Tilton Library

English Conversation Group
2015-08-10 18:45 - 19:45 (America/New_York) | MA
Come to a Conversation Group at Tilton Library on Mondays at 6:45 p.m. Facilitated by Michael Pollitt and organized by the Center for New Americans, this program is free and open to all.

Pre-School Story and Play Time
2015-08-12 11:00 - 12:00
Each program features an age appropriate book and related activity. No sign up needed – all children 0-5 (and their caregivers) are welcome

How to Use Your Library
2015-08-13 18:30 - 19:30
This program features ways to use the modern library. Topics include accessing your account, borrowing eBooks, magazines and local newspapers online, plus your questions and more. Pizza and seltzer provided by the Friends of Tilton. Free and open to all. A Friday late-morning session is also being offered and content may be different depending on participants. All are welcome to attend both meetings.

English Conversation Group
2015-08-17 18:45 - 19:45, 2015-08-24 18:45 - 19:45, 2015-08-31 18:45 - 19:45, 2015-09-07 18:45 - 19:45, 2015-09-14 18:45 - 19:45
Do you want to practice your English? Come to a conversation group at Tilton Library on Mondays at 6:45. Facilitated by Michael Pollitt and organized by the Center for New Americans this program is free and open to all.

Pre-School Story and Play Time - Cancelled
2015-08-19 11:00 - 12:00
No story time this week. See you next Wednesday.

Third Thursday Book Discussion - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
2015-08-20 18:30 - 19:45
Publishers Weekly Reviews
Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the murders occurred during (and exploited) the city’s finest moment, the World’s Fair of 1893. Larson’s breathtaking new history is a novelistic yet wholly factual account of the fair and the mass murderer who lurked within it. Bestselling author Larson (Isaac’s Storm) strikes a fine balance between the planning and execution of the vast fair and Holmes’s relentless, ghastly activities. The passages about Holmes are compelling and aptly claustrophobic; readers will be glad for the frequent escapes to the relative sanity of Holmes’s co-star, architect and fair overseer Daniel Hudson Burnham, who managed the thousands of workers and engineers who pulled the sprawling fair together 0n an astonishingly tight two-year schedule. A natural charlatan, Holmes exploited the inability of authorities to coordinate, creating a small commercial empire entirely on unpaid debts and constructing a personal cadaver-disposal system. This is, in effect, the nonfiction Alienist, or a sort of companion, which might be called Homicide, to Emile Durkheim’s Suicide. However, rather than anomie, Larson is most interested in industriousness and the new opportunities for mayhem afforded by the advent of widespread public anonymity. This book is everything popular history should be, meticulously recreating a rich, pre-automobile America on the cusp of modernity, in which the sale of “articulated” corpses was a semi-respectable trade and serial killers could go well-nigh unnoticed. 6 b&w photos, 1 map. (Feb.) Forecast: With this book, Larson builds on the success of Isaac’s Storm. Anyone with an interest in American history-in particular fans of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough-should find much to engross them here. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Third Thursday is an informal group, open to all, no sign up necessary. Reserve your book at the adult circulation desk or online.

Last Blast Summer Library Party
2015-08-24 15:00 - 17:00
We’ll start at 3:oo on Monday, August 24th with Ed Popielarczyk, balloon twisting master, henna presenter Sara Root-Simone. and ice cream for all. Join us for this free “last blast” sponsored by the Friends of Tilton Library.

Friends of Tilton Library Meeting
2015-08-31 18:30 - 19:45, 2015-10-05 18:30 - 19:45
Friends of Tilton Library, Inc. is a separate 501(c)3 membership organization and is open to anyone who wants to join. The Friends mission is to encourage and promote the enrichment and use of the library and to foster support for the library in the community. For people who want to show their support and appreciation of Tilton Library, being a Friend is the first step. Annual dues continue to be $15 per year and if necessary, you can contribute your time in lieu of dues. Come check us out at our monthly meetings at the library.

Story Time
2015-09-02 11:00 - 12:00, 2015-09-09 11:00 - 12:00, 2015-09-14 11:00 - 12:00, 2015-09-16 11:00 - 12:00, 2015-09-23 11:00 - 12:00, 2015-09-30 11:00 - 12:00, 2015-10-07 11:00 - 12:00
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.

Tilton Library Board of Trustees Meeting
2015-09-02 18:30 - 20:30
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 - The Storm Murders by John Farrow
2015-09-03 18:30 - 19:45
“On the day after a massive blizzard, two policemen are called to an isolated farm house … in the middle of a pristine snow-blanketed field. Inside the lonely abode are two dead people. But there are no tracks in the snow leading either to the house or away. What happened here? Is this a murder/suicide case? Or will it turn into something much more sinister?”– Provided by publisher.
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.

Library Closed - Labor Day
2015-09-07

Third Thursday Book Discussion - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
2015-09-17 18:30 - 19:45
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. National Book Award winner
Third Thursday is an informal group, open to all, no sign up necessary. Reserve your book at the adult circulation desk or online.

English Conversation Group
2015-09-21 18:30 - 19:30, 2015-09-28 18:30 - 19:30, 2015-10-05 18:30 - 19:30
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 program is free and open to all.

Banned Books Week
2015-09-27 08:00 - 2015-10-03 17:00
The American Library Association (ALA) promotes the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinions even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those viewpoints to all who wish to read them.
A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials. Challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others. As such, they are a threat to freedom of speech and choice.
The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) promotes awareness of challenges to library materials and celebrates freedom of speech during Banned Books Week. This event is typically observed during the last week of September of each year.

Mystery Book Group - Uncle Janice by Matt Burgess
2015-10-01 18:30 - 19:30
An undercover narcotics officer who works the streets of Queens, Janice Itwaru, trying to meet the impossibly high quota of drug busts needed to make detective, must decide which evil to confront in order to meet her deadline.
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.

Art Auction Opening Reception
2015-10-02 18:00 - 20:00
The Friends of Tilton Library present the second annual art auction to benefit Tilton Library. Featuring original art by local artists and held during the month of October at the Library. Bidding starts at the opening reception on Friday, October 2nd and continues through October at Tilton. Come see the art, make a bid, enjoy the refreshments, meet your friends and neighbors.
