Wellfleet Recreation

Children Ages 7 -14

One week session, Monday through Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 pm, at the Baker’s Field Tent.

Taught by Neal Nichols, Jr., local artist and founder of “Geography Game Show”.

$240 for the one-week session.

Five Summer Sessions: July 8 - 12; July 15 - 19; July 22 - 26; July 29 - August 2; August 19 - 23

To Register: email directly to Geographygameshow@yahoo.com

Wellfleet Recreation

Children Ages 7 -14

One week session, Monday through Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 pm, at the Baker’s Field Tent.

Taught by Neal Nichols, Jr., local artist and founder of “Geography Game Show”.

$240 for the one-week session.

Five Summer Sessions: July 8 - 12; July 15 - 19; July 22 - 26; July 29 - August 2; August 19 - 23

To Register: email directly to Geographygameshow@yahoo.com

Wellfleet Recreation

Children Ages 7 -14

One week session, Monday through Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 pm, at the Baker’s Field Tent.

Taught by Neal Nichols, Jr., local artist and founder of “Geography Game Show”.

$240 for the one-week session.

Five Summer Sessions: July 8 - 12; July 15 - 19; July 22 - 26; July 29 - August 2; August 19 - 23

To Register: email directly to Geographygameshow@yahoo.com

Wellfleet Recreation

Children Ages 7 -14

One week session, Monday through Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 pm, at the Baker’s Field Tent.

Taught by Neal Nichols, Jr., local artist and founder of “Geography Game Show”.

$240 for the one-week session.

Five Summer Sessions: July 8 - 12; July 15 - 19; July 22 - 26; July 29 - August 2; August 19 - 23

To Register: email directly to Geographygameshow@yahoo.com

Wellfleet Recreation

Children Ages 7 -14

One week session, Monday through Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 pm, at the Baker’s Field Tent.

Taught by Neal Nichols, Jr., local artist and founder of “Geography Game Show”.

$240 for the one-week session.

Five Summer Sessions: July 8 - 12; July 15 - 19; July 22 - 26; July 29 - August 2; August 19 - 23

To Register: email directly to Geographygameshow@yahoo.com

Wellfleet Public Library

First Wednesday of the month.

Issues of race exist on Cape Cod as they do in the rest of thecountry. We gather in a collegial, supportive environment with Pancheta Peterson and others as facilitators to read and discuss seminal books (Waking Up White, Under the Skin, Just Mercy, The Color of Law, The Warmth of Other Suns,among others) and articles (Letter from a Birmingham Jail), to discuss current events, and to offer personal experiences in a wide-ranging discussion that goes where it will.

All are welcome!

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

First Wednesday of the month.

Issues of race exist on Cape Cod as they do in the rest of thecountry. We gather in a collegial, supportive environment with Pancheta Peterson and others as facilitators to read and discuss seminal books (Waking Up White, Under the Skin, Just Mercy, The Color of Law, The Warmth of Other Suns,among others) and articles (Letter from a Birmingham Jail), to discuss current events, and to offer personal experiences in a wide-ranging discussion that goes where it will.

All are welcome!

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

First Wednesday of the month.

Issues of race exist on Cape Cod as they do in the rest of thecountry. We gather in a collegial, supportive environment with Pancheta Peterson and others as facilitators to read and discuss seminal books (Waking Up White, Under the Skin, Just Mercy, The Color of Law, The Warmth of Other Suns,among others) and articles (Letter from a Birmingham Jail), to discuss current events, and to offer personal experiences in a wide-ranging discussion that goes where it will.

All are welcome!

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

First Wednesday of the month.

Issues of race exist on Cape Cod as they do in the rest of thecountry. We gather in a collegial, supportive environment with Pancheta Peterson and others as facilitators to read and discuss seminal books (Waking Up White, Under the Skin, Just Mercy, The Color of Law, The Warmth of Other Suns,among others) and articles (Letter from a Birmingham Jail), to discuss current events, and to offer personal experiences in a wide-ranging discussion that goes where it will.

All are welcome!

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

First Wednesday of the month.

Issues of race exist on Cape Cod as they do in the rest of thecountry. We gather in a collegial, supportive environment with Pancheta Peterson and others as facilitators to read and discuss seminal books (Waking Up White, Under the Skin, Just Mercy, The Color of Law, The Warmth of Other Suns,among others) and articles (Letter from a Birmingham Jail), to discuss current events, and to offer personal experiences in a wide-ranging discussion that goes where it will.

