Coming soon in May!
The Friends of the Truro Library 2019 Spring Trip:
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Musuem
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Join us for a journey through American history and the life of a remarkable man at this impressive I.M. Pei-designed combination presidential library and museum. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is dedicated to the memory of our nation's thirty-fifth president and to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world. The library and museum documents the life, career, and story of one of America's most well-known leaders through a collection of archives, exhibitions, and materials. Memorabilia, photographs, and personal belongings are displayed in seven permanent exhibits focused on JFK's political career, the Space Race, the Kennedy family, and more. Choose from pick-up locations in Truro or Wellfleet. A fee of $55 includes all transportation and entrance fees. Lunch is available to purchase at the JFK Café, or you can pack your own. Please pay in advance; reserve your spot by calling or by stopping by the Truro Library.
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April 2019
You can look below or visit our website for program details. We hope to see you soon!
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April Art Exhibit
Anne H. Brock Community Room
Elizabeth Lazeren will exhibit giclées of her originapaintings for the first time at the Truro Public Library during the month of April. Using memory, experience and imagination, her marine paintings reflect a sense of place on the Outer Cape. She is a fine art painter, still practicing. She exhibits in Boston, Chatham and Provincetown galleries and her work is included in the collections of Mass. General Hospital, Amica Insurance, CB Richard Ellis and the National Parks of America. She has also exhibited at the Hart Senate Building in Washington, D.C.
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Night Sky Party! Rain or Shine, Cloudy or Clear
with NASA Ambassador Don German
Friday, April 5, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Come learn about the stars and planets while observing the night sky through a 5.1-inch reflector telescope. Learn how to locate Polaris (the North Star), the planet Mars, the Orion Nebula, and other popular constellations. Questions are appreciated and encouraged! Don German is a Solar System Ambassador through NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and will share some of this vast knowledge about the universe and NASA's current missions on Mars. Mr. German fell in love with the science of celestial navigation—using the stars, moon, sun and planets to determine one’s position at seas—as an Unlimited Master of ocean going vessels in the US Army.
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GUT HEALTH—ALL Ages
with Community Herbalist Sarah Naciri
Saturday, April 13, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Join us for a hands-on, informative, and fun workshop. Our gut health influences our immunity, detoxification, hormones, and mental health. Most of our health issues start in our gut! During this month’s workshop, we will discuss specific foods and herbs that heal and strengthen the digestive system. We will make a medicinal ghee, drink delicious teas, and discuss the benefits of fruits, vegetables, seaweeds, and herbs. All ages welcome!
Herbalist, gardener, forager, yogini and mother, Sarah Naciri has been studying plants and making plant-based herbal medicine for the past fifteen years.
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Mask Making Workshop/Benefit, Age 12+
Wednesday, April 17, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. AND
Friday, April 19, 10:00 a.m.-Noon.
Come join us for a 2-part class at the Truro Public Library to create a Venetian Mask and help your community by donating your finished mask to Lower Cape Outreach Council. LCOC’s mission is to provide emergency assistance of food, clothing and financial support to residents of Provincetown, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans, Harwich, Chatham and Brewster.
The masks, signed by you, will be on display at the Gallery in the Hope Chest in Orleans and on the LCOC website, lcoutreach.org. Masks will be offered for sale to attendees of the LCOC Annual Gala and Fundraiser – The Masked Ball – at Ocean Edge Resort on October 4, 2019.
Lenore Lyons, artist, educator and creator of The Key Idea, will teach the class.
The first class will be held on Wednesday, April 17, 10:00 – 1:00, when you will construct the base Paper Mâche mask. On Friday, April 19, 10:00 – 12:00, you return to decorate and embellish your Mask.
Please drop in or call the Library at 508-487-1125 to sign up. Limit: 15 maskmakers. Priority will be given to tweens and teens (ages 12+).
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New England Birds of Prey
with Wingmasters
Saturday, April 20, 10:30-11:30 p.m.
Join us for an informative program about birds of prey, also known as raptors—hunting birds characterized by hooked beaks and powerful grabbing feet armed with sharp talons. Learn about several categories of raptors, including hawks, falcons, and owls, and meet six live birds of prey. What is predation? Why are these birds at the top of the food web? How are they adapted to be stellar hunters, and what is their status in a rapidly changing world? This presentation includes one or more endangered species cared for by Wingmasters, and we will learn why these species face an uncertain future.
WINGMASTERS is a partnership of two people dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of North American birds of prey. Julie Anne Collier and Jim Parks are both licensed raptor rehabilitators based in Massachusetts. Together they care for injured birds of prey at their center in Leverett, Massachusetts. Most of the birds they rehabilitate can ultimately be released back into the wild, but in some cases the birds are left permanently handicapped. Julie and Jim are further licensed to provide a home for these non-releasable raptors, and to use them for educational programs. Since 1994 WINGMASTERS has presented over 10,000 programs at schools, libraries and museums throughout New England.
 **This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Truro Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.**
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Les Enfants Terribles (1950, 105 min.), Tuesday, April 2, 2:00 pm.–5:00 p.m.
