Author/Editor Talk: Elizabeth Kolbert and Gillian Blake – Zoom

Virtual

Writer Elizabeth Kolbert will speak with her longtime editor, Cornwall’s own Gillian Blake, about the process between writers and editors, as well as the contents of her new book Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. A much anticipated follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning last book, The Sixth Extinction, this just released publication [Read More...]

Winter Birds in our Backyards Part II – Zoom

Virtual

Join Sharon Audubon Naturalist, Bethany Sheffer, in the second installation of a two-part program on winter bird feeding. However, since spring will be fast approaching, they will discuss how participants can create a self-sustaining bird buffet for their feeder birds using native plants in their landscapes! This program will also cover the protocol when finding [Read More...]

Dr. Bernard LaFayette: The Kingian Legacy of Non-Violence from Selma to 2021 – Zoom

Virtual

Cosponsored by the  Bushnell-Sage Library, Cornwall Library, Hotchkiss Library, Norfolk Library, and the Scoville Memorial Library in collaboration with the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence Dr. LaFayette is one of the last of a legendary generation of Civil Rights era activists.  From Freedom Rider to the Selma-Montgomery march, LaFayette protested, was beaten, and arrested 27 times.  [Read More...]

Pre-Orders Due: South of the Border Take Out Copy

South of the Border Take Out benefit dinner hosted by UCC Faith Formation Committee for the Church School giving projects. Pre-order only, pick up at UCC Parish House, March 27 (orders due March 19) between 5 and 7 p.m. Main dish choice of rice and beans or sweet potato and beef with two sides, cornbread, [Read More...]

Author Talk: Janice Nimura and Franny Taliaferro – Zoom

Virtual

Janice Nimura will join her former high school teacher Franny Taliaferro in conversation about Nimura's recently published The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine. Nimura is the author of the NY Times Notable Book Daughters of the Samurai.  Now she tells the history of Elizabeth and Emily [Read More...]