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The Dog Went Over the Mountain with Peter Zheutlin

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Video of this program Wednesday, November 6, 7:30 PM – Join Peter Zheutlin, The New York Times bestselling author of Rescue Road as he embarks on a cross-country journey to take the measure of America with a loyal friend. On the cusp of turning sixty-five, Peter...

Hearing the Future in Music in Tokyo, Boston, and Berlin

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/10/27/hearing-the-future-in-music-in-tokyo-boston-and-berlin/

Tues, Nov 5, 7:30 pm – Join us for Ian Condry’s Great Presenters talk on “Hearing the Future in Music in Tokyo, Boston, and Berlin.” In the 21st century, musicians have faced a whiplash of technological and cultural change that as fundamentally altered the...

Hiking The Bay Circuit Trail: A Video Journal

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/10/27/hiking-the-bay-circuit-trail-a-video-journal/

Video of this program Weds, Oct 30, 7pm – Dan & Marilyn Brielmann along with Alan French will be your guides taking you along the Bay Circuit Trail, a 200 mile natural wonder that arcs around the city of Boston from Newburyport to Kingston....

Mansion Inn: The Making of a Scholar

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/10/01/mansion-inn-the-making-of-a-scholar/

Video of this program Sunday, Oct 27, 2:30pm – Join us to learn about Mansion Inn, a Wayland archaeological site, and Dena Dincauze, the remarkable woman who documented it. Mansion Inn is a well-known Native American cremation burial site in Wayland dating back to circa...

King Lear: Should We Translate Shakespeare into Modern English?

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/10/01/king-lear-should-we-translate-shakespeare-into-modern-english/

Video of this program Wednesday, Oct 23, 7:30pm – Shakespeare wrote his plays over 400 years ago. While it is estimated that about 80% of English grammar and vocabulary hasn’t changed much in last 400 years, some words and expressions have disappeared or changed...

Race Amity: America’s Other Tradition with William H. Smith

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/10/01/race-amity-americas-other-tradition-with-william-h-smith/

Sunday, Oct 20, 2:30pm – This book seeks to impact the public discourse on race – to move it from the “blame/grievance/rejection” cycle to one of “amity/collaboration/access and equity.” Most discussions focus exclusively on racist traditions, we look at the always present moral counterweight...

Everything Here Is Beautiful with Mira T. Lee

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/10/01/everything-here-is-beautiful-with-mira-t-lee/

Video of this program Wednesday, Oct 16, 7:30pm – Come meet author Mira T. Lee! Books will be available for purchase. Two sisters: Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister’s protector; Lucia, the vibrant, headstrong, unconventional one, whose impulses are huge and,...