Wellfleet Library

Note: Sunday hours through April

The Wellfleet Public Library's SUMMER PERFORMANCES FOR FAMILIES presents the Boston Bubble Guy with fun and discovery in a magic bubble show.

JAZZ TRIO: Carmen Cicero saxophone, Kent Hewitt piano, and Marshall Wood bass. $10 at the door.

LIBRARY CLOSED for Independence Day.

PAN-MASS CHALLENGE BENEFIT CONCERT featuring Lydia Reyburn, The Nauset World Music Ensemble, and high school junior Karl Thompsen who is riding for the third time to benefit cancer research. $8 at the door and donations greatly appreciated.

Castle Hill's TUESDAY EVENING SERIES 2008 presents Caroline Rand Herron, former staff editor at the New York Times Book Review. $10 admission. Free for Castle Hill members.

THE WELLFLEET HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2008 SPEAKER SERIES presents a talk with Dale Donovan on Wellfleet's Role in U.S. Lighthouse History. Free.

Margot Livesey will read from her new novel The House on Fortune Street. Livesey's other novels include Eva Moves the Furniture, Criminals, Banishing Verona and The Missing World.

The Wellfleet Public Library's SUMMER PERFORMANCES FOR FAMILIES presents a fun group project Glue and Go Fashions.

An evening of contemporary music with the INNER TRIO - Dylan Coleman bass, Samuel Woodbury guitar, and Nicholas Woodbury percussion. $5 at the door.

July BOOK SALE outside Town Hall. (Rain date Sun. July 20)

A screening of PRNCH/TRNK Ellen Anthony's experimental puppet show with Richard Johnson's unique music, performed at WHAT in 2007.

Castle Hill's TUESDAY EVENING SERIES 2008 presents Anthony Walton, author of Mississippi: An American Journey and scholar of African American history. $10 admission. Free for Castle Hill members.

Kendra Kopelke poet and editor of the literary journal Passager will read from her new book of poems Hopper's Women. She will show slides of the Hopper paintings and locales that inspired the poems.

The 2008 ANNUAL DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER is Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard and author of the new book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Tickets are $20 and will be available at the library in June. Sponsored by the Friends of the Wellfleet Libraries. To be held at the Wellfleet Congregational Church.

FREE FILMS sponsored by the Wellfleet Peace Drum Film Circle. Film schedule posted on the meeting room doors. All are welcome. Free will donation.

Castle Hill's TUESDAY EVENING SERIES 2008 presents Daniel Heyman, who will discuss his work making portraits of Iraqi torture victims as personal political statements and as part of a long tradition of printmakers who recorded wars in their art. $10 admission. Free for Castle Hill members.

Edith Kurzweil, author, former editor of Partisan Review and recent recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, will read and discuss her new memoir Full Circle. A book signing and reception will follow.

Cornerstone Challenge: a forum on the ancient land survey of Cape Cod and New England-the first in the New World; with Morse Payne, architect, William Martin , writer, Paul Burke, professor, Michael Farber, Cornerstone Project, Seth Rolbein, publisher and moderator, and others. Join in an open discussion of the historical research of Payne and company!

The Wellfleet Public Library's SUMMER PERFORMANCES FOR FAMILIES presents an evening of magic, juggling, and high spirits with Scott Jameson.

Ruth Nemzoff Ed. D. will speak on her forthcoming book, Don't Bite your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with your Adult Children. Free.

Martha Sherrill will read and discuss her new book, Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain about 94 year old Morie Sawataishi and his rescue of Japan's noble, ancient Akita breed from certain extinction. Booksigning after the program.

Thomas Recchio, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, will present a program on The Visual Tradition of Elisabeth Gaskell's Cranford. PBS will air Cranford in a new Masterpiece Theatre production in May 2008.

The Wellfleet Public Library's SUMMER PERFORMANCES FOR FAMILIES presents Rona Leventhal in an evening of Fun, Frolic, and Fancy: Stories.

POETRY & ART: Laura Manuelidis will read from her new book of poetry Out of Order and Liz Biddle will show some of her sculpture, tilework and installations.

Curator Elaine Dee will give a slide talk on America the Beautiful: 19th Century American Landscape Painting. free

Castle Hill's TUESDAY EVENING SERIES 2008 presents Harry Cooper, curator of the National Gallery. $10 admission. Free for Castle Hill members.

Rachel Cline, author of What We Keep will read from her new novel My Liar, which illuminates the world of moviemaking with insight and wit.

THE FOURTH ANNUAL LINDA ROSENZWEIG LECTURE presents historian and author Linda Kerber.

The Wellfleet Public Library's SUMMER PERFORMANCES FOR FAMILIES presents fiddler Denya Levine. Listen and join in to an evening of multicultural music.

August BOOK SALE outside Town Hall. (Rain date Sun. Aug. 17)

The Wellfleet Public Library's SUMMER PERFORMANCES FOR FAMILIES presents Carol Weiss author of When the Cows Got Loose performing a lively reading with puppets and a calliope.

Authors Hilary Masters and Kathleen George read from their works including George's new Pittsburgh thriller Afterimage.

The Wellfleet Public Library's SUMMER PERFORMANCES FOR FAMILIES presents Carol Weiss author of When the Cows Got Loose performing a lively reading with puppets and a calliope.

Castle Hill's TUESDAY EVENING SERIES 2008 presents Franco Sacchi Independent Director/Producer/Editor. $10 admission. Free for Castle Hill members.

THE WELLFLEET HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2008 SPEAKER SERIES presents a talk with Jim Arnold on New England Hurricanes, an Historical View. Free.

The Parkington Sisters bring an eclectic assortment of old and new sounds from many traditions, including their inspiring original compositions. Violins, Cello, Guitar, and Piano, accompany warm, interwoven vocal harmonies. Come hear Wellfleet's homegrown talent! $10.

Educational consultant Steven Goodman, author of College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family will talk to parents and students about the often stressful process of finding the right college.

Castle Hill's TUESDAY EVENING SERIES 2008 presents Stephen Pinker, Harvard linguist and psychologist. $10 admission. Free for Castle Hill members.

The Wellfleet Public Library's SUMMER PERFORMANCES FOR FAMILIES pigs out on reading with Farmer Minor his live pig Daisy.

Sculptor Penelope Jencks will present an illustrated talk on her public commission project creating a statue of Robert Frost at Amherst College.

MEET THE ARTIST RECEPTION: Wellfleet Landscapes, Photographs by James B. Abbott.

Wednesday September 10

THE WELLFLEET HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2008 SPEAKER SERIES presents a talk with David Wright on Famous Beds of Wellfleet - A Shellfishing History. Free.