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T h exY a r d a r m
The Yarmouth Port Library Newsletter
297 Main Street (Route 6A), Yarmouth Port, MA 02675
yarmouthportlibrary.org • PH: 508-362-3717 • Fax: 508-362-6739
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Yarmouth Port Library...Where you find more than just books for readers young and old. | |
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Happy Holidays! It's a great time of year to stop in the library and select a book or just to sit in front of the fireplace on a cold day and enjoy a cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate! As our 2023 Membership Campaign begins, please consider contributing. And don't forget to check the website for the most up-to-date information on events and programs for adults and children.
Lee Peters, Editor
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Yarmouth Port Christmas Stroll!
Sunday, December 4th
from 1 to 4 PM
Come and celebrate the holiday season with YPL! Stop in at the library for homemade treats and walk along Route 6A in Yarmouth Port and enjoy live music, entertainment, trolley rides, and delicious holiday treats throughout the village!
At 4 PM, there will be a tree lighting ceremony and caroling on the Village Green! Rain or shine!
PLEASE NOTE: Homemade baked goods and tea sandwiches are needed to serve at the library during the Stroll. If you can contribute please call the library to see what is needed. Thank You!
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Love Letter
to Cape Cod
Friday, January 6th
at 2 PM
The library will host a showing of the acclaimed documentary, "Love Letter to Cape Cod,” about attempts to control development on the Cape and to preserve its history and beauty.
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250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
Friday, February 10th
at 2 PM
Presented by local historian Duncan Oliver.
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For events, please call the library at 508-362-3717 to reserve your spot. Mask wearing is recommended.
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Knitting Group
Meets the first & third Mondays at 9:30 AM. (Does not meet in the summer.) Knitters of all levels welcome. Bring your own project and join us for camaraderie, advice, and ideas.
And...Just in Time for the Holidays!
Library knitters will again be selling small hand-crafted items, such as hats, mittens, socks, and scarves, and an occasional sweater, to benefit the library. Hand knit baby things, cuddly creatures, novelty items, and tree ornaments are available as well.
Now in its tenth year, this sale has increased in popularity, so in addition to the efforts of the library’s Knitting Group, we welcome donations from anyone in the community. If you’re interested in participating, please bring your hand knit contributions to the library, and give them to anyone behind the Circulation Desk. We ask that you label your items with your name, the size, yarn content, and any relevant washing instructions. Thank you in advance for helping to support our library.
For Information:
Contact: Dinah Wolff
Phone: 508-362-7660
Email: dg.wolff@gmail.com
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Administrative Director’s & Children's Librarian Report | |
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by Carrie Bearse, Administrative Director & Children's Librarian
SIMON’S SCARF
In an effort to complete a scarf I promised my youngest son, I decided that I would join the knitting group that meets at YPL. I figured that would be a great way to force myself to make time for knitting. (The last, and only other scarf I knitted before, took me well over three years!). What I have found is a lovely group of ladies who welcomed me despite my lack of knitting skills (or dedication!) and routinely tardy arrival — a welcome that I have found to be very much the modus operandi here at Yarmouth Port Library. We have a varied group of patrons who somehow gravitate toward each other with kindness to form this wonderful library community full of interesting connections.
Certainly, we are all drawn and held together by the love of a good book; yet we also have patrons who have bonded over tennis, piano playing, golf, politics, the symphony, people’s gardens and recipes, and foreign languages. We have daily newspaper readers who love to discuss current events. We have caregivers and grandparents who meet at storytime and become friends outside the library, too. We have young parents who discuss and advise when they gather in the children’s room, and children whose friendships blossom after meeting at the library on a weekly basis.
Such an amazing and diverse community we are. We discuss families, local events, good reads, children, grandchildren, and chocolate! We welcome, sympathize, support, and assist each other. We recommend books, movies, restaurants, car mechanics, and vacation destinations. There are so many connections made -- mutual acquaintances discovered, histories, and places in common.
All of this combines to create this interesting and thoughtful community of YPL patrons, staff, and volunteers which continues to grow and evolve.
I am ever so grateful to be a part of this YPL community, to have the opportunity to make these special connections…which brings me back to the knitting group. I cannot promise the scarf will be done in time for the holidays when Simon will be home from Switzerland for a visit (and in true YPL form, a member of the knitting group offered to help me if needed!); but I certainly will welcome, enjoy, and very much appreciate the process, the conversations, and the connections!
