Abbot Public Library — Calendar of Events April 2016

Abbot Public Library — Calendar of Events
April 2016
Abbot Public Library
235 Pleasant Street
Marblehead, MA
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Funding for Library programs
is generously provided by the
Friends of the Abbot Public Library.
10:15 - 11:00 am
Paperback Jukebox with
Spencer Garfield
4 3:30 - 4:15 pm
5
The Magic Typewriter
3
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Public Reception
Monday Night
for “Cut, Torn,
Children’s Chess Club
Painted, and
Beginners:
Pasted Papers” by
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Suzanne H. Ulrich
Advanced:
7:00 - 8:00 pm
10
17
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Poetry Salon with
Claire Keyes on
“The Common
Threads” Project
24
1:30 pm
“Two Hundred Years
in the Making: Writing
a Feminist History of
Marblehead in the
19th Century,” Author
Talk by Robert Booth
11
Monday Night
Children’s Chess Club
Beginners:
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Advanced:
7:00 - 8:00 pm
18
CLOSED FOR
PATRIOT’S DAY
HOLIDAY
25
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Teen Advisory Group (T.A.G.)
7:00 pm
“The Right-Size Flower Garden”
with Kerry Mendez
12
10:15 - 11:00 am
Paperback Jukebox with
Spencer Garfield
7:00 pm
Poetry Reading by David Kherdian,
World-renowned Poet and
new resident of Marblehead!
10:00 - 11:00 am
Library Book Discussion Group
10:15 - 11:00 am
Paperback Jukebox
with Spencer Garfield
6:30 - 8:30 pm
“It's in the Cards 2” Combining
Random Images to Create Stories
10:15 - 11:00 am
26
Paperback Jukebox with
Spencer Garfield
19
6
10:15 - 11:00 am
Tea Party
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Teen Advisory Group
7:00 pm
“Privateering in Salem and
Marblehead,” Presented by
Capt. Mike Rutstein
13
10:15 - 11:00 am
Stop & Story with a Craft:
“Gardens”
7:00 pm
“From Homer to Hartley:
Painting on Cape Ann, 18501940”, with Jim McAllister
20
7
3:30 4:45 pm
Books and
Brushes
Club
14
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1
2
8
9
10:00 am
Itsy Bitsy
Babies and
Terrific
Toddlers
Playgroup
15
Library Hours
Mon.-Wed.
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
16
Children’s Room Hours
3:30 4:45 pm
Science
Explorers
21
10:30 11:15 am
Music with
Dara
22
23
10:15 - 11:00 am
Stop & Story with
a Craft: “Bugs”
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
“The
Narrow
Edge: A Tiny
“Brilliant Beacons: A History of the
Bird,
An
Ancient
Crab, and an
American Lighthouse”, Author Talk
Epic
Journey”
Author
Talk
with Eric Dolin
with Deborah Cramer
Monday
Tues.-Wed.
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
9:30 – 9:00
9:30 – 6:00
1:00 – 6:00
9:30 – 5:00
9:30 – 5:00
1:00 - 5:00
Renewals & General
Information
781-631-1481 Ext. 201
Reference
781-631-1481 Ext. 213
10:15 - 11:00 am
Stop & Story with a Craft:
“Sun and Moon”
27
9:30 – 9:00
1:00 – 6:00
9:30 – 5:00
9:30 – 5:00
1:00 - 5:00
28
29
30 10:30 - 3:30 pm
Please check out our website
www.abbotlibrary.org
Friends of Abbot
Library Spring Book
3:00 Sale - Members Only
5:00 pm
Teen Poetry (New memberships
and renewals may be
Event
purchased at the
door)
 Italicized listings are for
children’s events. Please refer to
the descriptions in this program
for more details.
