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Yarmouth Port Library, 297 Main Street, Yarmouth Port
Introduction to Chess - Part 2 with Ralph Menconi Saturday, May 11th at 10:30 AM
If you attended our first session in April, please come for review and to enhance your strategy and practice with other players. If you missed April's session, please join Ralph Menconi — neighbor, former educator, and YPL Corporator — for an informal introduction to the basics of chess. Adults and children (ages 8 and up, please) welcome. Please call the library to let us know you will be attending. Also, please bring a portable chess board and pieces if you have one. If enough players are interested, we can discuss the details of forming a "YPL Chess Group."
ZOOM PROGRAMS
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With Cape Cod Libraries & The New Literacy Project:
Productive Conversations
Thursday, April 25 at 5:30 PM
Avoiding Election Misinformation
Thursday, May 23 at 5:30 PM _____________
Genealogical Research Course
Are you interested in researching your family history?
Join this six-week course to learn genealogical research methods from Cape Cod Genealogical Society educator David Martin. To offset the cost to YPL, students are asked to pay $30 for the six-session course. All six classes will be held at the Yarmouth Port Library on Monday afternoons from 2 to 3:30 PM beginning April 1.
April 1—Overview; Use of laptops; Standards and Citing Sources; illustrating how to use Census with computer; coordinating census and City Directory data; quick review of software for organizing data. April 8 —Date Change; Relationship chart; defining Vital Records; Church records; how to use Familysearch.org and Ancestry.com for inputting vital records. April 15—Immigration; Migration; using the internet for obtaining immigration records; naturalizations. April 22—The Courthouse: using Probate Records, Land Deeds, and other records (tax, divorce, etc.) to fill in the family tree. April 29—Death records: Obtaining death certificates, newspaper obituaries, cemeteries. May 6—In-Depth information on computer software; details on internet researching.
In each session, 15-20 minutes will be reserved for group or individual consultations. ______________
Peter Trull Cape Cod: Once Around the Sun
Friday, April 19th at 2 PM
From winter's dormant woodlands and barren beaches, to the whales and waterbirds of high summer, Peter Trull’s Cape Cod Once Around the Sun explores Cape Cod's animals and plants through a year of dormancy, rebirth, and migration. In more than 150 photographs with captions, field biologist Peter Trull describes the Cape's intricate ecosystems and reveals how the seasons come together.
Peter Trull is a field biologist, researcher, teacher, photographer, and author who has been documenting the life cycles of organisms on Cape Cod for over 40 years. ______________
Living with Sharks
Friday, May 3rd at 2 PM
By leading white shark expert, Dr. Greg Skomal
Dr. Greg Skomal is an accomplished marine biologist, underwater explorer, photographer, and author and currently heads up the Massachusetts Shark Research Program. For more than 40 years, Greg has been actively involved in the study of life history, ecology, and physiology of sharks.
His research has spanned the globe. He has written more than 100 scientific research papers and has appeared in over 50 film and television documentaries. His has authored several books. His most recent book, Chasing Shadows, chronicles his personal history with white sharks, and the re-emergence of this predator on Cape Cod.
Chasing Shadows will be available for purchase at the presentation. ______________
North Atlantic Right Whales: A Species on the Brink
Friday, May 17th at 2 PM
Presented by Jesse Meckling, Marine Education Director, Center for Coastal Studies
Join us for a presentation on the status of the North Atlantic right whale, one of the most endangered marine animals on earth. Center for Coastal Studies Marine Education Director, Jesse Mechling will share natural history information about the North Atlantic Right Whale as well as current CCS research including aerial surveillance, and habitat and food resource monitoring.ABOUT JESSE MECHLING Jesse Mechling is the Director of Marine Education at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown. The ocean and ocean life are one of his great passions, and he relishes his role exciting a new generation to the wonders of the ocean.
A lifelong visitor to Cape Cod and permanent resident since 2008, he received a masters from the University of Rhode Island in Marine Affairs and was a 2005 John Knauss Marine Policy Fellow in Washington DC working for the National Ocean Service. He has two decades of experience working in marine policy and education, and has been with the Center since 2009. He lives in Eastham with his family.