Ms. Pam to paint mini pumpkins at the library.
For ages 4 and up, with caregiver.
Training classes for new ESOL tutors are scheduled for five Wednesday evenings, 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Dates; 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13 and 11/20
Please note that only the last session will be held in-person in the Raytheon Room at the Library. The rest of the sessions will be held on Zoom.
Pre-registration is required. If you are interested in participating or have questions, please contact Ginny Steel, ESOL Program Director, at 508-358-7517 or email to esol@waylandlibrary.org
Join Ms. Janet for a musical storytime.She'll bring her ukulele, rainbow bells, and puppets!
We will meet in the Children's Room.
For ages birth through age 4, with caregivers.
Looking back at the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many lessons to take away in terms of domestic and international policies. Although this pandemic seems to have waned, how can we apply these lessons to future pandemics? Will countries cooperate, and will a consensus emerge on how to manage global health challenges?
We will meet in the Raytheon Room. To attend via Zoom, contact Steve Engler.
About Great Decisions:
Prepare to discuss the world! Join our current events discussion group. Preparation involves reading an 8-page article from the Great Decisions Briefing Book. Our meetings consist of a 20 minute documentary film screening and lively, peer-facilitated discussion on the most critical global issues facing America today.
The WHS Robotics Team, also known as the Control Freaks, will demo their newest robot in the Library Parking Lot!
Come and meet the Robot that will compete in the next New England District Championships!
Founded in 2014, Wayland High School's FIRST Robotics Competition Team, the Control Freaks, is dedicated to inspiring members to pursue knowledge in the STEM fields while also teaching leadership skills through their competitive FIRST robotics program. For more information, please contact team5735@gmail.com. Connect with us on instagram @ctrlfreaks5735 or Facebook FRC 5735.
This program is for all ages.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
Meeting in person and on Zoom. Email Brittany at btuttle@minlib.net for the Zoom link. Pick up a copy of the book at the Circulation Desk.
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play in four acts is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. Taking place on a single day in August 1912 at the seaside cottage of the Tyrone family in Connecticut, the play portrays a family struggling to grapple with the realities and consequences of each member's failings.
"By common consent, Long Day's Journey into Night is Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece... The helplessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us." --Harold Bloom
This outdoor storytime encourages early literacy and caregiver-child interactions with lively songs and rhymes, bounces, books, and body-awareness.
Best for babies & toddlers, with a caregiver.
We will meet in the Children's Room.
Children will listen to dog stories and have a chance to visit with Obie, a beautiful Samoyed.
Obie will be accompanied by his owner Helen. We will meet in the Raytheon Room.
Please register.
For ages 2 and up, with an adult.
Art Club is for kids ages 8 and up, who love to draw and paint!
This club, led by Wayland parent Emily Kristofek, will meet the first Tuesday of the month.
Registration required.
In this 6-session early literacy program children will sing, move, build vocabulary, early literacy skills, and a love of books.
The Red Bag Lending Library provides families with 4 new books each week that are returned and exchanged the following week.
Jodi Levin from Family ACCESS Community Connections will lead the program.
Wednesdays, September 25, October 2, October 9, October 16, October 30, and November 6 (No session on October 23).
For children ages 0-3 with caregiver. Register for all 6 sessions HERE. Limited to 10 families.
Children will make fabulous creations out of legos.
This month we will build a town out of legos!
We will meet in the Raytheon Room.. For ages 5 years and up, with caregivers.
Training classes for new ESOL tutors are scheduled for five Wednesday evenings, 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Dates; 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13 and 11/20
Please note that only the last session will be held in-person in the Raytheon Room at the Library. The rest of the sessions will be held on Zoom.
Pre-registration is required. If you are interested in participating or have questions, please contact Ginny Steel, ESOL Program Director, at 508-358-7517 or email to esol@waylandlibrary.org
Join Ms. Janet for a musical storytime.She'll bring her ukulele, rainbow bells, and puppets!
We will meet in the Children's Room.
For ages birth through age 4, with caregivers.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
You are welcome to join us in conversation with Navajo Ranger, Stanley Milford, Jr. as he chats about the chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and the unexplained in Navajoland.
Virtual. Register here.
As a Native American with parents of both Navajo and Cherokee descent, Stanley Milford, Jr. grew up in a world where the supernatural was both expected and taboo, where shapeshifters roamed, witchcraft was a thing to be feared, and children were taught not to whistle at night. In his youth, Milford never went looking for the paranormal, but it always seemed to find him. When he joined the fabled Navajo Rangers—a law enforcement branch of the Navajo Nation who are equal parts police officers, archeological conservationists, and historians—the paranormal became part of his job. Alongside addressing the mundane duties of overseeing the massive 27,000-square-mile reservation, Milford was assigned to utterly bizarre and shockingly frequent cases involving mysterious livestock mutilations, skinwalker and Bigfoot sightings, UFOs, and malicious hauntings.
In The Paranormal Ranger, Milford recounts the stories of these cases from the clinical and deductive perspective of a law enforcement officer. Milford’s Native American worldview and investigative training collide to provide an eerie account of what logic dictates should not be possible. Register now to expand your own worldview and be ready for a chill to run down your spine!
