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Save the Date for a Weekend Under the Big Top
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Sunday, June 8th, festivities continue for families to enjoy "Fun, Food & Folly" under the Big Top with face-painting, clowns, live animals and your favorite circus foods. Admission on Sunday is free, although donations will be gladly accepted. We hope you will join us for these fun celebratory activities!
Stairwell Gallery
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Mr. Roth studied both design and literature at Carnegie Mellon University earning both a Bachelor of Architecture and a Masters in English. After working briefly designing theatrical environments he taught English in Waltham, MA, and at Shepaug Valley Regional High School. When he retired four years ago after thirty years of teaching, he was director of computer education for the Shepaug District. Mr. Roth has been shooting photos since he was a child, but the digital darkroom inside his computer has rekindled his love of photography. He likes nothing more than hiking the hills and pastures of the Berkshire Hills in search of images that tell the many moods of the land. He hopes the best of them speak with the immediacy of music.
Emery says of his work, "Skeletal trees and reed textures that flicker in early sunlight where spiders build their webs, and ancient barns and silos that glow in the light of late afternoon and whose windows glisten; slimy bogs whose soup is home to richly colored insects, frogs and lilies, and whose viscous waters reflect and distort all; rolling hills that roll with the fog, and idle pastures where dried grasses catch winter's falling snow: These are my most common subjects. I like to compose the 'grand landscape' or compress it to abstraction. For this exhibition the focus is the Farms and Farmlands of the Berkshire Hills. All of the photo images in this exhibition were made in the past year and are being shown for the first time. They were shot on farms in the hills that surround us here in Washington, Connecticut all the way to the New York border and a bit beyond. You may recognize some."
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"This book traces the fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society. Hers is a story out of Edith Wharton. After a disastrous early marriage, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, Brooke fought off an attempt to break Vincent's will, which left some $67 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. As the foundation's president, Brooke would use this legacy to benefit New York, where the Astor fortune had been made." - W.H. Norton
Frances Kiernan is a former editor at The New Yorker and author of Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy.
Please call the library at 860-868-7586 or email us for further information. This program is free and open to the public. Registration is requested, but not required.
Book Discussion Series
This spring, we will present a book discussion on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. on May 27, June 3, June 10, and June 17 entitled "Plays, Playing and Playacting from the Greeks to the Moderns." Copies of the plays will be on hand at the Circulation Desk. Dr. Athenaide Dallett, who has a Ph.D. in English from Harvard and taught drama in the English Department of UConn for many years, will lead the discussions.
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- May 27 - Lysistrata by Aristophanes
This anti-war sex farce is a classic Greek comedy of the battle between the sexes. - June 3 - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
This is a comedy of fairies, mortals, and moonlight. - June 10 - Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
This is theater about theater itself and an exploration of theatrical illusion. - June 17 - The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
This is a Brechtian farce about the meeting of virtue and practical politics, theater as magic.
Free Passes!
A free pass to the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT which admits 2 adults and 4 children (under 18) on Tuesdays - Sundays, November through April: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. This pass may not be valid for special events.The ARTpass offers free general admission to the Wadsworth Atheneum for up to two adults and two children (ages 6-17).
The Junior Library has passes for:
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children, in Norwalk, CT. Use this pass to receive one free admission when you purchase one regular price admission ($7 for adults and children; children under one are admitted free). There is a maximum of three free admissions available per party, per day.
- The Children's Museum in West Hartford
- Roaring Brook Nature Center in Canton. This pass covers general admission for up to four people.
- The Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport. This pass will allow 2 adults and 4 children free admission to Connecticut's only zoo for one day. Limited to use by one family per day.
- Institute for American Indian Studies for a family of four, which covers general admission and provides a 10% discount in the gift shop.
Explore the Connecticut Room
Looking for your ancestors? Want to learn more about your house? Is there something here in Washington that you've always wondered about? Here's your chance to find out. To explore the resources available in both the Connecticut Room and the Museum, please call 868-7756 for an appointment.
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