Woods Hole Business Association

Woods Hole Library Perennial Plant Sale
2020-10-10 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Woods Hole Library, 581 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543
Just like the Library’s time-honored Spring Plant Sale (which was not held this year for the first time in decades) all the plants will be donated by local gardeners, so the plants are perfectly attuned to the local conditions (although the drought is taking a great toll). Both perennials and house plants will be available. Obviously since this is a Fall Sale, annuals or vegetable plant starts will not be offered, but the perennials should have plenty of time to settle into their new spots in Cape Cod’s long mellow autumn weather.
As always, the Library asks people to donate their plants. Because of COVID restrictions the Library does not have the usual army of helpers to collect and pot up donated plants. Instead, Master Gardener Kate Eldred, of the Library’s Board and Plant Sale committee, recommends that gardeners water their plants generously for a few days before they dig them, and continue watering after they are potted to stabilize them. Pots are available at the Library’s lower level for pick-up any time.
Unlike previous sales, there are only two days for people to deliver plants to the Library. All donations, already potted and labeled, must be brought to the Woods Hole Library when it is open on either Thursday, October 8 or Friday, October 9 from 10 AM
to 2 PM. (Donations cannot be accepted Saturday morning.)
On the day of the sale, due to COVID restrictions, shoppers must wear masks. The plants will be spread out more widely over a much larger area of the Library property so shoppers can stay 6 feet away from each other. As always, but with even more reason now because of COVID, it is suggested that shoppers do not arrive early for the sale. Library volunteers will ensure that people stay spaced out and will be available to help people carry their purchases to their cars.

MBL Falmouth Forum: “Cape Symphony: Composing a New Future in a Changing World" Jung-Ho Pak, Artistic Director & Conductor, Cape Symphony
2020-09-16 09:00 - 2020-10-01 10:00 | Virtual Lecture, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Falmouth Forum series hits the airwaves this fall in collaboration with WCAI, the Cape, Coast, and Islands NPR station. Forum speakers will join host Mindy Todd on “The Point” at 9:00 AM on the first Thursday of each month for discussion and listener Q&A.
Tune in to WCAI 90.1, WNAN 91.1, WZAI 94.3 or online at capeandislands.org.
Sponsored in part by The Falmouth Fund of The Cape Cod Foundation.
Described by the New York Times as a conductor who “radiates enthusiasm” and the Los Angeles Times as “a real grabber”, Jung-Ho Pak is known for his unique vision of the role of classical music. Since 2007 he has been Artistic Director and Conductor of the Cape Symphony in Massachusetts, one of the largest orchestras in the New England region. Previously, he has been Artistic Director and Conductor of Orchestra Nova, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and the San Diego Symphony, which Mr. Pak guided from bankruptcy to unprecedented financial success. As a nationally recognized educator, he served as Music Director with the University of Southern California (USC) Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra, as well as Director of Orchestras and Music Director of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Principal Conductor of the Emmy-nominated Disney Young Musicians Symphony, Music Director of the Debut Orchestra, Colburn Chamber Orchestra, and Diablo Ballet. Guest conducting has taken him to Europe, Russia, South America and Asia. Mr. Pak is also a frequent speaker on television and radio including TED Talks and NPR appearances, as well as a clinician and conductor at national music festivals.

MBL Friday Evening Lecture: Forbes Lecture - “Personal, National, and World Crises” - Jared Diamond
2020-07-10 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Lecture, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Nations experience crises, whose solution requires adopting selective changes, and which some nations are more successful at solving than are other nations. We as individuals also experience personal crises, either associated with certain ages (e.g., teen-age or midlife crises) or else triggered by external shocks (e.g., relationship problems or break-ups, the death of a loved one, or a health or job or financial blow). The solution of a personal crisis also requires adopting selective changes, which some of us are more successful at accomplishing than are others of us. Counselors and psychotherapists have identified many factors that make it more or less likely that an individual will overcome a personal crisis. In this lecture, Dr. Diamond will examine the extent to which similar considerations help understand the outcomes of recent and impending national crises, and the impending world crisis.
Jared Diamond is a Pulitzer-prize-winning author of five best-selling books, translated into 38 languages, about human societies and human evolution: Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, Why Is Sex Fun?, The Third Chimpanzee, and The World until Yesterday. As a Professor of Geography at the University of California at Los Angeles, he is known for his breadth of interests, which involves conducting research and teaching in three other fields: the biology of New Guinea birds, digestive physiology, and conservation biology. Dr. Diamond’s prizes and honors include the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Science, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is a director of World Wildlife Fund/U.S. and of Conservation International. As a biological explorer, his most widely publicized finding was his rediscovery, at the top of New Guinea’s remote Foja Mountains, of the long-lost Golden-fronted Bowerbird, previously known only from four specimens found in a Paris feather shop in 1895.

Juneteenth Lecture - "Freedom-Seeking"
2020-06-17 15:00 - 16:00 | MA
Join the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee oncZoom for a Juneteenth Lecture by Dr. Donique McIntosh.

Ocean Encounters: Oceans Beyond Earth - From Earth's deep ocean to the search for extraterrestrial life
2020-06-10 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
With NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrobiologist Kevin Hand, WHOI deep-sea explorer Julie Huber, WHOI marine geoscientist Chris German, and special guest, comedian Eugene Mirman

Ocean Encounters: Corals in Crisis - How scientists are racing to stop a deadly disease
2020-06-03 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
Speakers: Marine biologist, ocean explorer, and conservationist Sylvia Earle, University of the Virgin Islands coral disease ecologist Marilyn Brandt, and WHOI marine microbial ecologist Amy Apprill.
Worldwide, corals are struggling to survive, decimated by pollution, destructive fishing practices, and climate change. Six years ago, a deadly coral disease outbreak started in Florida and has now made its way to the coral reefs in U.S. Virgin Islands, killing corals at an unprecedented rate. Can scientists help stop this underwater epidemic and contain its spread? Hear what three scientists are doing to help save corals and the spectacular ecosystems they support.
This is a virtual event hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Please go to this link to register (https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-encounters/).

Quick's Hole Taqueria Opens!
2020-05-18 11:30 - 19:00 | MA
Quick’s Hole Taqueria will be open for take out service.

The Captain Kidd Opens
2020-05-15 17:00 - 20:00 | MA
The Captain Kidd opens today with a limited lunch/dinner menu to go!

Pie in the Sky Opens!
2020-05-09 09:00 - 13:00 | MA
Pie in the Sky will be open weekends from 9-1 with a limited menu.

Landfall Opens
2020-05-06 12:00 - 19:00 | MA
The Landfall will be open with a clam shack-style menu to go including fried seafood and other quick bites.
