Lego Club

.Children will make fabulous creations out of legos.This month���s theme: Wacky Buildings!We will meet in the Raytheon Room.. For ages 5 years and up, with caregivers.Attendance is limited. Masks must be worn by everyone ages 2+.��Registration required!�� []

Indoor Storytime with Ms. Pam

.Join Ms. Pam for stories, songs, puppets, and activities.This interactive storytime encourages language development, socialization and fun.We will meet in the Round Room on the main floor of the library. For ages 2.5 to 5 years, with caregivers.Attendance is...More

.Join Ms. Pam for stories, songs, puppets, and activities.This interactive storytime encourages language development, socialization and fun.We will meet in the Round Room on the main floor of the library. For ages 2.5 to 5 years, with caregivers.Attendance is limited. Masks must be worn by everyone ages 2+.��Registration required!If you are waitlisted you have the option of viewing the storytime from home via Zoom. If you prefer to view the storytime via Zoom, please email Pam at pmccuen@minlib.net.�������� [Children's Events]

Craft: Braided Nautical Rope Wreath

Create a Braided Nautical Rope Wreath! We'll meet in-person in the Raytheon Room. Masks are required. If you prefer to participate from home via Zoom, check the box on the registration form. Note: this craft requires a hot glue gun.Registration required. Age 13+....More

Create a Braided Nautical Rope Wreath! We'll meet in-person in the Raytheon Room. Masks are required. If you prefer to participate from home via Zoom, check the box on the registration form. Note: this craft requires a hot glue gun.Registration required. Age 13+. Limit 15 people.��Supplies provided:��RopeWire wreath formRibbon/decorationsGlue gun & glue������Contact: Courtney Michael : 508-358-2311 : cmichael@minlib.net [Adult Events]

Raytheon Room

Cookbook Club December Zoom

We will discuss the cookbook: The Chef and the Slow Cooker by Hugh Acheson.This event is held via Zoom. Attendees can pick up a copy of the monthly Cookbook at the Circulation desk to try recipes or just browse. The meeting will be a discussion of the book and it's...More

We will discuss the cookbook: The Chef and the Slow Cooker by Hugh Acheson.This event is held via Zoom. Attendees can pick up a copy of the monthly Cookbook at the Circulation desk to try recipes or just browse. The meeting will be a discussion of the book and it's recipes what participants liked or didn't like. Dicussion of other recipes/books and cooking and suggestions are all welcome!Join anytime no registration required. To be added to the mailing list or recieve the Zoom Invite link please contact Sarah Hogan: shogan@minlib.netContact: Sarah R Hogan : 5083252311 : shogan@minlib.net [Adult Events]

From Schnitzel to Nockerln with Joy Viola

.Wayland resident Joy Winkie Viola will share her new book��From Schnitzel to Nockerln And Everything That Happened��In Between, recounting her global adventures with Alfred, her late husband of 56 years.This is a book of adventure, often humorous, that spreads from...More

