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Knitting Group

PLEASE SIGN UP – LIMITED TO 10 PARTICIPANTS. Stop by the library or call 413-665-4683. Do you enjoy knitting and a nice group chat?  Sign up 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.

Knitting Group

PLEASE SIGN UP – LIMITED TO 10 PARTICIPANTS. Stop by the library or call 413-665-4683. Do you enjoy knitting and a nice group chat?  Sign up 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.

Knitting Group

PLEASE SIGN UP – LIMITED TO 10 PARTICIPANTS. Stop by the library or call 413-665-4683. Do you enjoy knitting and a nice group chat?  Sign up 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.

Accessories Sale: Collection of Items

FRIENDS OF THE TILTON LIBRARY ACCESSORIES SALE! See Event Date and Collection Dates below. . 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. PLEASE DONATE: We need your gently used handbags, pocketbooks, purses, tote bags, jewelry, scarves, ties, and belts for this benefit to be a success. The Friends will be collecting these items at the library between 10 - 12 on these dates: June 22; July 20; August 17; September 7; and September 14 Friends volunteers will be there to accept your donations to ensure they are clean and in working order. We cannot accept items that are badly stained, torn, broken, dirty, moldy, malodorous or in disrepair.  Items outside of the scope of this sale will also be rejected such as luggage, duffle bags and backpacks. Such items will be returned to you at the time of the donation. All unsold items will be donated to local charities after the sale. Donations may not be left at the library, they must be given to a Friends Volunteer there to collect and review the donations at the specified dates and times. Thank you for your ongoing support of the Friends fundraising efforts!

Outdoor Adventure Story Time – Second Tuesdays

Sign up to join our children's librarian,  Julie, for a series of outdoor Adventure Story Times on the the second Tuesdays of May-October! Places may include Mt. Sugarloaf, a local swimming hole, water garden, or apple orchard. Email Julie Cavacco at jcavacco@cwmars.org to sign up. Julie will provide the next month's location  or cancel if needed via email.

Accessories Sale: Collection of Items

FRIENDS OF THE TILTON LIBRARY ACCESSORIES SALE! See Event Date and Collection Dates below. . 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. PLEASE DONATE: We need your gently used handbags, pocketbooks, purses, tote bags, jewelry, scarves, ties, and belts for this benefit to be a success. The Friends will be collecting these items at the library between 10 - 12 on these dates: June 22; July 20; August 17; September 7; and September 14 Friends volunteers will be there to accept your donations to ensure they are clean and in working order. We cannot accept items that are badly stained, torn, broken, dirty, moldy, malodorous or in disrepair.  Items outside of the scope of this sale will also be rejected such as luggage, duffle bags and backpacks. Such items will be returned to you at the time of the donation. All unsold items will be donated to local charities after the sale. Donations may not be left at the library, they must be given to a Friends Volunteer there to collect and review the donations at the specified dates and times. Thank you for your ongoing support of the Friends fundraising efforts!

Outdoor Adventure Story Time – Second Tuesdays

Sign up to join our children's librarian,  Julie, for a series of outdoor Adventure Story Times on the the second Tuesdays of May-October! Places may include Mt. Sugarloaf, a local swimming hole, water garden, or apple orchard. Email Julie Cavacco at jcavacco@cwmars.org to sign up. Julie will provide the next month's location  or cancel if needed via email.

CANCELLED – Pre-register: Mindful Gardening

Tilton Library 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, United States

PLEASE CALL 665-4683 TO PRE-REGISTER. LIMITED TO 12 STUDENTS. Part of the Libraries in the Woods (a Franklin County library collaboration) 2020 Community Read of Braiding Sweetgrass: Celebrate the start of spring with a workshop focused on reconnecting to the earth through gardening and garden planning. Learn the essentials about starting and maintaining a home vegetable, flower, and herb garden. Spend some time dreaming up your garden and mapping out the specifics of what it will look like and the action steps you will take to get it growing. Get your hands dirty by starting some spring seeds to take home. Woven throughout the workshop will be mindfulness practices to ground our time together in the healing properties of the natural world. Connecting to the earth through gardening can be a way to come home to ourselves and the sacred. As Robin Wall Kimmerer writes in Braiding Sweetgrass; “The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.”

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Imagine All the People Literary & Art Journal

ATTENTION! Exciting new opportunity for Tilton patrons and community...   Imagine All the People: A Literary & Art Journal Published by Tilton Library, Deerfield, MA As part of the 2020 Summer Reading Program: "Imagine Your Story," we want to share our own stories for others to read. This a community writing and reading project. In the midst of this challenging time, when most of us would love to be back in our wonderful library, browsing the stacks, and connecting with neighbors about our new favorite books and movies, we are instead pushed to find new ways to build literary and creative community.   A Call for Entries: This summer, in service of building community, Tilton will publish a literary and creative arts journal called Imagine All the People. We will accept all submissions for publication, though we reserve the right to edit submissions. If we need to edit your piece for length or content, we will work with you. Fiction / memoir / personal essays / poetry - on a variety of topics* - should be a maximum of 3,000 words. If your full work is longer, we will publish an excerpt with a link to the full story online. We will also accept photography, drawings, prints, and photographs of paintings or other artwork. Comics! Graphic short stories! Parodies! This is a chance to be creative and share your creativity with our wonderful community. Submitted work can be newly created for this project, or previously written / made / published / exhibited. Imagine All the People will come out in print and online versions. We will provide order forms on our website once the journal is ready to print. Each person who will be mailed a FREE copy! Donations are accepted to cover printing costs.   Submission details: Age group: Adults and teens (though we will consider work from older children) Submit all work to: tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org. Submit high resolution art in pdf or jpeg format. Submit writing in Word format. All work is due by June 23. Please email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org with any questions. Please include with submission a short bio and a picture of yourself. Looking forward to working together! Erika and Sadie Ross, Editors Candace Bradbury-Carlin, Creative Director Tilton Library staff   *PLEASE NOTE: This journal - Imagine All the People - will be a general collection of writings and art from our community. We are also running a project which collects our community stories of life during the pandemic, called "A People's History of COVID-19 Pandemic," and those stories can be submitted to this link on our website.

Tilton Book-to-Art Facebook Group: Braiding Sweetgrass

Direct Link to Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/763504304192279/ This wonderful book, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer, was chosen and planned for the Community Read, as part of the regional Libraries in the Woods program. Due to COVID-19 shutdowns of libraries and just about every other thing in life, we were unable to run the programs planned by the 24 local libraries involved. However, a lot of people have read the book and love it and want to talk about it. So, we are doing this here in the Tilton Book to Art Group. FREE online audiobook available without any waitlist on Overdrive, through the library: https://cwmars.overdrive.com/cwmars-tilton/content/media/2854558 This event will involved a day long, come-when-you-can open Facebook discussion on June 25...and of course we highly encourage everyone to make art to accompany and express the feelings you have from the book. Any art is welcome, from doodles to paintings, photography to cake! Just take a photo of your creation and share it on the Tilton Book to Art Group page as part of our discussion. This book evokes so many wonderful images, we doubt you will leave it feeling uninspired. Talk to you and see you...and your art...then!

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75 North Main Street
South Deerfield, MA 01373
Tel: 413-665-4683
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