“Two Hundred Years in the Making: Writing a Feminist History of Marblehead in the 19th Century”
An Author Talk by Robert Booth on His New Book, “The Women of Marblehead”
As guest speaker for the Friends of Abbot Library Annual Meeting
Sunday, April 24th, 1:30 pm
Light refreshments will be served, with the talk beginning at 2:00 pm
The event is free and open to the public!
Join us on Sunday, April 24th, to enjoy refreshments,
beginning at 1:30 pm, and, immediately following, at
2:00 pm, to hear Marblehead author Robert Booth
discuss his new book, The Women of Marblehead, an
illustrated feminist history of the town in the 19th
century, tracing the role of women from poverty
and invisibility to autonomy and working-class
self-sufficiency. Its publisher is the Marblehead
Female Humane Society, which commissioned
the book in connection with the organization's
bicentennial. Bob will share the story of the book's
creation, as well as talk about its content: how does
a historian approach a subject and then gather and
organize the material? Bob will use The Women of
Marblehead as the focus, and also refer to his other
books, where appropriate.
Robert Booth works
as Executive Director of
the Center for Clinical
Social Work, a national
credentialing and advocacy
organization in the field of
mental healthcare. He is a
native of Marblehead,
where he resides with his
family.
He began his working life as an assistant offset printer
in Marblehead, became a newspaper reporter and
book writer, and later worked in BaltimoreWashington in advertising/PR agencies and as a
corporate marketing communications manager.
He has had three books published in the past five
years, including The Women of Marblehead. In 2011,
St. Martin’s Press of New York published his history
of Salem in the period 1815-1830. Death of an
Empire was named Best Book of New England
History in 2012 by the New England Society of the
City of New York.
Mad For Glory, brought out by Tilbury House
Publishers in November, is about American
intervention in the Pacific in 1813, told in terms of a
U. S. Navy captain who went rogue with the
frigate Essex, and a U.S. diplomat who led the patriot
armies during the Chilean revolution.
The Marblehead Female Humane Society [MFHS],
the oldest philanthropic organization in Marblehead and
among the oldest in Massachusetts, is celebrating its
200th Anniversary throughout 2016. “For 200 years,
the Marblehead Female Humane Society has remained
faithful to its original mission of Marbleheaders helping
Marbleheaders,” said Lee Weed, the organization’s
directress. “Since its founding, the Society has continued to
quietly and respectfully help Marblehead residents in need.”
On November 19, 1816, the Marblehead Female Humane
Society was formally organized by a membership of 125
women with the objective of helping the indigent, sick and
infirm in Marblehead. The idea for the Society was first
proposed by Reverend John Bartlett in response to the
town’s unusual level of poverty after Thomas Jefferson’s
Embargo of 1807 and its impact on fishing and commerce;
the devastation of The War of 1812; the seizure of American
ships and impressment of American sailors into the British
Navy, and the year of “no summer” in 1816 when there was
a frost every single month of the year, causing gardens and
crops to fail. Bartlett had come to Marblehead in the spring
of 1811 as the pastor of the Second Congregational Church.
A graduate of Harvard College, he was already well-known
in Boston where he had served as Chaplain of the
Almshouse of Boston from 1807 to 1810, and had initiated
the movement which resulted in the founding of McLean
Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
For its bicentennial, the Society commissioned Marblehead
historian and author Robert Booth to document the
organization’s founding and the women who were at the
heart of its history. The Society is very pleased with Bob’s
manuscript and the research he conducted to provide a new
and inspiring insight into Marblehead’s remarkable 19th
century women.
“It's in the Cards 2” Combining Random Images to Create Stories
Tumblewords Writing Project: Session 6
with Michele (“Miki”) Manting
Tuesday, April 19th, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, in the Upstairs Conference
Discover “Tumblewords,” the Wild West's version of a writing workshop!
In this session, we will explore the combining of
random images as prompts for inspiring stories, either
in prose or poetry. Miki Manting will present and
facilitate this relaxed and non-judgmental workshop.