All are welcome!

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

The Winter Army

At the start of World War Il, the US Army had two cavalry divisions and no mountain troops. The German Wehrmacht, in contrast, had many well-trained and battle-hardened mountain divisions, some of whom by 1943 blocked the Allied advance in the Italian campaign. Starting from scratch, the US Army developed a unique military fighting force, the 10th Mountain Division, drawn from the ranks of civilian skiers, mountaineers, and others with outdoor experience. The resulting mix of Ivy League students, park rangers, Olympic skiers, and European refugees formed the first specialized alpine fighting force in US history. By the time it deployed to Italy at the beginning of 1945, this ragtag group had coalesced into a tight-knit unit. In the months that followed, at a terrible cost, they spearheaded the Allied drive in Italy to final victory. Ranging from the ski slopes of Colorado to the towering cliffs of the Italian Alps, The Winter Army. is a saga of an unlikely band of soldiers forged in the heat of combat into a brotherhood whose legacy lives on in US mountain fighters to this day.

Maurice Isserman is the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of History at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He is the author of many books, on topics ranging from the history of American radical movements to the history of mountaineering. He is currently working on a book entitled The History of World Mountaineering in Ten Epic Climbs, to be published by Yale University Press.

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Open University of Wellfleet at the Wellfleet Public Library

Gender Fluidity: Terms and Historical Perspective in a Changing Sexual Landscape

$60.00

Instructor: Toby Simon

Time: Thursdays from 2-4 p.m.

Location: Wellfleet Library

Dates: October 19, 26, November 2, 9, 16.

This course will examine the changing sexuality landscape and the frequency with which we are often involved in discussions with our peers and families about gender fluidity. The course will include the history of the human sexuality movement beginning in the early 1900s as well as key elements of that history that are currently under scrutiny, criticism and attack in numerous places.

Beginning with the history and continuing with an examination of the various terms as we try to stay current can be challenging, confusing and rewarding. It often results in more questions and valuable conversations.  This course will attempt to address this landscape by looking at historical trends, current data and some personal stories.

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Open University of Wellfleet at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Instructor: Claude Kerven

Time: Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon

Location: Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Dates: October 19, 26, November 2, 9, 16.

If you love film, then this course is for you. Film Art will help you learn more about film analysis, period genres, movements in film style, film production, and more, and will deepen your understanding and enjoyment of watching movies. 

This fall we will be covering the Golden Age of Hollywood, from 1935 – 1960, from the early days of sound films to the culmination of the Classical Hollywood Era. Discussions will include an examination of the following films:

• Singin' in the Rain (Kelly/Donen) Transition to Sound

• Bride of Frankenstein (Whale) Classical Hollywood 

• Citizen Kane (Welles) – Cinematic Innovation

• Bicycle Thief (DeSica) - Italian NeoRealism

• Psycho (Hitchcock) - Hitchcock/Intro to Horror

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Open University of Wellfleet

Kander and Ebb: Life is a Cabaret! (on Zoom)

$60.00

Instructor: Marc Strauss

Time: Wednesdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Location: On Zoom

Dates: October 18, 25, November 1, 8, 15.

John Kander (b. 1927) and Fred Ebb (1928 – 2004) were a power duo of songwriters for over 50 years, penning tunes to Broadway shows and Hollywood and television films as diverse and provocative as Cabaret (1966/1972), Chicago (1975/2002), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993), Liza with a Z! (1972), The Scottsboro Boys (2010), and many others. The two couldn’t have been more different: Kander remains, at 96, the midwestern sentimentalist composer, Ebb the sardonic and biting New Yorker. Somehow their differences gelled, and even if you don’t know them by name, their songs are etched in our hearts and minds: “Theme from New York, New York,” “Cabaret,” “Maybe This Time,” “All That Jazz,” and “A Quiet Thing” are just a few that you may recognize. 

Marc Strauss will provide historical context and lead discussion on many of their biggest hits as well as fascinating unknown tunes, presenting CD and DVD songs and dances from their entire canon of works in chronological order. Come relive the majesty of Kander and Ebb or, if you’re new to their work, experience for the first time why life is a cabaret! 

Open University of Wellfleet at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Contemporary Artists on Outer Cape Cod

$60.00

Instructor: Robert Rindler

Time: 2-4 p.m.

Location: Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Dates: October 18, 25, November 1, 8, 15.

I’ll introduce course participants to extraordinary visual artists and their work created among us on the Outer Cape. We will engage with each of them in person during a spirited, intelligent and illuminating presentation and dialogue.

