Outdoor exercise for senior is back. Join Derry Tanner, retired nurse and certified personal trainer, for Stay Active and Independent for Life (SAIL), a 45-minute fitness class for adults 65+. Strength, balance, and flexibility exercises will make you stronger, feel better and improve your balance minimizing the risk of falls. The eight-week series runs from Friday, May 7 through June 25 from 12–12:45 p.m. in the Pierce House tent. To register, call Amy at the Council on Aging at 781-259-8811 or email gagnea@lincolntown.org.
Join the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable on Tuesday, May 11 from 3–4:30 p.m. on Zoom for a program and community discussion about partner abuse in LGBTQ+ communities. Registration is required for this program, which will include information on culturally specific resources and how to better support survivors. The discussion will be facilitated by staff from The Network/La Red. This is the third program in the Roundtable’s Spotlight Series featuring information for segments of our communities that face additional barriers when considering if and how to seek help or support.
Monica White, author of Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, will speak on Wednesday, May 12 at 7 p.m. Her talk is part of “On Belonging in Outdoors Spaces,” a free virtual speaker series featuring prominent speakers whose are advancing efforts to strengthen belonging and connection between communities of color and the benefits of time in nature. Register here.
Entomologist Doug Tallamy will present a MetroWest Climate Solutions (MCS) webinar on restoring biodiversity one yard at a time on Wednesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. Register here.
Native plants are a powerful tool to in the fight against climate change. For example, native grasses have deep roots that make them drought resistant, reduce soil erosion and flooding, filter pollutants from ground water and increase rainwater infiltration. These plants remove tons of carbon from the atmosphere and pump it into the soil.
Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. He is the author of several books, including Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens.
MetroWest Climate Solutions is a partnership among churches and individuals including the First Parish in Lincoln.
The Lincoln Public Schools and the Town of Lincoln are offering a Covid-19 vaccination clinic for teens in the Hartwell multipurpose room on the Lincoln School campus on Friday, May 21 from 2–5 p.m. Students must be registered for an appointment in advance and must provide a signed consent form on the day of the clinic. Children age 12-18 who attend the Lincoln Public Schools in person or remotely, their teenage siblings, Lincoln residents attending private school, and children of town and school employees are eligible.
Click here to register for an appointment. This requires you to choose a time, upload health insurance information, and complete and print a consent form that includes screening questions to be answered on Friday morning. Students must bring the signed consent form or they cannot be vaccinated.
Boston students who attend the Lincoln School and ride the bus will be scheduled for vaccination prior to school dismissal from 1–1:45 p.m. A signed consent form must be received before Friday. On the day of the clinic, parents will be called by school personnel to answer medical screening questions in order to clear children for vaccination that afternoon. Click here for more information about Covid-19 vaccines for children under 18.
Lincoln’s METCO Coordinating Committee presents “Living the Legacy of METCO” on Tuesday, May 25 at 6:30 p.m. This live performance on Zoom by Dialogues On Diversity, a social justice theater company, is aimed at Lincoln School students in grades 5-8 as well as their family members, as well as the broader community. The 45-minute performance gives the history and context for the country’s oldest racial educational integration program and examines the social activism of urban and suburban Boston families in the 1960s. Contains sensitive images and language that may not be suitable for younger audiences. Made possible by a grant from the Lincoln Cultural Council. Click here for the Zoom link (passcode: 050455).
The Town of Lincoln is hosting a special ceremony at which the Massachusetts Medal of Liberty will be presented to the families of 16 residents who were killed in action or died of their wounds in World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Girl Scouts are creating signs to honor the individual families receiving medals.
State Sen. Michael Barrett will introduce guest speaker U.S. Rep Katherine Clark, and state Rep. Tom Stanley will also attend. About 70 families members are expected. Also planned:
- Ladder trucks from the Lincoln and Sudbury Fire Departments will hoist the American flag
- The Lincoln Minute Men will fire their muskets in salute
- The Concord Cannons will fire their two 19th-century cannons
- A bugler will play taps
The Medal of Liberty ceremony will start at 9 a.m., followed by the traditional Veterans of Lincoln program in the same location. at about 10:30 a.m.
J. Drew Lanham, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University, on “Coloring the Conservation Conversation” on Wednesday, June 2 at 7 p.m. Dr. Lanham will highlight what it means to embrace the full breadth of his African-American heritage and his deep kinship to nature and adoration of birds. He will discuss how conservation must be a rigorous science and evocative art, inviting diversity and race to play active roles in celebrating our natural world. Register here and get more information about the presentations and speakers in the “On Belonging in Outdoors Spaces” series.
On Thursday, June 3 at 7 p.m., MetroWest Climate Solutions will host a discussion on PFAS, a class of toxic chemicals found in everyday products and drinking water. For more information and to register for the webinar, visit metrowestclimatesolutions.org.
