1) Today will be sunny and pleasant, with temperatures in the low to mid 70s. Clouds will roll in around nightfall, bringing with them a small chance of rain. Overnight temperatures in the mid 60s.
2) WHOI's hosts . Rick Trask, research specialist in the Physical Oceanography Department, will explain how moorings are designed, assembled at sea, and deployed, in order to conduct year-round research at a single location. The talk is free, and begins at 2:30 p.m. For more information, call (508) 289-2700, email kpatterson@whoi.edu, or visit http://www.whoi.edu/main/smp-2012-talks.
3) The will provide a today, from 6 to 7 p.m. Learn how to use your eReader to check out library books via the CLAMS Overdrive online catalog. Be sure to bring your device along. For more, call (508) 457-2555, extension 2941, or email pcook@falmouthpubliclibrary.org.
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4) The presents a tonight, from 7:30 to 9:15. Watch the film Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom, and discover how the man born Bernie Schwartz became one of the first screen idols, influencing such later stars as Elvis Presley and James Dean, and went on to have a six-decade career in Hollywood. The show is $7 for members, $10 for nonmembers. For more information, call (508) 540-0602, email fjcoffice@comcast.net, or visit http://www.falmouthjewish.org.
5) This day in history: the 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette becomes a major-general in the Continental Army (1777); New York's Idlewild Airport, later to become JFK, is dedicated (1948); and fomer Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa mysteriously disappears (1975).
