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2016
Andy Sexton Trio
Black History Month
book review
book sale
card catalog
Donna Burgess
Dwelling Place
Elena Ferrante
Emily St. John Mandel
Erskine Clarke
FFPL
FFPL bylaws
FFPL election
FFPL newsletter
John Grisham
Joy of Learning
Kim DeWall
Kristin Hannah
Linda Collins
Marilyn Sanborn
Nancy English
Neapolitan Novels
Parenthood
Station Eleven
Sycamore Row
The Nightingale
tv review
volunteering
Yang Conley
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FRIENDS OF THE FALMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY
SUMMER BOOK SALE
Day 1
Thursday
June 29th
10am - 4pm
Day 2
Friday
June 30th
10am - 4pm
Day 3
Saturday
July 1st
10am - 4pm
Day 4
Sunday
July 2nd
10am - 4pm
Day 5
Monday
July 3rd
10am - noon
half price day
10 books for $2
Newsletter
Spring/Summer 2023
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Driving down Main Street 25 years ago, I remember wondering how a relatively small
town like Falmouth could have such an impressive library. Amazingly, that was before the
renovation in 2008, that added approximately 8,000 square feet to the library building. The
Falmouth Public Library is still an anchor for the historic section of Falmouth that includes
houses and churches built in the mid and late 18th century. The renovations restored and
preserved the interior woodwork, cabinetry, and rotunda glasswork, while readying the
library for an internet world.
The building, like the town, has not remained in the 19th or 20th century. Walk through the
building and see changes that encourage visitors of all ages to explore, enjoy and learn in
our 21st century library. Just around the corner from the circulation desk you can see the
framed replicas of handwritten records of books borrowed in 1792 from the Falmouth Library
Society, founded in 1790. In the Reference Room is the hand-sewn Tercentennial Quilt to
celebrate the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Town Charter. The quilt depicts scenes
from the 10 villages of Falmouth and the Village Green. Hanging on many of the library walls
is a monthly rotation of local artists’ works. There are plaques to honor Falmouth veterans
from the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan and in the Reading Room a corner recognizes
Falmouth poet, Katherine Lee Bates.
The Friends’ group was founded in 1992, “to support, enhance and augment the Falmouth
Public Library system.” Our Summer Sale, with over 100 volunteers, is the major event that
allows the Friends to support programs that the library staff proposes each year. These include
museum passes and children’s programs and funds to pay for Hoopla, Kanopy, and invest in
the technology needs of a modern institution. During the summer, the Friends contribute to
“Movies Under the Stars” programs that attract both visitors and local residents.
Over the last 8 months a group of about 25 volunteers has sorted, cleaned, priced, and
packed hundreds of boxes of books before a team of 5 movers takes them to off-site storage.
There would be no book sale without these dedicated volunteers ensuring that we have
thousands of books ready for the Summer Book Sale. A huge “ THANKS” to these very special
volunteers.
Tents will begin to sprout on the Library lawn during the last week in June in preparation
for the Book Sale which starts on Thursday, June 29th. The sale ends at noon on Monday,
July 3rd. Many volunteers are needed for the 5 days of the sale, to keep the tables filled
with books, act as cashiers, cover-and uncover books with tarps each day and insure that
everything runs smoothly. Contact the Friends (friends@falmouthpubliclibrary.org) and join
us in supporting our wonderful library - Edwina Yee, President
Change Ser vice Requested
Friends of the Falmouth Public Library
P.O. BOX 480
Falmouth, Massachusetts 02541
Non-profit Org
Permit No. 63
Falmouth, MA 02540
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�JOY OF LEARNING
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
It ’s that time of year again. Membership renewal
letters are being sent to all annual members. Your
prompt renewal and continued support are very
much appreciated. The annual meeting will be held
on Tuesday, April 18 at 4:00 in the afternoon in the
Hermann Room. At that time election of officers for
the coming year will be conducted. Please come to
vote and enjoy some refreshments and social time to
get to know your board of directors.
