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The monthly meeting of the Town Arts Committee members invites guests and the public to discuss town arts! |
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Join 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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Efficiency Vermont offers the first of three visits to help you increase energy efficiency in your home or business. Open Office hours with Brad Long of Efficiency Vermont 3:00-5:00 in the Main Reading Room on the library's first floor Drop by for a personal conversation with Brad Long of Efficiency Vermont to discuss your home, apartment […]
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Efficiency Vermont offers the first 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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Join us on Friday September 30th from 7pm-10pm to play games with the Teen Advisory Board! We will have a selection of board and card games to play with as well as an Oculus to try out. We’ll be on the 2nd floor and spread out between the rooms. Pizza and snacks provided! Hosted by […] |
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Author Shin Freedman will lead a three-part workshop to explore the craft of writing memoir 10:00-12:00 on three Saturdays: October 1st, October 22nd 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 […] 
Come 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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Join 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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With Reuben Jackson The ever-changing music that Miles Davis recorded from 1969 to 1975 angered and bewildered many critics and fans, who accused the trumpeter of “selling out.” Jazz archivist and poet Reuben Jackson shares how recordings from Davis’ “Electric Period”—including 1974’s Get Up With It—prove otherwise. Reuben Jackson is the Archivist with the University […] |
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Come 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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Join 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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William Mundell (1912-1997) is one of Vermont’s finest native-born poets. He lived his entire life in South Newfane, unusually combining his career as a poet with work as a carpenter, stone mason, and State highway foreman. He served on the town selectboard, as an auditor, and justice of the peace, and was also editor of […] 
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Join Brattleboro’s Brooks Memorial Library for a monthly book group Reading and Discussing the pivotal book Parenting 4 Social Justice facilitated by Abby Mnookin What: Dive deep into the topics of Social Justice, Parenting for Social Justice, Parenting for Racial Justice, Parenting for Economic Justice, Parenting for Disability Justice, Parenting for Gender Justice, and Parenting […] |
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Mason Goes Mushrooming This first-of-its kind foraging story from Melany Kahn and Ellen Korbonski, Mason Goes Mushrooming takes us on a woodland treasure hunt. Join Melany Kahn for an interactive kid -friendly activities about mushrooms. Examine and identify real local mushrooms. Grab provided materials to make your own wooden, paper or model mushrooms to take home. […] 
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Maria Scrivan is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning syndicated cartoonist, and speaker based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her laugh-out-loud comic, Half Full, appears daily in newspapers nationwide and on gocomics.com. Maria licenses her work for greeting cards, and her cartoons have appeared in MAD Magazine, Parade, and many other publications. Nat Enough, her debut graphic […] 
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Sofi Thanhauser teaches in the writing department at Pratt Institute. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell, and Ucross Foundation. Her writing has appeared in Vox, The Guardian, Observer Magazine, and Dame among other publications. Her new book is Worn: A People's History of Clothing. She lives in Brooklyn. |
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Ellyn Gaydos received an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University. Her work has received the Richard J. Margolis Award for nonfiction writers of social justice journalism, and appeared in The Texas Review, Columbia Journal, and Ninth Letter, where she received the 2017 award for creative nonfiction. She is the author of a new memoir, Pig […] 
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Kathryn Davis is the author of eight novels, including The Silk Road and Duplex. She has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her new book is Aurelia, Aurelia a memoir. Davis won the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 2006 […] 
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Albert Samaha is an investigative journalist and inequality editor at BuzzFeed News and author of Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Village Voice, San Francisco Weekly, and the Riverfront Times, among other outlets. A Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient, he is also the author of Never […] |
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You can return your packet and payment to the library at any time up to 8pm on Monday, October 17th. Design-A-Plate is a Pay-What-You-Can event; Suggested cost is $6 per item. See our FAQ for more information 
This month's title is A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers. Pick up a copy of the book or download an ebook or audio book. |
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This evening's event has been cancelled. Please keep an eye out for future programs. |
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Join 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! 
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 […] |
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Come 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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The monthly meeting of the Town Arts Committee members invites guests and the public to discuss town arts! |
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Join 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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Efficiency Vermont offers the second of three visits to help you increase energy efficiency in your home or business. Open Office hours with Brad Long of Efficiency Vermont 3:00-5:00 in the Main Reading Room on the library's first floor Drop by for a personal conversation with Brad Long of Efficiency Vermont to discuss your home, apartment […]
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Efficiency 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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Local 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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Author 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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In 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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Andrew 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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Join 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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Creating 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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Windham 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 […] |
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Author Shin Freedman will lead a three-part workshop to explore the craft of writing memoir 10:00-12:00 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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Windham County Genealogy Research Group meeting. In-person and Zoom. We will be discussing how to solve some your genealogical research “brick walls.” Please use this link, https://forms.gle/Kt4YPngBwKygmDqWA, to tell us about your research and register for the meeting. For more information please contact windhamcountygig@gmail.com. Wayne and Jerry Wayne Blanchard & Jerry Carbone Windham County Genealogy […]
Come 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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Teen Game Night