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Efficiency Vermont: Weatherizing your Home
Featured224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, United StatesEfficiency Vermont offers the second of three presentations to help you increase energy efficiency in your home or business. Each presentation is preceded by Open Office hours with Brad Long of Efficiency Vermont, 3:00-5:00 on the library's first floor. This is an opportunity for community members to have a personal conversation with Brad Long of […]
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T. P. James’ Write Like the Dickens Supernatural Flash Fiction Contest
FeaturedBrooks Memorial Library 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, United StatesLocal author and character T.P. James claimed he channeled the genius of Charles Dickens who wrote through him. Let the creative spirit flow through you and try your hand at writing a story in a single hour.
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Writing Memoir with Shin Freedman
FeaturedMeeting Room A - Community Meeting Room 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, United StatesAuthor Shin Freedman will lead a three-part workshop to explore the craft of writing memoir 10:15-12:15 on three Saturdays: October 1st, October 29nd and November 5th at Brooks Memorial Library “Great memoirs deal with the subject of identity and lifetime quests by weaving cohesive stories from jumbled, imperfect memories. What propels people to write a […]
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Archer Mayor at the Library: Fall Guy
FeaturedMain Reading RoomIn Fall Guy, Archer Mayor's newest Joe Gunther novel, a body found in the trunk of a stolen car leads Gunther and his team to crucial evidence in an infamous unsolved case from years past. Meet author Archer Mayor at the library Saturday, October 29th at 11:00 a.m. Learn about what the Chicago Tribune calls […]
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Migration Pathways: Stories of Yesterday and Today
FeaturedMain Reading RoomAndrew Ingall, creator of the project “Warlé, Yesterday, and Today,” presents a slide talk and storytelling exercise inspired by the lives and legacy of Warren Kronemeyer and Leon Ingall, a Vermont couple who were entrepreneurs and civic leaders in Townshend, VT during the 1980 and 1990s. Leon was a refugee twice: first fleeing the Bolsheviks […]
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Game Cafe!
Meeting Room A - Community Meeting Room 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, United StatesCome join game enthusiasts in playing Magic the Gathering in various formats (including Commander/EDH) as well as other fun and creative board & card games. Bring your favorite games- All Ages Welcome!
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Mineralogical Society of Brattleboro
Meeting Room A - Community Meeting Room 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, United StatesStudy of Rocks & Minerals
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Rhyme Time
Featured Rhyme TimeChildren's Room 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, United StatesJoin us on Wednesday mornings @ 10:30 am for 30 minutes of stories, songs, and fun! Rhyme Time is for kids 5 & under and their caregivers. Here is a handout featuring the different songs, fingerplays and movement games we use!
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First Wednesdays: Drawing Community
FeaturedBrooks Memorial Library 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, United StatesCreating Comics from Shared Stories Live Event November 2: 7:00 pm Using examples from his work with the Vermont Reads 2022 book The Most Costly Journey (El Viaje Más Caro) and his Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby series, cartoonist Marek Bennett explores how the act of cartooning can help us forge connections, build empathy, […]
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Ambassador Peter Galbraith The Ukraine War: What Now? What Next? How Does it End?
Featured224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, United StatesWindham World Affairs Council presents its Annual Galbraith Lecture. Ambassador Galbraith’s voice is a vital one in 2022. Few American diplomats have had as much direct experience in war time diplomacy as Ambassador Galbraith. Serving as the first US ambassador to Croatia, he negotiated the 1995 peace agreement that ended that country’s war. Recently returned […]