About the Author: Stanley Milford, Jr., graduated from the United States Indian Police Academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico, and worked continuously as a sworn law enforcement officer for over twenty-three years. He served as the delegated Chief Navajo Ranger for over two years through March of 2019. While with the Navajo Rangers, Stan oversaw a section called the Special Projects Unit (SPU), whose responsibilities included the investigation of cases that did not fit within everyday parameters of law enforcement or criminal investigation, many of which involved reports of the paranormal or supernatural. After leaving the Navajo Rangers, Stan served as the senior investigator for the Navajo Nation’s White Collar Crime Unit.
Explore the history of the part of Wayland we call Cochituate through traces still visible in today’s landscape. For thousands of years, humans, drawn to the area for what it offered them, interacted with the land and left their imprint on that land. Presenter Sheila Carel shares information gleaned from her collective history project, Postcards From Cochituate. Come join us and learn how the Indigenous people influenced Wayland’s traffic patterns, the connection between Harvard University and this part of town, the locations of Cochituate’s oldest home, a colonial tavern, and an industrial-era tenement. Learn how the steel-toed work boot inventor left his mark on the village, and discover the part of Cochituate where big band leader Vaughn Monroe, legendary baseball great Ted Williams, and Louis Armstrong were most likely to be spotted. Co-sponsored by the Wayland Museum and Historical Society.
This program will be held at the Community United Methodist Church in the Fellowship Hall, 80 Main Street, Wayland, MA. This historic church is located in Cochituate.
Practice your English skills! We will read a short story or article and discuss it. No preparation is needed. This group is best for intermediate or advanced speakers.
September 13 and 27
October 4 and 18
November 8 and 22
December 6 and 20
9-10 a.m. in the Wayland Library Raytheon Room
Registration is required. Limited to 10 people. We will keep a waitlist in case there are cancellations.
Contact Amy Conway at aconway@minlib.net or ask for her at 508-358-2311.
Join Little Beats for 30 minutes of yoga-inspired movement
For ages 1 to 5, with caregiver.
Location: Raytheon Room
For more than a century, a diverse group of islanders are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland. That is, until the summer of 1912, when a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher-turned-missionary disrupts the community's fragile balance through his efforts to educate its children.
(Solamente en Español) - (Event ONLY in Spanish)
Sintoniza una conversación especial con el autor más vendido del New York Times Javier Zamora mientras conversa con nosotros sobre su fascinante historia de supervivencia y perseverancia, tal como se cuenta en sus memorias premiadas Solito.
Virtual. Register here.
La aventura de Javier es una travesía de tres mil millas desde su pequeño pueblo en El Salvador, a través de Guatemala y México, hacia la frontera de Estados Unidos. Dejará atrás a sus queridos abuelos y su tía para reunirse con una madre que se fue cuatro años atrás y con un padre al que prácticamente no recuerda. Al viajar solo, a excepción de un grupo de extraños y un coyote contratado para guiarlos a salvo, Javier debía tardar solo dos semanas en llegar.
A los nueve años, todo lo que Javier puede imaginar es correr a los brazos de sus padres, acurrucarse en la cama entre ellos y vivir bajo el mismo techo otra vez. No puede prever los peligrosos trayectos en bote, las interminables caminatas por el desierto, las armas apuntándole, los arrestos y los engaños que le esperan. Tampoco sabe que esas dos semanas se alargarán hasta dos meses y le cambiarán la vida, junto a un grupo de extraños que acabará por cobijarlo como una familia improvisada.
Solito no solo nos ofrece un recuento íntimo e inmediato de un viaje sinuoso y casi imposible, sino la milagrosa bondad y el amor que se entrega en los momentos más inesperados. Solito es la historia de Javier, pero es también la historia de millones más que no tuvieron otra opción más que irse de casa.
¡Regístrese hoy para obtener más información sobre esta apasionante y conmovedora historia!
Sobre el autor: Javier Zamora nació en El Salvador en 1990. Su padre huyó del país cuando él tenía un año y su madre cuando él estaba por cumplir cinco. Las migraciones de ambos padres fueron causadas por la Guerra Civil Salvadoreña financiada por Estados Unidos. Cuando tenía nueve años, Javier emigró por Guatemala, México y el desierto de Sonora. Su primera colección de poesía, Unaccompanied, explora el impacto de la guerra y la inmigración en su familia. Zamora ha sido Stegner Fellow en Stanford y Radcliffe Fellow en Harvard y posee becas del National Endowment for the Arts y la Fundación de Poesía.
This outdoor storytime encourages early literacy and caregiver-child interactions with lively songs and rhymes, bounces, books, and body-awareness.
Best for babies & toddlers, with a caregiver.
We will meet in the Children's Room.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
"Everything You Wanted to Know About Depression"
Up to 17% of the population will experience an episode of depression at some point in their lives, and 50% will experience at least one more episode. Episodes of depression can range from mild to severe and can also be a phase of bipolar disorder. While everyone experiences depression as a unique experience, core symptoms and behaviors can help people recognize when depression becomes a problem. The good news is that many treatments for depression can bring people relief and decrease the probability of future episodes. These treatments range from evidence-based psychotherapy to medications and neurotherapeutics such as electroconvulsive therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. This talk will cover the basics of depression and provide an overview of available and potential future treatments.
Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD, is the Director of the Dauten Family Center for Bipolar Treatment Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
In addition to directing the Dauten Center, Dr. Nierenberg is the co-director of Mass General’s Center for Clinical Research Education and associate director of the Depression Clinical and Research Program. He also holds the Thomas P. Hackett, MD, Endowed Chair in Psychiatry at Mass General.
Dr. Nierenberg graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY. After completing his residency in psychiatry at New York University/Bellevue Hospital, he studied clinical epidemiology at Yale University as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Dr. Nierenberg then joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School, first at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA and then at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also an Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, and an Honorary Skou Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Dr. Nierenberg focuses on clinical trials for bipolar disorder and depression with over 600 published papers. He has been listed among The Best Doctors or Top Doctors in America for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders yearly since 1994. He currently serves as the Vice President of Research for the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD). He has been honored with the ISBD Mogens Schou Award for Research and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation’s Colvin Prize.
Training classes for new ESOL tutors are scheduled for five Wednesday evenings, 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Dates; 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13 and 11/20
Please note that only the last session will be held in-person in the Raytheon Room at the Library. The rest of the sessions will be held on Zoom.
Pre-registration is required. If you are interested in participating or have questions, please contact Ginny Steel, ESOL Program Director, at 508-358-7517 or email to esol@waylandlibrary.org
Join Ms. Janet for a musical storytime.She'll bring her ukulele, rainbow bells, and puppets!
We will meet in the Children's Room.
For ages birth through age 4, with caregivers.
Do you enjoy creating things with your hands? Bring your project to the library for some crafting camaraderie! We'll work on our pieces and share advice, projects and social time during this casual get-together.
Every 2nd Thursday, 2:00-3:30 PM.
Register to be reminded via email, or just show up!
Kids are invited to a Pokémon card trading day at the library.
Come with cards you are willing to trade!
For ages 7 to 11. Please register.
Skinnytaste Simple, by Gina Homolka
Gina Homolka has published another winner with SKINNYTASTE Simple, her 2023 publication. Vegan, vegetarian, and high protein recipes were hits with reviewers. Meals from this book promise to be simple to cook with 7 or fewer ingredients, and friendly to eaters with food sensitivities.
- 5:30 arrival
- 5:40 eat promptly - 6:30 (short this evening)
- bring your own cutlery, serving utensils, waterbottle, plate
- regular library location, not Town building
Temporarily, WFPL's Music program follows closely after us so we'll be prompt breaking down the meal at 6:30, thank you for understanding
The end of the 1940s marked the death of big bands, the beginning of be-bop and the start of cool jazz. Then the fifties birthed and developed quite a variety of jazz subgenres, and Miles Davis was a
catalytic figure for many of them (bandleader for landmark Birth of the Cool). Important musicians from the cool school were Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck and the Modern Jazz Quartet. In addition to Miles, the hard boppers included Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown Horace Silver and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Kind of Blue’s modal jazz (Miles again!) was the decade’s best-selling album and helped launch the solo career of John Coltrane. Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk almost defied categorization and Ornette Coleman’s free jazz challenged everyone. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross added their unique vocal gymnastics at the end. All in all, a fascinating and defining decade for jazz.
John Clark grew up in a small town in Ohio, attended college in Illinois and graduate school north of Boston. In Atlanta he taught adult education for twenty years for Emory University and Mercer University, creating classes on Bob Dylan, Fifties and Sixties music and a series called Lyrics as Literature. From 2008-2014 he was a high school history and English teacher. Since moving to Boston ten years ago, he has taught adult education for Brandeis, Tufts, Cambridge, Newton and Brookline. In 2023 he presented over 300 American Music history lectures for senior living communities and Councils on Aging. His is also an occasional guest disc jockey on MIT’s radio station, WMBR (88.1).
In this hands-on building game, kids will create with over a dozen different building materials.
The program is run by educators at Buildwave.
For children ages 5 and up, with caregivers.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
This outdoor storytime encourages early literacy and caregiver-child interactions with lively songs and rhymes, bounces, books, and body-awareness.
Best for babies & toddlers, with a caregiver.
We will meet in the Children's Room.
Learn the art and craft of tea blending! Explore different holiday-themed herbs, spices, and teas. Use our recipes or craft your own unique tea blends to take home.
Choose from over 30 different ingredients! Great as gifts! Candy cane tea, anyone? Limit 20 participants, age 13+.
Led by staff from Therapy Gardens, a wellness education company.
Let's Book Talk! 2nd/3rd Grade Book Club
Do you like to read books & talk about them? Are you in 2nd or 3rd grade?
Join our book club for good books, fun discussions, activities & snacks!
Ms. Elise leads this book club.
Pick up a copy of the book at the Children's Desk, to read before our first meeting.
Training classes for new ESOL tutors are scheduled for five Wednesday evenings, 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Dates; 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13 and 11/20
Please note that only the last session will be held in-person in the Raytheon Room at the Library. The rest of the sessions will be held on Zoom.
Pre-registration is required. If you are interested in participating or have questions, please contact Ginny Steel, ESOL Program Director, at 508-358-7517 or email to esol@waylandlibrary.org
Join Ms. Janet for a musical storytime.She'll bring her ukulele, rainbow bells, and puppets!