This is a carefully chosen and intentionally diverse roster of emerging, mid and later career transformational leaders in the arts. They are all deeply involved in their personal, creative inquiry and continue to expand our perspectives on how art is being redefined within our current cultural, social and political environment.

We will hear from 10 local, exemplary art makers from different media disciplines who are now or have recently been exhibiting their work in local galleries and museums. In addition you can see their art first hand before, during or after our time together.

 For each of five weeks, we will meet— then see, experience, and explore— the work of 2 artists who have achieved significant regional, national and even international success and acclaim while working here on Cape Cod.

 This will be my sixth annual fall series where more than 50 different visual artists have previously shared their work with us. Guest Artists from our previous fall classes have included: 

Mark Adams, Bob Bailey, Donald Beal, Ted Chapin, Karen Cappotto, Romolo del Deo, Joe Diggs, Rob DuToit, Esteban del Valle, Joerg Dressler, Mona Dukess, Bill Evaul, Nathalie Ferrier, Joe Fiorello, Jo Hay, Bob Henry, Megan Hinton, Peter Hocking, Grace Hopkins, Tim Horn, Zehra Kahn, Marc Kundmann, Susan Kurtzman, Julie Levesque, Irene Lipton, Susan Lyman, Cherie Mittenthal, Pasquale Natale, Francis Olschafskie, Jane Paradise, Dan Ranalli, Janice Redman, Sian Robertson, Marion Roth, Laura Shabott, James Stanley, Helen Miranda Wilson, Mike Wright, & Bert Yarborough.

And I’m now finalizing another amazing roster of 10 new artists for this Fall 2023 . Please join us.

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Open University of Wellfleet

More Irish Literature (on Zoom)

$60.00

Instructor: Rhoda Flaxman

Time: Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon.

Location: Zoom

Dates: October 18, 25, November 1, 8, 15.

Expanding on explorations of how Irish writers make art from their historical conditions, this semester, we’ll read and discuss the following five novels:

“Old God’s Time,” by Sebastian Barry

“Death and Nightingales,” by Eugene McCabe

“Fools of Fortune,” by William Trevor

“The Spinning Heart,” by Donal Ryan

“This is Happiness,” by Niall Williams.

Throughout this course, we’ll focus on innovative techniques for telling a story, and try to answer two questions :  

How do Irish writers make art from the historical record?

What it is about the Irish culture that generates such outsized and celebrated literary output?

This literature course will advance according to a combination of mini-lectures to set the context and discussions shaped by questions sent before every class. Participants may enroll either in the Zoom class ( Wednesdays from 10-noon) or the class in person (Tuesdays from 2-4 p.m.). Each class will be limited to 25 participants. 

 Highly recommended background reading:

“We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland”, (Fintan O’Toole, W.W, Norton,2023). 

 “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” (Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, 2019).

Open University of Wellfleet at the Wellfleet Public Library

Sea Captains of Cape Cod

$60.00

Instructor: Michael Pregot

Time: Tuesdays from 4-6 p.m.

Location: Wellfleet Library

Dates: October 17, 24, 31, Nov. 14, 21 (no class on Nov. 7).

This course will explore the connection that each Cape Cod town has to the sea as demonstrated through its seafaring residents. It provides a glimpse into heroic maritime adventures, entrepreneurial brilliance, and an appreciation of the resolve needed by sea captains to thrive within a hostile seaside environment.

Maritime figures take several forms such as distinguished fishermen, military war heroes, deep-sea merchants, local coasters, packet boat captains, whalers, ship architects, luxury passenger liner magnets, and even “moon-cursers” prowling along the coastline for treasure.

A definite emphasis is placed on the role of the indigenous people, black sea captains, the female perspective of living aboard a ship, and the social status awarded to the various ethnic groups brave enough to face the perils of deep-sea travel.

Our study will delve into each of the 15 Cape Cod towns’ relative engagement to the sea and the commerce of the period in the 1700’s and 1800’s. In reviewing the data, we will discover that every town assuredly has a substantive connection to the sea and deserves to be given credit for its personal maritime history. The names and exploits of many famous captains as well as some lesser-known sea-faring figures will be revealed.

There will also be an opportunity for group interaction as students can suggest some subtopics of personal interest and even be encouraged to present some research findings of their own on a voluntary basis. The instructional format will include readings, discussions, group projects and critical analysis. 

