Category : Adult Programs

Composting for Your Garden

Talk by Master Gardener Gretel Anspach on Tuesday, May 28 at 7 pm
Nothing is easier, cheaper or better for your garden than compost. Composting can be as little or as much work as you want, but the compost produced will improve your garden in more ways than you imagine. Gretel Anspach, past president of the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association, returns on Tuesday, May 28 at 7 pm to talk about how easy composting is to do at home for the good of your garden and the environment.
Reserve seats online now.
For more information, please contact the Reference Desk at 781-246-6334 x2, or e-mail us at email@wakefieldlibrary.org

Drop-in Genealogy

Next meeting, Sunday, June 2 at 2:30 p.m.
“Drop-in Genealogy returns on June 2 at 2:30 p.m. Join genealogy and family history enthusiasts to share tips and strategies. All levels of experience welcome. If you’re a beginner, we’ll help you get started. Sign up on our Event Registration Calendar and let us know your coming or feel free to just drop in.

“Plaza Jazz” outdoor summer concert series

Thursday nights, 6-8 pm, June 6 – August 29 at Beebe Library
After the success of last summer’s “Plaza Jazz” concert series, Beebe library is bringing the series back this summer with an expanded schedule and more great performers.
With the exception of July 4, “Plaza Jazz,” will feature free concerts from 6 to 8 p.m. every Thursday night on the library’s front plaza from June 6 through August 29. The concerts will be performed by students and alumni from Boston’s Berklee College of Music who have been part of Berklee’s independent label “Jazz Revelation Records.”
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Learn to Play Mah Jongg

Next meeting Thursday, June 6 at 7 p.m.
Join our bi-weekly drop-in group learning to play the Chinese/Western version of Mah jong. The group meets on the first and third Thursday evenings of each month from 7:00-8:45 pm. (Note:This is not the American version that uses cards.)
If you are new to the group or for more information, please contact the Reference Desk at 781-246-6334 x2, or e-mail Beth Radcliffe at radcliff@noblenet.org.

Beebe Book Buzz Beach Reads 2013

Saturday, June 22 at 10:30 a.m.; or Tuesday, June 25 at 7 p.m..
Beware book lovers! Want to prepare for your summer pleasure reading? Frustrated because you are waiting on a list for your favorite authors? Craving some new authors to spend your time with on the beach—or by the lake? Why should the kids have all the fun? Beebe librarians have some terrific book suggestions for adult readers. Join us for our Third Annual Beach Reads!

Reserve your seat online now for one of these dates: Saturday, June 22 at 10:30 a.m.; repeat performance on Tuesday, June 25 at 7 p.m.. You can also sign up in person at the Reference Desk, by email at email@wakefieldlibrary.org, or by phone at 781-246-6334 ext. 2.
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Supper Sleuths for June 11, 2013

The next Supper Sleuths Discussion takes place June 11, 2013 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm in the Lecture Hall where the group will discuss any and all mystery books chosen by each group member.

Potluck begins at 5:45pm. Please sign up with the group leader if you have not done so.

Feel free to read from your personal backlog, the new or older Mystery books in the library, or from our previous Supper Sleuths lists. Anything goes—just read a mystery!
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Books by the Lake for June 19, 2013

The next gathering of Beebe Library’s book discussion group, Books By the Lake, is on June 19, 2013. The discussion of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus begins at 7:30pm at a group member’s home. Potluck begins at 6:30pm. Please contact Leane Ellis for directions.

2013-2014 schedule will be announced at this meeting.

While reading, please consider: The novel opens with a quote from Oscar Wilde: “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” How is this sentiment explored in The Night Circus?
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