We will meet in the Children's Room.
For ages birth through age 4, with caregivers.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Learn how to needle felt wool with Pop up Art School. Use a barbed needle
and wool roving to create a felted hedgehog. In this beginner’s class, you’ll
learn how to sculpt basic shapes and attach them together. Needle felting is
fun, easy and relaxing!
For teens in grades 6 and up
Join Ms. Haley in the Children's Room for a very dino pajama storytime.
For ages 3 to 5.
Practice your English skills! We will read a short story or article and discuss it. No preparation is needed. This group is best for intermediate or advanced speakers.
September 13 and 27
October 4 and 18
November 8 and 22
December 6 and 20
9-10 a.m. in the Wayland Library Raytheon Room
Registration is required. Limited to 10 people. We will keep a waitlist in case there are cancellations.
Contact Amy Conway at aconway@minlib.net or ask for her at 508-358-2311.
This outdoor storytime encourages early literacy and caregiver-child interactions with lively songs and rhymes, bounces, books, and body-awareness.
Best for babies & toddlers, with a caregiver.
We will meet in the Children's Room.
Meeting in person and on Zoom. Email Brittany at btuttle@minlib.net for the Zoom link. Pick up a copy of the book at the Circulation Desk.
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes a very strange book about a missing woman, a murderous husband, and a plan to expose the truth. What role did her unfaithful husband play? And what was he not telling investigators? The Mystery of Mrs. Christie explores one strong woman's successful endeavor to take her history into her own hands.
Art Club is for kids ages 8 and up, who love to draw and paint!
This club, led by Wayland parent Emily Kristofek, will meet the first Tuesday of each month.
Registration required.
"Behind the Scenes at the Danforth: Two Perspectives on Experiencing Art"
Have you ever wondered how museums choose exhibitions? Why hang certain artworks next to each other? Does wall color matter? Have you ever looked at an artwork and thought—I wish I could do that? How do you start? Is art accessible, or intimidating? Jessica Roscio and Noelle Fournier will talk about the unique aspects of working in the visual arts as we go behind the scenes at the Danforth Art Museum and Art School at Framingham State University. The Danforth has been an integral part of the cultural landscape of Greater Boston since 1975, and has undergone radical changes in the past seven years. Noelle and Jessica will share some of that history and talk about what makes the Danforth such a vibrant and welcoming space for artists, students, and museum-loving audiences. The Danforth Art Museum is dedicated to American Art and showcasing the work of contemporary regional artists, with a permanent collection of almost 3,700 works, including the Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller collection. The Danforth Art School offers classes and workshops for all ages, at all levels, year-round, and offers learning opportunities specific to museum exhibitions. The Danforth has often been described as a “hidden gem”—join Jessica and Noelle in conversation to find out why!
Jessica Roscio joined the Danforth Art Museum in 2011, was appointed Curator in 2015, and became the Director in 2020. She has overseen curatorial and administrative operations since the Museum became a part of Framingham State University. Prior to the Danforth, Roscio held positions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She writes on both historical and contemporary photography and is a regular contributor to Aspect Initiative, an online gallery focusing on innovative photographic practices in New England. She has juried numerous exhibitions across media both regionally and nationally. Roscio has an MA in Art History from the University at Buffalo and a Ph.D. in American Studies, with a focus on the History of Photography, from Boston University.
Noelle Fournier received a B.A. in Fine Arts from St. Lawrence University and a M.Ed. from Lesley University. She is a lifelong artist, working in a variety of media and in scenic painting. Noelle began teaching at the Danforth in 2012 and also served on the faculty at the De Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Fitchburg Art Museum, and the Umbrella Community Arts Center in Concord. She was selected as Artist-in-Residence for a yearlong study of sculpture, and has also designed and presented a series of professional development seminars on sculpture and art education. In 2014 Noelle became the Children’s Education Manager at the Danforth, and since 2016, she has served as Art School Director, overseeing the relocation of the school and the integration with Framingham State University.
Discover how easy it is to use Libby to download ebooks and audiobooks to your phone, tablet or computer. Travel light with ebooks and listen to books without interruption while on the move! MJ will show you how to put the app on your device, create an account, and use the app to borrow or reserve books. You'll also learn how to modify the font size and color of the screen and add titles to a wishlist. Class is limited to 10 people to allow for individual attention. Please bring your cell phone or laptop with you.
Join us for an absolutely dazzling presentation with the emeritus curator of the Smithsonian's National Gem Collection, Dr. Jeffrey E. Post as he talks about The Smithsonian National Gem Collection Unearthed: Surprising Stories Behind the Jewels.
Virtual. Register here.
The Smithsonian’s Unearthed explores the scandals, mysteries, and human stories behind the world's greatest gems. In this original book, the surprising stories behind this world-renowned gem collection are brought to life by Dr. Jeffrey E. Post, curator of the Smithsonian's National Gem Collection for over 30 years. In this webinar, fact is separated from fiction and Dr. Post will reveal fresh information and regale the viewers with anecdotes and tales of some of the world's greatest and most famous gemstones. Inside the illustrious pages of Unearthed, Dr. Post tells the stories of the Smithsonian's most famous gems, including the Hope Diamond, Star of Asia Sapphire, Carmen Lucia Ruby, Hooker Emerald, and Blue Heart Diamond and presents the tales, details, and fascinating facts surrounding rarely displayed gems from the Smithsonian vault and recent additions made to the collection.
