Tilton Library

Table Top Game Sale
2021-12-11 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
Table Top Game Sale (Puzzles too) for all ages. In the Tilton Library Children’s Room.
Price range $1-$5, all proceeds will go to supporting children’s programming and services.
Contact Julie at jcavacco@cwmars.org or call 413-665-4683 if you have games to donate.

CANCELLED Snowman Craft for ages 12-92
2021-12-18 09:00 - 10:30 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
WE WILL LIKELY RUN THIS EVENT SOMETIME IN JANUARY…STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION!

Jack Frost Finders Keeper Treasure Hunt
2021-12-18 11:00 - 16:00 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
At the Tilton Library. inside and outside.

Art @ Tilton: "Moments of Stillness," through 2/10/22
2022-01-03 11:00 - 16:00 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
Drawings by Anne Buchanan
Exhibit may be viewed during Tilton open hours.

Virtual Open Mic Night
2022-01-13 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
Tilton is co-hosting this online event….
Join people from all over the region for our very first Virtual Open Mic featuring music and spoken word, hosted by Libraries in the Woods, the collaborative entity made up of 27 local rural libraries.

Sign up for a slot here: https://www.signupgenius.com/…/10C0D45A9AB22A4FAC61…

The Zoom link will be shared closer to the event.

Cook Healthy Soups with Colin McCullough
2022-01-24 18:30 - 19:30 | MA
In this virtual class, we’ll be using fresh, whole-food ingredients to make delicious, heart-healthy soups – ditch the cans of soup and learn how much healthier and tastier fresh soups can be! Come learn how to make amazing Corn Chowder, Lebanese Red Lentil Soup, Creamy Tomato Soup, and more!
Email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org for Zoom link

Colin McCullough has been a vegan for over 20 years, and enjoys teaching people ways to incorporate whole-foods, plant-based meals into their diet. He believes that eating healthy food is the single most important step we can take to improve our health and happiness.

Virtual Winter Birds Workshop
2022-02-09 18:30 - 19:30 | MA
Winter Birds: At the feeder and in the wild
with Lesley Farlow, Co-chair, Education Committee, Hampshire Bird Club

In this virtual workshop, we will talk about how to identify the birds you will see at your feeder, as well as the birds that you will find in your winter walks through the woods. I will also suggest a few specific locations in Franklin County that are great for birding.

Email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org to register & receive Zoom link.

Funded by the Friends of Tilton Library

Art @ Tilton: "Japanese Landscape & Pop Art," through 3/31/22
2022-02-12 11:00 - 16:00 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
Paintings by Kimiko Donohoe
Exhibit may be viewed during Tilton open hours.

Virtual Japanese Toilets Presentation
2022-02-15 18:30 - 19:30 | MA
Culture of Japanese Toilets:
A Virtual Talk With UMass Librarian Sharon Domier
Come join us for a truly memorable and enlightening talk by Sharon Domier from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Learn more about the history of Japanese toilets and their appearance throughout the literary and visual history tradition of Japan!

Email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org to register & receive Zoom link.

Funded by the Friends of Tilton Library

Little Roots Music
2022-03-03 10:00 - 10:30 | ZOOM
We are collaborating with Union 38 Family Network and the Sunderland and Whately Public Libraries to bring a MONTH of music with LITTLE ROOTS!
Register here for a zoom code: https://forms.gle/MvAgASq6iQ8vcw7u8

Science Book Discussion: Sirens of Mars
2022-03-22 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD FOR SCIENCE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Times (UK) • Library Journal
Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum—on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering find, one that would inspire humankind as much as any discovery in the history of modern science.
In this beautifully observed, deeply personal book, Georgetown scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson tells the story of how she and other researchers have scoured Mars for signs of life, transforming the planet from a distant point of light into a world of its own.
Johnson’s fascination with Mars began as a child in Kentucky, turning over rocks with her father and looking at planets in the night sky. She now conducts fieldwork in some of Earth’s most hostile environments, such as the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and the salt flats of Western Australia, developing methods for detecting life on other worlds. Here, with poetic precision, she interlaces her own personal journey—as a female scientist and a mother—with tales of other seekers, from Percival Lowell, who was convinced that a utopian society existed on Mars, to Audouin Dollfus, who tried to carry out astronomical observations from a stratospheric balloon. In the process, she shows how the story of Mars is also a story about Earth: This other world has been our mirror, our foil, a telltale reflection of our own anxieties and yearnings.
Empathetic and evocative, The Sirens of Mars offers an unlikely natural history of a place where no human has ever set foot, while providing a vivid portrait of our quest to defy our isolation in the cosmos.

