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Architects show how school design can enhance education

A 2014 drawing of the new Hanscom Middle School calling for “neighborhoods” of classrooms (click to enlarge).

Architects and Superintendent of Schools Rebecca McFall explained how the design elements of a school building can help realize an educational vision for its students at an October 17 School Building Committee workshop.

The building’s design should reflect the educational vision and strategic priorities as approved by the School Committee this year, said McFall, who first outlined the school’s educational needs in a renovated or new building in 2014.

“Educational environments are changing,” said architect Keith Fallon, executive vice president of EwingCole, one of the two firms hired by the SBC. Elementary and middle schools today are designed to support different ways for students to gather and work together. This means flexible spaces of various sizes in addition to the basic classroom so students can be easily taught in groups as small as three or four and as large as an entire grade.

Currently in many parts of the Lincoln School, individuals and small groups who want to work independently during a class must do so in the corridor. “It’s not that the work doesn’t happen, but the spaces could enhance that and increase the impact of the work we’re trying to do,” McFall said.

Many schools illustrated in slides by the EwingCole architects have several classrooms around a central hub rather than the traditional double-loaded corridors, as well as lots of natural light and “maker spaces” throughout. This approach maximizes teaching time by minimizing transitions from one place to another.

Larger common areas for art, music and performances can be centrally located and can even be transparent, such as the art room at the new Hanscom Middle School (HMS), which a number of residents have toured in recent months. Smaller spaces that are more private can also be carved out in a school design characterized by flexibility and ease of modification. “It’s about creating a wide range of educational experience,” McFall said.

Since the new HMS opened in the fall of 2016, students have benefited from the opportunities for student and staff collaboration that the building’s design offers. “They’re able to think about what the learning experience is and what the appropriate space for that might be, [and] they have to talk about who’s using [the common spaces] for what purpose,” McFall said. As a result, “the building has been a true catalyst for changing instruction.”

The ideal school design would also feature seamless technology infrastructure (such as places where students can plug in their own devices to work collaboratively), and a connection to the community and the environment. One of the questions the school’s design must address is “to what extent the life of the school and the life of the community should intersect?” Fallon said.

“We see the schools as an integral part of the community and a necessity for the community,” McFall said. “We’d be open to community events as much as we can.”

Another design question that impacts education is how to integrate sustainability into the curriculum, Fallon said. Seeing and measuring recycling in a new cafeteria and kitchen are natural teaching tools that aren’t available today, with cramped food service facilities without dishwashers where disposable utensils and uneaten food must be thrown out, McFall noted.

Sustainability will also be an important factor in the surrounding landscape design as well as environmental efficiencies in the building itself. Consequently, a single kitchen, cafeteria and food storage area will “absolutely” be part of the design, Fallon said. (Earlier discussions had included the possibility of two separate cafeterias for different age groups.)

In addition to residents, teachers and architects, students are getting the chance to offer their ideas for the school. Groups of students were asked to illustrate their ideas on mural-size paper the previous week and came up with some very creative ideas, including a whale pool, a water slide into the library, and a tree house that could be accessed via zipline from the computer room.

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School, community center updates on Friday

Join the School Building Committee (SBC) and the Community Center Preliminary Planning and Design Committee (CCPPDC) on Friday, Oct. 20 at 12:30 p.m. in Bemis Hall for an update on the two proposed Ballfield Road campus projects. This session is a great opportunity to get caught up on the campus projects and also to share your questions, concerns and feedback with the committees.

Water bottle documentary at St. Anne’s

The Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Environmental Club is joining up with St. Anne’s-in-the-Fields Church and its Climate Justice Film Series to discuss the club’s proposed single-use water bottle and plastic bottle ban and to view the documentary  film Tapped. Tapped looks at the bottled water industry and its environmental, health and economic long-term effects. Join the group on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. for a light meal and presentation by the students. The film will begin at 7 p.m. with a discussion to follow.

LFA Halloween party is Oct. 29

The Lincoln Family Association will hold its annual Halloween party at Codman Barn on Sunday, Oct. 29 from 2–4 p.m. There will be crafts, pizza, popcorn, and a trick-or-treating parade and costume contest around 3 p.m. Free for LFA members, $10 for nonmembers (maximum $25 per family).

