Bring a stuffed animal to spend a fun-filled night at the library!

 

Drop off Thursday, August 27 and pick up Friday, August 28.  Animals will come home with goody bags, and you'll be sent pictures of what they did during their sleepover party.

 

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Boiling Water, Tall Boy, Two Kettles Together, and The Old Puritan: Lesser Known Revolutionary War Figures

What better way to end our semiquincentennial series than with our favorite presidential doodler, Heather Rogers! She'll share trivia and doodles about some figures from history we may not be as familiar with. She's not even going to mention George Washington or John Adams. OK, she probably will. But join us for this fascinating conversation anyhow!

 

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Register directly on Zoom HERE. Due to limited space, if you know you cannot make it live do not register with zoom but please fill out THIS FORM to receive the video link.

 

Millions visit Faneuil Hall (opened 1742) and Quincy Market (opened 1826) each year -- drawn by the food, the shops, and the rich sense of history. But behind the brick and granite walls are stories that most visitors (and even many locals) have never heard. Led by Susan Mara Bregman, author of the new book, Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market.

 

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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.

 

Love Speculative Fiction, SciFi, and Fantasy but not sure what to read next? Join blogger, Kristen, of Fantasy Cafe for this quarterly session of her recommendations of some of the best of SciFi/Fantasy books out there! We're sure you'll find something to like from Kristen's many enthusiastic reviews.

 

Please register. You can sign up for one session or for all!

 

In addition to hosting her reviews and other book coverage, her website has celebrated Women in SF&F Month every April since 2012, an event that has featured more than 200 guest posts by women in SFF over the years. 

 

We'll send out a list of all recommendations for those who register.

 

Wyatt Earp has been portrayed extensively in westerns and other media and subjected to both broad exaggeration, and uninformed debunking. Learn about his family and early life and his years as a peace officer in the Kansas cow towns of the 1870s, including the infamous Dodge City, his years in the mining town of Tombstone, Arizona, as a businessman and lawman in alliance with his brothers and Doc Holliday, his romantic relationship with Josephine Marcus, and the events leading up to the Gunfight at the OK Corral – perhaps the most famous exchange of gunfire in American history. Led by Daniel Seligman, a retired computer engineer with a lifelong interest in the American West. 

 

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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.

 

Author Suzanne Cope will discuss her new book, Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis. Discover the gripping, true, and untold history of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during World War II, told through the stories of four spectacularly courageous women fighters. Cope, a professor at New York University, is a narrative journalist, whose work has appeared in New York Times, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Food & Wine, BBC, Washington Post, and others. 

 

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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.