Virtual Author Talk: Nancy Thayer

Bestselling author Nancy Thayer will discuss her latest book, Summer Love, on Tuesday, June 14 at 7PM via Zoom.

About The Book: Old secrets come to light when four friends gather on Nantucket for a life-changing reunion in this heartwarming novel of love and self-discovery by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Summer is in full swing on sunny Nantucket, and four old friends decide to hold a reunion on the island, where they’d made fond memories nearly three decades earlier. Yet as the crew gathers for one eventful week in July, it becomes clear that old secrets, jealousies, and betrayals will be revealed. And all the while, their twentysomething children will embark on exciting new adventures all their own. Nancy Thayer shines yet again with another sunswept tale of summer love and self-discovery.

About The Author: Nancy Thayer is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including Summer LoveFamily ReunionGirls of SummerLet It SnowSurfside SistersA Nantucket WeddingSecrets in SummerThe Island HouseThe Guest CottageAn Island ChristmasNantucket Sisters, and Island Girls. Born in Kansas, Nancy has been a resident of Nantucket for thirty-five years, where she currently lives with her husband, Charley, and a precocious rescue cat named Callie. Learn more about Nancy HERE.

Register directly on Zoom HEREThis virtual event is a collaboration between several libraries.

Take our Survey!

The Georgetown Peabody Library is working to develop a new long range plan that will serve as a blueprint for service enhancements for the library for the next five years.

A critical component of the process is gathering information and ideas from the Georgetown community to establish priorities and develop a focused direction.

Please use click HERE to access the survey.

Physical copies of the survey will also be available at the Library, Senior Center, and Town Hall.

Please complete this survey by Friday, July 1, 2022.

Boston Harbor Islands Discount Ferry Passes

The Library now offers Boston Harbor Islands Ferry passes for the 2022 season of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park.

Passes are valid for the season between May 21 and June 16 (Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays) and between June 17 and September 5, 7 days a week.

Pass Benefits: Tickets are buy one get one free, for up to a total of TWO free tickets.

How does it work? ALL TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED ONLINE. See instructions below.

1. Click here to make your reservations.

2. Use the calendar to select the date you’d like to visit. Select your “Departure” & “Destination” choices. Select your departure time. Select ticket quantity for up to *2* BOGO tickets per transaction

3. Enter BHNLibrary85 in the “Coupon/Voucher Code” field and click apply.

4. Complete your transaction & bring your phone or printed copy of your barcode to board the ferry.

Boston Harbor Now has developed a Tips & Safety resource to help you navigate and make the most out of your 2022 island adventure.  Be sure to take a look and be informed prior to your visit.

Kick Off Summer with Henry the Juggle

Wednesday, June 29 at 6:30 PM on the library lawn.  Bring something to sit on and enjoy.

Henry the Juggler (alias Henry Lappen) is considered armed (and legged) and dangerous. He is known to cause spontaneous outbursts of laughter. He speaks little, but says a great deal through his expression and body language (and road signs!). He has in his possession BALLS, CLUBS, RINGS, TORCHES and other apparatus of his trade. He is capable of walking on a thin wire high above the ground. He is known to change his height through the use of stilts.

WARNING:

Henry involves innocent bystanders in his act.

This program was funded by the Georgetown Cultural Council

Virtual Program: Eat This, Not That!

Registered Dietician Nutritionist Jill Patterson RD leads this fun and informative program on Wednesday, June 8 at 7PM via Zoom on how making simple tweaks in your foods lead to big results! Good nutrition can positively impact our immune system, health, well-being, productivity, performance, energy, mood, weight management, and prevent certain chronic diseases.

Register on Zoom HEREThis virtual program is a collaboration between the libraries of Georgetown, Newburyport, and Rockport. This is the last event in the series.

 

Sock Drive – now until May 31

The Georgetown Peabody Library is pleased to be a location drop-off for a sock drive to benefit homeless veterans starting Saturday, May 21 until Tuesday, May 31. You will find the drop-off box right in our main entrance vestibule.

Please donate new socks to benefit the Veterans Northeast Outreach Center. VNEOC has been helping veterans and their families since 1985. They currently service Essex, Middlesex and Barnstable Counties and parts of New Hampshire. 

This drive is in connection with Eastern Essex District Veterans Services.

Virtual Author Talk: Ocean Vuong

Join us for a very special event on Thursday, May 26 at 7PM via Zoom with prize-winning poet, novelist and educator Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, in conversation with Professor Sandra Lim, Ph.D., prize-winning poet, and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

A brief reading will be followed by a conversation between our esteemed guests. Questions for the author can be submitted in advance to jfitzhanso@chelmsfordlibrary.org to be forwarded to Professor Lim.

Register directly on Zoom HEREPresented by Chelmsford in partnership with the public libraries in Andover, Boxford, Carlisle, Danvers, Dracut, Georgetown, Groton, Groveland, Holden, Lowell, Methuen, Newburyport, South Hamilton, Tewksbury, and West Newbury.

Virtual Program: Solutions for Better Heart Health

Registered Dietician Nutritionist Jill Patterson RD leads this fun and informative program on Wednesday, May 25 at 7PM via Zoom where we will learn a total approach to improve our heart health. There are many benefits of adopting a heart healthy lifestyle including increased energy, decreased stress, improved cholesterol and blood pressure levels, and decreased risk of heart disease. Learning the science-based strategies and implementing a few simple tweaks to our lifestyle can lead to big results, so sign up today!  

Register on Zoom HEREThis virtual program is a collaboration between the libraries of Georgetown, Newburyport, and Rockport. This is the second event in a three part series. The next (and last) event in this series is June 8th: Eat This, Not That.

 

Virtual Author Talk: Erica Ferencik & Sy Montgomery

Award-winning author Erica Ferencik (Girl In Ice) and bestselling author Sy Montgomery (The Hawk’s Way) discuss their latest new books on Wednesday, May 18 at 7PM via Zoom.

About The Books: In Girl In Ice, an American linguist is tasked to go to a remote climate science research center off the coast of Greenland where a young girl has thawed from the ice alive speaking a language no one understands. In The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty, Montgomery — a vegetarian animal-lover — takes up falconry to get close to the wild hearts of these magnificent birds of prey.

About The Authors: There is nowhere on earth Erica Ferencik won’t go to take you out of your head and into the great wild world. An award-winning novelist, Ferencik writes adventure novels featuring women who brave not only internal struggles but face extreme challenges in their environment: remote forests, steaming jungles, and desolated icescapes. To research The River at Night, Into the Jungle, and her latest, Girl In Ice, Ferencik ventured deep into the remote forests of the Allagash Territory in Northern Maine, rafted the Amazon River in the jungles of Peru, and explored the desolate iceberg-packed fjords of Greenland. To research her 33 books, Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire, swum with octopuses, electric eels and piranhas, and worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba. She is a four-time national bestseller, perhaps best known for her The Soul of an Octopus, a finalist for the National Book Award.

Register directly on Zoom HEREThis virtual event is a collaboration between several libraries.

Chess Club

Students in 3rd – 6th grade are invited to sign up for an oportunity to play chess with others.  Wednesday, May 11 from 4:00-5:00 and Wednesday May 25 from 6:30 – 7:30 in the library meeting room.

Chess Club at the library will be an informal gathering of students interested in playing chess with others.  Students in 3rd – 6th grade are invited to sign up.  The chess boards and pieces will be provided.  Masks will be required.  No instruction will be avaialble at this event, but may be offered in the future.

Registration is required for each event.  Go to the events calendar and select the date.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Georgetown Library.