Five Things for Wednesday: Book Club, Caregivers Support Group & More

Johnston Weather:

• Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 49. North wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
• Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 32. North wind around 9 mph.

Caregivers Support Group: The Johnston Senior Center is scheduled to hold a Caregivers Support Group with Ann Mulhall on Wednesdays at 11 a.m. at the Center. For more information call the Center at 401-944-3343. Dates and times for events are subject to change. Call ahead to confirm.

Book Club: For students in grades 6 through 12. Reader’s Lair meets at the Marian J. Mohr Memorial Library, 1 Memorial Ave, Johnston. The group will be discussing Shelter by Harlan Coben.  Coben is a popular author of suspenseful thrillers for adults. This is his debut young adult novel. Meeting starts at 6:30pm.

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This Day in History: On this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is published by Harper & Brothers in New York. Moby-Dick is now considered a great classic of American literature and contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: "Call me Ishmael." Initially, though, the book about Captain Ahab and his quest for a giant white whale was a flop.