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- Arthur Gilbert presents an illustrated talk on his private collection of Wellfleet Artists
- Wed, Jun 12th, 2013 | 7:30 pm | In the Meeting Room
- The Wellfleet Historical Society presents an illustrated talk by Arthur Gilbert who has summered in Wellfleet since 1969. During those years he collected the works of Peggy Bacon, Clare Leighton, Stow Wengenroth and George Grosz. His collection wil be ...
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- Poetry
- Poetry Reading by Marge Piercy & Members of her Poetry Workshop
- Wed, Jun 19th, 2013 | 7:30 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Every year, in a juried selection process, Marge Piercy chooses twelve of the best students from around the world who have applied to study with her in Wellfleet in a week-long intensive poetry ...
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- Things Sheldrake Taught Me: Restoration of an Antique Herreshoff Sailboat
- Sun, Jun 23rd, 2013 | 7:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Randy Bartlett will be the featured speakers at the Friends of the Wellfleet Libraries Annual Meeting. All are welcome. Randy will give an illustrated presentation about his work restoring an antique Herreshoff sailboat. Come celebrate the work of the ...
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- Stop the World I Want to Get Off - And Why You Can't
- Thu, Jun 27th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- A conversation between Linda B. Miller and Craig N. Murphy. Craig N. Murphy is M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations at Wellesley College and Professor of Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s ...
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Irene Gendzier: Reflections on the Origins of US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
- Mon, Jul 29th, 2013 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- 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, 1945-1958 (Columbia U Press, ...
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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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