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Pumpkin Decorating Contest!

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/30/pumpkin-decorating-contest/

Sign up in advance to participate in our first ever pumpkin decorating contest! Compete in a kids or adult age group for one of two titles: Best Decorated and Best Carved! Ages 3-11 Sign Up Ages 12+ Sign Up Important Dates:  Pick up your reserved...

Growing up in Post-War Korea with Choi Kyung-Shin

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/25/growing-up-in-post-war-korea-with-choi-kyung-shin/

Video of this program Weds, Oct 2, 7:30pm – Author Choi Kyung-Shin will discuss her memoir: A Doll for a Day: Growing up in Post-War Korea. It is the story of a girl, born in the Year of the Ox, growing up in post-war...

Great Presenters – Evan Hadingham: Adventures with NOVA

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/23/great-presenters-evan-hadingham-adventures-with-nova/

Video of this program Tuesday, Oct 1st, 7:30pm – We’re kicking off our 11th season of Great Presenters with a talk from Wayland resident Evan Hadingham on his “Adventures with NOVA.” Check out this year’s schedule of speakers here.  NOVA, currently in its 46th...

The Karl Muck Scandal with Melissa Burrage

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/23/the-karl-muck-scandal-with-melissa-burrage/

Weds, Sept 25, 7:30 pm – The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the United States. One of the cherished narratives of American...

The Beantown Girls with Jane Healey

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/09/the-beantown-girls-with-jane-healey/

Thursday, Sept 19, 7:30pm – Author Jane Healey will read from her novel, The Beantown Girls! Books will be available for purchase. In this historically accurate and poignant account, set in 1944 against the backdrop of World War II, a young woman is forced...

Shibori Workshop: Japanese Shape Resist ‘Tie-Dye’

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/03/shibori-workshop-japanese-shape-resist-tie-dye/

Friday, Sept 20, 12pm – Learn the art of Shibori – a Japanese shape resist dye technique – using traditional indigo dye. We’ll bind our fabric to make a resistance pattern using wood blocks, rubber bands, and popsicle sticks. Then we’ll head outside to...

One-on-One Genealogy Help

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/03/one-on-one-genealogy-help/

Thursdays through October, 1-2pm – Are you just getting started and don’t know where to begin? Having trouble organizing and confirming your genealogy finds? Stuck on a branch of your tree and can’t go any further? Get one-on-one help from experienced Genealogists – weekly...