Series of author talks coming up
The Lincoln Public Library will host several virtual programs with book authors in coming weeks:
A panel discussion with all five 2021 Agatha Award nominees for best first novel
Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m.
Meet the country’s best new mystery writers in this all-star panel discussion featuring all five nominees for this year’s Agatha Award for Best First Novel: Esme Addison (A Spell For Trouble), Tina deBellegarde (Winter Witness), Mary Keliikoa (Derailed), Erica Ruth Neubauer (Murder at the Mena House), and Laura Jensen Walker (Murder Most Sweet). Award-winning author Catriona McPherson will serve as moderator. Click here to register.
“Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto”
Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.
Award-winning writer Michelle Bowdler (Executive Director of Health & Wellness at Tufts University) will discuss her memoir, which indicts how sexual violence has been addressed for decades in our society, asking whether rape is a crime given that it is the least reported major felony. Click here to register.
Barry Van Dusen: Finding Sanctuary: An Artist Explorers the Nature of Mass Audubon
Monday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m.
Over the course of four and a half years, nature artist Barry Van Dusen visited all 61 of Mass Audubon’s public wildlife sanctuaries, nature centers, and museums, producing drawings and paintings at each location. Follow his travels and share in his adventures from the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket to the mountain peaks of the Berkshires. Click here to register.
Lynne Reeves: Dangers of An Ordinary Night with fellow author Lisa Genova
Monday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m.
The Dangers of an Ordinary Night is an exploration of the explosive family secrets that are often hidden in plain sight. Reeves is an internationally recognized family counselor, public speaker, teacher and writer of fiction and nonfiction. Genova is the bestselling author of numerous novels including Still Alice. Click here to register.
Ornament sales benefit needy pet owners
Phinney’s, a Lincoln nonprofit celebrating 25 years of helping low-income people keep their pets, will launch its holiday activities at the Lincoln Arts Show on Friday to Sunday, Nov. 5-7 from noon–5 p.m. at the Pierce House. The blue spruce Phinney’s Angels Tree will also be lit up and decorated with hand-painted ornaments of 15 pets in need, welcoming more ornaments that donors purchase as the holiday season progresses. On Saturday and Sunday, visitors can purchase watercolor ornaments to take home, give to others, or hang on the tree outside. The stories and pictures of the pets featured on the Angels Tree are posted at phinneys.org.
Discussion on healthy teen relationships
“It’s Not ‘THE Talk,’ It’s an Ongoing Conversation: Talking with Youth about Friendships and Relationships” is the title of an online conversation with Molly Pistrang-Gomes from the REACH Beyond Domestic Violence’s prevention team hosted by the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 3 p.m. She will talk about how to engage youth in age-appropriate discussions about relationships as young people interact with friends, family members, teachers, classmates, teammates, dating partners, coworkers, people online, etc. She’ll explore the importance of discussing and modeling boundaries, holding each other accountable with compassion, combatting gender norms and stereotypes, and practicing healthy communication. To get the link, go to the Roundtable’s website at www.domesticviolenceroundtable.org to register for the program. Email infodvrt@gmail.com with questions.
Donate to families grappling with homelessness
The eighth annual holiday drive for Heading Home, a Charlestown organization dedicated to ending homelessness, is now being organized by Lincoln resident Kim Jalet, who is responsible for gathering items for about 80 families. Email her at jaletk@gmail.com if you’d like to buy a full or partial kit for one or more families, or choose bedding, towels, gift cards, and/or children’s books to buy. Kits contain a $25 Stop & Shop gift card, a bed-in-a-bag for the parent, towels and gifts valued at $25–$50 for each child in a family. Once she hears from you, she will send you the appropriate donor directions an signup sheet where you can choose your family or families. Gifts are due by Friday, Dec. 3.
Film: “Day for Night”
The Lincoln Film Society will screen “Day For Night” in the Tarbell Room on Thursday, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. The film directed by Francois Truffaut (in French with English subtitles) won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1973 and stars Jacqueline Bisset as a leading lady in a movie shoot peppered with problems.