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Open University of Wellfleet at WHAT

Isherwood and the Makings of Sally Bowles

$60.00

Instructors: John Dennis Anderson and John Shuman

Time: Location: Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre (WHAT)

Dates: Classes from 1-3 p.m. on Oct. 16, 23, 30, Nov, 6

Screenings from 1-3 p.m. on Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 3, Nov. 10.

The writer Christopher Isherwood is best known for creating Sally Bowles, a self-dramatizing cabaret singer in 1930s Berlin, whom he based on his friend Jean Ross. A classic avatar of the “manic pixie dream girl” trope, Sally Bowles first appeared in one of Isherwood’s autobiographical stories that was later dramatized by his friend John van Druten in the successful play I Am a Camera. The play was then adapted as the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical Cabaret. This course will explore the evolution of Sally Bowles over the course of these works into the widely recognizable symbol of “divine decadence” embodied by Julie Harris on stage and Liza Minnelli on screen. These various incarnations of Sally Bowles and her relationships reflect shifting representations of homosexuality, abortion, and anti-Semitism in literature and popular culture. The Monday classes will discuss readings of Isherwood’s story “Sally Bowles,” his 1976 memoir Christopher and His Kind, John van Druten’s play, and the Kander and Ebb musical, while on Fridays the class will watch various screen versions. All classes will be held from 1 to 3 pm at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater.

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Wellfleet Public Library

Narcan is a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose.

Learn how to recognize and prevent an overdose at our community seminar, presented by Outer Cape Health Services and the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 10, 6:00 PM

WELLELEET PUBLIC LIBRARYFor more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

Roadshow Anthropology with Mark Chester

This collection of engaging black-and-white photographs captures America from the driver's seat. Offering fresh perspectives on the United States' iconic highways, byways, back roads, and small-town main streets, Mark Chester puts America's unique spirit of innovation on full display. With humor and pathos, Roadshow Anthropology explores high and low culture and the worlds of commerce, architecture, design, advertising, and fashion. As a social commentator and a connoisseur of Americana, Chester pays homage to a range of influences, including the work of photojournalist Lee Friedlander.

Mark Chester has been a professional photographer since 1972. He was Director of Photography and staff photographer at ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), in New York City. His photographs are in the permanent collections of Baltimore, Brooklyn, American University Corcoran Legacy Collection Washington DC, Denver, Portland (Maine), and San Francisco museums, among others. His photographs also accompany his own travel articles as published by the L.A. Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor among other newspapers and special interest magazines.

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Historical Society and Museum

Before 1620, Who Was Here? and Delilah Gibbs, Wellfleet’s Last Indian?

September 30, 2023
1:00 PM
WHS&M, Linda Coombs

Building Relationships, Building Equity: Acknowledging the Continuing Wampanoag Presence on Cape Cod

"America" was built upon European contact and the imposed colonization of Indigenous people.  These processes must be recognized and acknowledged for the history of this country to ever be understood in the rightful context or to develop a culture of balance, peace, and respect. Understanding Wampanoag narrative and culture is part of the foundation to uplift outcomes for healthier communities on Cape Cod and the Islands. This series of events will help to make intentional efforts to address disparities in the greater community.

The MLK Action Team of Nauset Interfaith is excited to announce this series of events.

Wellfleet Public Library & Wellfleet Historical Society

Hawk Henries is a member of the Chaubunagungamaug band of Nipmuck, a people indigenous to what is now southern New England. He has been composing original flute music and making flutes using only hand tools and fire for over twenty years.

Presented by the Wellfleet Historical Society & Museum

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Wellfleet Public Library

There are over 300 species of clematis. There are clematis that will bloom in our New England gardens for more than 16 weeks. Join us as Cheryl Monroe reveals the secrets of growing these beauties.

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Wellfleet Public Library

On Being Mortal

Come together to share thoughts, experiences and questions about life as it approaches the end of the journey for each of us and for those we love. Considering what effect it has on our living, finding a safe space in which to approach the topic of death is all the more essential.

While supportive and considerate, our group is not therapy. Facilitated by Judith Cumbler, retired social worker and family therapist, professional consultant to the children and bereavement teams with Hospice in Louisville KT and Suzanne Eppley, retired Family Physician and Director of Hospice and Palliative Care in rural NY. The two of us wash-a-shores have spent over 6o years combined, working in these settings.

