Coming Up At The Library
Join us for a virtual storytime through Facebook live! Storytime will include songs and stories geared for children ages 0-6. Storytime will begin promptly at 11:00pm. Make sure to have something you can use as a scarf handy! Anything from a cloth napkin, t-short, or small towel. If you can not attend live, video will be saved on Facebook page.
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The Plymouth Public Library’s Dr. Richard M. Shiff Forum presents: Sacco-Vanzetti: Case Revisited, on Wednesday, October 28th, at 7:00 pm. This virtual presentation is led by local historian, Christopher Daly. “Sacco-Vanzetti Case Revisited” presentation contains period photographs of all the major players in the case, the locations of the robberies, the courthouse, the massive demonstrations, Charlestown State Prison and the funeral procession down Hanover Street in Boston. Many of these photographs are rare and are not published anywhere. There are also many photographs of locations as they appear today.
Daly has written several articles on varied historical topics for local publications and has written his first book entitled "Murder and Mayhem in Boston: Historic Crimes in the Hub." Daly has also served as historical consultant on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case for the Travel Channel's program "Timetraveling with Brian Unger." He also appeared in two episodes of the Travel Channel's "Kindred Spirits" in the capacity of historian on shows about the Lizzie Borden Case. The library is proud to host this program as part of our three-part Literary Salon Series.
Registration is required for this free program which will take place on Zoom. Please register on the library’s Eventkeeper calendar. For more information call Tom Cummiskey, Outreach/Senior Services Librarian, at 508-830-4250 or TTY 508-747-5882 or email tcummiskey@ocln.org (An email will be sent a few days prior to the event with Zoom details.)
Members of the Tidepool Poets - monthly meeting
The Grotesque 10: Amazing Architectural Sculpture from Ten American Colleges & Universities. Using his original photographs, photographer, graphic designer and writer, Mathew Duman explains the use of grotesques and gargoyles on academic buildings from a select group of American institutions of higher learning as well as other interesting features of the Collegiate Gothic architectural style.
Mathew M. Duman is a photographer, graphic designer and writer who grew up in Bethany, Connecticut. He attended the grotesque-free campus of Central Connecticut State University but studied abroad in Italy and Britain as well. While in Europe, he developed a fascination with the features of medieval architecture. After graduation, Mathew continued exploring with photographic trips to Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Back in the United States Mathew began exploring the relationship between the medieval architecture of Europe and collegiate architecture in the United States.
Virtual Program: Please register and you will be sent the Zoom meeting information.
Poetry Reading
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us on Zoom for a Virtual Live concert performed by one of our favorite Jazz pianists (besides my nephew Sam Harris) Stephen Page! More details will follow, please register for the event so that we can contact you with remote access information. JCH
Virtual Program: Part travelogue, cultural critique, and engaging history, Writing Wild:Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World,is a beautifully illustrated and carefully curated collection of profiles, written by acclaimed author, Kathryn Aalto. With beautiful natural images, readings and storytelling, Aalto brings to life these extraordinary writers and their words.
The author explores twenty-five classic, new, and overlooked female nature writers over two centuries. Aalto will be joining us live from her home in the UK.
- “An amazing, rich resource that rises above visions of conquest and domination to reveal the possibility of meeting eye-to-eye with wildness, and of being broken open and changed.” —Foreword
- “A fantastic resource for readers looking to grow their TBR piles.” —The Los Angeles Times
- "A vibrant, critical, and insightful examination of pivotal female voices in nature writing." — Buzzfeed
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Virtual Event: Literary Salon Series with local author, Judith Campbell. Placing Plymouth in mysteries is what Judith Campbell has been doing for many years. Placing a locale, whether ficitonal or not, can be challenging for a writer. Hear how one author weaves pieces of "America's Hometown" into her many books, including her latest series with Viridienne Greene.
Join us for a historical event featuring our fellow Plymouths around the world. This is part three of the three part series. We will be Simulcasting with 10 Plymouths around the world. Today's program will feature our fellow Plymouths and what the name means to them in their town. This program is an event in conjunction with Plymouth 400 commemoration.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Click here to learn more and to register.
With footage and musical clips from Seven Times Salt members, we present this hour-long virtual program. It follows the settlers from their homes in England’s cities and countryside, to religious refuge in the Netherlands, and onward to their challenging though fulfilling life in Plimoth Colony.
We’ll celebrate Plymouth's 400th anniversary with music of the Elizabethan tavern and theater; spirited catches by Thomas Ravenscroft; selections from the Dutch ‘t Uitnement Kabinet, stirring psalms from Sternhold & Hopkins’ Whole Booke of Psalmes, and vigorous tunes from Playford's The English Dancing Master. You'll also hear fictitious "diary entries" of the colonists read aloud in Original Pronunciation, the English of Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth I-- and the Pilgrims! (Registrants will be emailed the link or Zoom details prior to the program.)
Seven Times Salt will hopefully return to the library in a live concert in the Fall, 2021.
