Tilton Library

Plastic Free - One Family's Experience
2019-09-26 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | MA, United States
Part of the Climate Preparedness Week Series:
Erika Zekos – an Amherst-based artist/architect and UMass professor – and her family took on the challenge to live without plastic for a month, as posed by the Plastic Free July campaign. Erika will report on the successes and obstacles her family faced, and how they are moving forward to eliminate plastic in their lives.
For more information on this challenge, check out www.plasticfreejuly.org. Plastic Free July is a campaign led by the Plastic Free Foundation. Each year, millions of people around the globe take the challenge and choose to refuse single-use plastics. Our vision is to see a world without plastic waste.
Climate Preparedness Week is a series created by Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW). For more information and listing of other programs throughout the state, please visit www.climatecrew.org/prep_week

Frontier High School Environmental Initiative presents
2019-09-28 09:00 - 10:30 | Deerfield Town Hall, 8 Conway Street, South Deerfield Village, MA, 01373, United States
AT DEERFIELD TOWN HALL – NOT TILTON LIBRARY.
Part of the Climate Preparedness Week Series:
This group of highly motivated and concerned high school students – Sadie Ross, Isabel Marrapese, and Joe Thompson – which founded this initiative in 2017, will present how they formed as a club and what they have worked for in and outside of Frontier over the past few years. They will talk about lifestyle changes that they made, mostly pertaining to diet and going vegetarian/vegan for the environment. They are hoping it will show that if three teenagers can change their habits to benefit the environment, you can too. A variety of vegan cupcakes and recipes will be offered.
Climate Preparedness Week is a series created by Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW). For more information and listing of other programs throughout the state, please visit www.climatecrew.org/prep_week

The Good and Bad News About Global Warming
2019-09-28 11:00 - 12:30 | Deerfield Town Hall, 8 Conway Street, South Deerfield Village, MA, 01373, United States
AT DEERFIELD TOWN HALL – NOT TILTON LIBRARY.
Part of the Climate Preparedness Week Series:
University of Massachusetts Professor and world-renowned climatologist Dr. Raymond Bradley will talk about the causes and effects of global warming, what political decisions moved the needle in the wrong direction, and what we can do to alleviate this situation. Dr. Bradley has written or edited thirteen books on climate change and has co-authored over 200 articles on the topic.
Climate Preparedness Week is a series created by Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW). For more information and listing of other programs throughout the state, please visit www.climatecrew.org/prep_week

Story Times – Click for descriptions and schedule
2019-10-02 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-10-03 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-10-09 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-10-10 13:15 - 14:15 | MA

Tilton Library Board of Trustees Meeting
2019-10-02 18:30 - 19:30, 2019-11-06 18:30 - 19:30 | 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 GROUP: Our House by Louise Candlish
2019-10-03 18:30 - 20:00 | MA
“The perfect book for thriller readers and true-crime podcast addicts…a stunning literary thriller that artfully twists and turns until the very end.”–Bustle
One of The Washington Post‘s 10 Best Thrillers and Mysteries of the Year
One of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of the Year
One of Real Simple‘s Best Books of the Year
On a bright morning in the suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought on Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it’s your house. And you didn’t sell it.
When Fiona Lawson arrives home to find strangers moving into her house, she is plunged into terror and confusion. She and her husband, Bram, have owned their home on Trinity Avenue for years; how can another family possibly think the house is theirs? And why has Bram disappeared–along with their two young children–when she needs him most?
As the nightmare takes hold, Fiona begins to untangle the lies that led to a devastating crime–and a betrayal so shocking it will teach her to keep her own secrets behind locked doors….

Tilton Library’s mystery book discussion group has been meeting on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. since 2010. Group members choose the books to be discussed and library staffers order copies for members and others who might be interested in readng the books but not attending the meetings. The group is open to all. Free pizza (while it lasts) is provided by the Friends of Tilton Library. Books available at the library.

Friends of Tilton Library Board of Directors Meeting
2019-10-07 18:30 - 19:30, 2019-11-04 18:30 - 19:30 | MA
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.

Outdoor Adventure Story Time - Second Tuesdays
2019-10-08 10:00 - 11:00 | MA
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.

