One Book One Town
2009 Events Schedule
Sunday,
May
17
3
p.m.
Kick-off event with Truro historian
Richard Whalen: Memoirs of Old Truro.
Free copies of Truro, Cape Cod, As I Knew It
will be distributed.
At the Truro Community Center
Wednesday,
May
20
7
p.m.
Stauffer Miller: Talk on Truro’s Navy
Officers in the Civil War (author of
Hoisting
Their Colors: Cape Cod’s
Civil War Navy Officers)
Tuesday,
June 23
7 p.m.
Joseph Stanton: Hopper’s Houses –
Poetry reading (author of Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art)
Tuesday,
June
30
7
p.m.
Screening of “Summer Solstice,” 1981
TV movie filmed in Truro, starring
Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy. Introduction
by Bill Brennan, one of the producers.
Tuesday,
July
7
7
p.m.
Barbara Brennessel: Reading/discussion
(author
of Good Tidings – The History
and
Ecology of Shellfish Farming in
the Northeast)
Wednesday,
July
8
7:30
p.m.
Truro School Days Remembered.
At the Highland Museum
Tuesday,
July
14
7
p.m.
A Truro Literary Evening: Truro Poems
by Truro Poets (Keith Althaus,
Elizabeth Bradfield, Brendan Galvin,
Toby Olson, Rosalind Pace, Norman Pope)
Tuesday,
July
21
7 p.m.
Anne Brock: Illustrated talk on the
Dune Shacks
Tuesday,
July
28
7
p.m.
Elizabeth Buckles: Talk on the history
of Honea House and researching
old houses
Tuesday,
August
4
7
p.m.
Brendan Galvin, finalist for National
Book Award (2005): Poetry reading
Tuesday,
August
18
7
p.m.
People of the East: Wampanoag Life
and Culture (through the Plimoth
Plantation Education Dept.)
Saturday,
August
29
10
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Open House at several agricultural sites and
gardens (www.trurolibrary.org
for details)
Sunday,
Sept.
6
10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
(rain date Sunday, Sept. 13)
Truro Agricultural Fair on the Green at Truro Center
(www.trurolibrary.org for details)
Tuesday,
September 15
7 p.m.
Jim Whitelaw: Illustrated talk,
“Ballston Beach: Past and Present”