P.S. And thankfully my other son, Maxwell, did not ask for a scarf, too!
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For Kids: Winter Activities
Click here for details
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Big Stories
First Thursday of month
at 4:30 PM.
Registration required.
Storytime:
Thursdays at 11 AM.
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Afternoon Legos
Thursdays, 3 PM to 5 PM.
(Appropriate for ages 6 and up, only.)
Story Fence:
Will resume in the spring.
Behind the library
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Get Involved
Donate, Volunteer, Become a Member
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2023 Membership Campaign
As 2022 nears its end, the Yarmouth Port Library will again be asking for your support for its annual Membership Campaign. Renewal letters for 2023 will be going out on or around December 1st. All donations help fund our Operating Budget, and function to fill the gap between our costs and other sources of revenue. Typically, $40,000 has been our annual goal, one which has nearly always been achieved, and which remains unchanged this year.
We hope that you will consider what the library means to you, your family, and to the community, and support us as generously as in the past. When you receive our appeal in the mail, please use the included donation envelope or you may download a form from the website.
We are grateful for your past support. Thank you.
Les Peat, For the Membership Committee
Please click here to download a 2023 Membership Campaign Form.
For further information on why YPL has to raise funds click here.
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Membership Campaign Correction
The following members were inadvertently omitted from the 2022 Membership Campaign Lists:
Charter Membership: Mary and Steve Hammond
Patron Membership: Mr. and Mrs. Paul McDonough
Individual Membership: JoAnn Curley
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Thank you to our very generous 2022 Business Sponsors!
Your support of the Yarmouth Port Library
is greatly appreciated!
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Winter 2022/23
Business Sponsor Appreciation
Jack’s Outback II
Come for the great food and friendly staff & stay for the cuteness factor...(that would be Andi and newest “staff member” Ivy)!
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Jack’s Outback II
161Main Street (6A)
Yarmouth Port, MA
(508)362-6690 • jacksoutback2.com
It truly is “out back,” tucked away at the end of the parking lot behind 161 Main Street. Jack’s Outback, in both its versions, has been a Yarmouth Port institution for as long as most residents can remember. In its first incarnation, presided over by founder and resident curmudgeon Jack Braginton-Smith, it was possible to write up your own order slip for such delicacies as “toe-mayter soup,” endure an occasional friendly insult, bus your own table, and enjoy a sighting of local celebrity Edward Gorey.
Since Dona Baratta purchased the restaurant in 2004 and renamed it Jack’s Outback II, they have learned to spell tomato, the service really is service, the food is as good as ever, and the breadth of the menu is astonishing. The breakfast menu features no fewer than a dozen versions of eggs Benedict, seven varieties of scrambled eggs, and 11 omelets.
The popovers are legendary, whether ordered for breakfast, or for lunch with a filling of egg, tuna, or chicken salad. Other lunch offerings include a wide variety of specialty sandwiches, nine burgers, salads, and delicious homemade soups. If you have never been to Jack’s Outback II, or if your only visits have been for the library’s annual spaghetti suppers (generously underwritten by Dona), you owe it to yourself to stop in for breakfast or lunch, and when you do, be sure to thank Dona for her long-time support of the library. (And one other thing — be sure to bring your wallet, as it’s cash only.)
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Board of Trustees
Officers and Trustees
President: Dinah Wolff
Vice President:
Everett Wilson
Treasurer: Michael Poissant
Ass't Treasurer: Les Peat
Secretary: Susan Bonnell
Karen Alexander
Brian Dudley
Michael Kiehnau
Members of the Corporation
Leslie Altman
Brian Fulton
Donna Fulton
Dorothy Halmstad
Sally Hockenbury
Susan Kiehnau
Ralph Menconi
Carol Oliver
Duncan Oliver
Jean O’Toole
Lee Peters
Elvira Reynolds
Pat Tafra
Melissa Wilson
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A Book Sale Corner and Book Donations
Guidelines for Donations:
For now, we plan to continue accepting only recent 2018 to 2022 titles and children’s books for our library book sale corner, as we have very limited space for receiving and sorting book donations; all Cape Cod-related books are welcome as well.
Thanks to book donations from generous patrons, we have been able to stock our sale shelf with current adult titles, children’s books, and puzzles — all at bargain prices. We add new titles weekly, so check the book sale corner the next time you are at the library.
Please check our website for ongoing current information, as we plan to schedule smaller inside sales during the year. Thank you for your support!
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