Some of the images will come from postcards and art
cards. Please feel free to bring your own interesting
ones to add and contribute to the group's creative
process. It isn't required, but, if you have some favorite
images and you don't have postcards, you can make
some using 3×5 inch index cards and pasting your
interesting images on one side of the card. We will use
the images in conjunction with some readings.
About The Original Tumblewords Project
Tumblewords was created by poet Donna Snyder in El
Paso, Texas, and has been continuously meeting
weekly for over 20 years! Michele Manting, the
instructor for our workshop, was lucky enough to have
participated in the project for 2 years while living on the border. She brings Tumblewords to
New England with Donna's blessing. For more information on the original Tumblewords,
please see https://sites.google.com/site/tumblewordswritingproject/home.
Michele Manting currently resides in Marblehead. She has been a
published poet since she was in the 5th grade. Back then, she wrote in
rhyme, but currently she leans toward surrealism. She has a wide
range of interests that include music, painting, acting, writing
and comedy. She has extensively combined her creative talents and
scientific background to professionally develop, write, direct, and
produce simulation events in medical schools on both sides of the
Rocky Mountains.
POETRY SALON WITH CLAIRE KEYES ON THE
Massachusetts Poetry Festival's “Common Threads” Project
Sunday, April 17th, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Celebrate Poetry Month on April 17th by attending the Poetry Salon at the
Abbot Public Library! The Salon will focus on the “Common
Threads” project, associated with the Massachusetts Poetry Festival -April 29
-May 1, in Salem. We will discuss seven poems by poets with close ties
to Massachusetts, from Denise Levertov and Susan Donnelly to Natasha
Tretheway and Seamus Heaney. The full roster of poems and poets is available online
at www.masspoetry.org/commonthreads. Participants can download the poems and background
material, free of charge, or order the collection from the Harvard Bookstore. Please join Claire
Keyes, Marblehead poet and Professor Emerita at Salem State University, on Sunday, April
17 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm, for a lively discussion of the “Common Threads 2016” poems.
The Library's monthly Poetry Salon is supported in part by a grant from the
Marblehead Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
LIBRARY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Tuesday, April 19th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things will be the subject of
April's Book Discussion Group.
“Coney Island, 1911: Coralie Sardie is the daughter of a self-proclaimed
scientist and professor who acts as the impresario of The Museum of
Extraordinary Things, a boardwalk freak show offering amazement and
entertainment to the masses. An extraordinary swimmer, Coralie appears
as the Mermaid alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl,and a 100 year old
turtle, in her father's “museum”. She swims regularly in New York's Hudson River, and one
night stumbles upon a striking young man alone in the woods photographing moon-lit trees.
From that moment, Coralie knows her life will never be the same. The dashing photographer
Coralie spies is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his father's Lower
East Side Orthodox community. As Eddie photographs the devastation on the streets of New
York following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the
mystery behind a young woman's disappearance and the dispute between factory owners and
laborers. In the tumultuous times that characterized life in New York between the world wars,
Coralie and Eddie's lives come crashing together.” ~From book jacket.
All are welcome to attend!
“Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse”
Illustrated Talk by Local Author
Eric Dolin
Tuesday, April 26th, 7:00 pm
In a work rich in maritime lore and
brimming with original historical detail,
Eric Jay Dolin, the best-selling
author of Leviathan, presents the most
comprehensive history of American
lighthouses ever written, telling the story of
America through the prism of its beloved
coastal sentinels.
Set against the backdrop of an expanding
nation, Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of
America’s lighthouse system, highlighting the
political, military, and technological battles
fought to illuminate the nation’s hardscrabble
coastlines. In rollicking detail, Dolin treats
readers to a memorable cast of characters
including the penny-pinching Treasury official
Stephen Pleasonton, who hamstrung the
country’s efforts to adopt the revolutionary
“Fresnel Lens,” and presents tales both
humorous and harrowing of soldiers, saboteurs,
ruthless egg collectors, and most importantly,
the light-keepers themselves. Richly
supplemented with over 160 photographs and
illustrations throughout, Brilliant Beacons is the
most original history of American lighthouses
in many decades.
