SPOTLIGHT on PASSES!

Visit MA DCR Parks or Beaches FREE!

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Check out your pass by visiting the WFL Museum Pass page and requesting it HERE!

NOW AVAILABLE!!!

USS Constitution Museum Pass

The Wareham Free Library is pleased to offer a museum pass to the USS Constitution Museum.

Pass holders will receive free admission to the museum for up to 9 people per day.  Enjoy engaging activities, exhibits, and activities, including the interactive exhibit, All Hands on Deck: A Sailor's Life in 1812, where visitors can furl a sail, sleep in a hammock, and scrub the deck as they join the Constitution's crew in 1812.

For more information about the museum, visit their website at www.usscm.org.

Check out a pass with your library card on the museum pass page.

VIRTUAL PROGRAMS - Registration Required

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PLEASE NOTE: These are virtual programs that will take place via Zoom.  Registrants will recieve a link to access the zoom Meeting via email. 

You must register for each program separately.  All Presidential Library progams will be recorded and registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program. The other programs WILL NOT BE Recorded for later use.  For a full description of a particular program, go to our Calendar of Events Page.

Tues, May 30th - 2:00 p.m. - Lyndon Johnson: Teacher, Politician, President with the LBJ Presidential Library - Register Here.

Tues, June 6th - 2:00 p.m. - Gender Equality & The Carter Administration with the Carter Presidential Library - Register Here.

Tues, June 13th - 2:00 p.m. - Bert & Lou: The Story of the Herbert Hoover Family with the Hoover Presidential Library - Register Here.

Tues, June 20th - 2:00 p.m. - Interrogating Presidential Photos with the Ford Presidential Library - Register Here.

Tues, June 27th - 2:00 p.m. - Out Of the Archives: A Look Back At the Marshall Plan with the Truman Presidential Library - Register Here.

Wed, June 28th - 7:00 p.m. - Author Nancy Horan in conversation with Therese Fowler - Register Here

Wed, July 19th - 12:00 p.m. - At The Weather Station With NBC10Boston/ NECN's Meteorologist Pamela Gardner - Register Here.

(Special thanks to the Tewksbury, Brookline and Ashland Public Libraries for organizing these events)

Meet Local Author Kerrin Willis

Picture of book Strange ArithmeticSaturday, June 24th at 1:00 p.m.

Local Author Kerrin Willis talks about her newest book, set in Taunton, MA between the years 1944 and 2015.  

Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Program is free and no registration is required.

Concerts On the Lawn - Matt York

Picture of Matt YorkJoin us as we kick off our summer concert series with Matt York singing the songs of Johnny Cash

Monday, June 26th at 7:00 p.m.

Come listen to the songs and stories of Johnny Cash, spanning from his early beginnings in the 1950s to his passing in 2003.   

 

Bring a lawn chair or blanket, bug spray and a picnic snack.  Program is free and no registration is required.  Program is held inside should weather not cooperate.

Sponsored by the Wareham Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.  

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Book Clubs At The Library

Books are available for check-out at the Circulation desk.

lone house on a cliff over the seaMystery Book Club 

Meets third Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m.

The next meeting is June 20th 

 

 

Ride Of Her Life Book Jacket

Non Fiction Book Club

Meets 4th Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m.

The next meeting is June 28th

 

SUPER SUMMER STEM PROGRAM!

Explore sea life and insects with Mary Wilson of Pitter Patter Programs

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Save your spot & RSVP by phone or email:

Miss Marcia (mhickey@sailsinc.org or 508.295.9622 x1014)

RELAX, UNWIND, CREATE

Adult Drop-In Coloring Tuesdays from 5-6:30pm

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Join us for conversation (or not - LOL), and an opportunity to color your way to calmness.

No registration required and materials are provided, but please feel free to bring your own books, pencils, markers, etc., if you'd prefer.

 

EXQUISITE CORPSE CHALLENGE!

How creative is Wareham? We'd like to find out.

Beginning April 2023 and ending December 31, 2023, we challenge you to grab your familes, friends, co-workers, and anyone else you can think of to WRITE or DRAW your version of an EXQUISITE CORPSE!

Pale blue background with assorted graphics (horse, moon, orange moth, tree, fish, etc.) with poem    Poem against b&w background graphics (noise, noodles, beachball, sombrero, boy running, sandcastle) with poemPale blue background with assorted graphics (skyscrapers with clouds, bicycle, house, wave, etc.) with a poem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This wickedly fun activity doesn't require any ONE person to be responsible and the results are hilarious - similar to a MadLibs game!

Forms for your corpse and the rules may be accessed by clicking HERE.

Check out the story behind the gruesome (but appropriate name) at this SITE.

Pictures on this page show the current corpses provided by our WFL staff.

 

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