.Wayland resident Joy Winkie Viola will share her new book��From Schnitzel to Nockerln And Everything That Happened��In Between, recounting her global adventures with Alfred, her late husband of 56 years.This is a book of adventure, often humorous, that spreads from the rain forests of Trinidad to the outback of Australia and all the way to the ice-covered continent of Antarctica. The tales continue through China, Saudia Arabia, Kenya, India, the Galapagos Islands, Canada, Cuba and the western United States. Joy recounts the times she and her husband traveled by horseback, zodiac, combi, tundra buggy, and small aircraft to photograph and write about the natural world on all seven continents.She also tells stories of the experiences that they faced on these explorations such as sleeping with a Motmot, being face to face with a polar bear and dining with sheiks in Saudi Arabia. Both Joy and her late husband, Alfred, have over 2300 species on their respective Birders��� Life Lists. Joy is now an octogenarian and continues her active lifestyle planning new international adventures proving one is never too old to explore�� new horizons.BOOK REVIEWS���Joy Viola offers a delightful memoir of the global travels that she and her husband Alfred made in search of rare birds and other wildlife spectacles. Drawing on a lifetime of meticulous journaling, the book offers poignant observations about these far-flung destinations���and the people and wildlife encountered during their journeys. Thoroughly enjoyable.���������-Bruce A. Stein, Ph.D.,��Chief Scientist and Associate Vice President, National Wildlife Federation.���This sensitive life narrative is at once an enduring love story studded with pathos, humor, and a rich accounting of natural history adventures that capture not only the essence of two lives intimately shared, but also which offer personal and authoritative portrayals of different cultures and some of more than 2300 birds and other wildlife species seen through the lens of a camera and the shared eyes of an organic chemist and a talented writer. Readers of this adventure filled odyssey will be both moved and entertained by Joy Viola���s delightful commentary.��������Wayne R. Petersen,��Director, Massachusetts Important Bird Area Program, Massachusetts Audubon Society�������������������������������������This book is a naturalist���s travel bucket list with ten great adventures for photographers, birders, botanists, foodies and animal lovers. What I enjoyed most about the book was even if things didn���t go exactly as planned, Joy and Alfred���s attitude remained positive, and they made the best out of the situation. The book is great. Joy is truly a gifted author and I look forward to sharing this book with others..������ Chuck Bargeron, Director,��University of Georgia, Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.�������������������������������Joy���s From Schnitzel to Nockerln is truly a joy to read. This compilation of Joy and Alfred���s wonderful and varied travel adventures spanning decades of their lives together reminds us of what a well-lived life is all about. This book is a treasure.���-Steve Cox,��Co-founder International Expeditions, Inc..Joy Winkie Viola obtained a BA and MA from the University of Minnesota School of Journalism. Upon graduating, she moved to Boston where she began a thirty-three-year career at Northeastern University in a variety of writing capacities, including seven years as Senior Editor of the ten-volume International Encyclopedia of Higher Education compiled there. She met her Chemistry Professor husband, Alfred, at Northeastern, and together they began a life-long hobby of international travel, nature photography and birding. Alfred passed on from COVID in 2020. Devoted to Golden Retrievers since childhood, she lives in Wayland, Massachusetts with Apollo, her Golden Retriever, and Anna, part Black Labrador and part pure mischief.��More about Joy.��Contact: Courtney Michael : 508-358-2311 : cmichael@minlib.net [Adult Events]

Raytheon Room

Kids Take & Make Craft Kit: Penguin in the Snow

.Welcome the chilly weather with this Penguin in the Snow��Take & Make Craft Kit! We will provide most of the supplies you need to make this craft at home. This craft is best for children ages 4-10.��Please register each child separately.��Limit one per child.Pick up...More

.Welcome the chilly weather with this Penguin in the Snow��Take & Make Craft Kit! We will provide most of the supplies you need to make this craft at home. This craft is best for children ages 4-10.��Please register each child separately.��Limit one per child.Pick up your Take & Make Craft Kit��from our curbside service shelf anytime between 9:00AM- 9:00PM on Monday December 13.Registration for this craft will open on Monday November 29.���� [Children's Events]

Teen Take & Make Craft Kit: Mini Yarn Hat

.Create something cozy with this��Mini Yarn Hat Take & Make Craft Kit for Teens! We will provide most of the supplies you need to make this craft at home. This craft is best for ages 11 and up.��Please register each teen separately. Limit is one per teen.��Pick up...More

.Create something cozy with this��Mini Yarn Hat Take & Make Craft Kit for Teens! We will provide most of the supplies you need to make this craft at home. This craft is best for ages 11 and up.��Please register each teen separately. Limit is one per teen.��Pick up your Take & Make Craft Kit��from our curbside service shelf anytime between 9:00AM- 9:00PM on Monday December 13.Registration for this craft will open on Monday November 29.�� [Teen Events]