Eric Dolin became interested in the natural world,
especially the ocean, at an early age, growing up
near the coasts of New York and Connecticut. “I
spent many days wandering the beaches on the edge
of Long Island Sound and the Atlantic, collecting
seashells and exploring tide pools. When I left for
college, I wanted to become a marine biologist or,
more specifically, a malacologist (seashell
scientist).”
He earned a double-major in Biology and
Environmental Studies, then a masters degree in
Environmental Management from Yale, and a
Ph.D. in Environmental Policy and Planning from
MIT, where his dissertation focused on the role of
the courts in the cleanup of Boston Harbor. He has
been a fisheries policy analyst at the National
Marine Fisheries Service, a program manager at
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an
environmental consultant stateside and in London,
an American Association for the Advancement
of Science writing fellow at Business Week, a
curatorial assistant in the Mollusk Department at
Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and
an intern at the National Wildlife Federation,
the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone
Management, and the U.S. Senate.
Dolin has written more than 60 articles for
magazines, newspapers, and professional journals.
He is the bestselling author of multiple
award-winning books, including Leviathan: The
History of Whaling in America (W. W. Norton,
2007), Fur, Fortune, and Empire: the Epic History
of the Fur Trade in America (W. W. Norton,
2010), and most recently, When America First Met
China: An Exotic
History of Tea, Drugs,
and Money in the Age
of Sail (Liveright,
September
2012).
His next book, Brilliant
Beacons: A History
of
the
American
Lighthouse, will be
published on April 18,
2016. He lives with his
family in Marblehead.
For more information on Eric Dolin and his books, please visit his website at www.ericjaydolin.com.
Children’s Programs
April 2016
“From Homer to Hartley: Painting on Cape Ann, 1850-1940”
Illustrated talk by
THE MAGIC TYPEWRITER
Please pre-register for all
Children's Programs, as
space is limited. You may
sign up your children either
in person or by phone:
781-631-1481 (Ext. 3).
MONDAY NIGHT
CHILDREN'S CHESS CLUB
Mondays, April 4th and 11th
Beginning Players: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Advanced Players: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Learn chess from a master! From learning
the movement of each piece to tactics and
strategy, this program will give beginners
and experienced players a new appreciation
and love of the game. Senior chess master
Mikhail Perelsteyn will be teaching on
Monday nights from 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
for beginners, and 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm for
advanced players. For children in first
grade and up. Registration is
required but ongoing.
th
Monday, April 4 , 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Children ages 8-12 are invited to an afterschool
program with children's author Paul Korins on
Monday, April 4, at 3:30 pm 4:30 pm. His most recent book is
The Magic Typewriter. The
novel is a time-travel,
historical story, during
which a 12-year-old
boy is transported to the
1930s, experiencing the hard
times of the Great Depression.
He will be talking with students at the program
about the hardships endured by families, and
what life was like for children back then. Paul
Korins is the author of two previous children's
novels: Haunting Whispers and Warring
Whispers. He is a former newspaper and
magazine publisher. Registration is required for
this program.
PAPERBACK JUKEBOX
WITH SPENCER GARFIELD
Tuesdays, April 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th
10:15 am - 11:00 am
Paperback Jukebox is designed around stories and
songs for ages 2-5. Spencer Garfield, involved in
family outreach at Temple Emmanu
-El, performs this fun, upbeat, and
interactive program. Come listen
to Spencer Garfield read stories
and play music for little ones on
his guitar.
Jim McAllister
Derby Square Tours
Wednesday, April 13th, 7:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the Marblehead Arts Association and the Abbot Public Library
Tickets are $12.00 per person and may be purchased at the Library's Main Desk
Reservations are suggested, as there is limited seating.
Light refreshments will be served.
This is a fundraiser event with proceeds going towards educational programming
of the MAA and support of the Friends of the Abbot Library.
