Salisbury Forum:

A Plan of Action to Save our Oceans and Climate

Sam Waterston

Friday, June 2nd, 7:30 PM

Housatonic Valley Regional High School

SAM WATERSTON, award-winning actor in theater, film, and television, also is Chair of the Board of Oceana—since 2001, the largest global advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the world's oceans. He will discuss the state of the world’s oceans and various efforts to make them healthier and more abundant, while addressing climate change. Waterston will describe some of the policy approaches and victories in countries that govern much of the world’s marine life. Through collaborative efforts, Mexico, Brazil, and Belize have agreed to publish vessel tracking data for their commercial fishing fleets; California has enacted the boldest plastic pollution reduction policy in the nation; and Spain has created a new waste law that curbs ocean-polluting single-use plastics. Oceana is participating in global efforts to reduce carbon pollution by acting to prevent the expansion of offshore drilling that can also have devastating impacts on marine ecosystems and wildlife. 

You know about his success as an actor. Come hear about Sam Waterston's leading role in saving our oceans.

REGISTRATION NOT NECESSARY

NATURE'S GIFTS AND THE POWER OF AWE

Presentation by Marilyn Anderson

SUNDAY, June 4, 4:00-5:15

Wardell Community Room, SML

In this hour-long presentation we'll consider the various wonderful gifts we receive from the natural world, even when we may be oblivious to them. We’ll consider “Biophilia,” our collective appreciation of Nature and our desire to experience more of it. This includes our satisfaction from walking outdoors, gardening, birdwatching, and even forest bathing. We’ll also consider Nature’s many salutary effects on our bodies and our minds that have been demonstrated through scientific research. One of Nature’s gifts that anyone may experience in the natural world is awe. Like the other gifts of Nature, the emotion of awe also brings its own constellation of healthful benefits. And it doesn’t only come upon us outdoors; awe comes from all kinds of sources, including music, art, spirituality, and acts of moral beauty we see in other people. Where have we found awe, and how has it changed us?

We’ll draw from two recent books in this presentation:

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, by Florence Williams, (New York: W. W. Norton & Company), 2017

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life, by Dacher Keltner (New York: Penguin Press), 2023

Both books will be available in the Library.

Marilyn Anderson is a resident of Lakeville. She holds graduate university degrees in geological sciences and theology. She is a semi-retired Episcopal priest and full-on gardener.

REGISTER FOR IN PERSON SEATING HERE

Zoom link

Meditation Walk

with Kathy Voldstad

Sunday, June 4, 5:15, SML

A ten-minute walk to begin just outside SML, in the Pickles Garden, immediately following Marilyn Anderson's talk on Nature's Gifts.

A short meditation walk led by Kathy Voldstad

We will meet in the Pickles Garden just outside the Wardell Community Room

Walk-ins Welcome!

BIG INK!

Five Point Arts Center PRINT FESTIVAL Saturday June 3 and Sunday June 4, 10-4.

855 University Drive , Torrington

www.fivepointsarts.org/big-ink/

Five Points Art Print Festival

-Observe Printmakers when they pull enormous prints off Five Point’s Legendary Press

-Explore and Shop

-Demonstrations with Digital Printing and Woodcarvers 

-Lecture Presention with Dave Williams, Collector

- Food

Free and Open to the Public

White Hart Speaker Series: Mary Beth Keane, THE HALF MOON

Presented by Oblong Books in partnership with The White Hart Inn & Scoville Memorial Library

Thursday June 8, 6:30

White Hart Inn

15 Undermountain Road, Salisbury

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who must navigate the complexities of marriage, family, and longing.

Award-winning author Mary Beth Keane’s new novel takes place over the course of one week when Malcolm learns shocking news about Jess, a patron of the bar goes missing, and a blizzard hits the town of Gillam, trapping everyone in place. With a deft eye and generous spirit, Keane explores the disappointments and unexpected consolations of midlife, the many forms forgiveness can take, the complicated intimacy of small-town living, and what it means to be a family.

Mary Beth Keane attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA. She was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society.

REGISTRATION through Oblong Books/Eventbrite

Current Fiction Group Led by Claudia Cayne

June 10, 4 p.m.

“Joan is Okay” by Weike Wang

Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does look up sometimes and wonder where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life by their own cultural and social expectations.

In person in the Oak Room

MINDFULNESS 101

with Kathy Voldstad

June 11, 18, 25

Kathy Voldstad will lead an in-person "Introduction to Meditation" class on three consecutive Sunday afternoons: June 11, 18, and 25 at SML.

Registration is required for this after hours class to be held in person at 4 p.m. in the Scoville Memorial Library. One registration works for all three classes. Register Here, or write scovilleadultprograms.biblio.org

The Friends of the Scoville Library are currently accepting donations of books for their ongoing book sales

All proceeds benefit the library's programs. Donated books should be:

- clean and in good condition so that they will be appealing to other readers

- relatively dust free, not discolored or written in

- structurally sound with intact binding and pages which are not ripped.

Please no textbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries or travel guides older than four years. Donations can be dropped off on Mondays between 10-Noon, or contact the Friends to make other arrangements.Your copy should address 3 key questions: Who am I writing for? (Audience) Why should they care? (Benefit) What do I want them to do here? (Call-to-Action)

Create a great offer by adding words like "free" "personalized" "complimentary" or "customized." A sense of urgency often helps readers take an action, so think about inserting phrases like "for a limited time only" or "only 7 remaining"!

Ongoing Weeklies with SML

Meditation and Gentle Movement

with Kathy Voldstad

Meditation, Sundays 9:00 a.m.

Beginning now, probably lasting through the summer months, the meditation class will be held on Sundays only. It will not be held on Sunday May 21, and 28.

AND... Kathy Voldstad will guide a 10-minute outdoor meditation walk, open to all, on June 4th, at 5:15. This walking meditation immediately follows the talk by....The Rev. Marilyn Anderson, "Nature's Gifts and the Power of Awe," June 4, 4:00-5:15, Wardell Community Room.

Zoom link — password: "peace"

Bridge with John Dippel at SML

Classes meet on Wednesdays, 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Local resident John Dippel is offering an ongoing bridge course. This intermediate-level course will run until the end of June. Starting in mid-September, the library will again host a bridge beginner group, Wednesdays, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Couples and singles interested in joining should contact Dippel at [email protected]. (Space limitations may require a cap of participation.) Please include your phone and email address, as well as the level of bridge you’re interested in. Couples and singles are both welcome. Dippel, a historian and author, returned to playing bridge when he moved to Salisbury 10 years ago and took a similar course. He has been playing regularly ever since.