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April 2018
2018
Program name:
Book Lovers’ Café : Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Date:
1st Monday
Presenter: Melody E.
Program’s
intended age
group
Adults
Attendance: 18
Location: Pink House
Sponsored by: Book club kit from JCL
Description
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, TIME.com, NPR, Slate,
Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews
Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and
soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of
the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these
pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in
unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a
sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work “with both the heart and the
hands.” She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she
extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her
in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively
readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when
love and work come together.
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One bookclub member shared this poem with the group after the discussion.
Think Like a Tree
by Karen I. Shragg
Soak up the sun
Affirm life's magic
Be graceful in the wind
Stand tall after a storm
Feel refreshed after it rains
Grow strong without notice
Be prepared for each season
Provide shelter to strangers
Hang tough through a cold spell
Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring
Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky
Be still long enough to
hear your own leaves rustling.
City of Port Townsend Monthly Library Program Report
April 2018
2018
Program name:
Fiber Arts Night
Date:
1st and 3rd Tuesdays
Presenter: Kathi J. & Joan W.
Program’s intended age group: Kids,
teens, adults, all ages/family
Adults
Attendance: 18
Location: Pink House
Sponsored by: Friends, other: please
specify
Friends
Description
Come and enjoy an evening of working on handiwork projects
with other fiber artists (from knitting to quilting to weaving all
fiber arts projects are welcomed). Please bring your own
supplies.
Program name:
Changeling Shakespeare Reading Group
Date:
2nd and 4th Tuesdays
Presenter: Bob DeWeese
Program’s intended age group: Kids,
teens, adults, all ages/family
Adults
Attendance: 25
Location: Pink House
Sponsored by: Friends, other: please
specify
Friends
Description
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April 2018
2018
CHANGELING will meet twice monthly to read and discuss the
plays of William Shakespeare.
In April the group had a special gathering to celebrate the
Bard’s birthday!
Program name:
Saving Tarboo Creek - Author Talk
Date:
April 23
Presenter: Scott Freeman
Program’s intended age group: Kids,
teens, adults, all ages/family
Adults
Attendance: 35
Location: Carnegie, $100 speaker honorarium
Sponsored by: Friends, other: please
specify
Friends
Description
When the Freeman family decided to restore a damaged creek
in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula—to transform it from a
drainage ditch into a stream that could again nurture
salmon— they knew the task would be formidable and the
rewards plentiful. In Saving Tarboo Creek, Scott Freeman
artfully blends his family’s story with powerful universal
lessons about how we can all live more constructive, fulfilling,
and natural lives by engaging with the land rather than
exploiting it. Equal parts heartfelt and empowering, this book
explores how we can all make a difference one choice at a
time. In the proud tradition of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County
Almanac, Saving Tarboo Creek is both a timely tribute to our
land and a bold challenge to protect it.
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April 2018
2018
Program name:
Judith Adams - A Fierce Language: Falling in Love with Poetry
Date:
April 20
Presenter: Judith Adams
Program’s intended age group: Kids,
teens, adults, all ages/family
Adults
Attendance: 9
Location: Carnegie
Sponsored by: Friends, other: please
specify
Humanities Washington- Friends paid the travel costs about
$100
Description
As children we are enchanted by the stories, humor, absurdity,
and rhyming cadences of nursery rhymes. But as we get older,
too often our appreciation for poems dissolves as we struggle
to deconstruct their meaning line by line. As a result, many
come to believe that poetry is inaccessible and too much like
hard work.
Drawing on diverse poets, including the rich contribution of
Washington State’s poets, poet and performer Judith Adams
takes us on a journey to rediscover the music, power, humor,
and strength of poetry, showing how it can radically enhance,
change, and even save our lives. She’ll also discuss the joy of
reciting poetry by heart, listen to audience members’
experience with poetry, and lead exercises to fire up the poet
in all of us.
Feedback: The feedback was excellent for the program. We wish there
had been more people in attendance. We are not likley to
schedule Friday evening programs again as there are so many
other events in Port Townsend on Fridays.
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Program name:
2nd Annual: Volunteer Appreciation Gathering
Date:
April 27
Presenters: Melody Eisler, Debbi Steele and Deputy Mayor David Faber
Program’s intended
age group: Kids, teens,
adults, all ages/family
Adults
Attendance: 60+
Location: Carnegie
Sponsored by: Friends,
other: please specify
City of Port Townsend, Petals, Better Living Through Coffee, QFC, Friends
paid $150 for performer and invitations
Description
Light refreshments of savories and sweets provided along with live music.
Library Director Melody Sky Eisler, Deputy Mayor David Faber and
community builder Debbi Steele will welcome you.
Mix, mingle and feel appreciated! Do come!
