5 Things: The Best in Senior Art at the Library

1. The best works by The Watertown Senior Center Art Class in the past year will be shown in a month-long exhibit at the Watertown Free Public Library starting today. The Watertown Senior Center Art Class meets at the center Monday mornings from September through June under the guidance of master artist Dawn Scaltreto. 

2. The Summer Youth Tennis Lessons are held daily from Monday through Friday for 50 minutes. Sponsored by the Watertown Recreation Department, lessons include forehand, backhand and overhead shots, serving and scoring. July 1 and July 2 are set aside for placing the students in their proper skills classes. The classes begin at 8:30 a.m. Call for all the information.

3. It's Movie Monday. Every Monday, the Watertown Free Public Library shows a recent blockbuster film up on their big screen at 6:30 p.m. Call ahead to our Reference Desk at 617-972-6436 to learn the movie title.

4. Here's a chance to have your youngest learn about gardening: Come tend the Watertown Free Public Library's garden. Weed, harvest, and learn with the library staff. For children ages 3 and up with an adult. No registration. Just come on by at 10:15 a.m.

5. On this day in 1863, elements of the Union and Confederate armies initially collided at Gettysburg as Confederate General Robert E. Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it. Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division and reinforced by infantry. But two large Confederate units assaulted them from the north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of the town to the hills just to the south. Nearly 50,000 men fought on that first day of the battle.