Piano recital with Rhapsody

Rhapsody, a group of amateur pianists, will offer a piano recital on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 3 p.m. in Bemis Hall. The performance is free and open to the public. The recital will feature selections from Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Godowski, Guastavino, Ginastera, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Shchedrin, and Schumann. Rhapsody was formed in 2003 by a amateur pianists who sought a venue in which to perform for each other, both to grow musically and to share their musical journey with others. It has since grown to 18 people from the Boston metropolitan area, and members have met continuously every month for 14 years. Now an annual event, this will be their eighth public performance on Bemis Hall’s restored Steinway.

Tuesday workshops to focus on school’s educational priorities

The School Building Committee (SBC) and school project design team will hold a series of meetings this week with residents and students as they continue to answer the question: How will the building support our vision of education?

Lincoln School administrators and faculty discussed the town’s educational priorities during a day-long session facilitated by the design team from SMMA and EwingCole:

  • Provide high quality education
  • Create an engaging and inspiring approach to learning
  • Encourage interactive, multi-disciplinary, project-based learning modes; foster curiosity
  • Value diversity; display creativity
  • Provide a variety of learning spaces
  • Value reflection
  • Optimize connection to the natural environment
  • Host community events and promote partnerships with the community

These priorities reflect those laid out in the Lincoln Public Schools strategic plan approved by the School Committee in August 2017.

On Tuesday, Oct. 17, residents are invited to community workshops focused on how physical space impacts teachers and students. The workshops will take place from 8–10 a.m. and 7–9 p.m. in the Brooks gym. Questions to be discussed will include:

  • How does our current building impede our educators?
  • If a new building is built, or significant renovations made, how will it affect what is taught and how it is taught?
  • How do we know our new/renovated building will meet the needs of the next generations of Lincoln students?

Also on Tuesday, members of the design team will meet with student groups from grades 3, 5, and 8 to talk about what they like about the Lincoln School building, see examples of other schools, and discuss what they’d like to see in a new/renovated school.

In discussions about the school, phrases such as “21st century learning,” “project-based learning,” and “maker spaces” are used a lot. The SBC offers some short videos to help make these concepts clearer, and invite residents to bring questions about them to one of the Tuesday workshops:

The SBC always welcomes feedback and questions about the process. You can make a public comment by clicking on the “comment” button at the bottom of any of the posts on the SBC website, or you can send a message directly to the SBC by clicking on “Contact the SBC” on the site’s home page menu.

Two sessions on school, community center scheduled

Superintendent of Schools Becky McFall and educational planners from two architectural firms will lead two workshop sessions on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. in the Brooks gym, focusing on how architecture and design can support educational goals. They will share the priorities expressed by educators during a September 28 all-day visioning session, show examples of other schools, and engage the community in discussion about specific concepts and educational spaces.

On Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Hartwell Multipurpose Room, the School Building Committee (SBC) and members of the Community Center Preliminary Planning and Design Committee (PPDC) will learn more about community priorities through a series of short presentations from the Historical Commission, Public Safety, the Planning Board, the Green Energy Committee, the Conservation Commission, and the Commission on Disabilities. Added to previous presentations from Parks & Recreation and the Water Commission, these conversations will help the SBC, PPDC, and the community understand the complex series of opportunities and issues that must be balanced as work moves forward.

Dozens of residents came to two September 28 sessions to explore the future of the Ballfield Road campus. The sessions were facilitated by the architectural firm SMMA, which was hired by the SBC in partnership with EwingCole in August. In addition to the design team, members of the SBC and the PPDC were there to listen and learn from the professionals and the community.

Both the morning and evening sessions featured information-sharing and gathering as SMMA used five possible campus configurations to generate discussion and to more deeply understand Lincoln’s collective priorities for a revitalized campus, one that will cohesively accommodate a preK-8 school and possibly a community center on one site. Echoed continuously by both the community and the architects was a commitment to preserving the unique character of our campus, while at the same time defining a forward-looking vision that improves the campus experience for students and Lincolnites of all ages for years to come.

The September 28 evening workshop can be viewed online here.

Five campus possibilities offered at SBC workshop

School Building Committee architects proposed some master planning objectives for the Ballfield Road campus as well as five general options for locating the various aspects of the Lincoln School around that campus at a public workshop on October 3.

