Visiting author, Pearl Whitfield shares selections from her new book Apsara, the story of a young girl in a remote village in 12th century Cambodia, who loves to dance and is chosen to train as an Apsara (court dancer) for King Jayavarman VII. Apsaras dance to bring heaven to earth, blessing the land with prosperity. […]
Study of Rocks & Minerals
Local authors Susan Mills and Barbara Morrison read from their books and discuss incorporating social justice issues in fiction and memoir. Susan Mills' new novel, On the Wings of a Hummingbird, follows a 15-year-old Guatemalan girl who draws on Mayan mythology to help her carve a future out of a childhood scarred by gang violence. […]
Do you read The New Yorker magazine regularly? Would you like to discuss recent articles with fellow readers? The New Yorker discussion group gathers on the third Wednesday of each month at 7pm in the Community Meeting Room on the second floor. Similar to a book group, participants bring their favorite articles in the magazine […]
Do you read The New Yorker magazine regularly? Would you like to discuss recent articles with fellow readers? The New Yorker discussion group gathers on the third Wednesday of each month at 7pm in the Community Meeting Room on the second floor. Similar to a book group, participants bring their favorite articles in the magazine […]
Special after-hours event to celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses at Brooks Memorial Library On June 16 people around the world celebrate the day in 1904 when Leopold and Molly Bloom, Stephen Dedalus and a host of other Dubliners from all walks of life experienced the full range of human events and emotions in James Joyce’s novel […]
LIVE AND IN PERSON SATURDAY, JUNE 18, AT 11 A.M, EDT TOPICS: Searching Chronicling America Newspapers for Ancestors & Navigating NARA, the National Archives and Records Administration The June meeting of the Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will be held as a hybrid meeting: in person at the Brooks Library Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, in […]
Celebrate the longest day of the year and Make Music Vermont during an interlude with New England based pedal and traditional Scottish harpist, Rachel Clemente.
Join us in the library parking lot for a Teens Only outdoor movie night to kick off Summer Reading Program. Bring your own seating! In honor of Pride Month, we will watch "But I'm a Cheerleader". "But I'm a Cheerleader" is a campy, funny, queer-positive cult classic about a high school cheerleader whose parents send […]
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