Shine bright with us this holiday season and register now!
About the Author and Presenter:
Dr. Jeffrey Edward Post, a native of Wisconsin, received Bachelor of Science degrees in geology and chemistry from the University of Wisconsin - Platteville, and his Ph.D. in chemistry, with a specialty in geochemistry, from Arizona State University. Prior to joining the Department of Mineral Sciences at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History in 1984, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for three years in the Department of Geological Sciences at Harvard University. He was Chairman of the Department of Mineral Sciences 1989-1994 and 2014-2019, and from 1991 to 2023 served as Curator-in-Charge of the U.S. National Gem and Mineral Collection. Dr. Post was the lead Curator for the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals that opened in 1997. In May 2023 he was appointed research curator, emeritus.
His areas of research interest include mineralogy, gemology, and geochemistry. He has published more than 150 scientific articles in these fields. He is the author of The National Gem Collection, and the recently published: The Smithsonian National Gem Collection—Unearthed: Surprising Stories Behind the Jewels.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Practice your English skills! We will read a short story or article and discuss it. No preparation is needed. This group is best for intermediate or advanced speakers.
September 13 and 27
October 4 and 18
November 8 and 22
December 6 and 20
9-10 a.m. in the Wayland Library Raytheon Room
Registration is required. Limited to 10 people. We will keep a waitlist in case there are cancellations.
Contact Amy Conway at aconway@minlib.net or ask for her at 508-358-2311.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings when the Music eXchange Listening Room is happening on the Main Floor.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
Jodi Levin from Family ACCESS Community Connections will lead children in songs and movement, and will share a story!
We will meet in the Chidren's Room. For ages 0 - 3.
Please register HERE..
Join us for a captivating conversation with #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave, as she chats with us online about her newest book The Night We Lost Him.
Virtual. Register here.
The Night We Lost Him focuses on estranged siblings who discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that may have been fatal...
Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving albeit distant family man who kept his finances flush and his families carefully separated. To Nora, he was a father who often loved her from afar - notably a cliffside cottage perched on the California coast from which he fell to his death.
The authorities rule the death accidental, but Nora and her estranged brother Sam have other ideas. As Nora and Sam form an uneasy alliance to unravel the mystery, they start putting together the pieces of their father's past—and uncover a family secret that changes everything.
With Laura Dave's trademark combination of soulful suspense and evocative family drama, The Night We Lost Him is a riveting page-turner. Register now to learn about this book and so much more!
About the Author: Laura Dave is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including The Last Thing He Told Me and Eight Hundred Grapes. Her novels have been translated into thirty-eight languages, and six of them, including The Night We Lost Him, have been optioned for film and television. She resides in Santa Monica, California.
Do you enjoy creating things with your hands? Bring your project to the library for some crafting camaraderie! We'll work on our pieces and share advice, projects and social time during this casual get-together.
Every 2nd Thursday, 2:00-3:30 PM.
Register to be reminded via email, or just show up!
MASHUP! December’s meeting is planned as DIY … a true potluck, with no group book. In every kitchen there is a favorite recipe, pick yours and express your inner epicurean to the group! Dishes do not have to be special occasion. For this month participants will photocopy/share their DIY recipe at the meeting. The group returns to structured reading on January 16, 2025.
5:30 START, 5:40 EAT, 6:30 ADJOURN(last month of short sessions) and thank you for bringing your own cutlery, plate, water, utensils
We begin with the back story of American folk, including the blues and work song field recordings of John and Alan Lomax and discovery of transplanted British Isles ballads in the Appalachian region of our country. Folk music’s broader popularity officially began with the early 1950s commercial breakthrough of the Weavers who scored big hits with Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie songs. Next came Harry Belafonte’s Jamaican Farewell and the calypso pop/folk trend that dominated for the next few years. Then the Kingston Trio hit big in 1958 with Tom Dooley. Finally at the end of the fifties a new star named Joan Baez emerged at the first Newport Folk Festival. Of course, throughout these ten years, many other folk artists appeared who would influence the larger folk revival of the sixties when protest folk music finally came to national attention. Program also includes Burl Ives, Oscar Brand, Jean Ritchie, Odetta, Theodore Bikel and Dave van Ronk who all played an important part of the story of folk music in the 1950s.
John Clark grew up in a small town in Ohio, attended college in Illinois and graduate school north of Boston. In Atlanta he taught adult education for twenty years for Emory University and Mercer University, creating classes on Bob Dylan, Fifties and Sixties music and a series called Lyrics as Literature. From 2008-2014 he was a high school history and English teacher. Since moving to Boston ten years ago, he has taught adult education for Brandeis, Tufts, Cambridge, Newton and Brookline. In 2023 he presented over 300 American Music history lectures for senior living communities and Councils on Aging. His is also an occasional guest disc jockey on MIT’s radio station, WMBR (88.1).
Sam and Sadie--two college friends, often in love, but never lovers--become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Practice your English skills! We will read a short story or article and discuss it. No preparation is needed. This group is best for intermediate or advanced speakers.
