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How to Prepare for Climate Change with David Pogue

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2021/09/17/how-to-prepare-for-climate-change-with-david-pogue/

Fri, Sept 24, 2:00 pm – Sept 24-30 is Climate Preparedness Week. Join us for a virtual presentation by David Pogue on his latest book: How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Library System. Register at...

White Freedom with Tyler Stovall

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2021/01/30/white-freedom-with-tyler-stovall/

Video of this program. Thursday, Feb 4, 7 PM – Wayland Reads 2021 kicks off with a talk by historian Tyler Stovall on his latest book: White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea. Register here to receive the Zoom link via email on...

The Language of Liberty: A Citizen’s Vocabulary

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/12/04/the-language-of-liberty-a-citizens-vocabulary/

Video of this program Thurs, Dec 10, 7 pm – Join author Ed Hagenstein to hear about his latest work,The Language of Liberty: A Citizen’s Vocabulary. Register for the Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/wfpl-language The Language of Liberty: A Citizen’s Vocabulary is a substantive lexicon of 101...

7 1/2 Lessons About the Brain with Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/12/01/7-1-2-lessons-about-the-brain-with-dr-lisa-feldman-barrett/

Video of this program Thursday, Dec 3, 7pm – Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears! Register for the ZOOM link here.  In seven short essays (plus a...

Black Women’s Suffrage Book Talk 7/29

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/07/24/fyi-black-womens-suffrage-book-talk-7-29/

Do you want to learn more about the Women’s Suffrage movement and its crucial, modern-day conversations? Join PBS Books and Scholar Martha Jones, Ph.D., to discuss her soon-to-be-released book: Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All...

Missing Sarah Pryor with Barbara Smith Pryor

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/02/25/missing-sarah-pryor-with-barbara-smith-pryor/

Cancelled – to be rescheduled. Sunday, March 29, 3pm at Trinitarian Congregational Church in Wayland. ON WHAT SEEMED like a beautiful Wednesday, just six weeks after relocating and starting to settle in to their new home in Wayland, Massachusetts, Barbara and Andy Pryor’s nine-year-old...

Picturing Political Power with Prof. Allison Lange

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/02/25/picturing-political-power-with-prof-allison-lange/

Video of this program Rescheduled to Tuesday, June 16th,  7:30 pm – For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images—whether illustrations, engravings, photographs, or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these pictures have...