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SUMMARY:Mindfulness Meditation
DESCRIPTION:“With Our Thoughts We Create the World”* \nJoin us for four Wednesday afternoons this fall\, to learn and practice the four foundations of Mindfulness in a warm\, receptive environment with Judith McClain\, a seasoned teacher. \nThe benefits of a regular Mindfulness practice include increased patience with self and others; resilience in the face of adversity; a calm body and mind; stress reduction; a deep enjoyment of life itself; and perhaps best of all\, befriending ourselves with kindness and mercy in challenging moments. \n\nNo prior meditation experience is necessary\nEach session will build upon the previous session\nAll are welcome!\n\nPreregistration for these free sessions is requested\, not required. Please complete this brief form or email Programs@NormanWilliams.org. \nJudith McClain (MFA) has taught meditation and yoga for 27 years. She has developed courses on mindfulness\, compassion\, and the psychology of mindfulness at Salve Regina University. She credits Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach among her teachers and sits regularly with the Valley Insight Meditation Society in Lebanon. Judy founded the Grace School of Yoga in 2009 to train teachers; she continues to educate yoga teachers and meditators. \n* from Siddhartha Gautama
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/mindfulness-meditation/2025-10-01
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Program
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SUMMARY:Author Event: Courtney Floyd | Higher Magic
DESCRIPTION:Join the Yankee Bookshop and NWPL to celebrate the launch of Higher Magic by local author Courtney Floyd! \nIn this incisive\, irreverent\, and whimsical cozy dark academia novel\, a struggling mage student with intense anxiety must prove that classic literature contained magic—and learn to wield her own stories to change her institution for the better. \nFirst-generation graduate student Dorothe Bartleby has one last chance to pass the Magic program’s qualifying exam after freezing with anxiety during her first attempt. If she fails to demonstrate that magic in classic literature changed the world\, she’ll be kicked out of the university. And now her advisor insists she reframe her entire dissertation using Digimancy. While mages have found a way to combine computers and magic\, Bartleby’s fated to never make it work. \nThis time is no exception. Her revised working goes horribly wrong\, creating a talking skull named Anne that narrates Bartleby’s inner thoughts—even the most embarrassing ones—like she’s a heroine in a Jane Austen novel. Out of her depth\, she recruits James\, an unfairly attractive mage candidate\, to help her stop Anne’s glitches in time for her exam. \nInstead\, Anne leads them to a shocking and dangerous discovery: Magic students who seek disability accommodations are disappearing—quite literally. When the administration fails to act\, Bartleby must learn to trust her own knowledge and skills. Otherwise\, she risks losing both the missing students and her future as a mage\, permanently. \n+++ \nCourtney Floyd is a neurodivergent fantasy author who grew up in New Mexico\, where she learned to write between tarantula turf wars and apocalyptic dust storms. She currently lives at the bottom of a haunted mountain in the woods of Vermont with her partner and pets. Higher Magic is her debut novel. \nCourtney has a PhD in British Literature and a penchant for irreverent literary allusions. Her short stories have appeared in publications including Fireside Magazine\, Small Wonders\, and Haven Spec\, and her audio drama\, The Way We Haunt Now\, is available wherever you get your podcasts. \n+++ \nThis event is free and open to all! The Yankee Bookshop is co-host and will be on hand with books for purchase and autographing.
