Throughout the workshop, attendees will learn full traditional pieces while developing essential skills in drumming technique, improvisation, and ensemble playing. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced musician, this series offers a rich opportunity to deepen your understanding of Ghanaian music and culture, and apply what you learn to your own musical practice. Attendees will get to participate on various percussion instruments found in these styles of drumming.

 

 

Miss Christine from Little Bee Yoga Co. is excited to share the magic of yoga with John Curtis Library families!!  This fun class provides a beautiful bonding experience between the adult and child. Each class is 45 minutes. The class is geared toward children ages three to six years, but all ages are welcome to participate.  Please bring a yoga mat or towel.

 

Simple picture books, big books, finger plays, songs and movement for children 18-35 months with a parent/caregiver.

 

Drop-in, no registration needed.

The Toe Jam Halloween Show is full of the fun & silliness families have come to expect from these guys!  Original Halloween theme music by Mr. Tom and high energy interactive stuff with Mr. Vinny!  At the end of the show what do they throw at the kids? . . . CANDY!!!

 

A very kid friendly (not spooky) show!   Wear your Halloween costume!

 

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New Zealand is home to many rare birds and marine mammals including the comical yellow-eyed penguin. Watch and listen as the yellow-eyed penguin returns from the ocean to feed its chick and the Antipodes Island parrot demonstrates “looks, personality and talent.” Not to be outdone, rare New Zealand sea lions make quite an impression as they interact on isolated South Island beaches, pods of rare Hector’s dolphins frolic near coastal shores and dusky dolphins play with kayakers as they travel deep into the fiords of southern New Zealand. Join us for sights and sounds of animal personalities from this amazing country.

 

Join Joy Marzolf of The Joys of Nature for an informative photographic tour through the country and its fauna! 

You all know we love our book birthdays and we can't wait to celebrate Amityville Awakens with horror author Robert Ottone! The book will have just come out on Oct 6th so we'll make sure we don't run into spoilers but we're sure there will be plenty to chat about. Robert is joined by Lauren Bolger for a conversation about his new book, his process, and whatever other horror-ific things they'd like to chat about. We hope you can join us for this fun discussion. 

 

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RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program. 

 

Leslye will be discussing her new book, The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass which she tells us is not strictly a romance but with a strong romantic subplot - you know what? We'll take it!  Save your sister, doom the world. For five years, Zahara Douglass has been haunted by her sister’s impossible disappearance. Now, in December 1999, with the world on the brink of chaos, Zahara sets out to find her sister no matter the cost in this twisty and compelling modern fantasy. Sounds awesome, right? We hope you can join us for this fun discussion!

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RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.

 

Join Solar System Ambassador David S. Ball for his presentation, "High Gate to Touchdown: Apollo 11’s final descent to the surface of the Moon." Learn why none of the landings that could have been done on autopilot ever were and how the Mark 1 eyeball kept the mission from ending in certain failure. Led by David Ball, who served 26 years in the US Air Force, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel, and is a now a volunteer educator with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 

 

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NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.

 

Please us for the Out of This World Science Fiction / Fantasy Book Club! We'll send out a link to registrants.  We alternate monthly between science fiction and fantasy titles.

 

The title for October is The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

 

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We always have such a blast with Jeremy on this talks about haunted lighthouses, that we just had to have him back! He's working on a 4.0 program just for us! Even more stories, even more ghosts, even more sightings - just more! 

 

Lighthouses and ghost stories often seem to go hand in hand. In the past, Jeremy has discussed the lovelorn spirit known as Ernie at Connecticut's New London Ledge Light and the piano playing ghost of Maine's Seguin Light, among others as well as about the mysterious Woman in White in the Isles of Shoals and the spirit of a drowned lighthouse keeper at Penfield Reef in Connecticut. This time, who knows what fascinating and haunting tales Jeremy will come up with.

 

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RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.

 

Jeremy D'Entremont is the president and historian of the American Lighthouse Foundation, historian for the U.S. Lighthouse Society, and the author of more than 20 books and hundreds of articles on lighthouses and maritime history. He's the producer and host of the U.S. Lighthouse Society's podcast, Light Hearted. He has appeared on the popular Ghost Hunters TV show, as well as Haunted Lighthouses of America on the Travel Channel. He has also appeared on the History Channel, Public Television, and National Public Radio speaking about lighthouses.

 

Iman Hariri-Kia is an Iranian-American writer, editor, and author whose books are both fun and slyly subversive. So, of course, we're super excited that she'll be joining us for this AMA (ask me anything) session celebrating her new book, Once in a Timeline, releasing on October 13th! It's a a clever and swoony novel about an aspiring New York lifestyle influencer who gets trapped in her own "day in the life" video, with only a mysterious stranger to help her break out. What's not to like? It's a BYOC event (bring your own cake :). We hope you can join us for what will definitely be a fascinating conversation. 

 

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RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program. 

 

Examine the Borden murders, the prime suspect herself and the life she lived in Fall River, both before and after the fateful day of August 4, 1892. The scene then shifts to the modern-day Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast, and a thorough discussion of the presenter's six years of documenting the paranormal activity there. Led by Tim Weisberg, the host and co-creator of "Spooky Southcoast," one of the world’s longest-running radio programs on the topic of the paranormal." He has worked as a writer, researcher, and producer on the popular paranormal television programs Ghost Stalkers, Ghost Asylum, and Haunted Towns. Weisberg has also been featured on programs such as Ghost Adventures, My Ghost Story, Most Haunted Towns, and MonsterQuest, and in the documentaries The Bridgewater Triangle and Famously Haunted: Amityville. He is also the author of Ghosts of the SouthCoast and co-author of Haunted Objects: Stories of Books on Your Shelf. 

 

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RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.