Wayland Center Holiday Open House

.Enjoy the festivities at several town center spots!Grout-Heard Museum:��Join the Historical Society outdoors��for a Christmas Tree by the Girl Scouts,��Garden Club decor, Goodies, and��to donate packaged food.Wayland Free Public Library:��Check out our Outdoor Story...More

.Enjoy the festivities at several town center spots!Grout-Heard Museum:��Join the Historical Society outdoors��for a Christmas Tree by the Girl Scouts,��Garden Club decor, Goodies, and��to donate packaged food.Wayland Free Public Library:��Check out our Outdoor Story Walk.Wayland Depot:��Stop by for local and unique gifts.Arts Wayland: Shop the��Holiday Marketplace at the W Gallery.First Parish in Wayland:��Join us in a Carol Sing at 4pm on the front lawn, (raindate Dec. 12.)Sunday, Dec 5,�� 2:00 - 5:00 PMContact: Courtney Michael : 5083582311 : cmichael@minlib.net [All Ages]

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Evening Book Group ONLINE featuring Marjan Kamali

.Join us on Zoom to discuss��The Stationery Shop with��local author��Marjan Kamali! All are welcome. Email Brittany for the link: btuttle@minlib.net.Roya is a dreamy, idealistic teenager living in 1953 Tehran who, amidst the political upheaval of the time, finds a...More

.Join us on Zoom to discuss��The Stationery Shop with��local author��Marjan Kamali! All are welcome. Email Brittany for the link: btuttle@minlib.net.Roya is a dreamy, idealistic teenager living in 1953 Tehran who, amidst the political upheaval of the time, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri���s neighborhood book and stationery shop. She always feels safe in his dusty store, overflowing with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of soft writing paper.When Mr. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer���handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi���s poetry���she loses her heart at once. And, as their romance blossoms, the modest little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran.A few short months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square, but suddenly, violence erupts���a result of the coup d���etat that forever changes their country���s future. In the chaos, Bahman never shows. For weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. With a sorrowful heart, she resigns herself to never seeing him again.Until, more than sixty years later, an accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century: Why did he leave? Where did he go? How was he able to forget her?Marjan Kamali, born in Turkey to Iranian parents, spent her childhood in Kenya, Germany, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. She studied English Literature at UC Berkeley and received her MBA from Columbia University and her MFA from New York University. She is the author of two novels:��The Stationery Shop��(Gallery/Simon&Schuster) and��Together Tea��(Ecco/HarperCollins).��The Stationery Shop,��a national best-seller, was one of NPR���s best books of the year, a��Real Simple��magazine Top Editor���s Pick, an Indie Next Pick,��and an excerpt was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It is being translated into over a dozen languages and adapted into a series for HBO. Marjan���s debut novel,��Together Tea, was a Massachusetts Book Award Finalist, an NPR WBUR Good Read, and a Target Emerging Author Selection. It has been translated into several languages and adapted for the stage. Marjan���s work has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in two anthologies. Marjan teaches writing at GrubStreet and lives with her family in the Boston area. Visit her at www.marjankamali.com, Facebook @MarjanKamaliAuthor, Instagram @marjankamali7, and Twitter @MarjanKamali.��Contact: Brittany Tuttle : (508) 358-2311 : btuttle@minlib.net []

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]

Teen Advisory Board Meeting: Winter Craft

.Teens! Join us for this month's Teen Advisory Board Meeting and make a winter craft��to bring home. We'll brainstorm ideas for the library programs YOU want and talk more about what you'd like in the Teen Space.��We will meet in the Teen Space upstairs in the...More

.Teens! Join us for this month's Teen Advisory Board Meeting and make a winter craft��to bring home. We'll brainstorm ideas for the library programs YOU want and talk more about what you'd like in the Teen Space.��We will meet in the Teen Space upstairs in the mezzanine.For grades 6-12.�� [Teen Events]

Teen Space

Great Presenters: Barbara Grad - Home Grown ��� Paintings by Barbara Grad

.Wayland artist Barbara Grad will present projected images of her large oil paintings and works on paper. She will discuss the painting process, the changes which have impacted her works, and the nuances of color and line to develop a dialogue.�� As a founding member...More

.Wayland artist Barbara Grad will present projected images of her large oil paintings and works on paper. She will discuss the painting process, the changes which have impacted her works, and the nuances of color and line to develop a dialogue.�� As a founding member of one of the first women���s art collaboratives in America, she can also comment on challenges she faced as a woman artist exhibiting in galleries and museums.Barbara Grad earned a BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.�� She is a Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.�� Her awards include: ART Berkshire Taconic Foundation, William Hicks Fellowship, MA Cultural Council Grant, two Brown Fellowships, an Art Institute of Chicago award, and an NEA Individual Artist Award.����Her work is represented by the Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA.Contact: Courtney Michael : 508-358-2311 : cmichael@minlib.net [Adult Events]

Raytheon Room

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]