STEM Workshop for Kids
2016-02-19 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | MA
This session, in conjunction with our Deerfield Reads program will focus on re-use and recycle. We’ll have stations to visit and a few ongoing projects. Everything will be made of something that already had a use. Some questions we hope to answer:
How can you make a piece of paper big enough to walk through?
How can you use empty chip bags for something else?
Activities at the sessions will help us answer these questions.
This enrichment activity is funded by Frontier Regional Coordinated Family and Community Engagement Program which is funded by the MA Department of Early Education and Care and by Tilton Library.

Art at Tilton - Found Objects, Upcycled & Mixed Media
2016-02-20 10:00 - 2016-03-26 13:00 | MA
Artists Candace Bradbury-Carlin, Allen Fowler, Sue Katz and Reba-Jean Pichette display found object art, mixed media and art constructs through March upstairs on and over the mantle piece. This display is in conjunction with Deerfield Reads – Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes, a program which is supported in part by a grant from 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. Sale of all art work is between the artist and buyer – Tilton Library receives a percentage of sales. Come see what can be done with found and used objects and materials. Pictured – Pure Full Blast by Candace Bradbury-Carlin.

Lou's Upcycling Workshop
2016-02-22 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
Join Lou Leelyn from Lou’s Upcycles to learn how to turn your plastic bags and wrappers into a fun and functional textile. Participants will learn how to use heat and pressure to fuse plastic bags and will complete a final upcycled wallet project. Sign up at the adult circulation desk or call or email Tilton Library.
This project 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; Greenfield Cooperative Bank; Greenfield Savings Bank and private donations from library users.

English Conversation Group
2016-02-22 18:30 - 19:45, 2016-02-29 18:30 - 19:45, 2016-03-07 18:30 - 19:45, 2016-03-14 18:30 - 19:45, 2016-03-21 18:30 - 19:45, 2016-03-28 18:30 - 19:45 | MA
Do you want to practice your English? Come to a conversation group at Tilton Library on Mondays at 6:30. Facilitated by Michael Pollitt and organized by the Center for New Americans this drop-in program is free and open to all.

Adult Coloring
2016-02-23 16:00 - 17:00 | MA
Join us on the last Tuesday of the month – relax, color and stimulate your brain. All materials provided.

Preschool Story Time
2016-02-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-03-02 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-03-09 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-03-16 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-03-23 11:00 - 12:00 | MA
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, READ to grow. (Lawrence Clark Powell) – Come grow with us! No sign up needed – all children 0-5 (and their caregivers) are welcome.

Library Space Needs Committee Meeting
2016-02-25 17:30 - 20:00 | MA
Agenda will be posted at town hall 48 hours in advance of meeting.

Thursday, February 18, 2016 5:44 PM

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 5:30 PM on the lower
level of the library. Items for our agenda include:
1. Follow-up from Community Meeting, i.e. any comments/issues that were
raised that we need to discuss
2. Revisit the schematic design to see if there are any changes we want
to make
3. Plan for next steps in the process of keeping town officials and
community involved
4. Report from Sara on conversations with MBLC and what happens next

Baby Lapsit Story Time
2016-02-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2016-03-11 10:00 - 11:00 | MA
Read with your baby! ♥CREATE STRONG BONDS ♥BUILD VOCABULARY ♥FOSTER SOCIAL SKILLS ♥DEVELOP LITERACY SKILLS ♥SPARK IMAGINATION ♥INSTILL A LOVE OF READING

Just as you talk and sing to your baby, so should you read to your baby! Join us on Friday mornings at 10:00 on February 26, March 4 and March 11. Free and open to all infants and their caregivers. No sign up necessary.

Tilton Library Board of Trustees Meeting
2016-03-02 18:30 - 21:00 | MA
The Board of Trustees are an elected town body which is entrusted with overseeing, maintaining and planning the future for the most democratic of all our public institutions, the public library. Library Board members are responsible for working with other board members to oversee the library, establishing policy and plans, determining the final budget and conducting public relations. The powers and duties of trustees are covered in Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 78, section 10-13.
Meeting agenda is posted at Deerfield Town Hall at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting

Mystery Book Discussion - Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet
2016-03-03 18:30 - 19:45 | MA
His tranquility as the established vicar of a New Age village shattered by the murder of an unpopular woman, former MI5 agent Max Tudor struggles with past demons while trying to identify a killer in his peaceful community.
Join us on the first Monday of the month for a lively discussion of this month’s title and other of life’s mysteries. Copies of the book are usually available at the circulation desk or can be reserved online or by asking at the desk. This discussion also features cheese pizza while it lasts. Free and open to all.

