Come meet Federal Judge Michael Ponsor, author of "The Hanging Judge" - a gripping legal thriller just published by Open Road Media. Local scenes, moral issues and a feel for how ordinary families are affected by the legal system, this is a must attend event. Free and open to all. Reserve your copy of the book by calling the library.
Come meet Deerfield author and game designer, Jim Cambias. His debut, A Darkling Sea, published by Tor in 2014, is "fast-paced, pure-quill hard science fiction (with) adroit plot pivots that keep the suspense coming". Borrow a copy of the book at the circulation desk and come on the 19th!
Local author James Scott will visit Tilton Library on Thursday, November 13th at 6:30 p.m. Scott is the author of The Kept, which was published by Harper in January. It was selected as Amazon’s best book of the month and is said to be a scorching portrait of guilt and lost innocence, atonement and retribution, resilience and sacrifice, pregnant obsession and primal adolescence. Copies of The Kept are available for loan at the adult circulation desk or reserve your copy online. This free program is sponsored by the Friends of Tilton Library.
Award winning author, George Howe Colt, will visit Tilton Library on February 23rd at 6:30 p.m. A Whately resident, Colt will discuss his most recent book, Brothers, On His Brothers and Brothers in History which came out in paperback this year. This program is sponsored by the Friends of Tilton Library and is free and open to the public.
Come meet local author Jeannine Atkins on December 17 at 6:30 PM. Copies of her new book Little Woman in Blue will be available to check out. This event is sponsored by the Friends of Tilton Library.
Learn about the advent of the Interstate highway system at a lecture by Barry Deitz, a North Carolina transplant who has researched the question of what happens when a highway is built through your town. Though Deitz has been a radio talk show host, host of a movie review show, and acted in theater, he prefers to be called simply a storyteller. His clear emphatic voice, with the southern accent, is made for telling long stories. Deitz lives in Bernardston, and moved here several years ago. Where he grew up, it's all built up all along I-95, and our 91 veers through cow pastures, farm fields and tobacco barns. His talk will on the building of the Interstates beginning in 1956, specifically when the road came through Deerfield, Greenfield and Bernardston. Famed headmaster Frank Boyden is famous for his phone call that supposedly changed the route of the highway so that Old Deerfield could be preserved. Many beautiful sections of our towns were destroyed to make way for the road, since each mile required around 30 acres of land to be taken. Hundreds of houses were moved, and rivers were re-routed to make way for progress. (content thanks to Max Hartshorne of Deerfield Attractions) This Deerfield Reads program made possible with funds provided by a grant from the Deerfield Cultural council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, Friends of Tilton Library and Greenfield Cooperative Bank.
Learning something new is one of the joys of life. Learning to paint en plein air has been both a joy and an enormous challenge. Planning, equipment, practice routine, bugs, working with changing light, and talking to folks you meet while working. One year into becoming a plein air painter, I feel that I’ve barely scratched the surface. Plein air has given me an entirely new perspective on what and how to paint. I am looking forward to sharing this work-in-progress. Adrienne Cremins
In collaboration with Sunderland Public Library and held in Sunderland at 20 School Street. Walden has inspired generations of writers and readers to find a place of their own, to go out into nature, to escape the quiet desperation Thoreau saw in the lives and faces of so many of his neighbors. We still respond to that today. The program will look at the life and times of Thoreau, the extraordinary world of mid-nineteenth century Concord and the group of writers and thinkers who changed American literature forever. This free program is brought to you by Tilton Library and the Sunderland Public Library.
Ponsor's second novel, "The One-Eyed Judge" was released in June 2017, and is the second book in the Judge Norcross Novels. Please join us to welcome a return visit of author and senior United States district judge Michael Ponsor. Both novels will be available for purchase and signing.