Beginning in 1870, a steady stream of American
artists, that would come to include Winslow
Homer, F. Childe Hassam, Stuart Davis and
dozens of others, began migrating to Cape Ann
in northeastern Massachusetts to paint. They
were drawn by the region's rugged shoreline
and dazzling sunlight, its architecture, and its
colorful fishing and granite industries. For many
of them, their time in Gloucester opened the door
to fame and fortune. Collectively, they left
behind an extraordinary visual record of the
beautiful Cape Ann communities of Gloucester
and Rockport.
This fascinating slice of American art comes to
life in a fast-paced slide presentation by Jim
McAllister. Jim's talk, “From Homer to Hartley:
Painting on Cape Ann, 1850-1940”, will trace
the evolution of the famed Gloucester art scene.
It will also focus on the many famous American
painters - Impressionists, Realists, Illustrators,
and Abstract Expressionists - who made this tiny
corner of the New England coast such a popular
destination for their fellow artists.
Jim McAllister is a Salem historian,
photographer, author, teacher, tour guide and art
collector. The Stonehill College graduate (North
Easton, Massachusetts) has taught more than 200
courses through the international Elderhostel/
Road Scholar program. Topics have included the
“American Light: Art and Artists in Boston
and the North Shore” and “The Golden Years:
Painters and Writers in Paris from 1880-1930.”
Jim has lectured extensively on these themes in
Salem and around Boston's North Shore.
A former local history columnist for The Salem
News (1999-2013), Jim has written or co-written
two books and a number of shorter works about
his adopted Salem. The Morristown, New Jersey
native has appeared on Chronicle, The History
Channel, Home and Garden TV, National Public
Radio, and many other media outlets. In 2008,
Jim was the recipient of both the Essex National
Heritage Commission's first ever Heritage Hero
Award and the regional Storyteller Award given
by the North of Boston Visitor and Convention
Bureau.
Fitz Henry Lane Statue, Gloucester
Poetry Reading by David Kherdian,
World-renowned Poet and new resident of Marblehead!
Tuesday, April 12th, 7:00 pm
The Abbot Public Library, in Marblehead, is delighted to host a reading by
world-renowned poet David Kherdian, on Tuesday, April 12th, at 7:00 pm. The reading
will be in two segments: biographical childhood poems, and a general selection from the
body of Kherdian's work, which includes twenty-three published collections of poetry. The
reading will end with an opportunity for questions from the audience. A selection of books
by Kherdian also will be available for sale and signing.
David Kherdian was born in Racine, Wisconsin.
Root River Return, his memoir of growing up in
an Armenian-American community in Racine,
during the 1930s and 40s, was released in May,
2015, by Beech Hill Publishing. Kherdian's
most recent release, also by Beech Hill, is the
twenty-fifth anniversary edition of The Dividing
River / The Meeting Shore, in December, 2015.
His next release will be Volume 2 of A Stopinder
Anthology, which completes the issuance in book
format of all the major articles from his
original groundbreaking Gurdjieff Journal
For Our Time, totaling approximately 50
contributing authors.
Kherdian is the author and editor of over seventy
books, including poetry, novels, memoirs,
biographies, and children's books, as well as
critical studies, translations, and retellings.
He has published nine contemporary American
poetry anthologies, including Beat Voices (Henry
Holt, 1995), and two seminal works: Down at the
Santa Fe Depot: 20 Fresno Poets (The Giligia
Press, 1970), that inspired a series of city and
state anthologies, and Settling America: the
Ethnic Expression of 14 Contemporary American
Poets (Macmillan, 1974), one of the first
multi-ethnic anthologies, published in this
country.
