5 Things You Need to Know Today, 6/2

1) Today we'll have a chance of showers. The high will be near 67. Tonight showers are likely and possibly a thunderstorm. The low will be around 58. 

2)  will host a Cape-Friendly Landscaping Event and Plant Sale today from 9am-3pm. Beautify your yard while protecting our bays and ponds, and learn how to landscape your yard with trees, bushes, and plants that require little or no water, fertilizer, or chemical inputs. The featured speakers are: 9:30am- Hila Lyman, Master Gardener; 11am- C.L. Fornari, the Garden Lady; 12pm- Michael Talbot, BA, MCH, ISA; 1pm- Will Clark, Plymouth Cty Extension; and 2pm- Alison Robb, Nature's Circle. Cape-friendly shrubs and perennials will be for sale, and there will be a drawing with great prizes!

3) The  will hold a class, "Step Outside: An Introduction to Plein Air Painting," today at 9am with instructor Betsy Payne Cook. Plein air painting is an exhilarating experience, and this three-hour workshop is ideal for artists who want to take the challenge of stepping outdoors to paint. Participants will need a sketchbook and painting supplies. If you have access to borrow a plein air easel, please bring it along. The cost is $30; please register in advance at falmouthart.org.

4) ’s annual Spring Book Sale will start today at 10am and will continue until 5pm. This sale will feature mostly newly received books given as gifts for the sale, and includes some older volumes weeded from the Library collection. The sale is always a popular  shopping event with very affordable buys. Most of the hardcover books will be priced at $2 each, with paperbacks at 50 cents, though special books may be priced higher.

5) Today at 5pm, the Falmouth Historical Society will present a talk with author Tony Horwitz at . Horwitz wrote the Boston Globe’s “Best Nonfiction Book of 2011,” Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War, about the beginnings of the American Civil War.