Before they even began presenting their thoughts, resident Steve Perlmutter summed up his feelings about the campus that are shared by many of those who rejected the 2012 school design that would have encroached on the central ball field and significantly reconfigured the north side of campus.

“I’m concerned that if we’re not very careful, we could lose much of this special place and with it, a large part of Lincoln’s soul, character, and heritage,” said Perlmutter, noting that he was speaking as a private citizen and not in his capacity as a member of the SBC. The school campus is “stunning and bucolic” and “quintessentially Lincoln,” he said. “We need to keep on asking ourselves if what you propose to do belongs to the land instead of the other way around.”

The ball field is “one for those central gems you would never get back if you developed it, agreed Sandra Farrell, a landscape architect with SMMA Architects, adding that the field and the healthy trees around it are “more or less sacrosanct)

The firm’s planning objectives for a multigenerational, multiprogram campus include developing a healthy network of trees and pathways around school buildings and between community spaces including the tennis courts and the pool. The final plan should also foster educational goals while also creating cohesion between new and old elements and demonstrating stewardship of the land, she said.

Before thinking about what structures should be renovated or replaced, SMMA principal architect Alex Pitkin encouraged residents to think about five configurations—taking into account locations, “adjacencies,” building heights, and even overlap—for four main elements (see below):

  • PreK–4
  • Grades 5–8
  • Common areas that the public could also use outside school hours such as the auditorium, gyms, and cafeteria(s)
  • Community center elements including the Council on Aging, the Parks and Recreation Department, and the Lincoln Extended-day Activities Program.

“Sometimes it’s very effective to move functions around a building, whether it’s renovated or rebuilt,” Pitkin said.

The next public workshop will focus on educational vision and will take place in two identical sessions on one day: Tuesday, Oct. 14 from 2–4 p.m. and 7–9 p.m. in the Brooks gym. For more information on the history of the project, news and upcoming events, go to lincolnsbc.org.

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Letter to the editor: ‘think big’ on school campus planning

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To the editor:

Let’s think big together on Tuesday, Oct. 3 at 8 a.m. or 7 p.m. in the Brooks Gym (Ballfield Road community campus).

Lincoln does best when Lincoln thinks big. We were reminded of this last Wednesday at the Bemis Lecture Series, when the Trustees of the Ogden Codman Trust spoke of the history of the Codman Estate, Codman Farm, the Mall at Lincoln Station, and Lincoln Woods.

Years prior to the disposition of the Codman estate, Lincoln had a dream and a plan for the land around the Codman house and beyond. The ideas were big-picture planning and would not necessarily be put in place all at the same time, but there was a grand plan. When the land became available for purchase, the town was ready to act. Public/private partnerships and collaboration with those responsible for managing the settlement of Dorothy Codman’s estate began to implement the plan, piece by piece. First Codman Farm, then Lincoln Woods and the mall, and then more land and fields around them were bought by either the town or the Rural Land Foundation (RLF).

It was a legacy project. Lincoln thought big, and we are all the beneficiaries. Now we are at a crossroads where we have another opportunity—and responsibility—to think big again.

We have major development challenges ahead. We have important open space that must be protected. We’re looking for ways to “revitalize” the mall and Lincoln Station. We will need more town-initiated affordable housing to prevent the kind of 350-unit development now going up in Weston, which could have dramatic negative impacts on schools and budgets. We need to provide services for our seniors to maintain stability in our age-diverse population. And, of pressing importance, we need to rebuild our aging schools.

The community campus, established in 1932 for recreational purposes and expanded to include schools and a town auditorium in 1947, is now offering an opportunity and a challenge to think big again. The town has endorsed rebuilding schools and creating a recreation/community center on this campus. In addition, the campus will continue to host early childhood and after-school programs. But how to make it all work, both in terms of space and budget?

That is where we all need to step up and take a hard, creative look. We need to think big. We need to accept that maybe everything will not and cannot be done at once, but it needs to be planned together. What kind of building(s) will best serve education for the next 25 years? What kind of buildings might be multi-purpose and share space? What kind of buildings would be the most energy-efficient and save money over the long term? What space and building locations work now, and which don’t?

While design professionals will guide the process, Lincoln has always done best when we put our heads together, listen to each other, ask “crazy” questions, think out of the box, and show no fear.