The next important event on our calendar is the Summer
Sale on the library lawn. This is a large undertaking,
requiring the help of many people to keep it going.
Volunteers are needed to help on set up day, moving
book boxes from the lawn to the tents, setting the
books up on the tables, getting the empty cardboard
boxes to the recycle dumpster, and covering the tables
with tarps at the end of the day. For each day of the
sale people are needed to staff the cashier tables,
monitor and replenish the book tables, police the
lawn, recycle the cardboard, and help with the table
tarps at the beginning and end of each day. Other slots
that need filling are book dealer liaison and volunteer
facilitators.
For those already on the volunteer list, you should
receive the usual email in mid-May, with followup phone call around the first of June. If you’re
not on the list and are interested in helping in any
capacity,or have any questions, please email friends@
falmouthpubliclibrary.org.
- Mary Tamucci
FFPL Board
President
Vice President
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Edwina Yee
Kevin O’Brien
Treasurer �
Rob Gillis
Recording Sec ’y� Deborah Winograd
Member-at-large� Carolyn Brzezinski
Member-at-large
Membership Dir
Book Nook
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Newslet ter
Mar y Tamucci
Deb Orbach
Pat Parker
Nancy English
Carolyn Brzezinski
Mar y Fran Buckley
Tina Rood
Friends of the Falmouth Public
Librar y
During April consider participating in the “Joy of Learning ” series! The Library and the
Friends have offered Joy of Learning classes for many years, in April and October. They are
taught by educators and other experts on a volunteer basis, for adults and for teens at a
high school/college learning level. This program is free, sponsored by the Friends of the
Falmouth Public Library. For more information, call the Reference Desk at 508-457-2555 ext
7, or email us at info@falmouthpubliclibrary.org. This spring we are offering six classes.
World War II in the Far East with Michael McNaught, Mondays, 11 am -12pm (skips Patriots
Day and goes into first week of May)
History of the Musical with Mark Pearson, Mondays, 3-4:30 pm (skips Patriots Day and goes
into first week of May)
Master Gardeners Series of Talks, Tuesday, 1-2 pm
• 4/4 Designing your Landscape with Mary Pat MacKenzie
• 4/11 Soil 101: What Every Gardener Needs to Know with Cathy Cetta
• 4/18 Native Plants in Your Backyard with Mary Pat Barry
• 4/25 Sustainable Turf with Kate Eldred
Crisis in Ukraine with John Davidson, Weds 1-2 pm (skips 4/5 and goes into first week of May)
• April 12, 1 pm: The History of Russia and Ukraine, an Introduction to the Current Crisis
• April 19, 1 pm: The Roots of the Current Crisis in the History of East-West Relations
PO Box 480, Falmouth,02541
• April 26, 1 pm: The Events Since the Russian Invasion of February of Last Year Up to the
Present
friends@
falmouthpubliclibrary.org
• May 3, 1 pm: Possible Outcomes to the Current Crisis, Peace as a Possibility as well as
Ukrainian Victory
American Revolutionary Decisions with Tamsen George, Thur 10:30-11:30 AM (skips 4/13 and
goes into first week of May)
Couch Criminology with Deb Harrington, Friday 11 am - 12 pm (skips 4/14 and goes into first
week of May
• Sessions 1 & 2: “Nature vs nurture” theories in Criminology.
• Session 3: Fun with forensic fingerprinting, etc.
• Session 4: Breaking the Myths and True Crime examples)
--Sue Henken
We Need Bookends
It you have any bookends you would like to donate, please
drop them off in the Friends Room, on the lower level of the
main branch of the Falmouth Public Library.
�M U S E U M PA S S E S
C H I L D R E N’S R O O M U P D AT E
Each new year brings new opportunities. Over the winter, the Children’s Room team began
thinking about how to improve our space in the Children’s Room to broaden our reach,
increase access, and create a welcoming space for all children. We wanted to keep our focus
firmly in mind: designing a space user-friendly for children, that inspires imagination and
play, where children can discover the joys of reading and feel wonder, but also meet new
friends and express their creativity.