Learn how to draw Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh in pastels with guest artist, Gregory Maichack. This Virtual presentation will be a hands on art lesson from afar. A recommended list of materials needed to be purchased by the attendees include: 1. Prismacolor 020553 Nupastel Non-Toxic Artist Pastel Stick 44: Pack of 12. Note: this pack of Artists Pastel Stick comes in assorted colors and is precise for illustration. The Non-Toxic stick measuring 3 5/8 x 1/4 in - is artist's quality. If you cannot find Nupastels use Dick Blick at https:/www.dickblick.com or Jerry's Artarama to compare prices and Loew-Cornell soft pastels basic color set of 48 colors is fine to use. If you already own your own pastels, any soft pastels are fine, no oil pastels.
2. Black paper - Canson Mi-Teintes Board is high quality and is made with cotton. Any black pastel paper or paper with tooth for Starry Night will be fine; it can then be adhered to the board. The size of the paper should be close to 12 x 18 inches or larger; suggested paper is Item # 13011-2008, No. 425, color black, size 16 x 20, single board @ $4.75.
3. General's Charcoal Pencil White, Item # 20418-1001, price $1.49 // OR a Stabilo pastel pencil by CarbOthello 1400/110, which is a very light grey, almost white.
4. Ruler: Westcott 12", price $1.25
5. Eraser
Colors needed for Starry Night - yellow, light sap green, bottle green (very dark green), Forest or Kelly green, dark brown (the darkest you can find), orange, black or indigo blue, light blue and ultramarine blue, Note: You can use close to these colors, especially if you already own pastels.
You must register so that you will receive the remote access information closer to the event.
The Dr. Richard M. Shiff Forum presents: Jane Yolen, Children's Author introduces her newest title - "Plymouth Rocks" with illustrationist. This will be a Zoom Virtual event with Titcomb's Bookstore selling signed copies of the books. TBA - REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED; We will send remote access details prior to the event.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Members of the Tidepool Poets - monthly meeting
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Set up for Plymouth Garden Club Green Sale - Limited
Plymouth Garden Club Members create their wreaths and arrangements Green Sale - Limited to only PGC members only.
Plymouth Garden Club Members will sell their wreaths and arrangements at the Annual Green Sale - Limited social distancing - Patrons need to place a reservation under Welcome - Come in for Browsing.
Additional sale space on the front veranda for the outdoor arrangements - weather permitting.
Poetry Reading
Reference staff meeting.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Dr. Richard M. Shiff Forum presents: Two Chamber Concerts on Plymouth Public Library FB and Youtube; Clarinet and Piano Duo as well as Bassoon and Oboe Duo. TBA - for more details
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Full Staff Meeting and luncheon
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Join us for play every Tuesday night from 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your own chess set, Please use Library etiquette. Location - the last two Nook Road study rooms, check in at Reference Desk for directions.
Members of the Tidepool Poets - monthly meeting
Temporary place saver per JCH (9/20/20)
Explore your Irish roots with the Plymouth Public Library as we welcome Professional Genealogist Michael Brophy and his workshop on using online Irish Genealogy tools. At this event, Michael Brophy will provide an overview of helpful online tools to assist you with your Irish Genealogy research. Learn tips and tricks to effectively investigate your own Irish ancestry.
An award-winning adventure travel journalist for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and The Providence Journal, Peter Mandel hunts his stories and photos in the world's far corners, including Antarctica, India, Egypt, Patagonia, the fjords of Norway, the mountain pathways of Japan, and the deserts of Africa.
The author of ten books, he'll show slides of his most extreme travel experiences—surviving a coup in Ecuador, visiting a ‘city’ of penguins at the South Pole, fishing for piranha on Brazil’s Rio Negro, floating in the Goodyear Blimp, sailing on an Arctic icebreaker, camping in the African bush, and kayaking to the Statue of Liberty—and talk about how adventure travel turns to prose in today's media.
Mandel's books have been published by Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Henry Holt. One of his Boston Globe articles won the 2005 Lowell Thomas gold medal from the Society of American Travel Writers for adventure travel article of the year. Other articles, for The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun, won Lowell Thomas Awards in 2003, 2006 and 2007.
Join us to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the 19th amendment which granted women the right to vote! The program is set in 1898 when Anthony was a popular speaker on the national circuit. A spokesperson for temperance, abolition, and women’s suffrage, she was arrested for voting illegally in the 1872 reelection of Ulysses S. Grant. Although she did not live to see the day, the struggle for women’s rights initiated by Elizabeth Cady Staton and Lucretia Mott at the first Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls (NY) in 1848, and carried on by Stanton, Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, with hundreds of thousands of others eventually legalizing the vote for American women on August 26, 1920. The Plymouth Area League of Women Voters will offer tea and refreshments after the talk. Co-sponsored with Cape Cod Bank.
Join us for the collaborative showing of "This Land", The play written and performed in Plymouth UK at the Theatre Royal. 40 Libraries across the Commonwealth will be showing this performance.
Postponed from October, 2020. Concert details to follow.
Join us on the Lawn for the rock and roll band out of New Jersey, Larry Stevens Band. Fehlow Room is inclement weather.
Join us on the Lawn for the Seniors Lawn concert - Fehlow Room is inclement weather.
Join us on the Lawn for the Teens and Tweens Lawn concert - Fehlow Room is inclement weather.
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