Thursday, May 28th at 7:00pm. Join us as we wrap up the discussion with Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Presented by Dr. Mark Schenker of Yale University, “Imagined Women” looks at a series of novels that have a woman as the central focus and discusses the heroines […]
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Thursday, May 21st at 7:00pm. Fang and claw have jumped the white picket fence as encounters with cougars in Chicago, alligators in Florida, and bears virtually everywhere have become increasingly commonplace. Edward Ricciuti explores cutting edge research into why it’s happening, how it impacts all of us, […]
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Tuesday, May 12th at 1:00pm – Join us as we discuss Elizabeth & Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick. Held in the library’s meeting room, newcomers always welcome!
Read more →Thursday, April 30th at 7:00pm ~ The Imagined Women discussion continues with Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth. Dr. Mark Schenker of Yale University will present three lectures at the Killingworth Library in the series “Imagined Women.” The books to be discussed are Madame Bovary, The House […]
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Thursday, April 23rd at 7:00pm. New Englanders love their old stone walls. Why? The answer isn’t quite as obvious as it seems. Come hear what UConn professor Robert Thorson thinks during this public lecture program. The history, art, psychology, and science of stone walls are all on […]
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Thursday, April 16th at 7:00pm. Local poet Sara Ingram published “Sounds of House and Wood” in 2013 and plans to present the “stories behind the poems” which include her own memories of shelving books in the library and growing up in Deep River. The poems in Sara […]
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Tuesday, March 24 at 7pm – presentation by Mathew M. Duman, author of “An Education in the Grotesque: The Gargoyles of Yale University”. In the lecture, Duman will highlight a selection of gargoyles and grotesques found on the buildings of Yale University’s campus. Using photographs from his […]
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Tuesday, March 17th ~ 7:00pm. Is Constant Contact a continuous conundrum? Do Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks force you to seek guidance from an in-the-know teenager? At the heart of small business marketing are the campaigns that drive action – collections of marketing activities that help […]
Read more →RESCHEDULED to Thursday, April 16th: Local poet Sara Ingram published “Sounds of House and Wood” in 2013 and plans to present the “stories behind the poems” which include her own memories of shelving books in the library and growing up in Deep River. The poems in Sara […]
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Tuesday, January 13th at 1:00pm. The group will discuss Philip Roth’s 30th book “The Humbling.” Famed stage actor, Simon Axler is the aging male around which Roth builds this short novel. An attempt to play both Prospero and Macbeth on stage at the Kennedy Center goes very […]
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