The Ulysses Philomathic Library is currently showing the work of Marian Van Soest. From realistic imagery to experimentation with shapes, lines, color, and texture, Van Soest’s work reveals her personal connection to the natural world. Some pieces are fluid in watercolor medium while others feature real twigs and layers of thick, textured paint. Her abstract work gives the sense of landforms, one series in earth tones and another in vibrant, warm colors.
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Birdhouse Build at the Library
On May 13th, the library will host a special birdhouse build activity that is free and open for all. Volunteer carpenters from our community will donate their time to teach this activity, and participants may take their creation home.
Date: May 13
Time: 10 am to 12pm
Location: Outside, in front of the library.
The Healing Muse Reading
The Healing Muse
Thursday, May 4, 2017
6:30 pm in the Melvin Community Room
The library welcomes writers from The Healing Muse to give a reading of poetry and prose on May 4th at 6:30 pm.
The Healing Muse is the annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University’s Center for Bioethics & Humanities. They welcome fiction, poetry, narratives, essays, memoirs and visual art, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine, illness, disability and healing.
Learn about Energy Independence with Elisabeth Harrod
Energy Independence
Thursday, April 20, 2017
6:30 pm in the Melvin Community Room
In this informative presentation, Elisabeth Harrod will explain the nuts and bolts of decreasing energy use in your home, lowering your energy bills through low and no-cost measures, as well as how to navigate the statewide financial incentives that are available to all NYS homeowners to make your home more comfortable and efficient.
Please join us for this upbeat, fun, hands-on informative session. This one hour will help you increase your energy independence, be more comfortable in your home, and answer any questions you have about how to navigate the process.
Elisabeth Harrod is a part of the Snug Planet team and has been helping Tompkins County homeowners save energy for more than 10 years.
Snug Planet’s mission is to reduce building energy use and improve comfort in ways that make sense for our customers and the planet. As an Energy Star partner, we give you access to the best building science practices, our highly-trained, caring team, and financial incentives to get you on the path to net zero energy today.
Spring Clean Up Day
Let’s work together on Saturday, April 29th at 10 am to clean up the inside and outside of the library. There will be all sorts of tasks for every helper in this family-friendly event.
Sign ups are located at the circulation desk.