Wellfleet Library

Note: Sunday hours through April

Harpist Maeve Gilchrist in concert. $15 at the door; $5 under 16.

COMPUTER SECURITY SEMINAR covering the most common security threats, maintaining your computer, dealing with a compromised computer, and much more. Presented by Wellfleet's IT Consultant.

WELLFLEET HISTORICAL SOCIETY program: Joseph C Lincoln's Cape Cod presented by Jim Coogan author of Cape Cod books including Sail Away Ladies: Stories of Cape Cod Women in the Age of Sail. All are welcome.

Free films sponsored by the Wellfleet Peace Drum Circle - WPDFC.

CELLOS FOR A SUMMER NIGHT: featuring Samuel Ericsson playing Bach's Suite for Solo Cello in C major and works by Faure, Haydn, Weber and Bizet. Playing with him will be cellists Liz Schultze, and Bo Ericsson, with pianist Anne Francoise Perrault. $15 at the door, under 18 free.

Life with Cirque du Soleil, a behind the scenes look with Adam Miller, Artistic Director of the touring arena show Saltimbanco. Twenty five years ago Cirque du Soleil changed people's idea of what circus is, and has grown to be one of the dominant forces in popular live entertainment world-wide.

Darryl Lee McGrath will speak about her forthcoming book A Wing and a Prayer: New York's Endangered Birds and the People Who Work with Them. The book focuses on New York's successful efforts to restore the Peregrin Falcon, Bald Eagle and others. Free and open to all.

Free films sponsored by the Wellfleet Peace Drum Circle - WPDFC.

Lawrence Marschall will speak about his forthcoming book Galileo's New Universe: The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos. Marschall is the W.K.T. Sahm Professor of Physics at Gettysburg College. There will be a book signing after the talk.

Robert Sabbag will read and speak about his forthcoming book Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival, his moving account of surviving a twin engine plane crash on a flight from New York to Cape Cod. There will be a book signing after the talk.

Jazz Trio: Carmen Cicero, saxophone; Kent Hewitt, piano; Marshall Wood, bass. $10 at the door.

Poetry Reading with Andrea Cohen and Tom Sleigh. A book signing will follow the reading.

CASTLE HILL presents Helen Miranda Wilson - Artist & Beekeeper: giving a slide lecture on her paintings and drawings, and her life in general as it relates to her art. $10 at the door. Castle Hill Members free.

WELLFLEET HISTORICAL SOCIETY program: The Legacy of Henry Beston and The Outermost House presented by Don Wilding, Executive Director of the Henry Beston Society. All are welcome.

Free films sponsored by the Wellfleet Peace Drum Circle - WPDFC.

ANNUAL JULY BOOK SALE outside of Town Hall. Sponsored by The Friends of the Wellfleet Libraries. (rain date: Sunday, July 19)

MEETINGHOUSE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: performing works by Corigliano, Dvorak, Stravinsky and Paganini, performed by Katie Lansdale, violin and Donald Enos piano. $18 at the door; under 18 free. More information at: www.meetinghousemusic.org

MUSIC RECITAL with baritone Matthew Roehrig and pianist Larry Schipull performing Italian, French, German and English songs and arias of the 17th - 20th centuries. Free.

Wendy Doniger will speak about her new book The Hindus: An Alternative History. Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of Religions at the University of Chicago. A book signing will follow.

MAKING MUSIC FROM THIN AIR: ORIGINAL SONGS, IMPROVISATIONS, JAZZ AND BLUES with Fred McGee, an eclectic piano and vocal concert that also explores how music gets made - from first improvisation to final arragngement. Free.

**talkingtogether Returns!**S Sheila Rowbotham will speak about her new book Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, a major new biography of the pioneering advocate of gay rights and women's suffrage. Sheila Rowbotham is a British socialist feminist theorist and writer.

An Evening of Readings with Suzanne McConnell and Friends celebrating 25 Wellfleet summers and more.

Friends of Alrowwad, USA Cambridge Bethlehem People to People Project in conjunction with The Wellfleet Library and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) are excited to present Theater as a tool for Social Justice: Voices from Palestine, a discussion with members of the Alrowwad Cultural Theatre Troupe and their director Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour from the Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, Palestine.

Lisa Williams will read and speak about her new book Forget Russia, a story of three generations of Russian Jews journeying between America and Russia from 1908 to 1980. Williams teaches writing and literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

CASTLE HILL presents Maria Flook a 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award recipient, and the author of works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. $10 at the door. Castle Hill Members free.

A performance to benefit the Wellfleet Historical Society of Blue Straw Hat, a one act play written by Corinne Demas, directed by Steve Morgan, and featuring Sarah Wilson as Beryl. Tickets are $8 and available in advance through the Wellfleet Historical Society- (508) 349-9157, or at the door.

ARTIST TALK: May Tveit. Tveit works in the disciplines of sculpture, installation art and public art. Her solo exhibit Field Work will be shown at the Farm project space and gallery in Wellfleet from July 9-27.

Free films sponsored by the Wellfleet Peace Drum Circle - WPDFC.

Artist's Reception for photographer Catherine Hoffman.

Ellen Langer will speak about her new book Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Dr. Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. A book signing will follow the talk.

**talkingtogether Returns!** presents Peter Diamond speaking on Social Security. Diamond is an economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security poliocy. He is on the faculty of the MIT Department of Economics.

TRAVELS IN BRAZIL: an illustrated talk by native born Brazilian Maria Eugenia Lopata, and Glen Benoit. These two world travelers also run Glenn's Gallery on Main Street in Wellfleet.

CASTLE HILL presents Stephen Kinzer the award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than fifty countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him "among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling." $10 at the door. Castle Hill Members free.

Trudy Rubin, author and columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, will speak about her recent trips to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Rubin was awarded the Edward Weintal Prize for international reporting in 2008.

ANNUAL AUGUST BOOK SALE outside of Town Hall. Sponsored by The Friends of the Wellfleet Libraries. (rain date: Sunday, August 16)

Reading by Rochelle Owens and George Economou.

Reading by Nellie Hermann and Mary Gordon.

WELLFLEET HISTORICAL SOCIETY program: Building a New Tall Ship For America presented by Captain Richard Bailey, captain of the Tall Ship 'HMS' Rose which he sailed as a school ship and which was used for the film Master and Commander. He is now involved in making a new 207 foot, three-masted square rigger. All are welcome.

Free films sponsored by the Wellfleet Peace Drum Circle - WPDFC.

CASTLE HILL presents Ed Siegel former theatre and TV critic for the Boston Globe. $10 at the door. Castle Hill Members free.

**talkingtogether Returns** presents Helena Kennedy speaking on Gaza. Helena Kennedy, QC is one of Britain's leading lawyers. She has spent her professional life giving voice to those who have the least power within the system, championing civil liberties and promoting human rights.

THE FRIENDS OF THE WELLFLEET LIBRARIES 2009 DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER, Steven Pinker will speak on Language as a Window into Human Nature. Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as The New York Times, Time, and The New Republic, and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, and most recently, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. Tickets will be available at the library starting July 6. To be held at the Wellfleet Congregational Church. $20.

A piano recital by Clarence Chaisson.

Free films sponsored by the Wellfleet Peace Drum Circle - WPDFC.