March Library Events

Posted on March 5, 2025


March Happenings at the Wendell Free Library

Events in brief:

Every Sunday: Yoga. 10 a.m.

Mondays, March 3 and 17: Fiber Group / Mending Circle. 6:30 p.m.

Every Tuesday: Tech Help. 3 to 5 p.m. Registration Required.

Every Tuesday: Adult Art Group. 5 p.m.

Every Wednesday: CNC Playgroup with Sylvia. 10 a.m.

Every Wednesday: Movie. 4 p.m.

Every Wednesday: Yoga. 6:20 p.m.

Every Friday: LEGO. 4 p.m.

 

Friday March 7: Tech Hub Skills Workshop: Computer maintenance. Workshop followed by an hour of drop-in tech help. Please Register. 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Saturday March 8: Tiny Art Opening Reception. 11-noon. Art Viewing and Light Snacks.

Saturday, March 8Silk Painting Workshop, Reg Req’d 1-3:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 9 & 23: Writer’s Workshop with Paul Richmond. 1-3:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 9CookBook Book Club, 4:30 p.m. East : 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes from Bangalore to Beijing. Sodha, Meera

Friday, March 14: Office Hour with Rep. Aaron Saunders. 1 p.m.

Saturday March 15Full Moon Coffee House to benefit the Library. 7:30 Wendell Town Hall. Please Consider Signing up to Bake for the Library Dessert-o-rama.

Friday March 21: Tech Hub Skills Workshop: Online Safety Basics & Avoiding Misinformation. Workshop followed by an hour of drop-in tech help. Please Register10:30-11:30 a.m.

Thursday March 20: The Wendell Open Space Committee, Wendell Historical Society and Wendell Free Library Present “A Deep Presence, 13,000 Years of Native

American History,” featuring archaeologist Robert G. Goodby. 6:30 p.m. at Wendell Town Hall.

Saturday March 22: 4th Saturday Puzzle Along. 1-3 p.m.

Tuesday, February 25: Adult Book Group. 10 a.m.

Friday March 28: Friday Night at the Library, 5-7p.m.

Saturday March 29: Craft Supply Swap.  10:30-12:30 a.m.

March Matinee Movies

Every Wednesday at 4 p.m.

March 5th

PERFECT DAYS

(2024; Wim Wenders, director; w/ Kôji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano)

A unique and moving portrait of Hirayama, a man who cleans public toilets in Tokyo while living a life of enviable tranquility with music, books, photography, and small but meaningful encounters in the city. Hirayama’s character and his past are revealed through Yakusho’s excellent performance and Wenders’ usual patient, deliberate direction.

March 12th

CROSSING DELANCEY

(1988; Joan Micklin Silver, director; w/ Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk)

Amy Irving plays an independent young woman who gets set up with a Lower East Side pickle seller by a marriage broker. Meanwhile, uptown, a sophisticated, but self-centered, novelist is pursuing her. Neighborhoods, cultures, and generations clash and connect in this charming, fresh spin on classic Romantic Comedy motifs.

March 19th

THE STRAIGHT STORY

(1999; David Lynch, director; w/ Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, Jane Galloway Heitz)

THE STRAIGHT STORY is an accessible, more mainstream (G-rated!) outlier in Lynch’s canon of disturbing, difficult films. When Alvin Straight (Farnsworth) hears that his estranged brother has suffered a stroke, he journeys across Iowa and Wisconsin to see him. Too impaired to have a driver’s license, he makes the trip on his John Deere lawn tractor. Based on a true story.

March 26th

LOCAL HERO

(1983; Bill Forsyth, director; w/ Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay)

In this acclaimed, low-key comedy, an American oil company representative is sent to a small village on the coast of Scotland to purchase the town in order to build an oil refinery.

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