MEETING IN THE TILTON CHILDREN’S ROOM – MASKS REQUIRED

NOTE: TO GET A COPY OF THE BOOK THROUGH THE TILTON LIBRARY, CALL OR EMAIL US OR PLACE A HOLD THROUGH CWMARS Here.

This is part of the Tilton’s participation in the Science Friday Book Club. For more details, CLICK HERE.

Book Discussion: Such a Fun Age
2022-03-24 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
We will meet in-person unless otherwise noted. Please bring a mask.

A Best Book of the Year:
The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Vogue • Elle • Real Simple • InStyle • Good Housekeeping • Parade • Slate • Vox • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • BookPage
Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
“The most provocative page-turner of the year.” —Entertainment Weekly
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains’ toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store’s security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right.
But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix’s desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix’s past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.
With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone “family,” and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.
BOOKS AVAIALBLE AT THE TILTON UPSTAIRS CIRCULATION DESK.

Story Time with Holly
2022-03-29 10:30 - 11:30 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
No need to register, Just drop in! We’ll practice mindfulness, read, chat, and have fun!

NASA Ambassador Talks About Mars
2022-03-29 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
MARS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Mars has been studied via spacecraft over the past 60 years, giving scientists a better understanding of the planet and its history. However, we have yet to discover life on Mars. What are the chances there was life there in the past? And is it possible to find evidence of past life, such as fossils? Join our talk with NASA Ambassador Charity Southworth on what Mars was like billions of years ago, highlighting discoveries made via space missions and what the future of Mars missions may look like.

RSVP by emailing us at tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org to get the zoom link.

This program is sponsored in part by Science Friday, a Tilton Library partner, in relation to the Spring 2022 SciFri Book Club title Sirens of Mars.

Free Comic Book Day
2022-05-07 11:00 - 16:00 | MA

Third Thursday Book Group: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
2022-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life … here is a novel … so gorgeously written that it transports you.” —The Boston Globe
In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.
Copies of book available at Tilton adult circulation desk and through CWMARS.

Plant Sale
2022-05-21 08:00 - 11:00 | MA
It’s that time of year!
Once again the library is having it’s much loved annual plant sale.
Bring your divided perennials to the back of the library on May 19-20th.
We thank you for your donations. All sales go to the Tilton Fund.

Friends Bookplate Sale Fundraiser Kickoff
2022-05-21 09:00 - 12:00 | MA
BOOKPLATES BY TILTON – KICKOFF FUNDRAISER EVENT!

Looking for a special gift to commemorate a birthday, graduation, holiday, or other special event?

What better gift is there than sharing the love of your favorite book!

And to compliment your gift —

Friends of Tilton Library will be offering two options for including a special Bookplate (created by members of the community):

Personal Bookplates for you to put inside books you are giving ($10 for a packet of 6 bookplates of your choice)
Dedication Bookplates to put inside Tilton Library books in honor of someone you love ($20 per dedication bookplate of your choice)

You can honor someone with a gift that is sure to be appreciated and that will last for years, and supports your library! All sales benefit the Friends of Tilton Library.

Mindfulness and Writing Workshop Series
2022-05-21 10:00 - 11:30 | MA
stop. breathe. write.
5-week online mindfulness and writing workshop
led by writer / LMFT Erika Higgins Ross
This group is appropriate for anyone, whether you’ve been practicing mindfulness for years or are curious about giving it a shot, whether you consider yourself a writer or are simply ready to explore what’s inside and how to get it out. All you need is a notebook, pen, curiosity and willingness. There will be opportunities to share in a structured, safe environment.
Can’t wait to sit and breathe and write with you all!
Saturdays 5/7-6/4, 10-11:30
Email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org to register and get the Zoom link (same link for all five Saturdays).
LIMITED TO 10 PARTICIPANTS

This workshop is free to participants thanks to a grant from the Deerfield Cultural Council
and support from the Tilton Library.

Mindfulness and Writing Workshop Series
2022-05-21 10:00 - 12:00 | MA
stop. breathe. write.
5-week online mindfulness and writing workshop
led by writer / LMFT Erika Higgins Ross
This group is appropriate for anyone, whether you’ve been practicing mindfulness for years or are curious about giving it a shot, whether you consider yourself a writer or are simply ready to explore what’s inside and how to get it out. All you need is a notebook, pen, curiosity and willingness. There will be opportunities to share in a structured, safe environment.
Can’t wait to sit and breathe and write with you all!
Saturdays 5/7-6/4, 10-12
Email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org to register and get the Zoom link (same link for all five Saturdays).
LIMITED TO 10 PARTICIPANTS

This workshop is free to participants thanks to a grant from the Deerfield Cultural Council
and support from the Tilton Library.