Kherdian's retelling of Monkey: A Journey to the
West (Shambhala, 1992), the most popular classic
of Asian literature, was selected by the Quality
Paperback Division of the Book-of-the-Month
Club, and was also purchased for television. His
numerous awards for The Road From Home: The
Story of an Armenian Girl, include a Newbery
Honor Book Award, the Jane Addams Peace
Award, The Boston Globe/ Horn Book Award,
The Banta Award, The Lewis Carroll Shelf
Award, and a nomination for The American
Book Award. He also was awarded The Friends
of American Writers Award for his novel,
Beyond Two Rivers, and for lifetime achievement
the 1994 Notable Wisconsin Authors Award,
and, in 2008, the Emily Lee Award, that was
presented together with a Legislative Citation
from the Wisconsin State Assembly. In the fall of
2012 he received The Armenian Star Award.
David Kherdian was the editor of Ararat
Magazine, and the founding editor of Forkroads:
A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature, as well
as Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal for Our Time.
His wife, Caldecott Award-winning children's
book illustrator, Nonny Hogrogian, was the art
director for these journals.
Kherdian's translations of the poetry of Charentz,
Armenia's greatest poet of the 20th century, was
published in 2008. David Kherdian's own works
have been translated into fourteen languages
around the world. An hour-long documentary on
Kherdian's poetry, by the New York independent
filmmaker Jim Belleau, was released in 1997.
More Children’s Programs
April 2016
TEA PARTY
Wednesday, April 6th
10:15 am - 11:00 am
Children ages 2-3 are invited to our story time
tea party. Children may bring along a stuffed
animal friend and listen to stories and music
and have juice and cookies at our tea party
table.
BOOKS & BRUSHES CLUB
Thursday, April 7th
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Children in first and second grade
are invited to listen to a story and/or
fact book on a seasonal theme, have
a snack, and create a related art
project. We will get messy, so dress
for mess!
ITSY BITSY BABIES AND
TERRIFIC TODDLERS PLAYGROUP
Friday, April 8th
10:00 am - 11:00 am
This is a story/ playgroup program for children from babies to 24 months. The
meetings will be held on the second Friday of each month. This month's meeting
will be Friday, April 8, at 10:00 am. Designed to provide socialization and
songs, the half-hour playgroup is limited in size, so
registration is required.
The program is sponsored by the Coordinated Family
and Community Engagement Grant in collaboration
with Francine Sudak, teacher with the Lynn Public
Schools, and the Abbot Public Library.
Even More Children’s Programs
April 2016
“Privateering in Salem and Marblehead”
Presented by
STOP & STORY WITH A CRAFT
Wednesdays, April 13th, 20th, and 27th, 10:15 am - 11:00 am
Owner and Operator of the Schooner Fame of Salem
Children ages 3-4 can come listen to stories, songs, and rhymes, and make a craft. April themes are:
Wednesday, April 6th, 7:00 pm
April 13th: “ Gardens”
April 20th: “Sun and Moon”
April 27th: “Bugs”
Capt. Mike Rutstein
Come hear about the original Schooner Fame's dramatic actions as a privateer in the War of
1812, and the meticulous construction of a full-scale replica of Fame, now sailing from Salem's
Pickering Wharf.
SCIENCE EXPLORERS
Thursday, April 14th
3:30 pm- 4:45 pm
Children in grades 3-5 are invited to
our monthly, interactive, after-school
science club. The Science Explorers
program will be structured around a
science topic and easy experiments
using everyday materials. Open to
grades 3 and up.
MUSIC WITH DARA
Friday, April 15th, 10:30 am - 11:15 am
With keyboard, felt board, finger puppets and other engaging visual
props, Dara incorporates old favorites and new songs, finger plays,
rhythmic activities, creative movement, and instrument playing.
Lots of clapping, marching, singing, creative expression and FUN!
Ideal for the 2- to 5-year-old. Dara VanRemoortel is an early
childhood music specialist who has been performing at libraries and
teaching at local preschools for over 20 years.
The original Fame was a 'Chebacco boat'
that was commissioned as a privateer
when war broke out in the summer
of 1812. She was the first American
privateer to bring home a prize, and
made 20 more captures before being
wrecked in 1814.
