Hopefully, you have already started your tomato seedlings, but if not, no worries! Doug Oster, an Emmy Award-winning producer, television host, and garden writer, will be sharing tips and tricks to help your tomatoes thrive this summer. Topics will include late seed starting, all aspects of disease-free tomatoes, and common fungal issues. Register at ptlib.org/tomato to receive the Zoom Link for this presentation.
Doug Oster is the Pittsburgh’s Garden Guru. You can listen to him on KDKA radio every Sunday at 7 a.m. on The Organic Gardener. When he is not in his garden, Doug writes a weekly gardening column for The Green Voice, the newsletter for Pittsburgh Earth Day. Oster also appears on KDKA-TV’s Pittsburgh Today Live as a contributor. He hosted, produced, and wrote the one-hour special The Gardens of Pennsylvania for PBS, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Documentary. His fifth book, The Steel City Garden; Creating a One-of-a-Kind Garden in Black and Gold, demonstrates how to create a garden using Pittsburgh’s favorite colors. The garden personality has a strong following on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Oster’s most satisfying accomplishment was founding Cultivating Success, a garden program for foster and adoptive children. The program operates in two counties near Pittsburgh. Learn more at dougoster.com.
Date:
Thursday May 12, 2022
Time:
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location:
VIRTUAL PROGRAM
Did you know the Library’s OverDrive collection offers thousands of free eBooks and audiobooks? IT Librarian Brandon Priddy will teach you how to borrow them and enjoy them on your device.Registration is required to receive the Zoom meeting invitation. Limited to 15 participants. REGISTER using the button below. You will be emailed the Zoom meeting invitation one business day before the class. Participants must be registered at least 1 hour before the program begins to receive the Zoom Link.
This program is offered via Zoom. Because the staff member facilitating the event will not be able to provide live technical support during the virtual program, it is strongly encouraged you familiarize yourself with Zoom in advance of the program. You can also join a test meeting to familiarize yourself with Zoom. For more in-depth instructions, please visit the Zoom support page on joining a meeting.
Date:
Monday May 16, 2022
Time:
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location:
VIRTUAL PROGRAM
There are 13 spaces available.
Pennsylvania is host to well over 300 species of birds throughout the year. This program will look at some of the common species you can find in our region, as well as migrants and not-so-common rarities. We will look at a broad overview of resident and migratory species and how to make your yard more bird-friendly. The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania presents this program. Register at ptlib.org/birds to receive the Zoom Link for this presentation or call 724.941.9430 ext. 3260 to watch the Zoom session at the library.
Date:
Monday May 16, 2022
Time:
7:00 PM – 7:40 PM
Location:
VIRTUAL PROGRAM
Third Wednesday of the Month
This book club will meet in person, but also have a Zoom option if members wish to participate from home. Registration is required to attend in person and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation. Please call Sydney Krawiec at 724.941.9430 Ext. 3260 for more information. We will be discussing Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.
Date:
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Time:
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Location:
Reading Room
From Uptown Girls to Downton Abbey
How American Gilded-Age Heiresses Invaded the British Aristocracy
As we anxiously await the release of Downton Abbey: A New Era in May, join us for a cup of tea, trivia, and biscuits with our featured speaker via Zoom. Long before the British Invasion, the cash-strapped lords, viscounts, and dukes of Great Britain shifted their focus from hunting foxes and pheasants to more lucrative targets: cash-flush Gilded Age American socialites who were willing to trade their family’s money for an ancient title and often a chilly reception in the British aristocracy. Join Anglophile and former U.K. resident Claire Evans as she recounts the tales of some famously loaded young Americans who infused bank accounts of many stately homes, including close relatives of Winston Churchill and Princess Diana. She’ll also give travel tips if you’d like to create a Gilded Age tour for yourself.
Claire Evans is a former journalist, attorney, and college lecturer who started her love of most things British as she and her mother watched countless episodes of Are You Being Served, Fawlty Towers, and The Vicar of Dibley on PBS. She went on to study abroad in London and, against the odds, she married a Brit she met in Peoria, Illinois. They moved to England, where they lived for a number of years. Outside her work for a legal advice charity, Claire became a student of historical sights, pub dining, and tea shops. Her business, Tea with Claire, grew from friends asking for travel and relocation advice.
Registration is required and limited to 50 participants for the in-person viewing of the Zoom presentation at the library. Please use the REGISTER button below for in-person.
We will also offer an option to view the Zoom presentation from your home. To register to view from home, go to ptlib.org/downton. May 18, 2022Time:6:30 PM Location: Multi-Purpose Room, 1st floor
Have you started your seedlings and are overwhelmed with success? Are you looking to break apart some landscaping plants? Is your houseplant looking for a new home? Are you looking for a different type of tomato or pepper? Bring those extra plants to the library and swap them for another variety or plant with other green thumbs in the community.
If you have plants to exchange, you must register. We will email you additional instructions the week before the swap. Plants must be labeled with the plant name and be individually potted [NO INVASIVE SPECIES]. Questions? Please email Sydney at [email protected] or call at 724-941-9430 Ext. 3260.
No plants? No problem! You are welcome to visit starting at 10:30 a.m. to see what remains. We will give priority to people who are bringing plants to swap. Do not register if you do not have plants to swap.
Date:
Saturday May 21, 2022
Time:
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location:
Multi-Purpose Room, 1st floor
Curious about where to start researching your family history? The library has several online genealogy resources to help you with your search. IT Librarian Brandon Priddy will discuss using Ancestry Library, Heritage Quest, and Family Search. Registration is required to receive the Zoom meeting invitation. Limited to 15 participants. REGISTER using the button below. You will be emailed the Zoom meeting invitation one business day before the class. Participants must be registered at least 1 hour before the program begins to receive the Zoom Link.
This program is offered via Zoom. Because the staff member facilitating the event will not be able to provide live technical support during the virtual program, it is strongly encouraged you familiarize yourself with Zoom in advance of the program. You can also join a test meeting to familiarize yourself with Zoom. For more in-depth instructions, please visit the Zoom support page on joining a meeting.
Date:
Monday May 23, 2022
Time:
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location:
VIRTUAL PROGRAM
Last Tuesday of the Month from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
This book club will meet in person, but also have a Zoom option if members wish to participate from home. Registration is required to attend in person and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation. Please call Sydney Krawiec at 724.941.9430 Ext. 3260 for more information. The book for discussion will be Aphrodite by Russell Andrews.
Date:
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Time:
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Location:
Reading Room
