The first line from Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good, by Kathleen Finn, is “I’m Swedish, which makes me sexy, and I’m Irish which makes me want to talk about it.” Thus begins a multi-generational memoir of one family’s culinary heritage, replete with recipes. In the late 1950s, her parents left Michigan to help herFind OUT MORE

On July 13, 2016, the Seaside Public Library will host its 71st Trivia Tournament. Trivia nights are informal, fun competitions where teams battle to see who has the greatest knowledge of all matters trivial. General questions will be asked by our trivia host and the winners are the team who, at the end of the night,Find OUT MORE

The Friends of the Seaside Library presents a beginning calligraphy workshop. In the age of electronic communication, one would think that writing by hand is an obsolete affair. Local calligrapher Rebecca Read strongly disagrees. Her students quickly discover the pleasures that accompany hand-lettering. This art form is gaining popularity with crafters and artists alike. Calligraphy's resurgence is findingFind OUT MORE

The Friends of the Seaside Library hosts Ruth Wariner, author of The Sound of Gravel, the true story of one girl’s coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father’s forty-two children.  Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of herFind OUT MORE

Hosted by the Seaside Public Library, trivia nights are informal, fun competitions where teams battle to see who has the greatest knowledge of all matters trivial.  General questions will be asked by our trivia host and the winners are the team who, at the end of the night, has correctly answered the most questions.  PrizesFind OUT MORE

The Friends of the Seaside Library host Rex and Keiko Ziak who will discuss "The Final Chapter of World War II: Peace and Reconciliation". Pearl Harbor survivor Ed Johann will also be in attendance. This event accompanies the photographic exhibit of images from the Obon Society depicting the story of the Yosegaki Hinomaru (Good Luck Flag) on display MayFind OUT MORE

Things happen in the near-shore ocean off Oregon that don’t happen everywhere else in the Eastern North Pacific, along the path of the California Current. Life abounds—as do challenges, some of them perennial and some of them specific to this moment in Earth’s history. Join marine ecologist Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, PhD, for a wide-ranging talk aboutFind OUT MORE

Join the Friends of the Seaside Library as they welcome award-winning conservation biologist Thor Hanson, author of The Triumph of Seeds. From the tropical rain forest to the frozen arctic tundra to our morning breakfast table, seeds are everywhere, ubiquitous yet easy to overlook. However, as Thor Hanson reveals in Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts,Find OUT MORE

The unusual mix of plants found in Gearhart’s Butterfield Fen is no accident. It begins with water: falling from clouds and ultimately percolating up through layers of sediment. It took hundreds of years to create the fen. And like everything else in the coastal landscape, it is in constant, slow flux. Join field ecologist KathleenFind OUT MORE

Celebrate spring by drawing butterflies with colored pencils.  Explore the basics of butterfly anatomy using the techniques of color mixing and blending to create a fun and original drawing of a butterfly. Dorota will explain techniques on how to proportionally enlarge drawings, and how to use bilateral symmetry to draw this beautiful species. Butterflies are essential pollinators for the ecosystem andFind OUT MORE