Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2020 spring session begins on January 7 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2020 spring session begins on January 7 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2020 spring session begins on January 7 and continues through… Read More
The Local Journalism Project – December Break
Open Newsroom Will NOT Meet on December 5; Next meeting: January 2 The Provincetown Independent’s nonprofit Local Journalism Project invites community members to join in making local news more collaborative. The editor (and from time to time reporters… Read More
Astrology at the Library: Four Courses on the Basics
Astrology at the Library: Astrology Basics Join us for four courses on the basics with local astrologer Martha Clarke! We will learn about the history of astrology; the four elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water; the modes of… Read More
Astrology at the Library: Four Courses on the Basics
Astrology at the Library: Astrology Basics Join us for four courses on the basics with local astrologer Martha Clarke! We will learn about the history of astrology; the four elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water; the modes of… Read More
Astrology at the Library: Four Courses on the Basics
Astrology at the Library: Astrology Basics Join us for four courses on the basics with local astrologer Martha Clarke! We will learn about the history of astrology; the four elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water; the modes of… Read More
Astrology at the Library: Four Courses on the Basics
Astrology at the Library: Astrology Basics Join us for four courses on the basics with local astrologer Martha Clarke! We will learn about the history of astrology; the four elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water; the modes of… Read More
Tear Gas, Turmoil, and Tyranny in Hong Kong
Tear Gas, Turmoil, and Tyranny in Hong Kong with Tony Fizzano Do you enjoy the freedom that comes with living in the United States? Do you know about what’s happening in Hong Kong – perhaps from the news?… Read More
Astrology at the Library
Join local astrologer Martha Clarke for a talk on “Venus and Neptune.” Access your divine creativity through a greater understanding of these planets in your natal birth chart. A Q&A will follow.
Astrology at the Library
Join local astrologer Martha Clarke for a talk on the “Moon and Mercury,” and access family healing through a greater understanding of these planets in your natal birth chart. A Q&A will follow.
Halloween Dance Party!
The Friends of the Truro Library presents A Halloween Dance Party! Come dance at the Library with DJ Beth O’Rourke, and enjoy activities and snacks throughout the main space. Get down, get loud–no shushing in the house! Boogie… Read More
Classics of French Cinema: Léon Morin, Prêtre
Classics of French Cinemas: Selected Works of Jean-Pierre Melville We welcome spring with a new French film series, focusing this time on the cinematic genius of Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973). With a signature style informed by his experiences in… Read More
Classics of French Cinema: Les Enfants Terrible
Classics of French Cinemas: Selected Works of Jean-Pierre Melville We welcome spring with a new French film series, focusing this time on the cinematic genius of Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973). With a signature style informed by his experiences in… Read More
Evanston’s Living History
The Truro Public Library is proud to present Evanston’s Living History. Filmmaker Craig Dudnick (Alice’s Ordinary People) returns to present a screening of the documentary film, which explores the evolution of Evanston, Illinois and the citizens who confronted… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Author Talk: Sandy MacFarlane, SWIRLING CURRENTS
Swirling Currents: Controversy, Compromise, and Dynamic Coastal Change During one remarkable day early in 2017, more than two hundred of the highly endangered North Atlantic right whales, nearly half of the entire world’s population, entered Cape Cod Bay… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
Next Chapter Book Club–Meeting
The Truro Public Library is proud to host a Next Chapter Book Club for adolescents and adults on the Outer Cape living with intellectual or developmental challenges. The 2019 fall session begins on September 24 and continues through… Read More
A Special Mushroom Foraging Field Trip with Rachel Goclawski
Forager and educator Rachel Goclawski will lead a walk for 30 people. Pre-registration and a $10.00 fee is required prior to the event by cash or check made out to The Friends of the Truro Library. Please wear… Read More
An Introduction to Mushrooming with Forager and Educator Rachel Goclawski
Mushrooming can be a fun and safe hobby if you know the guidelines. Learn about some beginner-level mushrooms, their health benefits, and how to stick to “safer” classes of edible mushrooms with an interactive visual presentation. Presented by… Read More
From a Buick 6—On the Road with Bob Dylan
From a Buick 6—On the Road with Bob Dylan: A Multimedia Presentation by Pete Elman Pete Elman returns with the story of Bob Dylan’s classic trilogy of rock albums, recorded in New York and Nashville with his legendary… Read More
The Local Journalism Project – Open Newsroom Truro