Let’s do just that. Let’s THINK BIG. Let’s take a big step to create another legacy project together on Tuesday, Oct. 3,

Sincerely,

Sara Mattes
71 Conant Rd.

Letters to the editor must be signed with the writer’s name and street address and sent via email to lincolnsquirrelnews@gmail.com. Letters will be edited for punctuation, spelling, style, etc., and will be published at the discretion of the editor. Letters containing personal attacks, errors of fact or other inappropriate material will not be published.

Letter to the editor: everyone’s input needed at school project workshop

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To the editor:

What if you decided to redo your kitchen, hired a respected designer, and then asked a trusted neighbor to oversee the design and construction process? With a good professional and a tasteful neighbor, it might be fine, but would it really turn out the way you wanted?

We have a great design team, and we hope you consider the members of the School Building Committee to be “trusted neighbors.” At the same time, you are the “homeowners,” and we need your input and guidance in order to get this right. So please join us this Tuesday, Oct. 3 for one of the Community Workshop sessions. These workshops will focus on the layout of the Ballfield campus, and will generate critical information for both the school and community center study committees.

You might be thinking, “What do I know about campus layout?” We are all users of the campus, and we all have ideas and opinions about where the metaphorical appliances should go. Here’s how to get ready for the workshop:

If you’re a parent: What do you think works/doesn’t work in the school building and on the campus? What do you think about the layout of the school? Is the parking in the right places? How well do pickup and drop-off patterns work? What is it like to walk/bike/drive around campus? Are there enough playing fields? Where should the after school program and community facilities be?

If you’re a community member: What works/doesn’t work when you come to vote? Or for Town Meeting? Is there enough parking? Is it easy to access the roads and pathways? Which parts of the school, fields, and recreation spaces do you use?
New to town? Think you don’t know enough about this project to contribute? Bring your experiences from other towns and schools and help us consider different solutions!

For all: Get ready to ponder provocative questions: What is the best location for the building(s)? How many stories should the buildings be? What happens to the big trees? How do those decisions impact design, energy efficiency, and recreational options?
Bring an open mind and your questions to one of the community workshops:

Tuesday, Oct. 3
8–10 a.m. and 7–9 p.m. (same content, two sessions)
Brooks/Reed Gym

If you haven’t already subscribed to the Lincoln School Project website, please do so by going to www.lincolnsbc.org. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Kim Bodnar (School Building Committee member)
11 Fox Run Road

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New kids’ singing groups at church

The First Parish in Lincoln is sponsoring two children’s singing ensembles open to all children in Lincoln and surrounding towns in grades K–5. There is no cost. The ensembles will begin rehearsals on Sunday, Oct. 1 at the First Parish in Lincoln. The two groups are:

  • Kid Sing (5–5:30 p.m.) — grades K–2 will focus on singing, movement, and musicianship.
  • Youth Choir (5:30–6:15 p.m.) — grades 3–5 will learn basic singing and choral skills, including singing in two-part harmony.

Rehearsals will take place roughly every other Sunday until June 2018. There is no cost to participate in either ensemble. For more information, contact Blake Siskavich at bsiskavich21@gmail.com or Sarah Bishop at srblincoln@hotmail.com.

Jazz band on Sunday

Classic Jazz at Lincoln Public Library presents Dave Whitney and His Big Band on Sunday, Oct. 1 from 2–5 p.m. in Bemis Hall. Free and open to all. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Public Library.

Learn about net zero buildings

“Net Zero Buildings in Lincoln: A Presentation and Conversation with Bill Maclay” will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 10 from 7–9 p.m. in the Tarbell Room at the Lincoln Public Library. Before plans for the Lincoln School are finalized, come learn about how buildings in Lincoln can achieve net zero energy use to save energy and money, reduce environmental impacts, increase resilience, and improve the health, comfort, and productivity of occupants. Bill Maclay, founding principal of Maclay Architects of Waitsfield, VT, has been recognized as a leader in innovative, ecological planning and architectural design since 1971. Co-sponsored by the Lincoln Green Energy Committee and Mothers Out Front. Anyone with questions may call Sheila Dennis at 413-834-2239.

