Winter Solstice Celebration | |
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022 from 5:30pm until 7:00pm
Join us at Sturgis Library as we welcome Winter at our Winter Solstice Celebration!
Enjoy…
Live music with Mike Machaby and the Movers!
Locally brewed beer from Independent Fermentations!
Hot chocolate, tasty treats, and marshmallow roasting!
Holiday card making for kiddos!
A photo-opp with a seven-foot nutcracker created and worn by artist Valerie Kenyon!
And more!
This event is free and can be enjoyed by all ages! Mark your calendars–you don’t want to miss out on this jolly good time!
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New Staff Email Addresses | |
Donate Your Vehicle to Sturgis Library | |
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Did you know that you can donate your old car or other vehicle to Sturgis Library and recieve a tax deduction? And the car does not have to be in working order!
It's as easy as filling out a quick form on our website or calling 855-500-7433 to start the process. The car donation company does all the work, from picking up the vehic to processing the paperwork. And 2/3 of the proceeds from the sale of the car directly benefits Sturgis Library!
If you have questions or need help accessing the online form, contact Lucy at [email protected] or call her at 508-362-6636.
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Artists of varying ages and abilities will gather monthly at Sturgis Library, chat, sip coffee and tea, nibble on breakfast treats, and (of course) sketch. Professional artists will lead a sketch session on select months!
The library will provide art materials but artists are welcome to bring their own materials and own sketchbooks.
Registration is not required. Questions? email Christy at [email protected]
Gathering Time & Dates:
December 3rd; 10:00am-11:30am
January 7th; 10:00am-11:30am
February 4th; 10:00am-11:30am
March 4th; 10:00am-11:30am
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Just Write: Creative Writing Series | |
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Adults and young adults of all skill levels are invited to Sturgis Library four Tuesdays in November for this creative writing series designed to inspire you and help you put your pen to paper!
Each week we'll read short pieces of writing, exercise our noodles with select writing prompts, and share our writing with one another (sharing is optional).
Published writer, Corey Farrenkopf, will lead the final session to offer his insight into the (sometimes intimidating) world of publishing.
Themes:
The (Not-So) Mundane
Tuesday, November 8th 6:00pm-7:00pm
Scent
Tuesday, November 15th 6:00pm-7:00pm
Empathy
Tuesday, November 22nd 6:00pm-7:00pm
Path to Publishing
Tuesday, November 29th 6:00pm-7:00pm
To register for this free series, email Christy at [email protected]
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Barnstable Council on Aging:
Honoring Aging
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December 20, 2022 from 10:00am-11:30am
A person's Life Experience is a valued asset to our community. We welcome you to come, share your stories, and reminisce about the Town of Barnstable and each village.
Questions? Contact Stacey Cullen at
[email protected]
or call 508-862-4765
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Meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 4:00pm
The Sturgis Library Cookbook Club chooses a different cookbook cookbook author, Spice, or ingredient each month! Members make recipes of their choosing from the cookbook (or using the selected spice/ingredient), and then meet on the second Tuesday of the month to discuss favorite recipes and other food-related topics.
Interested parties can contact Christy at [email protected]
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First Tuesday of the Month
from 5:30pm until 7:00pm
Gather with friends and bask in the coziness of Sturgis Library all Winter long!
Enjoy...
- wine,
- cheese,
- tea,
- wooden jigsaw puzzles,
- and crossword puzzles
all by the glow of a cozy fire.
Free and open to all! (Must be 21+ to sip the wine.)
Questions? Email Christy at [email protected]
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Save the Date
Month of January
Come to the library during the month of January to see a display of handcrafted wampum jewelry and belts designed by native artist Hartman Deetz of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.
Tuesday, January 31st at 6:00pm
Mr. Deetz will give a presentation on the historical and cultural significance of wampum. This discussion titled "Nation to Nation: Trade Commerce and Diplomacy Among Tribal Nations of New England” will explore the legal traditions of wampum belts as well as wampum as a means of economic exchange.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2022
at 1:00pm
Let's celebrate and learn about the magic of Winter! Kiddos are invited to Sturgis Library for a special Snowy Storytime! We'll read Winter Sleep: a Hibernation Story by Sean Taylor and Alex Mors. We'll discover the wonder of hibernation and learn how different animals tuck themselves away and snuggle down for a Winter's sleep. We'll take some time to talk about local wildlife and what we can do to help them during the Winter months, too!
Kiddos can celebrate Winter all year long by making their own snow globes to take home with them.
Registration is required. Email Christy at [email protected]
Intended for ages 4-7 but all are welcome.
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Wednesdays at 10:30 am
Swing by to read a story, illustrate a picture, talk with little friends, and learn about nature at Sturgis Library's Storytime!
Geared to ages 2-4 but all are welcome to attend!
Registration is not required.
Questions? Email Christy at [email protected]
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Meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month from 3:30-4:30ish
Master Builders are invited to gather at Sturgis Library to imagine, create, and make friends!
No registration is required. Questions? Email Christy at [email protected]
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The Sprightly Bright Book Club | |
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Held in-person on the first Wednesday of every month at 4:00pm
Are you between the ages of 8ish to 12ish years old? Do you love to read? If you answered yes to these questions, then The Sprightly Bright Book Club is the place for you!
