Registration for the Plumb Library’s Summer Library program – Ready, Get Set, Read! – started on June 1 and continues through July 4. Register at www.plumblibrary.com. Programs for June are:
– Thursday, June 23, 6:30 to 7:30 pm: Brain Circus at the Congregational Church, for ages 5 and up. Thanks to the Rochester Cultural Council.
– Saturday, June 25, 10:30 am to 1:30 pm: Ride Your Bike to the Library Day!
– Sunday, June 26, 10:00 to 11:00 am: Yoga for Relaxation at Studio 105 – for adults only!
– Wednesday, June 29, 10:30 to 11:15 am: Toe Jam Puppet Band Workout!
On Monday, June 20 at 6:30 pm, Larry Dapsis of the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Service will give a talk on Deer Ticks and Lyme Disease at the Plumb Library, 17 Constitution Way, Rochester. Space is limited and pre-registration is requested. Please go the Events Calendar at www.plumblibrary.com or call the library at 508-763-8600 for more information and to register.
Through the month of June, the Friends of Plumb Library are collecting clean, used clothing, linens, and shoes as a fund-raiser through Savers. Donations can be left at the library during regular business hours until June 30. For more information, please call the library at 508-763-8600.
For their June book, “Just the Facts” Nonfiction Book Discussion Group, will be reading A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer. Before becoming the world’s most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea’s film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and ordered the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee, South Korea’s most famous actress, and her ex-husband Shin Sang-Ok, the country’s most famous filmmaker. This is the story of their imprisonment and eventual escape. We will discuss this book on Thursday, June 16 at 6:30 pm. Copies are available at the desk.
The Café Parlez’ selection for June is Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of the Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane to find an escaped patient, a murderer named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down on the island. But nothing at Ashecliffe is as it seems, and neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe’s radical approach to psychiatry? Or is there another, more personal reason why he has come there? We will discuss this book on Thursday, June 30 at 6:30 pm. Books are available at the desk.
The Rochester Council on Aging book group will be discussing The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. Copies are available at the Plumb Library, and the book group will meet at the COA on Dexter Lane on Tuesday, June 14 at 10:15am. Please bring your library card to the meeting.
Gear up for summer and celebrate science with STEM activities at the library, sponsored by the Early Childhood Office. All activities are hands-on and are meant for children ages 3-6 and their grown-ups. Programs will run from June 21 to 24: from 10:30 to 11: 15 am on Tuesday, June 21; Wednesday, June 22; Friday, June 24; and from 1:30 to 2:15 pm on Thursday, June 23. Call the Early Childhood Office at 508-748-1863 to register.