Social Events in Woods Hole

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Creative Arts

Flying Pig Pottery

410 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole; 508-548-7482. Adult pottery classes. $120 for 6 weeks includes all materials and 7day/week open studio.

Colorful Creations

43 North Main St., Falmouth; 508-495-1847. Scrapbook shop right next to Coffee Obsession. Sells paper, stamps, etc., and has ongoing classes and workshops. Especially applicable around holidays when they have workshops on things like ”Holiday Card Making” and ”The Perfect Valentine.”

Paint-Your-Own Pottery

Mashpee Commons. They provide the pre-made pottery, you get to decorate it, they fire it for you and voila, you’ve designed your own mug!

Fairs and Events

Many calendars listing Cape Cod events exist on the web; http://www.capecodtravel.com/attractions/calendar/ is particularly well maintained and complete. A few local, or big Cape events along with a few of the more “touristy” Cape offerings are here.

MBL Friday Night Lecture Series

Schedule and info at http://www.mbl.edu/inside/what/news/events/events_friday.html. Science lectures on a variety of topics. Free and open to the public.

Nantucket Film Festival

508-325-6274; http://www.nantucketfilmfestival.org. Event showcasing independent films, panels, readings, and annual screenwriters tribute.

Falmouth Arts and Crafts Festival

Held annually during the summer on the town green in Falmouth.

Barnstable County Fair

Barnstable County Fairgrounds, Route 151, Falmouth; 508-563-3200. Held annually (normally in mid-late July each year) Adults $8, children 12 and under are free. The Cape’s largest annual event featuring rides, games, exhibits, demonstrations, music, food and concerts.

Woods Hole Film Festival

Annual event. 508-495-3456. Daily screenings, workshops, panel discussions, and staged readings. Points throughout Woods Hole. Usually held in late July. Link: www.woodsholefilmfestival.com

Woods Hole and Falmouth Public Library Book Sales

Held periodically throughout the year. Watch for the sign outside the Woods Hole Public Library. Good place for leisure, mystery, comedy, plays, poetry, science fiction, religious, travel, history, household, etc. Five soft-covers for $1.

Amusement Centers

Joe's Driving Range and Miniature Golf

221 Teaticket Hwy, Rt. 28-S, Teaticket. Joe’s offers a driving range, low-tech mini golf and a few practice greens, all at very reasonable prices. Closest to home.

East sandwich Mini Golf

157 Rt. 6A, Sandwich; 508-833-1905. This place offers probably the best mini golf on Cape with a course built on a tidal wetland that changes depending on the tide. Family-run.

Adventure Isle

Rt. 28-N, Bourne; 1-800-53-KARTS, www.adventureisle.com. Adventure Isle has mini golf, amusement park rides, a batting cage, and go-karts.

Bass River Sports World

Rt. 28, S Yarmouth; 508-398-6070. This place offers mini-golf featuring a pirate-themed course, batting cages, soccer cages, a driving range, and video games

Trade Center Bowl

89 Spring Bars Rd, Falmouth; 508 548-7000. Bowling alley in Falmouth

Museums & Exhibits

WHOI Exhibit Center

School St., Woods Hole; 508-289-2663. A few research-related exhibits, with several models of underwater vehicles in use at WHOI. Suggested donation: $2/person aged 10 and over. Small gift shop. Open from May through September; hours posted at http://www.whoi.edu/calendar.

Aquarium of the National Marine Fisheries Service

Albatross Street, Woods Hole; 508-495-2001, http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/omi/aquarium/. Hours: Mon-Fri 11:00-16:00. Excellent small aquarium, with more attention paid to the fish and other specimens than to their presentation. Many of the tanks are actively being used in research. A rescued seal lives in a pen outside the aquarium. No admission charge, and no parking.

Woods Hole Historical Museum

579 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole; 508- 548-7270. Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-16:00, June through Labor Day. Depicts the history of Woods Hole through an audio-visual presentation, displays and dioramas. A scale model of the town as it was in 1895 is on display. A boat museum and a gentlemen’s workshop of the 1890s are also on the grounds.

Falmouth Historical Society

55-65 Palmer Ave., Falmouth; 508-548-4857, http://www.falmouthhistoricalsociety.org. Hours: Jun 10Sep 13, TueSat 10:0016:00; Sep 20Oct 27, Sat/Sun 13:00-16:00. Society maintains a museum and offers historical tours of Falmouth. Also has extensive archives including ships logs, maritime records, manuscripts, and family genealogy records. Excellent website with Falmouth lore.

Libraries

For research and study, the MBL/WHOI Library has perhaps the best marine sciences collection in the world, but requires an MBL OneCard for access (see listing below). The Cape is also littered with public libraries; the two closest are in Woods Hole and Falmouth. A CLAMS (Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing) card gives you membership in your local library plus access to the collections of all the 26 CLAMS libraries: http://www.clamsnet.org.

MBL/WHOI Library

Lillie Laboratory, MBL St., Woods Hole; 508-289- 2455. Open 24 hours a day/seven days a week. Arguably the best marine sciences library in the world. Enormous selection of journals (and if they don’t have it, they’ll get it for you). Great reading rooms; great place to study. The rare book room is pretty cool too. You’ll need an MBL OneCard to get in. These can be acquired from the Digital Processing Center on the second floor of the Lillie Building weekdays between the hours of 8 AM and 5 PM. Online databases, journal list, and other services at http://mblwhoilibrary.mbl.edu.

Woods Hole Public Library

581 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, 508- 548-8961; http://www.woodsholepubliclibrary.org. Fantastic book sales on a fairly regular basis which are well-worth checking out. Hours: Mon noon-- 17:30 and 19:00-21:00, Wed 10:0017:30 and 19:0021:00; Tue/Thu/Fri/Sat 15:00-17:30.

Falmouth Public Library

123 Katherine Lee Bates Rd., Falmouth (visible from Main St.); 508-457-2555, http://www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org. Hours: Mon/Thu 9:30-17:30, Tue/Wed 9:3021:00, Fri/Sat 9:30-17:00. Closed Sundays (check hours online or by phone – sometimes they are open Sundays depending on the season). Good selection of books, CD’s, movies, Internet, magazines. A real multimedia library. For movies, they have lots of musicals and classic films and an eclectic selection of some recent films. Best of all you can check out 2 flicks for 3 days for FREE! Access to online CLAMS catalogue through website.

Adult Education

Gus Canty Community Center

790 Main St., Falmouth; 508-457-2567, http://www.vsd.cape.com/~upload/recreation/Index.htm. Lots of rec classes, yoga, pilates, etc.

Falmouth Night School

Falmouth High School, 874 Gifford St., Falmouth; 508-548-1621. Tons of classes from yoga to Spanish to small engine repair. Online catalog: http://www.falmouth.k12.ma.us/ntsch00.htm.