Register, then mark the calendar to lace up your shoes and join the 5-mile trail run through Dogtown on May 21st. Your entry fee includes a 1-yr membership to Cape Ann Trail Stewards (CATS), race goodies, tee shirt, bragging rights, and a tax deductible donation. Win-win for you and CATS who maintains trails throughout Gloucester, Essex, Rockport and Manchester. For more information and registration go to www.capeanntrailstewards.org See you in Dogtown on May 21st!
Save the date for the Sawyer Free Library’s first-ever Comic-Con which will be on Saturday, April 30, 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. It is an All-Ages event celebrating comics and graphic novels, as art, as literature, and as a part of pop culture!
Photo ops with characters? Check! Workshops with comic book authors and artists? Check! Fandom games and activities? Check! Fantastical story time and crafts for the kids? Of course! Don’t miss this celebration of all things comics and pop culture. Costumes are encouraged! Registration only required for workshops! For more information visit sawyerfreelibrary.org.
Join children’s librarian Marisa Hall on Thursday, April 7th from 3:30-4:30pm
for
STEM-tastic Thursday!
Perfect for 1st through 5th-graders.
An afternoon full of questions, experiments and discovery featuring hands-on engineering and architecture projects.
Space limited. Individual registration required at sawyerfreelibrary.org.
Questions? contact mhall@sawyerfreelibrary.org or 978-325-5505.
Next in the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library‘s educational series Of Sound Mind: A Series on Dementia will be Ten Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s with Alzheimer’s Association MA/NH Chapter on Saturday, April 9 from 2:00-3:00 p.m.
The program explores common warning signs of Alzheimer’s and other dementias that cause memory, thinking, and behavior problems that interfere with daily living. The Alzheimer’s Association® developed the new 10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s education program to help people recognize common signs of the disease and know what to watch for in themselves and others.
The free one-hour program:
The presentation will take place at the Sawyer Free Library located at 2 Dale Avenue in Gloucester. The event is free and open to all to attend.
Click HERE to register for the event, or for more information visit sawyerfreelibrary.org
Seaside Garden Club Welcomes the Public to Our April 12 Program:
“Our Grandmothers Knew What They Were Doing”
The public is cordially invited to hear lecturer Laura Bibler (https://ldbibler.com/) on the topic of garden practices of the past. Find inspiration for your own garden from horticultural wisdom handed down from our grandmothers’ time. This presentation brings to life the design approach and sage advice of prominent garden writers of the early 20th Century. Their pearls of wisdom continue to inform us on color blending, cultural considerations and plant placement. Truly, our grandmothers knew what they were doing!
Ms. Bibler is a Harvard graduate of Landscape Design. Her horticultural experience includes chairperson of Civic Development and Preservation of Historic Land and Garden Grants, Historic Preservation Committee for Garden Club Federation of MA; Chairperson for the French Garden Rehabilitation and Perennial Garden Restoration at Stevens-Coolidge Place; member of the Chairman’s Council for the Crane Estate Landscape Committee.
This program is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the Manchester Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.” The program is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
The program will take place at the Manchester Community Center, doors open at 7pm, program starts promptly at 7:30pm.
Seaside Garden Club’s annual plant auction will return on May 10, at the Manchester Community Center. There will be a selection of perennials, annuals, garden tools and art, and some surprises. This fundraiser supports the programs offered by the club throughout the year. We welcome new members of all types of gardeners from beginners to experienced… there is always something to learn and share.
For more information visit https://seasidegardenclub.wordpress.com/ or contact our president, Elaine Persons, dancerecp70@gmail.com, (978) 526-0145 • Home.
Join the Cape Ann Museum and the Sawyer Free Library this Saturday, April 2nd for an afternoon of painting and poetry.
At 1:00 pm, Patrick Doud will give a presentation at the Cape Ann Museum at its Downtown Campus, located at 27 Pleasant Street, in conjunction with Cape Ann Modern on the paintings of Thorpe Feidt.
Created over more than half a century to date, Thorpe Feidt’s vast, unified body of work is discussed by poet and novelist Patrick Doud. Drawing on multivalent influences including poetry, jazz, fiction and alchemical intuition/lore, Feidt’s praxis results in numinously powerful paintings in which oppositional forces birth new energies.
Then at 2:30 pm, head to Sawyer Free Library, located at 2 Dale Avenue, for an afternoon of readings by local poets Nadine Boughton, the author of the recently self-published book “In the Lap of the Night,” Jay Featherstone, the author of “Glass,” and Jim Dunn to celebrate the start of National Poetry Month.
For more information, visit sawyerfreelibrary.org or call 978-325-5500.
Join us for a fun open house at Backyard Growers HQ at 103R Maplewood Ave to wish founder and executive director Lara Lepionka well on her next adventure! We’ll have tasty treats, great garden stories and nostalgia, and the chance to thank Lara together for the incredible impact she has had on our community.
Learn more about this leadership transition and incoming executive director Alison Woitunski DiFiore here: https://bit.ly/EDTransition
Join the Sawyer Free Library Children’s Services on this Saturday morning, March 26 from 11 a.m. to noon for some soapy fun! Kulina Folk Art Creative will be helping kids, with adult participation, make their own duckie soapy creation using glycerin-based soap adding colors, glitter and scents.
The process does not involve traditional soap making techniques, so there is no lye exposure.
Registration is required. Space is limited. The event is for children ages 5 and up (with one caregiver per child). Each child under the age of 10 must have a caregiver present to help them with the project. No exceptions will be made.
For more information visit sawyerfreelibrary.org or contact crosso@sawyerfreelibrary.org or 978-325-5551.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Sawyer Free Library, this Saturday, March 26 from 2:00 – 4:00p.m. is pleased to present “Forgotten Women.” Local historians Lise Breen and Wayne Soini will discuss the lives of three courageous women who history needs to be shared. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as two women enslaved on Cape Ann, Kate Negro and Violet. Join us and learn about these “Forgotten Women” who helped to shape our nation.
This event has been organized and sponsored by the Library’s Gloucester Lyceum.
Registration is not required. For more information visit, SawyerFreeLibrary.org or call 978-325-5555.
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