As winter gives way to spring, we are very excited to roll out some of the changes we have
made in the Children’s Room. Next time you are in the Children’s Room, check out our new
dedicated baby and toddler space with new toys, a climbing mat, and puzzles, or our brand
new play mat featuring a town replete with school, fire station, and even farm. Or perhaps
you prefer to explore your creativity and build fine motor skills at the coloring table, or
share a jigsaw puzzle? Maybe you just want to have fun developing early math skills while
playing a game on our Giant Connect Four?
We consider the Children’s Room more yours than ours, and would love to hear your feedback
on these changes. And we have even more fun planned in the coming months! Keep your
eyes opened for the launch of our new educational and S.T.E.A.M focused “Library of Things”
and stay tuned for all of the fun programs we have planned to celebrate summer reading,
including a hilarious, family-friendly show mixing circus arts and spontaneous comedy called
Popcorn!, a visit from Dinoman, a performance from Puppets, Paul, & Mary, a production of
Alice, or the Red King ’s Dream with Dream Tale Puppets complete with a workshop on how
to build tabletop puppets, visits from Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and storyteller
Davis Bates (learn how to play the spoons!), and an opportunity to read to therapy dogs
with C.A.P (Companion Animal Project!). What programs would you most like to see? Let us
know!
- Valerie Arroyo
Discount passes to more than a dozen area museums and attractions are among the library
amenities funded by the Friends. The latest attraction to be added is America’s Fleet
Museum and Maritime Museum at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts. The fleet
on display includes the Battleship Massachusetts, fondly called Big Mamie. There is also
an Arleigh Burke Class destroyer, a PT boat, a Soviet built corvette, a couple of submarines,
and helicopters. There is an exhibit honoring women’s contribution to our warfighting
efforts. The Maritime Museum, featuring the largest Titanic related exhibit in the country,
is open between April and November. The museum pass will support admission for two
adults and three children at $3.00 each. Some of the other passes available are as follows:
• Boston Children’s Museum - discounted admission
• Buttonwood Park Zoo - free admission except Saturdays, school vacations, and major
holidays
• Cape Cod Children’s Museum – 50% off each ticket for up to four people
• Heritage Museum and Gardens – 50% off for up to six people
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum – up to four people at $5 each
• Museum of Fine Arts – admits two
• New Bedford Whaling Museum – 50% of regular admission for up to four people
• New England Aquarium – 50% off regular admission for up to four people
• Plimoth Pawtuxet Museums – reduced admission for up to six people
• Zoo New England (Franklin Park and Stone Zoo) – admits up to six at $9 per adult and
$6 per child
• Cahoon Museum of Art – free admission for two adults and four children
• Cape Cod Museum of Art - $3 admission for two adults and three children
The passes are available for library patrons at the adult circulation desk. Check them out
and enjoy some of the cultural and historical venues our area has to offer.
--Mary Tamucci
�BOOK REVIEW
FA L M O U T H R E A D S
In April of 2002, a concerned group of school teachers and librarians invited members
of the public to a brainstorming meeting in order to discuss ways to “involve the entire
community in enthusiasm for reading
With a goal of making children effective readers and encouraging literacy as a community
effort, the group came up with a variety of suggestions to achieve their goals. Mentoring, a
televised book club, read-a-thons and free book bins were among the suggestions.
Also suggested was having a town wide book of the month that everyone would be
encouraged to read.
That suggestion would be the one the group settled on, though they would focus on one
community read per year, and in 2003 “Year of the Reader ” was born in Falmouth with
Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird as the first book to be
selected.
Initially called Year of the Reader but now known as Falmouth Reads Together, the group is
celebrating 20 years of suggesting titles and organizing events that will encourage people
to interact with one another over reading a book.