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/author-event-courtney-floyd-higher-magic
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T174500
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SUMMARY:Mindfulness Meditation
DESCRIPTION:“With Our Thoughts We Create the World”* \nJoin us for four Wednesday afternoons this fall\, to learn and practice the four foundations of Mindfulness in a warm\, receptive environment with Judith McClain\, a seasoned teacher. \nThe benefits of a regular Mindfulness practice include increased patience with self and others; resilience in the face of adversity; a calm body and mind; stress reduction; a deep enjoyment of life itself; and perhaps best of all\, befriending ourselves with kindness and mercy in challenging moments. \n\nNo prior meditation experience is necessary\nEach session will build upon the previous session\nAll are welcome!\n\nPreregistration for these free sessions is requested\, not required. Please complete this brief form or email Programs@NormanWilliams.org. \nJudith McClain (MFA) has taught meditation and yoga for 27 years. She has developed courses on mindfulness\, compassion\, and the psychology of mindfulness at Salve Regina University. She credits Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach among her teachers and sits regularly with the Valley Insight Meditation Society in Lebanon. Judy founded the Grace School of Yoga in 2009 to train teachers; she continues to educate yoga teachers and meditators. \n* from Siddhartha Gautama
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/mindfulness-meditation/2025-10-08
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T143000
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SUMMARY:Author Event: Gesine Bullock-Prado | My Harvest Kitchen
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Gesine Bullock-Prado about her new cookbook\, My Harvest Kitchen: 100+ Recipes to Savor the Seasons. She will be speaking with Mary Anna King about gardening\, cooking\, writing\, teaching\, and more. \nOur co-hosts\, Yankee Bookshop will have early copies of the book for purchase and signing. This event is free & open to all; space is limited: first come\, first seated. \nIn this new cookbook\, Gesine Bullock-Prado invites her fans into her kitchen\, where the harvest is local. Whether she’s picked the lettuce from her own garden\, visited a farmers’ market\, or shopped at the local grocery store\, her seasonal cooking is accessible to all readers. Delicious recipes share the page with fan-favorite family stories and tips on growing food\, understanding the soil\, and more\, for aspirational (and actual) gardeners. \nBullock-Prado once dreamed of homesteading—living off the land\, cooking pies with scavenged berries\, keeping bees and savoring the honey\, and foraging all things wild—but was not wholly successful. Her hybrid approach is on display here\, and she encourages readers to be realistic and celebrate fresh ingredients wherever they were grown. From Zucchini Waffles to Pickled Peaches\, Green Mountain Carbonara to Key Lime Ice Cream Pie\, Peony Jelly to Preserved Lemons\, these are dishes to make time and again. \n+++ \nGesine Bullock-Prado is a renowned pastry chef\, cookbook author\, baking instructor and television personality. She is the author of six well-received baking books and a baking memoir. Her confections have been featured in publications from Better Homes and Gardens to People Magazine\, and she’s a regular food presenter on the Today Show. She is the owner and baking instructor at Sugar Glider Kitchen in Hartford\, VT. \nMary King is a writer and former restaurant manager living in Quechee\, Vermont. Mary spent more than a decade working in some of the most celebrated restaurants in the country. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus and The Toast; her restaurant expertise has been featured in the Huffington Post\, Modern Restaurant Management\, and the Food Institute. She is currently the senior restaurant writer for FitSmallBusiness.com.
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/author-event-gesine-bullock-prado-my-harvest-kitchen
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T193000
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SUMMARY:The Power of Words: Finding Community in the Dementia Journey with L. Annette Binder
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author L. Annette Binder will read from her new memoir\, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven\, an account of her mother Helena’s struggle with dementia. The author turns to mythology\, poetry\, science\, and history in her quest to find meaning\, community\, and beauty as her mother’s cognition declines. \nScheduled in conjunction with the Upper Valley Walk to End Alzheimer’s\, which will take place on October 26\, this event will provide a forum and a sense of community for those whose lives have been touched by dementia. There will be opportunities for interactive discussion and a short Memory Board activity honoring loved ones living with dementia. A list of curated books and other resources will be available. \nL. Annette Binder was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States as a child. She holds degrees in Classics and law from Harvard\, an MA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and an MFA from the Programs in Writing at UC Irvine. Her short story collection Rise (Sarabande) received the Mary McCarthy Prize\, and her stories have been included in the Pushcart and O. Henry Prize Anthologies. Her debut novel The Vanishing Sky (Bloomsbury) was a New York Times Book Review Selection for Summer and received the Eyelands International Book Award. She lives in New Hampshire with her family. \nJames Brown\, author of Apology to the Young Addict\, calls the book “a hauntingly powerful work of the sort only the very best of writers may hope to achieve in a lifetime\,” while Harvard neuroscientist Daniel L. Schacter finds it “an essential book that both moves and informs.” \nThe Yankee Bookshop will be on hand with copies of Child of Earth and Starry Heaven for purchase and signing.