Speakers will include Dr. Laurel Schaider, senior scientist at the Silent Spring Institute, and Laura Spark, senior policy advocate for Clean Water Action. The session will be moderated by Elizabeth Saunders, Massachusetts State Director at Clean Water. They will discuss the health problems that PFAS can cause, the products they are typically used in, how they get into drinking water, and how people in MetroWest can try to reduce their exposure. The session will also explore legislation pending in Massachusetts to eliminate PFAS from consumer products such as food packaging.
MetroWest Climate Solutions is a partnership between First Parish in Wayland, First Parish Church in Weston, First Parish in Lincoln, the Congregational Church of Weston, and other communities and individuals. Its mission is to share strategies for moving towards a low- and no-carbon-based society and economy and to suggest activities that enable individuals to help bring about solutions.
Join the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable to sit witness to survivors’ expressions of intimate partner violence through art, music, poetry, and spoken word. “Can You Hear Me Now? Survivors Journey Through the Healing Process Using Expressive Arts” takes place on Tuesday, June 8 from 3:00–4:30 p.m. via Zoom. The expressive arts are a profound, therapeutic outlet for those who are processing their experiences of trauma and abuse. In addition, they provide a deeper, more powerful experience for all of us who are working to better understand this insidious dynamic. Registration is required; click here or go to www.domesticviolenceroundtable.org. The program will not be recorded due to privacy considerations.
The Lincoln Historical Society, in collaboration with Friends of Modern Architecture, will host a presentation of “As the Twig Is Bent, So Goes the Tree… A Shared Philosophy: New England Transcendentalism and European Modernism” by Lincoln resident and FoMA President Dana Robbat. The meeting and talk are on Saturday, June 12 from 4:30–5:30 p.m. The Lincoln Historical Society will hold its brief annual meeting in advance of the presentation, which will highlight the age-old social ideals of New England’s Puritan and Transcendental philosophical heritage that provided fertile ground for the arrival of the philosophically aligned European Modernists who arrived at Harvard and MIT in the late 1930s and subsequently had a profound effect on Lincoln’s built and natural environments. Click here to register and get the Zoom link. For more information, email lincolnmahistoricalsociety@gmail.com.
The Lincoln-Sudbury Friends of Music will hold its virtual annual meeting on Tuesday, June 15 at 7 p.m. All community members, especially parents of music students, are invited. Meet fellow music program supporters, get questions answered, and learn about opportunities to get involved. To attend the meeting email receive the Zoom link and password, email lsfriendsofmusic@gmail.com.
Founding Partner at The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Sally Pillsbury Harkness broke many boundaries during her life. As an architect, she was one of a very few women to practice architecture in the mid-twentieth century and fewer still working at the highest level of responsibility in a firm. She lectured widely on architectural topics of modernity, sustainability and accessibility. In her lecture titled “Architecture as Craft,” she defines the presence of craft within the industrialized mass production in the Modern Movement. This lecture explores these acts of resilience in the discipline through her own works of architecture and furniture design.
Presented by Historic New England. Register at my.historicnewengland.org/11338/harkness
Into the Fire, 1861-1896 — an episode of the PBS series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013) featuring Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Learn more and view the trailer on Kanopy here. Register for the film screening on Zoom here. Please contact Kate at ktranquada@minlib.net with any questions.
Miss Juneteenth (2020). Learn more and view the trailer on Kanopy here. Register for the film screening on Zoom here. Please contact Robin at rrapoport@minlib.net with any questions.
Click here to register in advance for this Zoom talk. Details here:
“Lincoln to mark Juneteenth with ringing of bells, author talk”
“The Terrible Power of the Constitution’s Three-Fifths Clause” is the title of a lecture by historian Richard Bell, Ph.D. on Tuesday, June 22 from 7–9 p.m. via Zoom (click here for the link to register). Far more insidious than is commonly understood, the Three-Fifths Clause wove slaveholder power into the fabric of each of all three branches of government, shaping every aspect of federal policy regarding slavery for decades to come. Watch for free or make a donation to Historic New England. Co-sponsored by the Lincoln Anti-Racism and Diversity Task Force, the Lincoln Historical Society, and Robbins House in Concord.
- July 1 — Dzidzor: Poetry, music and African folklore
- July 15 — Zaira Meneses and Friends: San Jarocho music
- July 29 — The Kevin Harris Project: Jazz trio blending the traditional and contemporary
- August 5 — Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band: Engaging, contemporary Jewish music
Performances will take place on the lawn at deCordova at 6 p.m. Tickets are $35 fo adults and $15 for children; click here to purchase. Please bring a picnic blanket or chairs if desired. In case of rain, performances will be rescheduled for a Thursday in August. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lincoln Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
For details, see the library’s kids and parents page. Questions? Email dleopold@minlib.net or call 781-259-8465 x4.