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Wellfleet Public Library

The Art of Her Life

At nine years old, on her first visit to a museum, Emily fell in love with Breakfast, a painting by Henri Matisse. Now a single mother, she lives in the world of art and can barely find time for her two daughters, much less for Mark, the man she loves. Her days are a jumble -she's lost the thread of her life-but a contest at the museum where she's the registrar gives her hope-the chance to see Breakfast again. Matisse's words and paintings permeate her days and nights, and glancing at a note card of the painting she loves, she sees something she s never seen before. The Art of Her Life shows the power of art to transform an ordinary life.

Cynthia Newberry Martin's first novel. Tidal Flats, won the Gold Medal in Literary Fiction at the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards and the 14th Annual National Indie Excellence Award for Fiction. Her second novel. Love Like This, was published in April of 2023. Her website features the How We Spend Our Days series. over a decade of essays by writers on their lives. She grew up in Atlanta and now lives in Columbus. Georga, with her husband, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in a little house by the water.

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

The Hurricane of 1938

The storm came without warning. On September 21, 1938 everyone went about business as usual, expecting just another rainy day. By evening Norwich had been battered by 120 mph winds, rivers surged over their banks, and a tidal wave raced up the Thames leaving Franklin Square under 10 feet of water.

Bridges and dams washed out. Streets were blocked with downed trees and roofs. The Rose City was devastated. The 1938 Hurricane still remains the most destructive storm in New England history. Chris Wisniewski and The Norwich Bulletin partnered on this book on the 1938 Hurricane in 2013, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the storm. The book contains personal accounts from over 65 residents of Norwich and the surrounding towns and over 60 photographs, many never published before. Experience the storm through the eyes of the people who lived through it.

Chris Wisniewski is the founder of Saving Stories, a personal history business dedicated to preserving memoirs, milestones, and personal history. She works to help individuals, families, businesses, and non-profits preserve their stories and memories. She lives in Wellfleet.

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

Author/Illustrator Sabrina Jones presents: FEMINIST COMICS from MARGARET SANGER to the end of ROE V. WADE

Working class nurse. Mother of three. Labor organizer. Margaret Sanger - best known as the pioneer of birth control - was revolutionary in more ways than one. In Sabrina Jones's graphic novel Our Lady of Birth Control: A Cartoonist's Encounter with Margaret Sanger, the author illustrates the incredible life of Sanger, framing the biography with her personal experiences of coming of age at the height of the sexual revolution. Powerful, poetic, and extremely personal, this historical graphic novel is an in-depth look at the woman responsible for bringing freedom to the masses.

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

First Wednesday of the month.

Issues of race exist on Cape Cod as they do in the rest of thecountry. We gather in a collegial, supportive environment with Pancheta Peterson and others as facilitators to read and discuss seminal books (Waking Up White, Under the Skin, Just Mercy, The Color of Law, The Warmth of Other Suns,among others) and articles (Letter from a Birmingham Jail), to discuss current events, and to offer personal experiences in a wide-ranging discussion that goes where it will.

All are welcome!

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events

Wellfleet Public Library

Let's Talk Together: Zapatista Stories with Margaret Cerullo

On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation not only had the nerve to stare down the proclaimed End of History and launch a war against the Mexican government, a war against neoliberalism, and a war against racial and patriarchal capitalism in all its forms- while, in the process, recuperating tens of thousands of acres of land that was stolen from the Indigenous peoples of Chiapas-but they did all this with a sense of humor, with poetry, and with, in a word, literature. Join Margaret Cerullo, professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at Hampshire College and a member of the Colectivo Relámpago/Lightning Collective, for a livel discussion perfect for lovers of literature and lovers of revolution!

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Wellfleet Public Library

Independent scholar Eve M. Kahn will explore the legacy of Gilded Age author and reformer Zoe Anderson Norris. Writer and publisher of the bimonthly magazine The East Side, Norris focused on New York's immigrants and outcasts in dire straits. She sometimes worked undercover to expose issues that still resonate in today's society. A Kentucky-born longtime Manhattanite, known as a Queen of Bohemia, Norris also founded the Ragged Edge Klub, which met for weekly dinners combining activism and dancing. She handed out aristocratic titles to Ragged Edgers, such as Lady Betty Rogers of the Bronx and Baron Bernhardt of Hoboken. A few days after completing the last issue of The East Side, which described her recent dream that she would die soon, she suffered fatal heart failure_and her prediction made headlines in newspapers nationwide.

For more Library events, both in-person and virtual, visit: www.wellfleetlibrary.org/events