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July 2019
NEW: AUTOMATIC RENEWAL with your CW MARS Library Account
NEW with your CW MARS Library Account: AUTOMATIC RENEWAL Starting July 1, 2019 Now, not only can Deerfield residents use their local library card to check out materials at any CW MARS public library across the state, but checked out items will be automatically renewed. HOW IT WORKS: You will no longer have to remember to log into your account to renew physical items you have checked out. If a checked out item can be renewed it will automatically be…
Find out more »September 2019
Knitting Group
Do you enjoy knitting and a nice group chat? Join us for the Knitting Group, upstairs at the Tilton Library. Bring your own knitting or crochet projects or follow a given pattern, and we’ll chat as we work. Possible special projects for charity will also be an option. Come relax and work with yarn! We’re happy to help if you’re new to knitting or you’ve reached a tricky point in your pattern. Beginner or experienced knitters welcome. FREE.
Find out more »THIRD THURSDAY BOOK GROUP: Himself by Jess Kidd
Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he receives an anonymous note implying that she may have been forced to give him up. Determined to find out what really happened, Mahony embarks on a pilgrimage back to his hometown, the rural village of Mulderrig. Neither he nor Mulderrig can…
Find out more »LIBRARY FUNDRAISER: Friends of the Tilton Library Accessories and Jewelry Sale
The Friends are pleased to announce a new fall event to replace the book sale this year. It’s an Accessories Sale! This will be held on Saturday September 21st from 10am to 3pm at the South Deerfield Polish Club. New and gently used pocketbooks, scarves, belts, ties, and jewelry. All proceeds will go to the Tilton Library and supports programs for children and adults.
Find out more »Knitting Group
Do you enjoy knitting and a nice group chat? Join us for the Knitting Group, upstairs at the Tilton Library. Bring your own knitting or crochet projects or follow a given pattern, and we’ll chat as we work. Possible special projects for charity will also be an option. Come relax and work with yarn! We’re happy to help if you’re new to knitting or you’ve reached a tricky point in your pattern. Beginner or experienced knitters welcome. FREE.
Find out more »Plastic Free – One Family’s Experience
Part of the Climate Preparedness Week Series: Erika Zekos - an Amherst-based artist/architect and UMass professor - and her family took on the challenge to live without plastic for a month, as posed by the Plastic Free July campaign. Erika will report on the successes and obstacles her family faced, and how they are moving forward to eliminate plastic in their lives. For more information on this challenge, check out www.plasticfreejuly.org. Plastic Free July is a campaign led by the…
Find out more »Frontier High School Environmental Initiative presents
AT DEERFIELD TOWN HALL - NOT TILTON LIBRARY. Part of the Climate Preparedness Week Series: This group of highly motivated and concerned high school students – Sadie Ross, Isabel Marrapese, and Joe Thompson - which founded this initiative in 2017, will present how they formed as a club and what they have worked for in and outside of Frontier over the past few years. They will talk about lifestyle changes that they made, mostly pertaining to diet and going vegetarian/vegan…
Find out more »The Good and Bad News About Global Warming
AT DEERFIELD TOWN HALL - NOT TILTON LIBRARY. Part of the Climate Preparedness Week Series: University of Massachusetts Professor and world-renowned climatologist Dr. Raymond Bradley will talk about the causes and effects of global warming, what political decisions moved the needle in the wrong direction, and what we can do to alleviate this situation. Dr. Bradley has written or edited thirteen books on climate change and has co-authored over 200 articles on the topic. Climate Preparedness Week is a series…
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