Indoor Storytime with Ms. Carly

.Join Ms. Carly in the library for storytime! Children and their caregivers will listen to stories, sing songs, and perform fun rhymes and movements.��We will meet in the Round Room on the main floor of the library.��For babies through preschool age children, with...More

.Join Ms. Carly in the library for storytime! Children and their caregivers will listen to stories, sing songs, and perform fun rhymes and movements.��We will meet in the Round Room on the main floor of the library.��For babies through preschool age children, with caregivers.Attendance is limited. Masks must be worn by everyone ages 2+.��Registration required.If you are waitlisted you have the option of viewing the storytime from home via Zoom. If you prefer to view the storytime via Zoom, please email Carly at cmoniz@minlib.net [Children's Events]

Board of Library Trustees

[Meeting]

ZOOM

Hibernation and Sleep: Stories with Ms. Elise

.What does a bear do all winter? Ms. Elise will read picture books about hibernation and sleep during this storytimeWe will meet in the Raytheon Room. For ages 4 and up, with caregivers.Attendance is limited. Masks must be worn by everyone ages 2+.��Registration...More

.What does a bear do all winter? Ms. Elise will read picture books about hibernation and sleep during this storytimeWe will meet in the Raytheon Room. For ages 4 and up, with caregivers.Attendance is limited. Masks must be worn by everyone ages 2+.��Registration required!If you are waitlisted you have the option of viewing the storytime from home via Zoom. If you prefer to view the storytime via Zoom, please email Pam at pmccuen@minlib.net.������������ [Children's Events]

Storytime with Obie the Dog

.Children will listen to dog stories and have a chance to visit with Obie, a beautiful Samoyed.Obie will be accompanied with his owner Helen.�� We will meet in the Raytheon Room.For ages 3 and up, with an adult.Attendance is limited. Masks must be worn by everyone...More

.Children will listen to dog stories and have a chance to visit with Obie, a beautiful Samoyed.Obie will be accompanied with his owner Helen.�� We will meet in the Raytheon Room.For ages 3 and up, with an adult.Attendance is limited. Masks must be worn by everyone ages 2+.��Registration required!�� []

Lawn

Poetry Workshop

..This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.This meeting may be held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info:��jawkimball@gmail.com��Contact: Joan Kimball : 978-318-0991 : jawkimball@gmail.com...More

..This group gathers two Thursdays a month to work on writing poetry. Beginners and advanced are equally welcome.This meeting may be held via ZOOM - email Joan Kimball for the info:��jawkimball@gmail.com��Contact: Joan Kimball : 978-318-0991 : jawkimball@gmail.com [Adult Events]

Raytheon Room

Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book Group June Meeting

December Meeting��Dystopian/Sci-FI Book GroupThursday 7pm-8:30pm December 16 2021.Join us for a lively discussion of Of Wars And Memories And Starlight by Aliette de Bodard. This collection of short stories is��available at the Circulation Desk at the library.Email...More

December Meeting��Dystopian/Sci-FI Book GroupThursday 7pm-8:30pm December 16 2021.Join us for a lively discussion of Of Wars And Memories And Starlight by Aliette de Bodard. This collection of short stories is��available at the Circulation Desk at the library.Email ekatz@minlib.net for Zoom Link.A major first collection from French writer��Aliette de Bodard multiple award winner and author of The Tea Master and the Detective now brings readers fourteen dazzling tales that showcase the richly textured worldbuilding and beloved characters that have brought her so much acclaim. Come discover the breadth and endless invention of her universes ranging from a dark Gothic Paris devastated by a magical war to the multiple award-winning Xuya a far-future space opera inspired by Vietnamese culture where scholars administrate planets and sentient spaceships are part of families.��The collection covers the consequences of war survival in colonial culture motherhood mindships and space-travel and aspects of grief. There are notes to accompany each story which add a welcome layer of context.Contact: Elise Katz : ekatz@minlib.net [Adult Events]