Let's choose, read, and discuss books together.
The discussion will take place in-person on the first Wednesday of every month at 4:00pm.
Registration is required!
For more information and to register, please email Christy at [email protected]
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Adult Fiction to Check Out this Month | | |
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Flight
by Lynn Steger Strong
It’s December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry’s house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their mother, the first not at their mother’s Florida house. Over the course of the next three days, old resentments and instabilities arise as the siblings, with a gaggle of children afoot, attempt to perform familiar rituals, while also trying to decide what to do with their mother’s house, their sole inheritance. As tensions rise, the whole group is forced to come together unexpectedly when a local mother and daughter need help.
With the urgency and artfulness that cemented her previous novel Want as “a defining novel of our age” (Vulture), Strong once again turns her attention to the structural and systemic failings that are haunting Americans, but also to the ways in which family, friends, and strangers can support each other through the gaps. Flight is a novel of family, ambition, precarity, art, and desire, one that forms a powerful next step from a brilliant chronicler of our time.
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Now is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.
The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. Satanists, kidnappers—the rumors won’t stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town.
Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that threatens to upend her carefully built life: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that?
A bold coming-of-age story, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not the Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us—and, ultimately, what the truth will set free.
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Gilded Mountain
by Kate Manning
In a voice spiked with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family’s snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming “Countess” Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas of romance take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts’ lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie.
Outside the manor walls, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer, along with labor leader Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper—a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice—is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy, Sylvie must choose between silence and revenge.
Drawn from true stories of Colorado history, Gilded Mountain is a tale of a bygone American West seized by robber barons and settled by immigrants, and is a story infused with longing—for self-expression and equality, freedom and adventure.
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Adult Nonfiction to Check Out This Month | |
100 Plants to Feed the Monarch by the Xerces Society | |
The plight of the monarch butterfly has captured public attention and sparked widespread interest in helping to save their dwindling populations. In this in-depth portrait of the monarch butterfly--covering its life cycle, its remarkable relationship with milkweed, its extraordinary migration, and the threats it now faces due to habitat loss and climate change--detailed instructions on how to design and create monarch-friendly landscapes are enriched by guidance on observing and understanding butterfly behavior and habits.Gorgeous photographs of monarchs and plants, plus illustrations, maps, and garden plans, make this a visually engaging guide.
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Conspiracy: Why Rational Peope Believe the Irrational by Michael Shermer | |
In Conspiracy , Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories. Trust in conspiracy theories, he writes, cuts across gender, age, race, income, education level, occupational status - and even political affiliation. One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial: elections have been rigged (LBJ's 1948 Senate race); medical professionals have intentionally harmed patients in their care (Tuskegee); your government does lie to you (Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Afghanistan); and, tragically, some adults do conspire to sexually abuse children. But Shermer reveals that other factors are also in play This engaging book will be an important read for anyone concerned about the future direction of American politics, as well as anyone who's watched friends or family fall into patterns of conspiratorial thinking.
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The Miracle of Salt: Recipes and Techniques to Preserve, Ferment, and Transform Your Food by Naom Duguid | |
Naomi Duguid, who's taken food lovers to many corners of the globe, now invites readers and cooks on a very different journey--a deep dive into the miracle of salt and its essential role in preserving, fermenting, and transforming food. Learn age-old techniques for making sauerkraut, miso, butter, prosciutto, kimchi, salt-fermented pickles, basturma, salt-preserved lemons, brined eggs, and much more. Working with salt-preserved and salt-fermented ingredients not only opens up a rich new world of flavors and techniques but also offers cooks the gift of connecting with generations of culinary wisdom.
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Kids' Books to Check Out this Month | |
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Leaf Litter Critters written by Leslie Bulion illustrated by Meganck
Take a poetic tour through the duff and get the dirt on the tiny, fascinating critters that live there. For all the kids who can't resist turning over a rock, science poetry maven Leslie Bulion presents nineteen lively ecological poems in a variety of verse forms about the "brown food web" and the creatures that live there--from bacteria and rove beetles to mushrooms and millipedes, and all of the other busy recyclers in between.
For everyone, but especially for kiddos 10-12 years old.
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Beatrice Likes the Dark written by April Genevieve Tucholke illustrated by Khoa Le
Beatrice and Roo are nothing alike and don't understand each other. Can Beatrice help Roo love the dark as much as she does? Can Roo help Beatrice love the light? Or are they simply too different to get along? With lushly detailed artwork, award-winning illustrator Khoa Le brings to vivid life acclaimed author April Tucholke's heartwarming, slightly spooky tale about two very different sisters who learn to celebrate their individuality, understanding that love runs deeper than their differences.
For everyone but especially for kiddos 4-8 years old.
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Sturgis Library
3090 Main Street P.O. Box 606
Barnstable, MA 02630
www.sturgislibrary.org
[email protected]
508-362-6636
Our hours are:
Monday 10-5
Tuesday 10-8
Wednesday 10-5
Thursday 10-5
Friday 10-5
Saturday 10-4
Sundays and holidays CLOSED
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