Feedback: Some appreciative feedback:
“… what a lovely party hosted for are many volunteers. The food was lovely
and just right for after dinner snacking, the speakers were right on and
short, and everyone was having fun. What more could one ask …”
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“…thanks to the entire staff for hosting a wonderful event - I think a fine
time was had by all…”
“… I think the large numbers of volunteers who came is testament to how
much everyone loves supporting the library as well as gathering with others
who do so as well. Debbi, David and you, Melody, all gave inspiring and fun
talks followed up by yummy treats. What is not to love about being sincerely
acknowledged along with pizza and cake! And the little gifts were great
choices…You are all gems and I want to thank you for thanking so many of
us in such a delightful way…”
Program name:
Babytime
Date:
Every Wednesday
Presenter: Jeanne S., Hilary V.
Program’s intended age group: Kids,
teens, adults, all ages/family
Babies and their caregivers
Attendance: 58
Location: Library
Sponsored by: Friends, other: please
specify
Friends
Description Babytime uses a warm, caring atmosphere to make parents of
very young children comfortable in the library and in singing
and playing with their babies. The emphasis is on modeling
and teaching simple games, rhymes, songs and sign language
that can help build very early literacy.
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2018
Program name:
Preschool Storytime
Date:
Every Tuesday
Presenter: Jeanne S., Hilary V
Program’s intended age group:
Kids, teens, adults, all
ages/family
Preschoolers and their caregivers
Attendance: 111
Location: Library
Sponsored by: Friends, other:
please specify
Friends
Description Preschool storytime brings early literacy to kids and their caregivers with songs,
rhymes, and activities. The emphasis for this age group is on kindergarten
readiness and fostering a love of reading.
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April 2018
2018
Program name:
Pajama Storytime
Date:
April 2
Presenter: Hilary V.
Program’s intended age group:
Kids, teens, adults, all
ages/family
Children and families
Attendance: 8
Location: Library
Sponsored by: Friends, other:
please specify
Friends
Description Children ages 0-5 and their families can join us for stories, songs,
movement, rhymes, and more. Everyone is welcome to come in
their pajamas, and bring a stuffed animal friend as well.
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Program name:
Toddlertime
Date:
Every Thursday
Presenter: Hilary V., Jeanne S.
Program’s intended age group: Kids,
teens, adults, all ages/family
Toddlers and their caregivers
Attendance: 57
Location: Library
Sponsored by: Friends, other: please
specify
Friends
Description Toddlertime builds pre-reading skills like vocabulary,
phonological awareness, and sequencing. Young children and
their caregivers share fun rhymes and songs and very short
stories. The emphasis is on modeling for caregivers how to
build literacy skills in very young children.
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April 2018
2018
Program name:
Outreach to Grant Street Elementary
Date:
April 11
Presenter: Hilary V. and Joy W.
Program’s intended
age group: Kids,
teens, adults, all
ages/family
Elementary School
Attendance: 25
Location: Library
Sponsored by:
Friends, other: please
specify
Friends
Description Monthly visit to Grant street. This Month, Hilary visited half of the OPEPO class. We
read a book about architecture, and used straws and connectors to build something
they could fit inside.
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Program name:
Sing-A-Ling with Keeth Apgar
Date:
April 19
Presenter: Keeth Apgar
Program’s intended age group:
Kids, teens, adults, all
ages/family
Pre-K
Attendance: 57
Location: Library
Sponsored by: Friends, other:
please specify
Friends, $75 presenter fee
Description Sing-A-Ling gets toddlers, preschoolers, families and the greater
community into our bodies and singing together.
Part story time, part sing-along and fully loaded with laughs, the
select songs and rhyming stories in this show combine finger play,
movement, picture books, uplifting acoustic music and an
engaging, highly-interactive banter between audience and
presenter.
In this early literacy-infused program children (and their
grownups) will create original rhymes and lyrics to traditional
American folk songs, raise their voices to play with the alphabet’s
many amusing sounds, and sing along to the words of favorite
children’s books.
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April 2018
2018
Program name:
YMCA Visit
Date:
April 12
Presenter: Jeanne S.
Program’s
intended age
group: Kids, teens,
adults, all
ages/family
6-13
Attendance: 10
Location: Mountain View YMCA
Sponsored by:
Friends, other:
please specify
Friends
Description Kids used straws and connectors to complete architecture challenges
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Program name:
DIY Bird Feeders
Date:
April 4
Presenter: Hilary V.
Program’s
intended age
group:
6-11
Attendance: 6
Location: Library
Sponsored by:
Friends, other:
Friends – $10 for Bird Seed
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April 2018
2018
Program name:
Blue Heron Outreach
Date:
April 16
Presenter: Hilary V.
Program’s intended age group:
Kids, teens, adults, all
ages/family
Middle school students
Attendance: 35
Location: Blue Heron Middle School Library
Sponsored by: Friends, other:
please specify
Friends $30, snacks & supplies
Description Monthly visit to Blue Heron. Students tattooed rocks with fun prints
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2018
Program name:
PTHS Outreach
Date:
April 30
Presenter: Hilary V.
Program’s intended age
group: Kids, teens, adults,
all ages/family
High school students
Attendance: 11
Location: PT High School Library
Sponsored by: Friends,
other: please specify
Friends, $20 for supplies
Description Our monthly visit to Port Townsend High School, tattooed rocks with fun
prints!
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