Story & Play Time
2019-08-14 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
We meet at 11 in the children’s room and start the story at about 10 after. We also have outdoor play time on the back lawn, weather permitting. Story and Play Time is free and open to all children ages infant-4 years old and their caregivers. No sign up needed.

Summer Dungeons and Dragons Group
2019-08-14 13:30 - 15:30
Sign-up Required. Limited to 6 players. Ages 9-13.

8 Wednesdays 1:30-3:30, Starting June 19
Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game, allowing players to collaborate as storytellers. No experience necessary, though experienced players are welcome. Participants will be walked through character creation and the flow of the game. Materials provided, although you may bring along your own if you wish. Make friends and get creative!
Please stop by the library or call 413-665-4683 to sign up.

Knitting Group
2019-08-15 13:30 - 15:30, 2019-08-22 13:30 - 15:30, 2019-08-29 13:30 - 15:30, 2019-09-05 13:30 - 15:30
PLEASE SIGN UP – LIMITED TO 10 PARTICIPANTS.
Stop by the library or call 413-665-4683.
Do you enjoy knitting and a nice group chat?
Sign up for the Knitting Group, upstairs at the Tilton Library. Bring your own knitting or crochet projects or follow a given pattern, and we’ll chat as we work. Possible special projects for charity will also be an option. Come relax and work with yarn! We’re happy to help if you’re new to knitting or you’ve reached a tricky point in your pattern. Beginner or experienced knitters welcome. FREE.

Accessories Sale: Collection of Items
2019-08-17 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-09-07 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-09-14 10:00 - 12:00
FRIENDS OF THE TILTON LIBRARY
ACCESSORIES SALE!
See Event Date and Collection Dates below.
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The Friends are pleased to announce a new fall event to replace the book sale this year. It’s an Accessories Sale! This will be held on Saturday September 21st from 10am to 3pm at the South Deerfield Polish Club.
PLEASE DONATE: We need your gently used handbags, pocketbooks, purses, tote bags, jewelry, scarves, ties, and belts for this benefit to be a success.
The Friends will be collecting these items
at the library between 10 – 12 on these dates:
June 22; July 20; August 17; September 7; and September 14
Friends volunteers will be there to accept your donations to ensure they are clean and in working order. We cannot accept items that are badly stained, torn, broken, dirty, moldy, malodorous or in disrepair. Items outside of the scope of this sale will also be rejected such as luggage, duffle bags and backpacks. Such items will be returned to you at the time of the donation. All unsold items will be donated to local charities after the sale.
Donations may not be left at the library, they must be given to a Friends Volunteer there to collect and review the donations at the specified dates and times.
Thank you for your ongoing support of the Friends fundraising efforts!

Friends of Tilton Library Board of Directors Meeting
2019-09-09 18:30 - 19:30
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
2019-09-10 10:00 - 11:00
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 descriptions and schedule
2019-09-11 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-09-12 13:15 - 14:15, 2019-09-18 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-09-19 13:15 - 14:15

Knitting Group
2019-09-12 13:30 - 14:30, 2019-09-19 13:30 - 15:30, 2019-09-26 13:30 - 14:30
Do you enjoy knitting and a nice group chat?
Join us for the Knitting Group, upstairs at the Tilton Library. Bring your own knitting or crochet projects or follow a given pattern, and we’ll chat as we work. Possible special projects for charity will also be an option. Come relax and work with yarn! We’re happy to help if you’re new to knitting or you’ve reached a tricky point in your pattern. Beginner or experienced knitters welcome. FREE.

ART @ TILTON: Movement of Life, metal line art by Trisha Moody-Bourbeau
2019-09-14 10:00 - 2019-11-01 20:00

THIRD THURSDAY BOOK GROUP: Himself by Jess Kidd
2019-09-19 18:30 - 20:00
Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he receives an anonymous note implying that she may have been forced to give him up. Determined to find out what really happened, Mahony embarks on a pilgrimage back to his hometown, the rural village of Mulderrig. Neither he nor Mulderrig can possibly prepare for what’s in store…
From the moment he arrives, Mahony’s presence completely changes the village. Women fall all over themselves. The real and the fantastic are blurred. Chatty ghosts rise from their graves with secrets to tell, and local preacher Father Quinn will do anything to get rid of the slippery young man who is threatening the moral purity of his parish.
A spectacular new addition to the grand Irish storytelling tradition, Himself “is a darkly comic tale of murder, intrigue, haunting and illegitimacy…wickedly funny” (Daily Express).
Free and open to all. Books available through the library.

LIBRARY FUNDRAISER: Friends of the Tilton Library Accessories and Jewelry Sale
2019-09-21 10:00 - 15:00 | South Deerfield Polish American Citizens Club, 46 South Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
The Friends are pleased to announce a new fall event to replace the book sale this year. It’s an Accessories Sale! This will be held on Saturday September 21st from 10am to 3pm at the South Deerfield Polish Club.
New and gently used pocketbooks, scarves, belts, ties, and jewelry. All proceeds will go to the Tilton Library and supports programs for children and adults.

Story Times – Click for descriptions and schedule
2019-09-25 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-09-26 13:15 - 14:15, 2019-10-02 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-10-03 11:00 - 12:00

Plastic Free - One Family's Experience
2019-09-26 18:00 - 19:30 | 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

Tilton Library Board of Trustees Meeting
2019-10-02 18:30 - 19:30
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 GROUP: Our House by Louise Candlish
2019-10-03 18:30 - 20:00
“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.