The new Fame is a full-scale replica
of this famous schooner. Framed
and planked of white oak and
trunnel-fastened in the traditional
manner, Fame was built in Essex by
National Heritage Fellow Harold Burnham
in 2003. For the last 13 years, she has conducted public sails, private charters, and a summer day
camp from her dock next to the Victoria Station restaurant at Salem’s Pickering Wharf.
Capt. Mike will be talking about the history of the original Fame as
well as the building of the replica at the Essex boatyard of Harold
Burnham. Burnham is a National Heritage Fellow who has been
known to bring his own schooner, Ardelle, into Marblehead for
special events.
Capt. Mike Rutstein (right) is the owner and operator of the
Schooner Fame - a familiar site to Marblehead’s boaters and
waterfront residents! He is the author of two books about the War
of 1812, and also the publisher of Marlinspike, a
quarterly magazine devoted to tall ships and sail training.
For more information on the Schooner Fame,
please visit www.schoonerfame.com.
“The Right-Size
Flower Garden:
Exceptional Plants and
Design Solutions for
Aging and TimePressed Gardeners”
with Kerry Ann
Mendez
A Collaboration of the
Cottage Garden Club and the
Abbot Public Library
Tuesday, April 5th, 7:00 pm
Light refreshments will be
served at 6:30 pm
All gardeners and wanna-be-gardeners are invited to attend this
motivating and inspiring lecture. Garden design expert Kerry
Ann Mendez, whose most recent book is The Right-Size
Garden: Simplify Your Outdoor Space with Smart Design
Solutions and Plant Choices, will provide easy-to-follow
right-sizing strategies, recommended no-fuss plant material,
sustainable practices, and design tips for stunning year-round
gardens that will be as close to 'autopilot' as you can get!
Kerry Ann Mendez is
dedicated to teaching the
art of low-maintenance
p e r e n n i a l ga r d e n i n g
and landscaping. As a
garden designer, author
and lecturer, she focuses
on time-saving gardening
techniques, workhorse
plants and sustainable
practices. She has been
featured on HGTV and in
numerous magazines,
including Horticulture,
Fine Gardening, Garden Gate and Better Homes & Gardens.
Also a speaker in high demand, Kerry Ann has spoken at many
prestigious sites and Master Gardeners conferences, including U.
S. Botanic Gardens; the Philadelphia Flower Show; Purdue
Extension Office; and International Master Gardeners
Conference, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
In October 2014, Kerry Ann was awarded the Gold
Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society,
an honorary medal presented to those who have
made significant contributions to the enjoyment and
appreciation of plants and the environment. She has
published three popular gardening books, her most
recent, The Right-Size Garden: Simplify Your Outdoor
Space with Smart Design Solutions and Plant Choices,
was released in February 2015. She is the Regional
Director of The Garden Writers Association of
America.
For more about Kerry Ann and her business,
“Perennially Yours,” please visit www.pyours.com.
Teen Programs
April 2016
TEEN ADVISORY GROUP (T.A.G.)
Tuesday, April 5th and
Wednesday April 6th
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
On Tuesday, April 5 and Wednesday April 6,
the TAG group will be meeting from 3:00 pm 5:00 pm in the Teen Room. Please contact the
Teen Librarian for details.
TEEN POETRY EVENT
Friday, April 29th
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Join us for snacks and to make some
visual poetry! Please contact the
Teen Librarian for more
details!
Friends of Abbot Library Book Sale
Saturday, April 30th through Tuesday, May 3rd
Saturday, April 30th
10:30 am to 3:30 pm
– Members Only
(New memberships
and renewals may be
purchased at the door.)
