What a busy week!
 There has been so much going on. One of the highlights is how busy we are with curbside pickup. This week more than 70 bags of items for patrons were picked up - almost 400 items! The library staff deserve huge kudos for all of their work and their enthusiasm for getting books, audiobooks, and movies ready to be picked up. We hope you are enjoying everything - and keep those requests coming!
This edition of the newsletter is sending you more reading recommendations, and a few other things to make you smile.
Hope to pack up some books for you soon. In the meantime, have a great weekend!
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Exciting News from the Wildlife Center in Cape Neddick Maine
 Some very special babies just hatched at the center- wood turtles! Each year, we incubate eggs from mothers that did not survive. After giving the mother turtles a peaceful passing, our clinic team expertly extract the viable eggs and incubate them with the hope that the babies will survive and ultimately be released back to where their mom was discovered. In the wild, mother turtles find a well drained upland spot with just the right temperature and humidity for the babies to form and hatch. In a clinical setting, these perfect conditions can be hard to replicate as temperatures need to remain in the high eighties. Even the slightest change of just 4 degrees could lead to their demise. In addition, conditions too wet or too dry, or movement or jostling can also mean these little lives will not make it.
Abby, our Wildlife Specialist charged with oversight of the turtle incubators this season, was thrilled to find 3 baby wood turtles had hatched on Wednesday! Wood and spotted turtles are species listed as threatened or as special concern in both ME and NH. A combination of habitat loss, poaching, and domestic animal attacks makes it difficult for these ancient species to survive and with ever changing landscapes each individual can make a huge difference for these local populations. We are thrilled to welcome these babies to the world!
Read more about wood turtles:
*Smithsonian Conversation Commons - Movement of Life
*NH Fish and Game
*Maryland Zoo
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BRITISH TV SERIES
You can find lists of our British TV series in our catalog. Many of the first seasons are on the shelf now! Many are also available through the library's subscription to Acorn TV.
   
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To place your holds, give us a call at 772-4346, send us an email at library@wigginml.org, or click on the link to place the hold on your card from home: https://tinyurl.com/yy2hx9jw
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Select Board newsletter
In case you missed the newsletter on 7/24:
- Thank you and Town Meeting results
- Police Department Survey
- Census Reminder
- Town Offices – COVID Operating Plan Update
- Drought Conditions - A note from DES
https://www.strathamnh.gov/select-board/news/july-24th-select-board-newsletter
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Move Everything Outside
The New York Times asked readers to tell them about innovative ways that people were moving activities outdoors, where the coronavirus spreads less easily than it does indoors. Hundreds responded.
- The town of Windsor, Mass., held its annual town meeting at a park, broadcasting it over local FM radio so people could hear. Residents voted by flashing their headlights at the appropriate time, Barbara Connors said.
- Adrianne Mathiowetz, a portrait photographer, has found a way to keep doing sessions with newborns: “The parents stay in their homes with the windows closed. I walk around their house for different angles and shout instructions to them through the glass about where to be for the best light,” she said. “I like that I can’t pose anyone too much. We do a lot of pointing and gesturing, and then they just exist in that space with their new person. I like these images more than any previous newborn photos I’d taken.”
- TJ Clark is a volunteer actor at a local community theater’s “driveway cabaret” in Grand
 Rapids, Mich. Teams of performers drive to patrons’ homes and put on 45 minute cabaret performances in their driveways and yards. A flagged off area keeps the performers at least 10 feet away from their audience. Performances include songs, tap dancing, and even seven family members all performing together. There’s now a waiting list with over 200 houses for a potential second run in August.
read more...
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