The chilly and snowy days are here! Are you looking for some fun ways to spend your time while you are bundled up inside? Or are you looking for a fun reason to get outside? The Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library has a great selection of online and in person events that you can enjoy during the rest of February!
We hope you will join us!
Tai Chi Moves Wednesdays and the Manchester Community Center!
Manchester local Susan Halpern will continue her weekly Tai Chi class for ages 18 and older from 9:45 -10:45 AM on Wednesdays at the Manchester Community Center. At this time the meetings plan to continue through May.
We also ask that you fill out the Safety Release Registration Form before joining.
The class will focus on the Sun style which employs a more upright stance with small arm movements and short steps, and the forms demand attention and stimulate good balance, attention, and stress reduction.
Wednesdays, 10:30-12 (or 12:30 if you want to stay)
Remember that novel you started writing seven years ago? Is it time to finish it? Maybe you want to write your first screenplay? Pour some poems onto the page? Settle into a daily writing habit?
Join a community of writers and artists who just want to write. Here’s how it works: Join the Zoom meeting. Say hello if you want. Write. Stay the full 90 minutes or leave early. Hang out after if you feel like reading your work or hearing someone else's.
Interested? Contact mblack@manchesterpl.org for Zoom details.
Asteroids, Comets and Near Earth Objects Online Presentation
On Friday, February 18th at 11 AM
Join NASA Solar Ambassador Regina Conrad as she gives an in-depth online Zoom presentation on the asteroids, comets, and natural debris floating in space and the effects they have on earth. She will also discuss what NASA is doing to study them, specifically the NASA missions Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) and Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE).
About: Regina Conrad started as a weekend planetarium educator in 2005 at the Andrus Planetarium in the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY after her first total solar eclipse. In 2011, she was invited to speak regularly at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center before the Friday Night Observation. Now retired, Conrad is a Solar System Ambassador and a part-time library program coordinator in New Hampshire.
Friends of the Library Book Donation Days
Good news! The Friends of the Manchester Library Book Sale will be returning in Summer 2022. At this time due to storage difficulties inside the Manchester library, members of the Friends of the Library will be holding monthly book drives on designated Saturdays near the Children's Room side entrance of the library on Church St. now starting Saturday, February 19th from 10-4. The following collection dates will be March 19th, April 23rd, May 21st, June 18th, and July 16th.
Please bring your books in bags and boxes no bigger than beer cases. The Friends are looking for small and large paperbacks and books of fiction and nonfiction and on special interests such as gardening, cooking, children/young adult, sports, games, crafts, decorating, architecture, science, foreign language, large print, travel, animals, nature, history, biography, reference, classics, and poetry.
Libby Digital Lending Service Online Tutorial
Thursday, February 24th at 6:30 PM
Join Manchester Library’s adult services librarian Rachael Meneades as she gives an online tutorial on how to get started with borrowing items through the Libby app for both new and experienced users! Libby is a free app that offers access to eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines onto your mobile device for registered Manchester Library users. Libby will eventually be replacing OverDrive as the primary way for users to access and borrow items from their digital library, so get a head start now in learning how to use this app!
Mystery Book Group
Friday, February 25th at 10:30 AM
The Manchester Library’s mystery book group will meet on Zoom to discuss “Eight Perfect Murders” by Peter Swanson. Copies of this book are available at the library’s circulation desk. To register for this book group please contact Rachael Meneades at rmeneades@manchesterpl.org.