Sunday, May 1st
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Open to the Public
Monday, May 2nd
10:30 am to 2:00 pm
- 20% Discount
for Seniors
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm “Bag of Books
for a Buck”
Tuesday, May 3rd
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
- Clearance Day
ABBOT PUBLIC LIBRARY
“The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, An Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey”
with author Deborah Cramer
Final Program in the 2016 “Underwater in Salem Sound” Lecture Series,
co-sponsored by Salem Sound Coastwatch and the Abbot Public Library
th
Wednesday, April 27 , 7:00 pm
In The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic
Journey, author Deborah Cramer accompanies tiny sandpipers - red
knots - along their extraordinary 19,000 mile odyssey from one end of
the earth to the other. She tracks birds from remote beaches in Tierra
del Fuego up into the icy tundra where they nest, stopping along the
way on moonlit beaches at spring's highest tides, to seek the world's
greatest concentration of horseshoe crabs, whose eggs fuel the birds'
migration and whose blue blood safeguards human health. The Narrow
Edge is a firsthand account of the tenacity of life along the sea edge,
and an inspiring portrait of loss and renewal.
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer-winning author of The Sixth Extinction,
wrote that The Narrow Edge is “at once an intimate portrait of the small
red knot and a much larger exploration of our wondrous, imperiled world.” National
Geographic Conservation Fellow Tom Lovejoy wrote that Cramer's account is “more thrilling
than the Kentucky Derby.”
Join her on the journey, to explore what's at stake, for shorebirds, horseshoe crabs, and for us.
Deborah Cramer lives with her family at the edge of a salt marsh in Gloucester, where each
spring she awaits the arrival of alewives in the creeks, and horseshoe crabs and shorebirds
in the bay. She is the author of two natural histories of the sea, Great Waters: An Atlantic
Passage, and Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World, the companion to the Ocean Hall at
the U.S. National Museum of Natural History. Her writing has most recently appeared on the
Op-Ed page of the New York Times, in feature stories for the Boston Globe and Audubon
Magazine.
“The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, An Ancient Crab, and an Epic
Journey” is the final program in the 2016 “Underwater in Salem Sound,”
Lecture Series, a continuation of the lecture series, begun in 2013, jointly
sponsored by Salem Sound Coastwatch and the Abbot Public Library, in
Marblehead, MA. All the lectures are free and open to the public.
235 Pleasant Street,
Marblehead, MA 01945
www.abbotlibrary.org
APRIL 2016
VIRGINIA A. CARTEN GALLERY
“Cut, Torn, Painted, and Pasted Papers” by Suzanne H. Ulrich
Saturday, April 2nd through Wednesday, April 27th
Public Reception: Sunday April 3rd, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Artist's Statement:
“I have enjoyed making art most of my life
and have had the good fortune to maintain a
studio outside the home for many of those years.
Indulging in the romance of the studio, the
canvas, the paper, the paints, brushes and all the
other things I needed to make this art. To be able
to sit and meditate and work on things in
progress, to live with them, look at them, change,
remake, discard and begin again until something
emerges and is finished.
I have chosen the pieces in this exhibition from
many different years to give an overview, a
retrospective of my collage-making. I had
been affiliated with two prominent galleries in
Manhattan for a dozen years and also one in
upstate NY. Ivan
Karp, being one of
those and Kathryn
Markel and John
Davis. All very
generous and good
to me. I am still
represented
by
Barbara Krakow in
Boston as well as
several
other
private dealers. I
thought I could die
happy to have one
exhibition in NYC
in my lifetime. I
had many. You just
never know. But
just showing up in
the studio most
m o r n i n gs
and
seeing where the
work takes you is
the best part. You
get to make it
all for yourself,
to please only
yourself.
I hope you all
enjoy this exhibit. I have thought about it and
planned which pieces to show for almost a year
now. A few from my own collection and I have
borrowed back several others.
These collage works of cut, torn, painted and
pasted papers have a small, intimate scale. The
rectangle both dominates and gives structure to
the work with attention to the surface detail and
layering. With a compositional ordering, avoiding
any illusionistic references, each piece becomes a
composed self-contained presence.
“Playing with basic shapes and colors, the
possibilities are endless...”