. On Thursday, April 20 from 7-8 pm, come to the Weston Public Library Community Room to learn more about Abraham Lincoln and his leadership through a time of great challenge. How did he lead the country through separatism and attempted secession? How would he meet the challenges of today, and what exactly would he think of social media? (okay,
Read more. If you haven’t been over to the Weston Public Library events page, it’s time to head over. Here’s the link; go check it out and then come back. Or not. So much good stuff I would totally hang out there all day long if life were a bit different. The Owl 100% believes that we have the best public
Read more. The Weston Public Library presents the second part of its three-workshop series on Graphic Novel drawing and writing. In this workshop, offered Monday, March 27 from 5-7 pm, kids in grades 4-9 will learn the basics of how to draw cartoon figures doing almost anything and get practice using a brush, ink and felt-tip pens to create finished comic
Read more. I have found my people and they are Shakespeare people, and that there is a phrase that I would never imagine coming out of the Owl. In general, I feel stabby when I have to read Shakespeare, and it seems that two actors feel the same. When I read marketing material that says there will be “universal themes of
Read more. Please note that the Weston Public Library is closed today due to weather. Also, note that the e-library is always open at https://www.westonlibrary.org/eLibrary. This week, a wonderful event at the Weston Public Library is all about quilts. I love quilts. I do not have the patience to make one, but we have a couple of family quilts that are
Read more. On Sunday, March 19 at 3 pm, the Music Committee welcomes the ever-popular pianists, Jon Sakata and Jung Mi Lee, back to the Community Room for another memorable piano 4-hands performance. They will play their arrangement of the third movement (Adagio molto e cantabile) from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony as well as Schubert’s Sonata in C Major, D. 812 (the “Grand
Read more. Girls grade 6 and up are invited to join the Weston chapter of Girls Who Code, an international nonprofit working to close the gender cap in technology. This is a free program for teen girls to use computer science to impact their community and join the sisterhood of supportive peers and role models. Girls Who Code Clubs are designed
Read more. Send your middle-aged (what? middle grade? hmmm) student to Weston Public Library on Friday, March 10 from 3:30-5:30 pm for a special graphic novel workshop with Jonathan Todd who is the author/illustrator of Timid, a forthcoming middle-grade graphic novel. He is also the co-founder of the Boston Kids Comics Fest: https://bostonkidscomicsfest.org and has a passion for teaching children how to write
Read more. Did you know it is Women’s History Month? Yes indeed, all month long. I particularly enjoy this month because while I believe women and their history are spectacular ALL THE TIME (yes, there are some exceptions), it is usually a month with special events and programs that make me wish that we got 50% of the year rather than
Read more. Okay, so there are hikers like me who set off through the Weston woods for an hour or so every day, and then there are HIKERS like Jim Klumpp who are like “wow, I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2014 and the Pacific Crest Trail in 2018 but that is JUST NOT ENOUGH and I must go spend 135
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