Is It Time to Make a Career Change? Thursday, February 2, 7PM
Fred Nothnagel has been the Executive Director of WIND since 1995. He has his own private Career Consulting and Coaching practice and was a Senior Career Management Consultant for 12 years, where he now trains Career Consultants and assists with Senior Executive and technical clients. Prior to becoming a Career Consultant and Coach, Fred's professional background included Engineering Management, Manufacturing Management and 12 years as a key information systems user and project team member.
WIND (Wednesday is Networking Day) is networking group for professionals.
Registration is requested. Please call 978-664-4942 to register.
Sponsored by the Friends.
A Taste of Home: Connecting with Music, Food, and Friends, Thursday, February 23, 7PM
Join us for blues and jazz with The Joy of Sax, led by Steve Swartz, of North Reading. There will also be selected readings from The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love, by Kristin Kimball, the North Reading Reads 2012 title.
You're invited to bring a favorite dessert to share.
Sponsored by the Friends.
Starting a Vegetable Garden, Tuesday, March 13, 7PM, presented by Hugo Wiberg
Put your winter garden dreams to work! Start planning your vegetable garden now, with advice from North Reading resident, Hugo Wiberg, whose website offers some ideas.
This event is part of North Reading Reads 2012.
Sponsored by the Friends
A Conversation with Karen Vitale and Nancy Parsons, Thursday, March 15, 3PM
Karen Vitale will read from her young adult novel, "My Grandmother talks to Herself in the Mirror
(But it's No Reflection on Me)." She and Nancy Parsons will also talk about the book and take questions. This event is part of North Reading Reads 2012.
Kiva Systems, An Introduction, Presented by Rebecca Pass, Tuesday, April 10, 7PM
Kiva Systems is located in North Reading.
Sponsored by the Friends
Celebrate National Poetry Month!
Tuesday, April 3, 7PM, Evening Book Group will discuss poetry. Bring a favorite poem or anthology to share.
Tuesday, April 17, 7PM, Poetry Reading, Nancy Bailey Miller
Nancy will from her new book of poems, Hold On!
Thursday, April 23, 2-3PM, Poetry Workshop with Nancy Bailey Milller
This event is part of North Reading Reads 2012.
Sponsored by the Friends
The Art of Stencilling, presented by Suzanne Korn, May, 7PM
Suzanne Korn, of Vintage New England Stencilling, will talk about the history of stencilling, as well as her own designs, including those she did for the Damon Tavern.
Her work will be on display in the Reading Room during May.
Sponsored by the Friends and the North Reading Historical and Antiquarian Society
Libraries aren’t just for books anymore. The library offers technology
programs as part of an occasional series aimed at demonstrating how libraries are positioning themselves to be a resource and helpmate in the digital world.
Sponsored by the Friends.
For information about the library's two ongoing book discussion groups, please visit:
Book Discussions
Drop-In Needle Arts Craft Group:
Tuesday, February 7and Thursday, February 23, 7-9PM.
Knitters, crocheters, embroiderers are invited to share ideas and patterns. All levels of
experience welcome. Join us for an evening
of crafting and chit-chat. Sponsored by
the Friends.
Crafters usually meet
twice a month.
The library invites you to exhibit your artwork or to display a collection you may have. Please call Judi Segur at 978-664-4942, if you are interested.
February: Photographs by Jacob Mosser III, of North Reading
Local themes like Ipswich River Park in winter, the North Reading Town Common and the Old Park Street Cemetery in snow are joined by a mixed collection of images from Idaho, New Mexico, and South Carolina.
Jacob Mosser is a serious amateur and semi-professional photography, who has earned top photographic honors from the Photographic Society of America, the New England Camera Club Council and the Greater Lynn Photographic Associaition, for both his skills with the camera and his efforts on behalf ot the photographic community. Jake recently received the "Stuyvesant Peabody Memorial Award" for his significant contributiones to pictorial photograph through exhibiting, lecturing, writing and teaching.
A long-time resident of North Reading, Jake recently retired from a forty-two-year career as a mechanical designer for General Eelctric in Lynn.
March: Photographs by Joan McCandlish, Library Staff, as part of North Reading Reads 2012.
April: Local Motion, Walking North Reading: photographs of North Reading, taken on foot. Co-sponsored by the North Reading Pedestrian Safety Committee and the Wednesday Walkers
May: Stencils by Suzanne Korn, of North Reading
June Artwork by Kim Scher and Students
Ongoing
The Hooked Rug-of-the-Month by a member of the (ATHA) Mayflower Association of Traditional Hooking Artists. Arranged by Happy DiFranza.
"Make You the World" hooked by Happy DiFranza
The rug is 16" by 27" inches, wool fabric strips pulled through a linen backing.
Artwork by local artists is displayed online in the Library Gallery.
