On Saturday, November 9th, 2024 the Friends of the Seaside Public Library will welcome author Jerry Sutherland for a talk on his book, “Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon.” The event will take place at 2:00 p.m. in the Community Room and there will be a time afterwards for a Q&A. In 1906, big dreams and theFind OUT MORE

Listening to the Land: Plastic Pollution with The Surfrider Foundation. Most plastic pollution at sea starts out on land as litter on beaches, streets and sidewalks. Rain or over watering flushes that litter through a storm drain system or directly to creeks, streams and rivers that lead to the ocean. After plastics enter the marineFind OUT MORE

Listening to the Land: Life in the Intertidal Zone with Melissa Keyser, Program Coordinator at the Haystack Rock Awareness Program. More details will be added as they are received. This event is presented by the Necanicum Watershed Council, Seaside Public Library and Friends of Falcon Marine Reserve.  

Listening to the Land: The Enigmatic Marbled Murrelet and Oregon's Marine Reserves with Kim Nelson, a Research Wildlife Biologist at Oregon State University. Join Kim as she shares about the Enigmatic Marbled Murrelet in Oregon. Land conservation as well as ocean-based protections, like Oregon’s five marine reserve sites, house the potential to benefit these birdsFind OUT MORE

At Listening to the Land: Exploring Conservation Forestry, Peter Hayes will share the history of Hyla Woods, a non-industrial private forest that his family manages with conservation as a driving value. He will discuss the need for working models of operations that clearly maintain and restore the land’s health and wealth while being profitable enoughFind OUT MORE

Live Music: Wes Wahrmund at the Seaside Public Library. Come enjoy an evening of solo guitar at 7pm. Wes plays classical guitar with light jazz and some original tunes.

Come to the Seaside Public Library for "Lightning in a Saddle: The Evelyn Hamilton Story" with Joe Kurmaskie. Joe will recount the untold but true story of British long distance cyclist, Evelyn Hamilton, who became a record breaking/gender bending figure in pre-World War II cycling. She was the first British woman to ride 1000 miles inFind OUT MORE

Join Gearhart naturalist and photographer Neal Maine for the final Listening to the Land presentation of 2017. During Listening to the Land: Wildlife, the Artist’s Eye, and You, Neal will explore how artists can connect us with the natural world and drive us to protect it. With video, still photographs, poetry and music, he willFind OUT MORE

Join Kate Holleran for Listening to the Land: Dam, Beaver! Dam! at the Seaside Public Library. Kate is a senior natural resources scientist at Metro and has implemented several projects to improve the aquatic and forest habitat along Johnson Creek, on Chehalem Ridge, and on other local streams, much to the delight of beavers. She’llFind OUT MORE

In “A Town Called Seaside,” author and historian Gloria Linkey will be our tour guide as she takes us through Seaside’s origins as a summer resort town in the 1940s to the thriving tourist attraction the town has become today. Linkey’s research conjures up beautiful images of pre-World War II bygone days, where people walkedFind OUT MORE