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/power-of-words
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Special Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T174500
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SUMMARY:Mindfulness Meditation
DESCRIPTION:“With Our Thoughts We Create the World”* \nJoin us for four Wednesday afternoons this fall\, to learn and practice the four foundations of Mindfulness in a warm\, receptive environment with Judith McClain\, a seasoned teacher. \nThe benefits of a regular Mindfulness practice include increased patience with self and others; resilience in the face of adversity; a calm body and mind; stress reduction; a deep enjoyment of life itself; and perhaps best of all\, befriending ourselves with kindness and mercy in challenging moments. \n\nNo prior meditation experience is necessary\nEach session will build upon the previous session\nAll are welcome!\n\nPreregistration for these free sessions is requested\, not required. Please complete this brief form or email Programs@NormanWilliams.org. \nJudith McClain (MFA) has taught meditation and yoga for 27 years. She has developed courses on mindfulness\, compassion\, and the psychology of mindfulness at Salve Regina University. She credits Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach among her teachers and sits regularly with the Valley Insight Meditation Society in Lebanon. Judy founded the Grace School of Yoga in 2009 to train teachers; she continues to educate yoga teachers and meditators. \n* from Siddhartha Gautama
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/mindfulness-meditation/2025-10-15
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T174500
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SUMMARY:Mindfulness Meditation
DESCRIPTION:“With Our Thoughts We Create the World”* \nJoin us for four Wednesday afternoons this fall\, to learn and practice the four foundations of Mindfulness in a warm\, receptive environment with Judith McClain\, a seasoned teacher. \nThe benefits of a regular Mindfulness practice include increased patience with self and others; resilience in the face of adversity; a calm body and mind; stress reduction; a deep enjoyment of life itself; and perhaps best of all\, befriending ourselves with kindness and mercy in challenging moments. \n\nNo prior meditation experience is necessary\nEach session will build upon the previous session\nAll are welcome!\n\nPreregistration for these free sessions is requested\, not required. Please complete this brief form or email Programs@NormanWilliams.org. \nJudith McClain (MFA) has taught meditation and yoga for 27 years. She has developed courses on mindfulness\, compassion\, and the psychology of mindfulness at Salve Regina University. She credits Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach among her teachers and sits regularly with the Valley Insight Meditation Society in Lebanon. Judy founded the Grace School of Yoga in 2009 to train teachers; she continues to educate yoga teachers and meditators. \n* from Siddhartha Gautama
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/mindfulness-meditation/2025-10-22
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T210000
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SUMMARY:Trivia! | Library After Hours
DESCRIPTION:Test your knowledge! Trivia questions will run the gamut from pop culture\, sports\, history\, and – of course – books. The winning team gets bragging rights and their picture on the coveted digital display board! \nA “fun-raiser” that is also a mini-fundraiser\, there will be a $5 entry fee per player.  Gather friends – or come on your own and join forces with others here – to form teams for this Library After Hours event. \nThis event is BYOB\, so feel free to bring your own drinks (including beer and wine); the library will supply snacks. The game will start promptly at 7:30.
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/trivia-library-after-hours
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Library After Hours,Special Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T170000
DTSTAMP:20260505T055914
CREATED:20250913T153514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T191018Z
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SUMMARY:SBOOKY Library | Not-Too-Scary Halloween Fun!
DESCRIPTION:Surrounded by cobwebs and creepy noises coming out of the dark corners\, you might encounter a lonely witch or hairy goblin waiting for you on Sunday afternoon at the library. Enter the old\, haunted great hall\, and find your way through the spooky stacks. Be careful\, there may be a ghost or two! Then it’s down\, down to the dungeon… \n…where you will discover the Halloween Party in the Children’s Room! \nPlease join us for these not-too-scary tricks and lots of treats – fun for the younger set and the less intrepid among us. We’ll have games\, activities\, and seasonal snacks. Costumes are encouraged. Children under 11 must be accompanied by a caregiver 14 or older for everyone’s peace of mind. \nAdrian Tans & skeleton at a SBOOKY Library party \nThe SBOOKY LIBRARY event is free and open to all; donations to support this event are appreciated.
URL:https://normanwilliams.org/event/sbooky-library-not-too-scary-halloween-fun
LOCATION:Norman Williams Public Library\, 10 The Green\, Woodstock\, VT\, 05091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Children & Family Programs,Special Program,Youth Programs
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