Catch the Wave! Come into the
library and see
our exciting new building plans
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Sy Montgomery, author of The Seagull and the Sea Captain
Saturday, June 4
1:00-2:00pm
From New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award Nominee Sy Montgomery comes the sweet, brightly illustrated true story of a seagull and a sea captain who became friends over the course of four summers: The Seagull and the Sea Captain. Author Sy Montgomery will do a reading and a book signing. Copies of the book will be available for sale.
Location: Main Floor Library
2:00-3:00pm
After the reading, head over to Cape Ann Museum at 2:00pm for a The Seagull and the Sea Captain-themed kids art activity!
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Summer Reading challenges for everybody
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Children's Summer Reading
Summer Reading 2022 begins on June 28 with an interactive concert for kids and families. Join Elijah T. Grasshopper and friends and then grab your summer reading sheets and start the fun!
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Teen Summer
Reading
Sign up and record your reading for fun and prizes! More details to follow on the website
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Adult Summer Reading
Book Bingo is Back! Stretch your reading reach with new genres and old favorites. Just pick up or fill out your downloadable bingo card.
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Poetry w/out Paper
Awards Ceremony
Thursday, June 9
6:00-8:00pm
Location: Main floor
A Celebration to honor 2022 Poetry Without Paper poets! Families, friends, teachers and poetry fans arewelcome to share their appreciation of Gloucester's student poets.
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Elijah T. Grasshopper & Friends
Interactive Concert and Musical Storytelling
Tuesday, June 28
11:00am-12:00pm
Location: Amphitheater
"Read Beyond the Beaten Path!" Let's kick off Summer Reading with some outdoor musical fun! Join us for a morning of family fun in our amphitheater with Elijah T. Grasshopper & Friends as they bring their joy-filled interactive concert and musical storytelling!
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Musical Storytime!
Friday, June 10
Friday, July 22
10:30-11:30am
Location: Amphitheater
Join Ruthanne Paulson outside in our beautiful amphitheater for a festive morning of stories, singing & dancing.
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Drop-in STEM Craft
Saturday, June 25
10:00am-12:00pm
Location: Friend Room
Drop into Children's Services Fiesta Weekend and make your own STEM sailboat
No Registration Required - while supplies last.
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STEMtastic
Intro to Honeybees
Thursday, June 9
3:30pm
Location: Friend Room
Join us for our last Bee-Tastic program with two local Beekeepers! Great for elementary and middle schoolers, Mel Gadd and Bill Crocker will teach us all a bit more about our favorite striped insect.
Registration Link
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Middle School
Wizarding Mystery Night
Thursday, June 23
5:30-6:30pm
Location: Friend Room
Get lost in the world of witchcraft and wizardry with this murder mystery game. Join us at the library as we act out and solve this mystery together! Snacks & spells will be provided.
Registration Link
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SFL Library Coloring Challenge
(All Summer Long)
Color in our Sawyer Free 2025 coloring page and bring it back to Children's Services to be entered into a prize drawing this fall! Children & Teens can use any art medium to color their vision of the library. Coloring pages will be hung throughout the library and can be picked up in children's services or at the main floor circulation desk. We'll be taking submissions all summer long!
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Edith Wharton:
Between the Sheets
(and the Pages
Thursday, June 30
6:00-8:00pm
Location: Main floor
Edith Wharton was a keen observer of society in tightly corseted New York of Gilded Age. Wharton (1862-1937) is one of America’s finest novelists, and her works (which include “The Age of Innocence,” “The House of Mirth,” and “Ethan Frome”) continue to be widely read today.
On June 30 at 6:00pm, the SFL in collaboration with Gloucester Stage Company, will explore some of the lesser known aspects of Wharton’s life, including her passionate affair with Morton Fullerton in Paris. Playwright Anne Undeland, author of BETWEEN THE SHEETS will discuss the correspondence between Wharton and Fullerton that inspired her play, and Prof. M.M. Dawley of B.U. will discuss Wharton’s greater body of workt. Actors from Gloucester Stage Company will present a scene from BETWEEN THE SHEETS set to open July 1. Light refreshments will be offered afterwards in the Library’s amphitheater.
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Nicholas Sullivan
Wednesday, June 15
6:00-7:30pm
Location: Main floor
New Bedford author Nick Sullivan presents a new way of thinking about fish, food and oceans by profiling the people and policies transforming a challenged seafood industry into one that is fueled by fishermen, locavores, and local seafood supply chains interested in sustainable, traceable, quality seafood. He shows how the practices of 30 years ago that perpetuated an overfishing crisis are rapidly changing and discusses the global challenges to preserving healthy oceans.
++ Nicholas. P. Sullivan is a writer and editor who examines the impact of business and technology on international development. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Maritime Studies Program and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Emerging Market Enterprises, both in the Fletcher School at Tufts University. The Blue Revolution is his fourth book
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Talking About Death Won't Kill You
A Discussion About End of Life Options
Saturday, June 18
10:00-11:30am
Location: Main floor
Join experts from the nonprofit organization, Compassion and Choices,for an exploration of end-of-life choices, and the ramifications, available to individuals. The pending legislation in Massachusetts about Medical Aid in Dying will be explained and a status report on the bill given.
For more information, go to Compassion & Choices
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Ask a Muslim Anything
Thursday, June 2
6:00-8:00pm
Location: Main floor
Robert Azzi is an Arab-American Muslim who wants you to ask him anything about his faith. The Exeter-based photojournalist has put together a program called “Ask a Muslim Anything” that he hopes will help reduce misunderstandings between people of different faiths.
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Marine Railways with Viking Gustafson
Thursday, June 9
5:30-7:00pm
Location: Friend Room
Marine Railways director Viking Gustafson gives a presentation on the marine railways in Gloucester. She will lead a tour of the railways on Saturday, June 11 at 10am.
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Gloucester 400 Stories Project &
Genealogy Group Workshop
Saturday, June 4
10:00am-12:00pm
The second meeting of the Gloucester Genealogy Club will occur on June 4 in the Friend Room at the Sawyer Free Library. At this meeting, the Gloucester400+ and the Gloucester Writers Center will join the Library to co-host a genealogy workshop for anyone who plans to contribute a story to the Gloucester400+. The ability to conduct research online, and accurately represent one’s family history is proving invaluable in telling the stories of Gloucester’s families.
This will be a repeat session of the basics of genealogical research and the use of Ancestry Library Edition. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops, however, the library will have several available to use during the workshop.
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Celebrate Black Music
Thursday, June 16
5:30-7:00pm
Soul Conversion:The Harvard Report & Soul Music
Schuyler Traughber, co-author of the upcoming book, POWER 101, The Harvard Report, Soul Music, & The American Dream." will present Soul Music's history in pop culture focusing on a "Study of the Soul Music Environment" by Harvard Business School for CBS/Columbia Records in 1972. "The Harvard Report" has contributed to a powerful era, musically, while controversially contributing to the demise of Stax Records in the mid-1970s and Motown being sold to Boston Ventures/MCA Records in the 1980s, enriching corporate America's distribution-control of Black Music.
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The Library will be closed June 20 in honor of Juneteenth. | |
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Please visit the Library's Exhibit at the
Gloucester Juneteenth Festival being held at
Cape Ann Museum Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester June 19 from 10:00am - 2:00pm.
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