Open Newsroom The Provincetown Independent’s nonprofit Local Journalism Project invites community members to join in making local news more collaborative. The editor (and from time to time reporters and newsmakers) will be on hand to hear about issues… Read More
The Local Journalism Project – Open Newsroom Truro
Open Newsroom The Provincetown Independent’s nonprofit Local Journalism Project invites community members to join in making local news more collaborative. The editor (and from time to time reporters and newsmakers) will be on hand to hear about issues… Read More
The Local Journalism Project – Open Newsroom Truro
Open Newsroom The Provincetown Independent’s nonprofit Local Journalism Project invites community members to join in making local news more collaborative. The editor (and from time to time reporters and newsmakers) will be on hand to hear about issues… Read More
September Art Exhibit: John Ferguson, Paintings
John Ferguson—Paintings Artist’s Statement: I first came to Truro in 1956 with my family on vacation. I remember running down the dune between Highland Light and Coast Guard Beach (back when it was okay), as fast as I… Read More
Author Talk: Stephen Kinzer
Author Talk: Stephen Kinzer on The Poisoner in Chief The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s…. Read More
Author Talk: Sarah Blake
Author Talk: Sarah Blake on The Guest Book The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that “used to run the world.” And when the novel begins in 1935, they still do. Kitty and… Read More
Refugees, Nomads, Wanderers—A World on the Move
Refugees, Nomads, Wanderers—A World on the Move with Mark Adams We are all immigrants if you go back far enough—some forced, some by urgency, some by choice. American citizens and many others enjoy the liberty to travel for… Read More
FOTL’s Annual Gigantic Book Sale
Friends of the Truro Library Gigantic Book Sale! Proceeds benefit the Truro Library Join us for our annual Gigantic Book Sale at the Truro Public Library. There will be thousands of books to choose from, all at bargain… Read More
Author Talk: Jane Leavy on THE BIG FELLA
Author Jane Leavy on: The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created Join us for a talk by Jane Leavy on baseball legend Babe Ruth. He lived in the present tense—in the camera’s lens. There was… Read More
August Art Exhibit: Kenneth Hawkey, Paintings
Kenneth Hawkey—Paintings When creating a piece of art there is a certain thought that can propel me into the beginnings of a piece, that initial jolt of inspiration. From that point, the work evolves based on what is… Read More
The Ballston Beach Poets: A Sense of Place
Join us for a reading by the Ballston Beach Poets, exploring the theme of “A Sense of Place”—be it physical, emotional, geographical, or something else. Their work ranges from the edgy to the tender, from the mythic to… Read More
Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now @First Parish Church / Truro Meeting House
The Friends of the Truro Meeting House and the Truro Public Library welcome acclaimed Canadian-American thinker Steven Pinker to the Truro Meeting House to discuss his book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Is… Read More
Capitalism: the Future of an Illusion, with Prof. Fred Block
Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion with Professor Fred L. Block Fred Block’s latest book, Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion (University of California Press, 2018), explains how U.S. politics got caught in a loop that alternates between center-left… Read More
Author Talk: Juliette Fay
Juliette Fay —“one of the best authors of women’s fiction” (Library Journal) — transports us back to the early days of Hollywood as three friends struggle to earn their places among the stars of the silent screen. It’s… Read More
Quasars and Black Holes, with Dr. Martin Elvis
Join us for an exploration of quasars and black holes with Center for Astrophysics Ι Harvard & Smithsonian Senior Astrophysicist Martin Elvis. It is a strange fact that right next to the darkest places in the universe—black holes—lie… Read More
Author Talk: Karen Dukess
We are delighted to host the official Cape Cod launch of The Last Book Party with author Karen Dukess, in conversation with author Suzy Becker (Everything I Need to Know I Learned From My Cat, I Had Brain… Read More
Workshop: Managing Life Stress
Managing Life Stress: Three Workshops With Judith Marsh, Ph.D. Three workshops designed to help participants of all ages identify, measure, and learn helpful and easy strategies for managing stressful life events. Space is limited to 10 people; please… Read More
Tor Hansen: Cape Cod’s Shoreline Bio-Diversity
Local naturalist Tor Hansen will explore biological diversity in thriving and declining populations on our Cape Cod shorelines. Through his discoveries, illustrations, colorful photos, and astute observations, we will learn more about our local biodiversity and replenishing and… Read More
The Ethnobotany of the Ottawas and the Kofáns
The Friends of the Truro Library presents botanist HOMER VIRGIL PINKLEY. Dr. Pinkley will treat us to an inside look at the ethnobotany of the Ottawas of the Great Lakes and the Kofáns from the Head Waters of… Read More
Beneath the Surface: Studying the Ocean with Underwater Imaging Systems and Remotely Operated Vehicles
Owen Nichols of the Center for Coastal Studies will discuss the important information we can gather by using underwater cameras, sonars, and remotely-operated vehicles to gather images of life under the ocean’s surface. Owen has been Director of… Read More