Jean-Pierre Melville’s operatic camera movements and Jean Cocteau’s perverse, poetic approach to character merge to create one of French cinema’s greatest, most surprising meetings of the minds.
Léon Morin, Prêtre (1961, 118 min.), Tuesday, April 9, 2:00 pm.–5:00 p.m.
In this richly contemplative saga of grief, a young war widow (Emmanuelle Riva) works through her doubts and bitterness with the help of a charismatic priest (Jean-Paul Belmondo). A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, Léon Morin, Prêtre is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema’s towering virtuosos.
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FOTL Presents:
T’ai Chi with Sarah–Yang 108
Fridays, April 5–May 24, 2019
FOTL sponsors a free series of T’ai Chi workshops with Sarah Beals. Yang 108 Tai Chi form provides all the benefits of physical coordination, balance, and breath in a low-stress, flowing routine.
Sarah Beals is a long time resident of the Outer Cape. Her interest in Tai Chi was sparked by seeing venerable Master TT Liang teaching in a Boston park in the late 1970s. Beals began her study in 1982, and enjoys the good fortune to follow several highly respected Tai Chi Masters to learn their forms. She is also certified to instruct in healing Qigong, and recently began studying the Flying Phoenix meditation Qigong with Sifu Terry Dunn.
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STOP THE BLEED Course
with hands-only CPR
Saturday, April 6, 10:00 a.m.-Noon
with additional sessions on Saturday, May 4 and Saturday, June 1
**The Truro Fire Department will offer a Stop the Bleed course on Thurs., April 4**
Barnstable County’s Cape Cod Medical Reserve Corps will offer a “STOP-THE-BLEED” course. Uncontrolled bleeding is the number one cause of preventable death from trauma. Injuries result from a many causes, including motor vehicle accidents, workplace incidents, and accidents around the home. The greater the number of people who know how to control serious bleeding in an injured patient, the greater the number of individuals who will survive an injury. You can help save a life by knowing how to stop serious bleeding.
The course is created by a consortium of medical groups including the American College of Surgeons and all who take the course will receive a certificate of completion. The approximately 1.5 hour course will be followed by a 30 minute hands-only CPR training.
We hope you will be able to attend! Space is limited, but the Library will host the course three times this spring. This is NOT a series, each class is a one-off. Please sign up by at the Library or 508-487-1125.
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The Friends of the Truro Library presents:
A Jigsaw Puzzle Competition!
Wednesday, April 10. 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Teams of four will compete. The first team to assemble the puzzle wins! Everyone does the same puzzle, which will be revealed at the start; no electronic devices or outside assistance permitted. If no puzzle is complete, then the one that is most assembled wins. Bring your own team of four, or we can assign you to a team. Spectators and cheerleaders are welcome, as well. Bring an appetizer or a baked good to share with the group. Space is limited: please sign up in advance at Library.
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Truro Library Book Group
Wednesday, April 24, 6:00 p.m.
April's selection is Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. . . .
The 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction | The Aspen Words Literary Prize | Finalist, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize | Ten Best Books of 2017, New York Times Book Review | New York Times bestseller.
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Ongoing Mindful Ease
with J.C. (Chuck) Hotchkiss
Tuesdays, April 2, 16, & 30, 5:30–7:00 p.m.
Join an ongoing gathering to practice mindfulness and meditation: Learn how to inhabit life with a mind of peace, joy, and deepening attention. The popular winter series has continued as an ongoing, bi-weekly workshop. JC (Chuck) Hotchkiss is an artist/educator who continues to enjoy a lifelong engagement with meditative practices.
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The Next Chapter Book Club
Tuesdays, 1:00-2:00 p.m
Winter/Spring 2019: January 8-April 16
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The Next Chapter Book Club is a nationwide program that provides the fun and focus of a book club to members of our communities who often lack opportunities to explore written works in a relaxed, engaging, and constructive setting. Please consider joining us! Contact Tricia or Maggie at the Truro Library for more details.
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Please make sure to check the All-Ages section of this eNews for more!
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4-H Babysitting Course
Tuesday, April 16–Friday, April 19, from 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Graduation & Certificate, Friday, April 19 at 3:00 p.m.
Sessions include child safety, first aid and emergencies, stages of child development, feeding babies and children, discipline and entertainment, and the business of babysitting. Please sign up by contacting the library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Truro Library.
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Thank you, Salty Market!
Salty Market has generously donated all proceeds from their 2018 Summer Herb Garden to support the Monday Truro Tots Playgroup at the Truro Public Library!
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Truro Tots Playgroup
Mondays, 9:00 am – 11:00 a.m.
From October 15, 2018 to May 6, 2019 (except school holidays). For children aged birth to three years old, and their parent or caregiver. Toys, stories, songs, crafts, and snack provided. No session on April 15.
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Children's Community Garden Group
with Sustainable CAPE
Resumes on April 24: Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m.
Join us for garden adventures at the library. Reflect on the seasonal, local food we have grown ourselves and on how our garden work helps the health of our bodies, community and environment, all while exploring our annual theme. All welcome!
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Storytime
Every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
Stories, songs, fingerplays and crafts for ages birth to five year olds. Drop-ins welcome.
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