Ongoing Events
 Creative Connections
Learn Something New!
Programs usually meet in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall of the first Wednesday of the month at 3 pm.
Please come early and socialize!
There will be no August meeting. We will meet again on
September 3rd.
Henrietta Cooks!
An interview with Henrietta Nesbitt,
F.D.R’s Notoriously Bad Cook
Wednesday, September 3;
3 pm
Lebowitz Meeting Hall, Lower Level
Free and Open to the Public
 Eleanor Roosevelt hired Henrietta Nesbitt to be Housekeeper for the White House. Actor Beth Goldman returns to Morse Institute Library as Mrs. Nesbitt, or according to F.D.R. “La Nesbitt!”
Come and learn how Henrietta’s “good common sense” interpretation of what the First Lady and the President required often put her at odds with the First Family, White House staff, the Press, Royalty and others.
For more information contact Liz Bailey or Karol Bartlett at (508) 647-6521
or via email: lbailey@minlib.net or kbartlett@minlib.net.
Creative Connections is a group of individuals who meet monthly for friendship, stimulating conversation, to share experiences and to hear interesting speakers. These programs are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
For information please contact Liz Bailey at 508-647-6521 or email lbailey@minlib.net.
Library Book Groups
The Morning Book Group meets the third Wednesday of each month at 11:00 am at the Study Room 1A, First Floor and the Evening Book Group meets the last Wednesday evening of each month at 7:00 pm in the Community Room, Lower Level. The book groups are open to everyone. New members are always welcome. Copies of the current month’s titles are available at the circulation desk at the Library.
Morning Book Group
The Wednesday morning book discussion group meets the third Wednesday of the month at 11:00 am. The
book genre for the year is mysteries.
Selections have been chosen from the Bastulli
Library of Classic Mystery Literature and the
Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe
Awards. For additional information, please call Karen Perkins at 508 647-6520 or email kperkins@minlib.net.
Wednesday, 11:00 am
The Morning Book Group will not meet in July or August. See you in September!
Evening Book Group
For additional information, please call Jennifer McGillis at 508 647-6520 or email at jmcgillis@minlib.net.
Wednesday, August 27;
7:00-8:30 pm
Community Room, Lower Level
Our discussion this month
will feature A Theory of
Relativity by Jacquelyn
Mitchard.
"A Theory of Relativity is
Jacquelyn Mitchard at her
best, at work with her
most provocative themes,
especially the profound matters of
identity that become bound up in our
love for a child." -Scott Turow
Summer of Movies @ the Library
Tuesdays on the Lebowitz Meeting Hall Big Screen
This program is free and open to those of school age and up
Refreshments served
CC indicates movie is closed captioned
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The Spiderwick
Chronicles
19 August; 2:30 pm
When they move into a run-down
estate, three children find
themselves pulled into a world of
magical creatures.
PG 107 mins CC |
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Jumper
19 August; 6:30 pm
A man discovers the ability to
teleport and finds himself involved
in a war of fellow jumpers.
PG-13 88 mins CC |
Community Languages Project
Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Learn English
Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing
Small classes for 1.5 hours
Beginners:
Thursday Evenings
7 pm - 8:30 pm
Intermediate:
Friday Mornings
10:30 am - 12 noon
All Levels:
Saturday Mornings
11:30 am - 1 pm
FREE
No registration needed
All classes are held in the Henri Prunaret History Room on the 2nd level.
Stop in
and join one of our weekly conversation
groups in the Library.
All are welcome.
Led by Literacy Unlimited tutors.
Free and open to the public.
No registration is required.
For more information, please contact Reference at 508-647-6521, Laurie Christie at 508-647-6400 x 3133 or literacy@morseinstitute.org.
The Library also offers videos, books on cd, and books to assist in learning English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Hindi and many other languages. There are also titles available in these languages for leisure reading. These materials are available at the Reference Desk on the second floor of the Library. Made possible by a Community Languages grant from the MA Board of Library Commissioners.
The Morse Institute Library and Framingham Public Library
coordinate their literacy programs through
Literacy Unlimited.
Exhibits
Local
artists can exhibit their work at the Morse Institute Library at no charge. The displays can be shown in three gallery areas,
for a minimum of two months. Solo or group displays are allowed.
Some artists' works are available for purchase. For additional
information, please contact Jane Finlay
by calling 508-647-6526 or email her at jfinlayminlib.net.
Artists now on display through the end of August.
Daniel S. Garzon, now a Natick artist, born in Columbia, will be displaying oil and water-based still-lifes, and New England and Mediterranean inspired landscapes on the first floor, right gallery. Garzon's work has been influenced by the impressionists, especially Monet, and by the vivid colors of the Fauvists, as well as the Columbian painter Fernando Botero, and marine artist John Richard Perry. Danny's use of shadow and light, his combining of strong primary colors, and his own Spanish influenced world-view, create romantic and warm New England seascapes.
Work of student artists from the local “Creative Artists” program, taught by Janet Thompson at the Danforth Art Museum School in Framingham, will be on display on the first floor, left gallery. Students are encouraged to express themselves through color, texture and form, using watercolor, acrylics and ink. Students also have used Papier Mache, clay and metal, as well as experimenting with printing and etching on foil. The "Creative Artists" program offers students with special needs an opportunity to develop skills and experience success through engaging in art and craft projects. The program is sponsored by the Natick Recreation and Parks Department and P.A.T.H., Parents Association for the Handicapped.
Art by students in “Art Classes After School” with Teresa Higgins will be on display this summer in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Come see what budding artists can create! Higgins, a Natick resident and acclaimed portrait artist, works in both pastels and oils. She has been teaching for over 25 years. A reception for Teresa’s students in “Art Classes After School” will be held in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall on Sunday, June
8th from 2 until 4.
Local History Displays, including “Glory” Brigades @ Library
Morse Institute Library is displaying pictures and memorabilia from their Local History collection throughout the Library.
The first floor lobby is the site for a “revolving” display of pictures, with the hope that visitors to the Library might be able to identify people in the photographs. The lower lobby is the setting for items pertaining to the Natick Schools, some dating back to the late 1800s. Also, in the lower lobby, pictures and history of the Civil War “Glory” Brigades, the 54th and 55th Union Brigades featured in the movie Glory.
When Reference Librarian Cary Holmes was copying Civil War artifacts, he was surprised to learn that a number of white officers overseeing the all-black brigades were from or settled in Natick. With further research, Holmes has put together an interesting historic display of the Natick connection – Captain Samual Mann, Lt. Colonel William Nutt, Brevet Brigadier General Alfred Hartwell (later to become Natick’s state representative and a justice of the supreme court of Hawaii), and others. Thus far, Holmes’ research shows that seven men from Natick are known to have served with the black regiments during the Civil War.
The Local History displays will be shown through the end of September. For additional information, please contact Karol Bartlett at 647-6400, ext. 1528.
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