Workshop: Managing Life Stress
Managing Life Stress: Three Workshops With Judith Marsh, Ph.D. Three workshops designed to help participants of all ages identify, measure, and learn helpful and easy strategies for managing stressful life events. Space is limited to 10 people; please… Read More
Local Author: J.J. Dutra
Truro Public Library is most pleased to host a reading by local author J.J. Dutra on Tuesday, May 14, at 6:30 p.m. Ms. Dutra will read from her new book, Dead Low Tide, second in a late-1930s Provincetown… Read More
May Art Exhibit: Miah Johnson
Paintings by Miah Johnson Artist’s Statement: On November 12, 2015, my world changed completely. I suffered a massive stroke that left me without use of my right arm, a pronounced limp, and severe communications deficits. Gone, my livelihood… Read More
Workshop: Managing Life Stress
Managing Life Stress: Three Workshops With Judith Marsh, Ph.D. Three workshops designed to help participants of all ages identify, measure, and learn helpful and easy strategies for managing stressful life events. Space is limited to 10 people; please… Read More
Mask Making Workshop/Benefit, Age 12+
Come join us for a 2-part class at the Truro Public Library to create a Venetian Mask and help your community by donating your finished mask to Lower Cape Outreach Council. LCOC’s mission is to provide emergency assistance… Read More
Mask Making Workshop/Benefit, Age 12+
Come join us for a 2-part class at the Truro Public Library to create a Venetian Mask and help your community by donating your finished mask to Lower Cape Outreach Council. LCOC’s mission is to provide emergency assistance… Read More
April Art Exhibit: Elizabeth Lazeren
Elizabeth Lazeren Elizabeth Lazeren will exhibit giclées, (a type of archival print), of her original paintings for the first time at the Truro Public Library during the month of April. Using memory, experience and imagination, her marine paintings… Read More
Classics of French Cinema: L’Armée des Ombres
Classics of French Cinemas: Selected Works of Jean-Pierre Melville We welcome spring with a new French film series, focusing this time on the cinematic genius of Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973). With a signature style informed by his experiences in… Read More
Classics of French Cinema: Le Silence de la Mer
Classics of French Cinemas: Selected Works of Jean-Pierre Melville We welcome spring with a new French film series, focusing this time on the cinematic genius of Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973). With a signature style informed by his experiences in… Read More
Film Screening: SCIENCE FAIR
This event takes place at the NAUSET REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM. Thank you, NRHS, Karen Hepinstall, Amy Fleischer, and Mark Adams! SCIENCE FAIR, hailed by critics as “immensely likeable,” “brilliant and quirky” and an “ode to the teenage science… Read More
October Art Exhibit: The Outer Cape White Line Printmakers
The Outer Cape White Line Printmakers The Outer Cape White Line printmakers began as a workshop inspired by a Truro Group art show demonstration. The group has shows at the Truro Public Library, Seamen’s Bank, the Eastham Public… Read More
Author Talk: Mary T. Prenon
Mary T. Prenon is one strong woman. In 1998, she vowed to lose fifty pounds no matter what it took. Nineteen years later, she finally achieved her goal and is ready to share her story with the world…. Read More
The Early Days of Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Early Days of Rock ‘n’ Roll: A Multimedia Presentation by Pete Elman New Orleans and the Deep South 1955-1960: the cradle of rock and roll. From the fields to the factories to Friday night. This program will cover… Read More
September Art Exhibit: Matthias Christensen
Matthias Christensen Born in Denmark and raised in Truro, artist MATTHIAS Christensen will be exhibiting his stylized paintings at The Truro Public Library for the month of September. After graduating from Massachusetts College of Art and Design Matthias… Read More
September Art Exhibit: Matthias Christensen
Matthias Christensen Born in Denmark and raised in Truro, artist MATTHIAS Christensen will be exhibiting his stylized paintings at The Truro Public Library for the month of September. After graduating from Massachusetts College of Art and Design Matthias… Read More
Poetry: Sue Burton
Poetry: Sue Burton Sue D. Burton reads from her unflinching new collection, BOX. Winner of the 2017 Two Sylvias Press Poetry Prize, Box is “a book we need: brave, bold, inventive, magical” (Carol Potter). 2017 Two Sylvias Press Poetry… Read More
Author Talk: Prof. David Reich
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past The earth is inhabited by about 7.6 billion people today, but at one time we were a newly evolving species living… Read More
FOTL’s Annual Gigantic Book Sale
Friends of the Truro Library Gigantic Book Sale! Proceeds benefit the Truro Library Join us for our annual Gigantic Book Sale at the Truro Public Library. There will be thousands of books to choose from, all at bargain… Read More
Author Talk: James F. Simon
Professor James Simon will talk about his new book Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties. In Eisenhower vs. Warren, described in multiple reviews as a page-turner, prize-winning legal historian James F. Simon examines the… Read More