Field Trip - Leverett and Amherst Recycling Sheds
2016-03-05 10:00 - 13:00 | MA
Sign up for a tour of the re-use and recycling areas at Leverett and Amhert’s transfer stations. We’ll leave Deerfield at 10 a.m. and tour both sites before noon. For more information about this Deerfield Reads program, contact library director. Deerfield Reads is made possible through 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.

Friends of Tilton Meeting
2016-03-07 18:30 - 20:00 | MA
Join us at the library for to discuss several fundraising initiatives that are core to the Friends’ ability to support the library. Agenda items include: last minute wine tasting details, beginning to plan for annual book sale, fall art auction, library director update, treasurer’s report and anything not anticipated at time of posting.

Wine and Micro Brew Fundraiser at Chandler's
2016-03-09 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
Chandler’s Restaurant and Deerfield Spirit Shoppe present a tasting of wine and micro beers to benefit Tilton Library. Ticket includes wine, beer and hors d’oeuvres. $25 per person at the door or $20 in advance at Tilton Library and Deerfield Spirit Shoppes. For more information, call the library. All proceeds benefit the library.

Upcycled Bird Mobile Workshop with Candace Bradbury-Carlin
2016-03-10 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
When birds fly they seem to be made of the very air they soar through.
In this workshop WE WILL USE DISCARDED PLASTIC MILK JUGS to make three dimensional birds as part of a mobile. The translucent material of the milk jug highlights the airiness of birds in flight.
These mobiles are easy and fun to make. When done, these fluttering sculptures can hang at a window, over a table, or outdoors.
Sign up at Tilton Library or by email at tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org
This free DEERFIELD READS program made possible with funds provided by a grant from Deerfield Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, Friends of Tilton Library, Greenfield Cooperative Bank.

Book Art Workshop
2016-03-14 18:00 - 19:30 | MA
Drop in between 6 and 7:30 to make an upcycled keepsake book. All ages welcome. This free Deerfield Reads program is led by Julie Cavacco and is sponsored in part by 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

Book Discussion - Garbology by Edward Humes
2016-03-17 18:30 - 20:00 | MA
Amy Donovan from Franklin County Solid Waste District will join us to discuss Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes.
“Zestful in his curiosity and irrepressible in his vivid chronicling…Humes finds hope in the innovative work of dedicated garbologists, trash trackers, and activists who are intent on exposing the hazards and travesties of excessive trash and pointing the way to the ‘low-waste path.'” – Booklist (starred review)
“An eye-opening account reminding us of something we try to forget: We are a wasteful society with a trash problem that is polluting our oceans and packing our landfills.” – The Boston Globe
Books are available at the library. This free Deerfield Reads event is sponsored in part by Deerfield Cultural Council, Friends of Tilton Library and Greenfield Cooperative Bank.

Baby Meetup
2016-03-18 11:00 - 13:00 | MA
Beginning Friday, March 18th we will begin BabyTime every Friday at 10 am. No sign ups needed. Our picture book area will be reserved for the littlest of our patrons to roll around (or practice standing) and meet eye to eye with their peers. All babies and their caregivers welcome. Free coffee for grownups (while it lasts).

Eat it Up Food Challenge
2016-03-21 18:00 - 19:30 | MA
Can you cook a dish from food that is minimally or not packaged? What can you make out of food already in your cupboard or freezer? Give it a try and bring it (and your appetite) to the library on the first day of spring. If you’ve read “Garbology” by Edward Humes you might feel inspired to try to waste less food.
This program is part of Deerfield Reads, the community reading event presented by Tilton Library and is free and open to all.

Made possible with funds provided by a grant from 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.

Art at Tilton - Sara Grillo
2016-03-28 13:00 - 2016-04-30 13:00 | MA
Fall Out, Fall In
Artist’s Statement:
I use acrylic paints to reproduce what I imagine.
There is a line of thought which has been central to the recent art you see here.
In philosophical traditions, from Buddhism to Psychiatry, the mind is conceptualized as a fragmented entity.
Unity and cohesion characterize the bookends of our lives – the innocence of birth and the wisdom of enlightenment / actualization.
Between these extremes, we experience an ego that is splintered and dynamic – in constant shift.
Where are we at any given moment?
Are we falling apart, or knitting ourselves back together?

Sara

Highway 91 Talk with Barry Dietz
2016-03-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Deerfield Town Hall, 8 Conway Street, South Deerfield Village, MA, 01373, United States
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.
