"Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps."
Go Thoreau! Celebrating 200 years!
Pastel Painting with Greg Maichack
Saturday, June 3rd at 12:30pm
In this new workshop participants have fun producing their own pastel painting of Georgia O'Keeffe's elegant Jimson flower that sold for just short of $45 million. Professional grade pastels and pastel paper is provided for use during the workshop. All participants will get to keep their pastel paintings.
Gregory Maichack is a seasoned pro at teaching pastel techniques, as recognized by the MFA (Boston), Massachusetts Cultural Council, and over 800 libraries and local cultural councils.
Registration is required, and space is limited, so please call 508-760-6219 to save your spot.
Author Talk with Hugh Blair-Smith
Thursday, June 1st at 6:30pm
Join local author Hugh Blair-Smith as he discusses his book "Left Brains for the Right Stuff" about the Space Race. What made the Space Race possible? What made it necessary? How close a race was it? And what did it achieve? The answers involve the history of three technologies- rockets, navigation, and computers- and how they were woven together to make Apollo and the Space Shuttle significant contributions to winning the Cold War.
Author Hugh Blair-Smith, a part-time Cape Codder since 1946 and full-time since 2015, was a staff engineer at MIT's Instrumentation (later Draper) Laboratory from 1959 through 1981. He and many colleagues created one answer to the long-sought quest for "a moral equivalent to war."
Henry Beston's Outermost House- a Photographic Exhibit
Exhibit open May 13th-June 10th
Gallery Talk- Saturday, June 10th at Noon
This photographic
exhibit of ten framed images honors Henry Beston, and his iconic book, The Outermost House. The chapters in Beston’s memoir follow the
seasons, describing the forces of nature he experienced during those months.
Each of the ten images was selected to bring one chapter of the book to life.
The photographs
were captured along The Great Beach - Beston’s playground, and in Eastham, not
far from where the Outermost House once stood. The title of each picture was
composed using Beston’s poetic words and phrases from the respective chapter.
The exhibit will be on display starting May 13th at 11:00am. It will
close with a gallery talk on June 10th, where the Dune Tramp, Robby McQueeney, will discuss each
photograph, and read passages from The
Outermost House, which correspond to the images.
~This program is Henry David Thoreau approved! Keep an eye out for other nature related programs all year long!~
~This program is Henry David Thoreau approved! Keep an eye out for other nature related programs all year long!~
Friends of the Library Bag of Books Sale
Tuesday, May 23rd-Saturday, May 27th
The Friends of Dennis Public Library are holding a "Bag of Books Sale" at the library during the week of May 23rd. Come to the library and get a designated paper bag and fill it with books for just $5.
This is a great way to stock up on books for your cottage, beach reading, or vacations and help the library at the same time. There are great new titles as well as some old favorites available.
All proceeds will benefit the Friends of Dennis Public Library.
Deer Ticks: One Bite Can Change Your Life
Tuesday, June 13th at 4pm at Cape Cod Community Media Center
Join Entomologist Larry Dapsis from Cape Cod Cooperative Extension for a workshop on Lyme Disease. Lyme Disease is the most prevalent
infectious disease in Massachusetts
and is now considered to be a public health crisis. In addition to Lyme, deer ticks can carry the
pathogens which cause Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis, Relapsing Fever and Powassan
virus, all of which can be very serious and are on the rise.
This program will review the basic life cycle and ecology of
deer ticks, incidence rates and distribution of tick-borne illnesses, in
addition to a database under development on infection rates of ticks. A three point protection plan will be
presented: Protect Yourself, Protect
Your Yard and Protect your Pet.
Tick-Borne Diseases are preventable.
Lincoln Center Local- Sinatra: Voice for a Century
Thursday, May 25th at 5:30pm
Lincoln Center Local partners with your local library to bring exclusive, free, pre-recorded video screenings of Lincoln Center's finest performances directly to your neighborhood.
Lincoln Center teamed up with the New York Philharmonic to celebrate the 100th birthday of Ol' Blue Eyes with Christina Aguilera, Chris Botti, Fantasia, Sutton Foster, Kyle Dean Massey, Bernadette Peters, Billy Porter, Sting and host Seth MacFarlane. The run-time for this concert is 85 minutes.
Major support for Lincoln Center Local: Free Screenings is provided by the Oak Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Booth Ferris Foundation and the Altman Foundation.
Cape Cod Writer's Studio Open House
Friday, May 5th at 10:00
The Cape Cod Writer's Studio is hosting an open house as part of ArtSpring Cape Cod. The Cape Cod Writer's Studio is "where writers with great potential meet." Come and find out more about who they are and what they do. Studio members will read some of their work, take questions and critiques, and do what they usually do... have fun!
The Cape Cod Writer's Studio meets weekly on Friday mornings at Dennis Public Library.
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