Special Program
Special Program
Events
Elizabeth Wellington Rollins | The Three Graces of Pearl Street
A wise and warm debut novel about an Italian American grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter all named after the Roman myth of the Three Graces.
Interplay Jazz Jam Session | Library After Hours
Musicians and listeners alike are invited to attend and enjoy this Interplay Jazz Jam Session on the Mezzanine with its great acoustics and baby grand piano.
Woodstock Repair Café
A free community event where neighbors bring in broken, worn, or beloved-but-well-used items and skilled volunteers help repair and restore them, keeping still-usable items out of landfills.
Warren Leach | Beyond Blooms: Design with Color, Structure, and Seasonal Senescence
Warren Leach, an award-winning landscape designer, will highlight woody and herbaceous plants with good foliage color, architectural structure, and multi-seasonal interest that can be used in a diversity of ways to complement flowers in a mixed border.
Unearth A Story’s Ending & Potato Harvest Shindig
What stories have you unearthed this summer? Come to our Shindig, celebrate your reading discoveries, and help us harvest the Potato Plot!
Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature
Gavin Van Horn, executive editor, and Heather Swan, poetry editor, selected essays and poetry for Sensoria to call attention to the wondrous ways in which humans and other-than-human beings experience and perceive the world.
Trivia! | Library After Hours
Test your knowledge! Trivia questions will run the gamut from pop culture, sports, history, and – of course – books at this fun “Library After Hours” event.
SBOOKY Library | Not-Too-Scary Halloween Fun!
Not-too-scary tricks and lots of treats – fun for the younger set and the less intrepid among us. Costumes are encouraged.
Homer’s Odyssey | “One-off” Book Discussion
Intrigued about all the buzz about the Odyssey, a poem nearly 3,000 years old? Join us for a community book discussion about Homer’s ancient epic.
Emily Franklin | Love & Other Monsters.
Love & Other Monsters, a new novel by Emily Franklin, is the untold origin story of Frankenstein, a feminist reckoning of sisters, survival, and the creation of monsters — both those on the page and those who walk among us.
Michael J. Caduto | The Day the Pond Flew South
Award-winning writer and educator Michael J. Caduto will read his new picture book, The Day the Pond Flew South, and share information and an activity about loons.
Word Games | Library After Hours
Calling all crossword puzzlers, Wordle fans, spelling bee champs: time to relax, mingle, and play games!