After Hours at the Gardner, May 17 Cancelled

Barbeque Boot Camp, Thursday May 15, 7;00-9:00 pm

At Gordon’s Fine Wine & Culinary Center,  894 Main St. Waltham. Cost: $35 per person

Hone yourMemorial DayBBQ cooking skills with Jake’s Dixie Roadhouse Pit Boss, Don Yovicsin. Jake’s BBQ Zen-master has been called the Clark Kent of ‘Cue while some refer to him as the Wilfred Brimsley of BBQ. Decide yourself while attending an entertaining 2 hours of BBQ Boot Camp – an informative & entertaining night of greasy hands-on BBQ knowledge, a BBQ tasting work out and all that BBQ goodness matched up with some great, big craft brews, presented by Nate Kruback. Get your BBQ game ready for the sun and fun! Make your reservation at gordonswine.com sign up at coffee hour or contact Helen Lane at 781 235 4911 or Helen.lane@comcast.net

The last Ethnic Dine out, Monday,  May 19,  7:00pm Pierrot Bistrot Francais

272 Cambridge St. Boston. A small, intimate French Bistro which turns back to more classic French cooking.  Casual comfortable atmosphere with delicious classic French dishes means an evening to be remembered. Join us for this culinary exploration and great conversation.  Sign up at coffee hour or contact Helen Lane 781 235 4911 or Helen.lane@comcast.net

Movie Night – Friday, May 30, 6:45 – Standard Operating Procedure 

at the Embassy Theater in Waltham. Mick Provencher, our movie aficionado has picked this four star documentary which demands discussion. The discussion will be help at the Provencher Ethier home and we can bring refreshments to share. Anyone who has seen this movie at other times is invited to come to the discussion which should begin around 9:00. Director Errol Morris (The Fog of War) set out to examine the context of these photographs, talking directly to the soldiers who took them and who were in them. After two years of investigation, he amassed a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs. The story of Abu Ghraib is still shrouded in moral ambiguity, but it is now clear what Happened there. Sign up at coffee hour or contact Helen Lane 781 235 4911 or Helen.Lane@comcast.net

 

ON GOING SMALL GROUPS

Knitting group

Knitters will be meeting Tuesday, May 20 at 7:00pm at Nita Eastman’s home.  Any handwork that you’d like to bring is welcomed. Bring your own project or ideas for a group project. . Conversation and help along with the click of needles is the order of the evening. All are welcome. Please speak with Polly Harrington (781 834-4382) or Jeanne Gerber (781 444-8461) if you have questions.

Daytime Book Group

Will meet again in September.  The book will be advertised soon.

Bridge Players Unite!

Please join other First Parish members and friends for a once a month bridge club. The next meeting will be on Thursday May 22 at 2:00pm a Carol Hansen’s. Please contact Helen Lane (781 235 4911) if you wish to come.

 

Sunday Book Group

The next meeting will be held June 1, 7:30 PM, at Buffy Duhig's.  We will discuss God Grew Tired of Us  by John Bul Dau.   We hope to select books for the next five or six months at that meeting.  If you would like to suggest a book, please send its title, author and a short "blurb" to Cathy Livingston (crazycat4@comcast.net) before the meeting so she can compile a list.