Group to screen “The Gatekeepers”

The GRALTA Foundation will show the next film in its series, a 2013 Israeli documentary called The Gatekeepers, on Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. in Bemis Hall. Nominated for an Academy Award (2013), The Gatekeepers tells the story of the Israeli internal security service, Shin Bet, and offers insight into Israel’s management and control of the occupied Palestinian territories. No charge; light refreshments will be provided. Click here to watch the trailer.

Tour the new Hanscom Middle School

The School Building Committee (SBC) is scheduling a tour of the recently completed Hanscom Middle School on Friday, Oct. 13 from 12:30–2:30 p.m. The building was designed by the firm of EwingCole, part of a two-firm partnership hired to design a Lincoln School project. Anyone interested must provide his or her name (exactly as it appears on your driver’s license or ID) and birth date to Janice Gross (jgross@lincnet.org) by noon on Friday, Oct. 6 (attendees’ names must be on the approved list to pass through the Hanscom security gate.)

October movies at library

The Lincoln Library Film Society will screen the following films in October:

  • October 2 — House of Games directed by David Mamet, starring Lindsey Crouse and Joe Mantegna (1 hr 42 min., rated R). A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
  • October 16—Nine Queens directed by Fabien Bielinsky, starring Ricardo Darin, Gaston Pauls (1 hr 54 min., rated R). Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the “nine queens”).
  • October 23—Read My Lips directed by Jacques Audiard, starring Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos (1 hr 55 min., rated R). She is almost deaf and she lip-reads; he is an ex-convict. She wants to help him, but he thinks no one can help except himself.
  • October 30—The Spanish Prisoner directed by David Mamet, starring Steve Martin, Ben Gazzara (1 hr 50 min., rated R). An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there’s more to it than that.

All screenings begin at 3 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Public Library.

Eleanor Buckland at next LOMA

Eleanor Buckland

Eleanor Buckland will be the featured performer at the next LOMA (Lincoln Open-Mike Acoustic) night on Monday, Oct. 16 in the Lincoln Public Library’s Tarbell Room. The event runs from 7–10 p.m., and Buckland will perform a half-hour set starting around 8:30. Buckland’s band Lula Wiles, which has played at venues such as the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, the Green River Music Festival and Club Passim, released a self-titled CD in 2016.

LOMA is a monthly event. Admission is free and refreshments are provided. Performers can sign up at the event or email Rich Eilbert at loma3re@gmail.com for a slot. There is a sound system with mikes and instrumental pickups suitable for individuals or small groups.

Letter to the editor: CCPPDC offers updates

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To the editor:

“Community Center Preliminary Planning and Design Committee”—with a name like that, we can’t help but succeed in our mission to bring a preliminary design to the town for consideration when discussing the current state of and future goals for the Ballfield Road campus. The townfolk spoke and the town representatives heard you: there should be collaboration between any and all committees striving to improve the nature and service of the Ballfield Road buildings.

But let’s start with introductions. Your CCPPDC members are Owen Beenhouwer, Sarah Chester, Doug Crosby, Jonathan Dwyer (for the Board of Selectmen), Steve Gladstone, Margit Griffith (vice chair, Parks and Recreation Commission), Eric Harris, Ellen Meyer Shorb (chair), Dilla Tingley, Town Administrator Tim Higgins, Director of Council on Aging Carolyn Bottum, and Director of Parks and Recreation Dan Pereira.

We have been tasked with providing the town with a community center design on the Ballfield Road campus in answer to the Lincoln community’s desire for a cohesive, cost-effective and community-spirited plan for Lincoln. We hope to provide enough information to help answer questions such as:

  • What is the realistic cost of a serviceable community center?
  • What does a community center do differently from other town spaces, and why is this important? (Much of this already addressed by prior studies, and we’re happy to review.)
  • Is it feasible and fiscally responsible to build the school and community center simultaneously or sequentially?
  • Can/should the same architect and/or construction company build both?
  • May the school and community center be built at the same time, or does the school need to keep current Hartwell buildings intact for alternate classrooms during the school build? Or are there other factors?

…and we hope to answer the questions you and we don’t know about yet!

The CCPPDC met a few times over the summer and has opened the request for quotes from architectural firms to work with us, reviewed their quotes, and is scheduling interviews. Our next step will be to choose a firm with which to work and to introduce them to you, the School Building Committee (SBC) and the architect they have chosen (if different)… which leads to a first response to the question “can we use the same architect?”

