The Orcas Library will be hosting new classes and events during March and April.

Kim Middleton’s Intermediate Birding Class resumes Thursday, March 18 and continues to April 22. Class time is 1 to 4 p.m. Class size is limited. Tuition is $75 for the six-week course.

Bob Littlewood will be discussing “Stop! Look! Listen! An Exercise in Unpacking” beginning March 25 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., for eight weeks. The discussion will focus on how we attend to the “world” and how and why we insistently seek distraction, and if it is possible to find an island of calm in the sea of chaos. The fee for this course is $10 to cover the cost of photocopying.

Kathy Ciskowski will be teaching a two-part course titled “Getting Started in Geneaology.” This course will focus on using library resources, with an emphasis on the library’s newest database, Ancestry.com. The class will be taught Wednesday, April 14 and 21, from 1to 2:30 p.m. and will be limited to 12 students. The fee is $10 and students are encouraged to bring a laptop, if possible.

On April 12, the library is pleased to present author and food blogger Molly Wizenberg. She will be available to sign purchased copies of her book, “A Homemade Life,” supplied by Darvill’s Bookstore, at the Episcopal Church Parish Hall at 3:30 p.m. The event is free to the public.

April is also Poetry Month, and the library will have events on Friday, April 23 and an all-day poetry workshop on Saturday, April 24. More details will be available at a later date.

Questions or need more information? Call the library at 376-4985.