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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Wellfleet Public Library

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  • Talk
  • Richard Rothstein on The Academic "Achievement Gap" - Why it Can't Be Closed
  • Tue, Jul 9th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law. He is the author of Grading ...
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  • Joshua Blair Delaney tells tales from his book Pieces of Eight
  • Wed, Jul 10th, 2013 | 7:30 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • Delaney writes with humor and historical perspective about one of our own great stories -  Pirate Sam Bellamy, Goody Hallett, and the Wreck of the Whydah. Mr. Delaney grew up in Truro and Eastham and obtained a Master's in History at ...
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  • Reading
  • Prose & Poetry: Tehila Lieberman, Jennifer Barber and Peter Brown
  • Thu, Jul 11th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • An Evening with three award winning writers. Book signing after the reading. Jennifer Barber’s new collection of poems, Given Away, was published by Kore Press in 2012.  She is the author ...
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  • Kathleen Spivak will read & discuss her new book With Robert Lowell and his Circle
  • Mon, Jul 15th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • Kathleen Spivak will read & discuss her new book With Robert Lowell and His Circle. There will be a book signing after the talk. In 1959 Kathleen Spivack won a fellowship to study at Boston University with Robert Lowell. Her fellow students ...
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  • Poetry
  • Poetry Reading: Catherine Staples and Charles Coe
  • Tue, Jul 16th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • Catherine Staples will read from her new book of poems The Rattling Window, winner of the McGovern Prize. Charles Coe will read from his new book All Sins Forgiven: Poems for My Parents. There will be a book signing after the reading. Praise ...
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  • Talk
  • Robert Kuttner will discuss his new book Debtor's Prison
  • Wed, Jul 17th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • In Debtor's Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility, Robert Kuttner, one of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking ...
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  • Exhibit
  • Friends of Herring River - Photography
  • Sat, Jul 20th, 2013 | 12:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • The Friends of Herring River welcome interesting photos taken in the Herring River Estuary for this show.  For more information, contact us at info@friendsofherringriver.org
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  • Talk
  • A Talk by UCLA Law Professor Katherine Stone
  • Mon, Jul 22nd, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • Professor Katherine Stone is a leading expert in labor and employment law in the United States. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2008 and a Russell Sage Fellowship for 2008-2009 for her work on the changing nature of employment and the ...
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  • Free concert
  • Kids Playing for Kids: Lighthouse Chamber Players Family Concert
  • Tue, Jul 23rd, 2013 | 7:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • A wonderful evening of music for all ages, featuring hard working and talented young string players. Admission: Free, thanks to the Friends of the Wellfleet Libraries.
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  • Poetry
  • The Sea at Truro - Poetry Reading by Nancy Willard
  • Wed, Jul 24th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • Award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist, Nancy Willard will read from her new book of poems, The Sea at Truro. There will be a book signing after the reading. This event is co-sponsored ...
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  • Talk
  • A Talk by Irene Gendzier
  • Mon, Jul 29th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • Topic: to be announced.  Irene Gendzier writes on subjects of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and problems of development. Her works include: Notes From the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, ...
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  • Terry Abrahamson: In the Belly of the Blues
  • Tue, Jul 30th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • Chicago’s Terry Abrahamson was there. At Ground Zero of the Rock & Roll explosion that saw the Rolling Stones, Cream and Led Zeppelin elevate the legends of Chicago Blues to the peak of their popularity. And he’s brought it back ...
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  • Poetry
  • Poetry Reading: Wendy Drexler and Charles Barasch
  • Wed, Jul 31st, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • Wendy Drexler’s first book-length collection, Western Motel, was published in 2012 by Turning Point. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Blood Orange Review, Cider Press Review (2011 Pushcart Prize ...
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  • Exhibit
  • Wellfleet Historical Society Collection
  • Sat, Aug 3rd, 2013 | 12:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • A collecton of images and artifacts from the collection of the Wellfleet Hisotrical Society will be on exhibit during library hours from August 3 through Aug. 16.
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  • Film
  • Screening of A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet
  • Mon, Aug 5th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle for a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Join Writer/Director Mark Kitchell for ...
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  • Distinguished speaker
  • A Talk by Neuroscientist Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize Winner
  • Thu, Aug 8th, 2013 | 7:30 pm | In the Wellfleet Congregational Church
  • The Friends of the Wellfleet Libraries 2013 Distinguished speaker is the Nobel Prize winning scientist Dr. Eric R. Kandel. He will speak at the Wellfleet Congregational Church on Thursday, August 8 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $20 and will go on sale at the ...
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  • Talk
  • John Cumbler presents:Wellfleet, Its Land, Its People, Its Past and Future
  • Wed, Aug 14th, 2013 | 7:30 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • The Wellfleet Historical Society presents a talk by John T. Cumbler, History Professor at the University of Louisville and longtime Wellfleet seasonal resident. He will discuss how Wellfleetians have used and changed our landscape over the last 250 ...
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  • Exhibit
  • Janet Erickson - Multi Media "Around the Town"
  • Sat, Aug 17th, 2013 | 12:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • Works by Janet Erickson will be on exhibit during library hours from August 17 through August 30.
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  • Exhibit
  • Maura Ghedini - Abstract Paintings
  • Sat, Aug 31st, 2013 | 12:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • New abstract oaintings by Maura Ghedini will be on exhibit during library hours from August 31 through Spetember 13.
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  • Talk
  • Bill Burke presents: A Tale of Two 18th Century Wellfleet Houses
  • Wed, Sep 11th, 2013 | 7:30 pm | In the Meeting Room
  • The Wellfleet Historical Society presents a program by Bill Burke, Park Historian for the Cape Cod National Seashore. He will speak on the Baker/Biddle and Atwood Higgins houses, two 18th century Wellfleet houses. Free. All welcome.
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