Goat Farm Petting Zoo
2022-05-21 11:00 - 12:00 | MA
Come spend time with the goats of Firefly Fields Farm! They provide a knowledgeable, safe, family-friendly experience that puts a smile on everyone faces. Goat milk products from the farm like soap, bath bombs, and lotion will be available for purchase.

A program of the Libraries in the Woods 2022 Community Read of The Dirty Life.

Sponsored by the Friends of Tilton Library.

Local Food For All presentation
2022-05-21 11:00 - 12:00 | MA
Local Food For All presentation with Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA)
Stop by CISA’s table at Tilton Library for information on their SENIOR FARM SHARE and HEALTHY INCENTIVES (HIP) programs that give affordable access to fresh local farm food. Pick up a special treat while there!
A program of the Libraries in the Woods 2022 Community Read of The Dirty Life.
Sponsored by the Friends of Tilton Library.

Pride Party
2022-06-04 13:00 - 16:00 | MA

POSTPONED, DATE TBD:Nuts and Bolts Tool Making Program
2022-06-11 11:00 - 12:30 | MA
****EVENT POSTPONED, DATE TBD****

BASIC NUTS AND BOLTS

EXPLORE EARLY TOOL MANUFACTURING IN DEERFIELD WITH JAY STRYKER AND MUSEUM OF OUR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE. PERHAPS WIN A CHANCE TO MAKE YOUR OWN NUT OR BOLT.
ALL AGES WELCOME.

(RAIN DATE JUNE 18 11:00AM)

Sponsors: 350th Anniversary Steering Committee and Tilton Library.
Funded by the Deerfield Cultural Council

Summer Reading Program Kick Off Event
2022-06-11 11:00 - 16:00 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
This year’s theme is Read Beyond the Beaten Path.
Sign up for summer reading to get a coupon for a FREE milkshake from LEO’s TABLE! The first 25 kids to sign up also get a coupon for a free plant start from Atlas Farms!
Help name our program mascot!
Painting, Bubbles, Lawn Games, and Popsicles!
*RAIN DATE 6/18
Also: MAD SCIENCE MAGNETIC MAGIC @ 2PM

Hands on experimenting swinging compasses & motorized devices
NO RAIN DATE, event will be moved inside

REGISTRATION REQUIRED – SPACE LIMITED!
CONTACT THE LIBRARY

Mad Science Magnetic Magic Workshop
2022-06-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
Registration Required, Space Limited
Children learn how and why magnets behave by testing the basic physical principles governing magnetism. They learn how to create magnets and how magnetism is lost. Children use compasses to gain a better understanding of how humans benefit from the Earth’s magnetic force. Hands-on experimenting-from swinging compasses to motorized devices- allows children to explore the role of magnetism in our everyday lives.
Tilton Backyard, will be moved inside for rain.
Call or email the library to register.
Sponsored by the Friends of Tilton Library.

Hey Hey Club Big Band Concert
2022-06-25 14:00 - 14:30 | MA
In the 1930’s and 40’s America swung to the sounds of the big bands; Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Tunes like “Do Nothin Till You Hear From Me,” “Caravan,” and “Take the A-Train.” And no place was more swingin than the Hey Hey Club in Kansas City. America also loved music from the American Songbook: Paul McCartney’s favorite composer, Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” or Harold Arlen’s “If I Only Had a Brain, “ from the Wiz of Oz.

Aptly named, the 7 piece Hey Hey Club swings that music for your pleasure. We invite you to join us on June 25th, 2pm, at the Tilton Library stage.

This program funded by the Deerfield Cultural Council.

CANCELLED - Big Destiny Live Show
2022-07-07 18:30 - 20:00 | MA
UPDATE 7/7: Tilton Library in Deerfield is sad to report that tonight’s Big Destiny teen band concert has been cancelled due to illness. We will reschedule sometime later this summer. We wish the band members quick healing!

Dinosaurs in Deerfield; Reading the Rocks
2022-07-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
Presented by Amherst College students.
Scientists examine rocks to learn about life in the distant past. Some rocks tell us a bit about what critters may have looked liked, while other rocks give us a sense of what the critters used to do. Some of the first people to notice these special rocks once lived and worked in Deerfield many years ago. One of the earliest discoveries was made by a local teenager.
Explore fossils and gems from the Rock, Fossil and Dinosaur Shop.

The 3 MusKEtEErs
2022-07-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
Part of the Serenade From The Stairs Series
The 3 MusKEtEErs are a local trio of sibling violin players (7,10,13) who have been playing classical music since they were 4 years old, They are primarily soloists, but do play a few pieces together. They started playing the violin when they were living in Europe and have continued their musical journey in the US. Their favorite musicians are Ray Chen and Hilary Hahn, In their spare time they love all types of team and individual sports but have been focusing primarily on skiing in the winter and rowing in the summer.