September 13 and 27
October 4 and 18
November 8 and 22
December 6 and 20
9-10 a.m. in the Wayland Library Raytheon Room
Registration is required. Limited to 10 people. We will keep a waitlist in case there are cancellations.
Contact Amy Conway at aconway@minlib.net or ask for her at 508-358-2311.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Rick Conard will talk about the history of the railroad line that ran between Boston and Northampton through Wayland, with emphasis on Wayland.
Join Little Beats for 30 minutes of yoga-inspired movement
For ages 1 to 5, with caregiver.
Location: Raytheon Room
Among the most original stylists in American literature, Vonnegut vents his disgust and moral outrage with government and humanity and the entire universe in a scathing social/political/philosophical satire. Hocus Pocus takes on an absurdist's perspective of human history as protagonist Eugene Debs Hartke--West Point graduate, Vietnam vet, college professor, educator of the disabled and the illiterate--awaits trial for a crime initially unspecified.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
(possibly move to Jan 7)
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Colonial Sudbury, Massachusetts, was designated "the Puritan Village" by author Sumner Chilton Powell in his 1964 Pulitzer Prize–winning history of the founding of this quintessential New England town in 1638. Yet this quiet rural village also had a darker history that is often overlooked. Sudbury’s Puritan inhabitants, including some of the most prominent citizens in town, held and sold enslaved Black people throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stories gleaned from preserved records highlight the lives of men, women and children held in bondage, including a court case involving an enslaved boy repeatedly beaten and left scarred by his master less than thirty years after the town’s founding, as well as the bill of sale of Phebey, age two, to a woman in another town. Local author Jane Sciacca uncovers the hidden side of suffering in this New England town.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings when the Music eXchange Listening Room is happening on the Main Floor.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural explosion in the 1920s, saw African American artists challenge stereotypes and celebrate their heritage. From the poetic simplicity of Jacob Lawrence to the cosmopolitan portrait photographs of James Van Der Zee, this era produced works that continue to resonate today. Discover the visionaries who gave voice to the African American experience and forever changed the landscape of American culture. Image: Archibald Motley. Barbecue, 1934. © Valerie Gerrard Browne, Collection of the Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Virtual. Register here Presented in partnership with the Maynard Public Library.
Jane Oneail is a sought-after speaker, educator, and independent art historian. Jane curates and delivers engaging art appreciation programs through her company Culturally Curious, founded in 2017. She holds a master’s in Art History from Boston University and a master’s in Education from Harvard University. Born and raised in New Hampshire, she has worked at some of the state's most esteemed cultural institutions, including the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, where she served as Executive Director, and the Currier Museum of Art, where she held the role of Senior Educator. Jane has also taught at the college level for more than a decade, most recently at Southern New Hampshire University. For more information visit iamculturallycurious.com
In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery, while one inexplicably survived. Then, a teenage girl vanished from the annual State Fair. Neither crime was ever solved. Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved cases quietly echo through survivors' lives.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Bring it! by Ali Rosen
Join us using dwinn@minlib.net or phone 508-358-2311 for more club info
Plenty of copies of each month's feature are available at the Wayland Library's circulation desk. Bring it! : tried and true recipes for potlucks and casual... | Minuteman Library Network (minlib.net)
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
To suggest that Henry David Thoreau did not "flee" to nature to escape the human world, but rather used his observations of patterns and phenomena in nature to reflect upon the human condition (namely loss and change). This presentation will make Henry David Thoreau more human by drawing parallels between his experience and our own; it will encourage listeners to reflect upon their relation to the natural world and to think about how their encounters with nature—whether in a city, a rural setting, or an urban setting—inform the way they see patterns/occurrences in their lives and relationships.
Presented by members of The Thoreau Society.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Explore the contours of the U.S. foreign policy debate as it plays out in a world of multiple and escalating crises and domestic polarization.
We will meet in the Raytheon Room. To attend via Zoom, contact Steve Engler.
About Great Decisions:
Prepare to discuss the world! Join our current events discussion group. Preparation involves reading an 8-page article from the Great Decisions Briefing Book. Our meetings consist of a 20 minute documentary film screening and lively, peer-facilitated discussion on the most critical global issues facing America today.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
Join Ted Reinstein for a tour of his new book, Travels through the Heart and Soul of New England Stories of Struggle, Resilience, and Triumph!
Journalist and author Ted Reinstein has reported all around New England for 25 years, telling the colorful stories of this historic yet ever-changing corner of America. Now, he condenses his countless travels into a single, unique labor of love: a journey through the heart and soul of New England, meeting the most memorable people—and their unlikely stories—all along the way. People whose struggles, toughness, triumphs, and humor not only define the very essence of New England, but represent the timeless best of America as well.
In all six states, in their own words, the stories unfold. From a stalwart surfer on New Hampshire’s tiny seacoast, to Maine’s “Slim” Andrews and his one-man museum, to the Vermonter who builds extraordinary havens in the trees for those without hope of reaching them. Meet a couple in the Berkshire Hills determined to save a place they were told doesn’t exist, and a cartoonist in Rhode Island who found an ingenious way for an entire city to say goodnight to those who need to hear it most.