Story Times - Click for details
2019-10-16 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-10-17 13:15 - 14:15 | MA

THIRD THURSDAY BOOK GROUP: A Gentleman in Moscow
2019-10-17 18:30 - 19:30 | MA
The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television series
He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
Free and open to all. Books available through the library.

A Discussion on Innovation with Peter Farber
2019-10-19 11:00 - 12:30 | Deerfield Town Hall, 8 Conway Street, South Deerfield Village, MA, 01373, United States
AT DEERFIELD TOWN HALL, 8 CONWAY ST, S. DEERFIELD
Amazon, 3M, Johnson &Johnson; to name but a few of the most successful companies today, succeed only as they innovate. Their success has been built on a foundation dating back to DaVinci, Gutenberg, and the Web: what we now know as the Adjacent Possible, described by Steven Johnson in his history of innovation: Where Good Ideas Come From. The goal of this interactive discussion/presentation is to provide you with an understanding of the Adjacent Possible that will inform your ability to generate good ideas, whether student, artist, small retailer, or nonprofit manager.
Peter Farber is a former college educator, entrepreneur, musician, and 20 years as director of non-profits.

Local Author Talk & Wood Carving Demo
2019-10-21 18:00 - 19:30 | MA
CARVING OUT A LIVING ON THE LAND
with Emmet Van Driesche
of Ashfield’s Pieropan Christmas Tree Farm
When he first envisioned becoming a farmer, author Emmet Van Driesche never imagined his main crop would be Christmas trees, nor that such a tree farm could be more of a managed forest than the conventional grid of perfectly sheared trees. Carving Out a Living on the Land tells the story of how Van Driesche navigated changing life circumstances, took advantage of unexpected opportunities, and leveraged new and old skills to piece together an economically viable living, while at the same time respecting the land’s complex ecological relationships.
From spoon carving to scything, coppicing to wreath-making, Carving Out a Living on the Land proves that you don’t need acres of expensive bottomland to start your land-based venture, but rather the creativity and vision to see what might be done with that rocky section or ditch or patch of trees too small to log.

Lap Story Time - click for details
2019-10-23 11:00 - 11:30, 2019-10-30 11:00 - 11:30, 2019-11-06 11:00 - 11:30, 2019-11-13 11:00 - 11:30 | MA

Kids Can Cook, Too! Click for details.
2019-10-23 11:30 - 12:30, 2019-10-30 11:30 - 12:30, 2019-11-06 11:30 - 12:30 | MA

Read'n Romp Story Time - click for details
2019-10-24 13:15 - 14:15, 2019-10-31 13:15 - 14:15, 2019-11-07 13:15 - 14:15 | MA

KIDS: Balloon Master visit!
2019-10-24 16:30 - 17:30 | MA

MYSTERY BOOK GROUP: The Last Place You Look by Roxane Weary
2019-11-07 18:30 - 20:00 | MA
The Last Place You Look is a head-on collision between an allegedly closed case and a tenacious, troubled private investigator who doesn’t know when to quit.
Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton―black and from the wrong side of the tracks―was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he’s maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station. Willing to try anything, she hires PI Roxane Weary to look at the case and see if she can locate Sarah.
Brad might be in a bad way, but private investigator Roxane Weary isn’t doing so hot herself. Still reeling from the recent death of her cop father in the line of duty, her main way of dealing with her grief has been working as little and drinking as much as possible. But Roxane finds herself drawn in to the story of Sarah’s vanishing act, especially when she links the disappearance to one of her father’s unsolved murder cases involving another teen girl.
The stakes get higher as Roxane discovers that the two girls may not be the only beautiful blonde teenagers who’ve turned up missing or dead. As her investigation gets darker and darker, Roxane will have to risk everything to find the truth. Lives depend on her cracking this case―hers included.

Tilton Library’s mystery book discussion group has been meeting on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. since 2010. Group members choose the books to be discussed and library staffers order copies for members and others who might be interested in readng the books but not attending the meetings. The group is open to all. Free pizza (while it lasts) is provided by the Friends of Tilton Library. Books available at the library.