Well, yes and no. School buildings are very specialized structures and the architectural firms who design them tend to be quite focused on just that type of building. An architectural firm that promises they can do anything from a storage shed to a 20-story building probably isn’t the firm we’re hoping will design our next school building. Similarly, community centers tend to be a bit of a different creature and some firms make these designs their specialty. The SBC and CCPPDC have made it very clear to all parties that this is a collaborative effort by our two groups and we are requiring similar collaboration if the selected firms are different.

You will be hearing from the CCPPDC as we progress. You are always welcome to attend our open meetings and we hope to have a few community feedback events as plans develop. We will be at the SBC visioning meetings on October 3 and 17—will you? Once a month, a joint update will be provided by the SBC and CCPPDC, and you will likely see brief updates about one committee in the updates from the other. We’re also working on a CCPPDC page on the town website and hope to make more informative very soon.

Sincerely,

Margit Griffith on behalf of the CCPPD

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Get school project news via email and enter to win

Subscribe to the Lincoln School Project website any time before Friday, Sept. 29 at noon and you’ll be entered to win a $25 gift certificate to Donelan’s or a Lincoln Parks and Recreation program (whichever one you choose). Those who’ve already subscribed are also entered to win. There are multiple ways to subscribe. See below for details:

  1. Go to lincolnsbc.org and type your email in the box “subscribe to SBC updates.” You’ll then receive an email from the SBC that you will have to confirm.
  2. Email SBC@lincnet.org and type “subscribe me” in the subject line. The SBC Outreach team will enter your email into the website. Once you receive your follow-up email from the SBC, please click on “confirm” to be included in the drawing.

Once you subscribe, you’ll receive Lincoln School Project updates direct to your inbox. You don’t have to search for the latest news on the SBC, school or town websites, or ask your friends; the updates will be sent to you automatically. Note that subscribing does not commit you to anything. It just keeps you informed on the latest school project news in a timely manner.

Fall wellness clinics for all ages

Lincoln residents of all ages are invited to meet with a nurse through a free town service. Come to get your blood pressure checked, ask questions, or learn about wellness resources. Clinics will be held at the Community Building at Lincoln Woods from 10 a.m.–noon on Tuesdays, Oct. 10, Nov. 14, and Dec. 12. These clinics are funded by the Ogden Codman Trust. Additional clinics will be held at Bemis Hall on Tuesdays, Oct. 17, Nov. 21, and Dec.19 from 9–11 a.m. These are supported by the Pierce House. Services for all clinics are provided by Emerson Hospital Home Care. For more information, please call the Council on Aging at 781-259-8811.

Domestic violence survivor shares her story

A domestic violence survivor will share her powerful story of surviving and moving beyond domestic violence at a meeting of the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable on Tuesday, Oct. 10 at 3 p.m. in the Community Meeting Room of the Wayland Public Safety Building (38 Cochituate Rd., Wayland). The program is free and open to the public. The speaker is a member of the Survivor Speaker’s Bureau of REACH Beyond Domestic Violence, an area domestic violence agency that provides a variety of services to individuals and families dealing with the issue of abuse.

Concerts, book talk coming up

Christopher Poulit

  • There will be a free live jazz concert with Sarah Spencer and Her Transatlantic All-stars on Wedneday, Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Bemis Hall. Presented by Classic Jazz at the Lincoln Library, sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Public Library. The group playing music of the 1930s and ’40s features Herb Gardner on piano, Justin Meyer on bass, Jimmy Mazzy on banjo, Bill Doyle on guitar, Jeff Hughes on cornet, John Clark on reeds, Gerry Gagnon on trombone, Steve Taddeo on drums and Sarah Spencer on sax
  • Come to a short reading, book talk and signing with author Erica Ferenick on Thursday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Public Library. Ferenick is the author of the thriller novel The River at Night, voted a #1 pick by Oprah.com, and an Entertainment Weekly “Must Read.” Copies will be available for purchase and signing.
  • Christopher Poulit will give a piano concert on Saturday, Oct. 14 at 6:30 p.m. in Bemis Hall featuring music by Mozart, Beethoven, Poulenc, Schubert and Cage. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Public Library.

All three events are sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Public Library. For more information, call the library at 781-259-8465.