It's a legendary part of America that’s often caricatured, but rarely caught with such real-life candor and intimacy. Indeed, the Old Mainer in the tired-old joke was wrong: you can get there from here. And along the way, see New England in a whole new light, through the stories of some everyday Americans you’ll never forget.
Ted Reinstein is a longtime broadcast-journalist and author. A reporter based in Boston and a full-time correspondent for the city’s celebrated nightly news magazine, “Chronicle,” he has covered sports, politics and especially human interest stories all over Boston and across New England. His work as a journalist has earned several Emmy Awards as well as an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University National Broadcast Journalism Award. He sits on the WCVB editorial Board, and is the author of three books about New England, all published by Globe Pequot. His first book, New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories was selected in 2013 as a “Best Pick” by National Geographic Traveler. His most recent book is Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier (Lyons Press/2021). He also keeps up an extensive speaking schedule. More on Ted, his books and full biography on his website at https://tedreinstein.com/
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
Virtual. Register here. Presented in partnership with the Maynard Public Library.
The art world has long overlooked the groundbreaking contributions of countless talented women. This program shines a spotlight on fierce female artists who defied societal norms and pushed the boundaries of creativity, yet remain underappreciated in the annals of art history. The program features a diverse array of artists and media, from the bold expressionist prints of Kathe Kollwitz to ebullient Impressionist paintings by Berthe Morisot. In celebrating these visionary women we help to redefine artistic greatness for future generations.
Jane Oneail is a sought-after speaker, educator, and independent art historian. Jane curates and delivers engaging art appreciation programs through her company Culturally Curious, founded in 2017. She holds a master’s in Art History from Boston University and a master’s in Education from Harvard University. Born and raised in New Hampshire, she has worked at some of the state's most esteemed cultural institutions, including the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, where she served as Executive Director, and the Currier Museum of Art, where she held the role of Senior Educator. Jane has also taught at the college level for more than a decade, most recently at Southern New Hampshire University. For more information visit iamculturallycurious.com
Join Little Beats for 30 minutes of yoga-inspired movement
For ages 1 to 5, with caregiver.
Location: Raytheon Room
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim brings us a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university, and the gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom he must contend to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Join us using dwinn@minlib.net or phone 508-358-2311 for more club info
Plenty of copies of each month's feature are available at the Wayland Library's circulation desk.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
Under President Biden, the U.S. has advanced new ideas about trade, technology, industrial policy, competition with China, and the organization of the world economy. For most of the postwar era, the U.S. has tied its global leadership to cooperative agendas aimed at creating a more open world trading system, but that has apparently come to an end. What are America’s options and opportunities as a leader of the world economy? How will America’s “foreign policy for the middle class” and strategic competition with China impact its leadership role? How can the postwar rules and institutions of the world economy be made safe for economic nationalism and great power competition?
We will meet in the Raytheon Room. To attend via Zoom, contact Steve Engler.
About Great Decisions:
Prepare to discuss the world! Join our current events discussion group. Preparation involves reading an 8-page article from the Great Decisions Briefing Book. Our meetings consist of a 20 minute documentary film screening and lively, peer-facilitated discussion on the most critical global issues facing America today.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Why does local history matter? How does it relate to big picture themes? And, especially for younger citizens, how can local & regional exploration ignite latent history passion? These are a few of the questions Kevin Delaney will explore through the lens of his 33 year history teaching career, mostly at Wayland High School, where he served as the social studies department head for over two decades. In 2001, Delaney founded the student-centered Wayland High School History Project, a collaboration with the Wayland Historical Society, and now a thirteen-volume digital archive of the community’s 20th century history.
Delaney is the recipient of the 2017 New England History Teachers Association Kidger Award for excellence in teaching, the 2016 Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution U.S. History Teacher of the Year, and the 2014 Massachusetts History Teacher of the Year. Now retired, he currently serves on the Sherborn Historical Society’s board and runs Pleasant View Woodworks in his hometown.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples, friends over the course of decades, as they navigate the idealism and spirit of youth, when the world is full of promise, and the blows and compromises life inevitably inflicts. Crossing to Safety is work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Join us using dwinn@minlib.net or phone 508-358-2311 for more club info
Plenty of copies of each month's feature are available at the Wayland Library's circulation desk.
Washington’s relations with Beijing have reached an ominous low ebb. Both American political parties have identified China as the country’s preeminent geopolitical challenger and, in the eyes of many, a systemic threat. What is driving this deterioration of Sino-American relations, and what are America’s strategic options in the face of Chinese power and ambition?
We will meet in the Raytheon Room. To attend via Zoom, contact Steve Engler.
About Great Decisions:
Prepare to discuss the world! Join our current events discussion group. Preparation involves reading an 8-page article from the Great Decisions Briefing Book. Our meetings consist of a 20 minute documentary film screening and lively, peer-facilitated discussion on the most critical global issues facing America today.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Join Little Beats for 30 minutes of yoga-inspired movement
For ages 1 to 5, with caregiver.
Location: Raytheon Room
A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses Alex with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings when the Music eXchange Listening Room is happening on the Main Floor.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Join us using dwinn@minlib.net or phone 508-358-2311 for more club info
Plenty of copies of each month's feature are available at the Wayland Library's circulation desk.
