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Yarmouth Port Library, 297 Main Street, Yarmouth Port
Introduction to Chess - Part 2 with Ralph Menconi Saturday, May 11th at 10:30 AM
If you attended our first session in April, please come for review and to enhance your strategy and practice with other players. If you missed April's session, please join Ralph Menconi — neighbor, former educator, and YPL Corporator — for an informal introduction to the basics of chess. Adults and children (ages 8 and up, please) welcome. Please call the library to let us know you will be attending. Also, please bring a portable chess board and pieces if you have one. If enough players are interested, we can discuss the details of forming a "YPL Chess Group."
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With Cape Cod Libraries & The New Literacy Project:
Avoiding Election Misinformation
Thursday, May 23 at 5:30 PM _____________
North Atlantic Right Whales: A Species on the Brink
Friday, May 17th at 2 PM
Presented by Jesse Meckling, Marine Education Director, Center for Coastal Studies
Join us for a presentation on the status of the North Atlantic right whale, one of the most endangered marine animals on earth. Center for Coastal Studies Marine Education Director, Jesse Mechling will share natural history information about the North Atlantic Right Whale as well as current CCS research including aerial surveillance, and habitat and food resource monitoring.
JESSE MECHLING Jesse Mechling is the Director of Marine Education at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown. The ocean and ocean life are one of his great passions, and he relishes his role exciting a new generation to the wonders of the ocean.
A lifelong visitor to Cape Cod and permanent resident since 2008, he received a masters from the University of Rhode Island in Marine Affairs and was a 2005 John Knauss Marine Policy Fellow in Washington DC working for the National Ocean Service. He has two decades of experience working in marine policy and education, and has been with the Center since 2009. He lives in Eastham with his family.