Highlights over the past two decades have included author talks, plays and movie screenings,
writing and poetry workshops and a 24-hours MobyDick Marathon held in March of 2010.
This year ’s book pick is Station Eleven by Emily St.
John Mandel. The Friends contribute to the purchase
of extra copies of the book for the library. Join the
discussions and programs planned for the year
Have you read the current or prior book selections?
- Joanne Briana-Gartner
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising
Exploration into the Wonder of
Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
Candyfreak: A Journey through the
Chocolate Underbelly of America by
Steve Almond
Circe by Madeline Miller
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community,
and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Color of Water by James McBride
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest
of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would
Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
An Invitation To Poetry by Robert Pinsky
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Between The World And Me by Ta-nehisi
Coates
Can’t We Talk About Something More
Pleasant? by Roz Chast
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in
the End by Atul Gawande
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by
Karen Joy Fowler.
Shakespeare Saved My Life by Laura Bates
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time by Mark Haddon
1984 by George Orwell
Seen The Glory by John Hough, Jr.
Silent Spring by Rachael Carson
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
This I Believe by edited by Jay Allison
and Dan Gediman
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of
Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - 2023 Falmouth town-wide read
Mandel presents a world where an incredibly fast-moving and highly
contagious flu has blanketed the entire planet. Millions have died.
Survivors must learn to live without the “essentials” of modern life, like
electricity (no Internet!), phone service and fuel oil. What has lasted:
Shakespeare’s plays, symphonic music, and the power of the arts to
inspire the soul and imagination. A troupe of actors and musicians, the
Traveling Symphony, carefully moves throughout the Great Lakes area,
visiting the small settlements that have been established by people left
to rebuild their world. Mandel’s novel is told through the lens of a core
group of characters whom we meet before, during and after the
pandemic; they intersect over the course of the 20 years the novel
depicts. We cheer for them and breathe a sigh of relief when news of their survival is
presented.
A world decimated by severe pandemic hardly seems a “cheerful” topic for a novel. However,
in Mandel’s hands, what comes through is the resilience of human nature and the promise
of what could be a new, revitalized world order
- Mary Fran Buckley
The Expanse by S. A. Corey
To quote George R.R. Martin (“Game of Thrones”): “Interplanetary Adventure
The Way It Ought To Be Written.” I read (or listened to audio books) and
loved all 9 SciFi novels in this series – even more than I loved the 6-season
series on Amazon Prime. These stories, from beginning to the very end,
spin an amazingly integrated and compelling story that is about much more
than space opera. The characters and the moral and ethical dilemmas they
face are deeply and richly developed, the tribal shortcoming of our species
are on full display, and the space ships are almost alive. Issac Asimov ’s
“Foundation” stories were written for an earlier age for younger people –
I loved them back then, but The Expanse is written for adults concerned
about humanity, morality, and, let ’s face it – heroes and adventure.
--Dale Green
French Braid by Anne Tyler
French Braid is a multi-generational family saga spanning over 60 years. Told
from the perspectives of various family members at different points in time, it
is a story of what binds a family together or pulls it apart, as well as the power
of both what is spoken and what is left unsaid. We meet the members of the
Garrett family in the summer of 1959, when they take their first and last family
vacation. Robin runs the family business, a hardware store, while Mercy is a
stay at home mother, interested in painting. The high school age daughters,
Alice and Lily, have opposite personalities. David, the son, is the baby of the
family. As the vacation unfolds, we learn about the dynamics of the family,
how they influence each other, and how they influence future generations.
--Debbie Orbach
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Friends of the Falmouth Public Library Newsletter Spring 2023
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2023
book review
book sale
Edwina Yee
Emily St. John Mandel
Falmouth Reads Together
FFPL
FFPL newsletter
FPL Children's Room
Joy of Learning
Mary Tamucci
museum passes
Station Eleven
Valerie Arroyo