The 2015 Paris Agreement established a UN-sponsored framework for negotiations on climate change and global warming. In subsequent COP meetings, experts and political leaders have come together seeking common cause for this growing global crisis. What is the future of these efforts, and what have they yielded? What is the U.S. role in fostering cooperation on climate change? In a divided country, what are the possible futures for American policy leadership?
We will meet in the Raytheon Room. To attend via Zoom, contact Steve Engler.
About Great Decisions:
Prepare to discuss the world! Join our current events discussion group. Preparation involves reading an 8-page article from the Great Decisions Briefing Book. Our meetings consist of a 20 minute documentary film screening and lively, peer-facilitated discussion on the most critical global issues facing America today.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings when the Music eXchange Listening Room is happening on the Main Floor.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West during WWII, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death, love, and money brings him face-to-face with human emotion at its most naked and raw.
This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.
Virtual: This meeting is held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info: jawkimball@gmail.com
Join us using dwinn@minlib.net or phone 508-358-2311 for more club info
Plenty of copies of each month's feature are available at the Wayland Library's circulation desk.
European security is more uncertain than it has been for decades. Putin’s Russia has launched a war with Ukraine on its doorstep, and America’s uncertain role as leader of NATO and security provider has been called into question with the failure of Congress to pass supplemental military support for Ukraine. What are Europe’s options, and how might developments on both sides of Western Europe – in Ukraine and across the Atlantic – impact its choices? What are America’s stakes in NATO and Europe’s strategic dilemmas?
We will meet in the Raytheon Room. To attend via Zoom, contact Steve Engler.
About Great Decisions:
Prepare to discuss the world! Join our current events discussion group. Preparation involves reading an 8-page article from the Great Decisions Briefing Book. Our meetings consist of a 20 minute documentary film screening and lively, peer-facilitated discussion on the most critical global issues facing America today.
The Game Group gathers to play tabletop roleplaying games and board games together. Curious newcomers and experienced gamers are all welcome. Ages 16+.
Email Julian Butcher to ask questions, learn what RPGs we're playing next, or suggest your favorite games: jbutcher@minlib.net.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings when the Music eXchange Listening Room is happening on the Main Floor.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings when the Music eXchange Listening Room is happening on the Main Floor.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings when the Music eXchange Listening Room is happening on the Main Floor.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
The AI revolution is the leading edge of a larger high-tech revolution which promises to transform the world. Experts argue that international cooperation is needed to expand the opportunities these new technologies hold while protecting societies from their dangers. What are the key policy debates in this area, and what are the opportunities and limits on global AI rules of the road? How will the AI revolution impact American national security? What are its policy options to secure the benefits of AI and guard against its dangers?
We will meet in the Raytheon Room. To attend via Zoom, contact Steve Engler.
About Great Decisions:
Prepare to discuss the world! Join our current events discussion group. Preparation involves reading an 8-page article from the Great Decisions Briefing Book. Our meetings consist of a 20 minute documentary film screening and lively, peer-facilitated discussion on the most critical global issues facing America today.
India is an emerging major power in world affairs, occupying a pivotal position between China, the United States, and the Global South. Its population size, economy, and geopolitical location ensure that it will be an influential voice in debates and political struggles over global order. What are India’s choices and opportunities for regional and global leadership? How will it maneuver between China and the United States, and what is its role as a voice of the Global South? What opportunities exist for Washington to work with India?
We will meet in the Raytheon Room. To attend via Zoom, contact Steve Engler.
About Great Decisions:
Prepare to discuss the world! Join our current events discussion group. Preparation involves reading an 8-page article from the Great Decisions Briefing Book. Our meetings consist of a 20 minute documentary film screening and lively, peer-facilitated discussion on the most critical global issues facing America today.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings when the Music eXchange Listening Room is happening on the Main Floor.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
The war in Gaza has brought the region to a crossroads. What are the possible outcomes of the war, and how might the United States use its influence to shape a long-term settlement that leaves both Israel and the Palestinians in a better position? How might Arab states in the wider region be brought into a settlement? What are America’s interests in the Middle East and how can it advance them?
We will meet in the Raytheon Room. To attend via Zoom, contact Steve Engler.
About Great Decisions:
Prepare to discuss the world! Join our current events discussion group. Preparation involves reading an 8-page article from the Great Decisions Briefing Book. Our meetings consist of a 20 minute documentary film screening and lively, peer-facilitated discussion on the most critical global issues facing America today.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings when the Music eXchange Listening Room is happening on the Main Floor.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
The Raytheon Room will be made available for anyone who is looking for a quiet place to work or study on the evenings when the Music eXchange Listening Room is happening on the Main Floor.
Arts Wayland and the Wayland Free Public Library are excited to announce the return of the Music Exchange Listening Room open mic, hosted by Steve Robb.
Attendees will settle in to the comfortable seating of the library’s ornate Round Room to perform and enjoy lightly amplified music in a true listening environment. Refreshments will be available.
The library will be open all day and we encourage coming early to check out what the library has to offer, get a good seat, and to sign up for a 2 song performance slot.
No charge to attend or participate.
The Music Exchange Listening Room repeats on the second Tuesday of each month.
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