Story Times – Click for descriptions and schedule
2019-10-09 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-10-10 13:15 - 14:15 (America/New_York) | MA

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, 2019-11-13 11:30 - 12:30, 2019-11-20 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

Friends of Tilton Library Board of Directors Meeting
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.

Tilton Library Board of Trustees Meeting
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: 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.

Poetry Reading: Our Immigrant Ancestors and Friends
2019-11-14 18:30 - 19:30 | MA
Join us for a reading of original works about and for immigrants and refugees by local poet, teacher and interfaith minister Rev. Linda Rhinehart Neas.
Donations to Center for New Americans may be given at the end of the reading. All proceeds will go to the
30 Poems in November! Challenge.

Mobile Sculpture Worksop: SIGN-UP REQUIRED
2019-11-19 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
SIGN-UP REQUIRED, LIMITED TO 6 STUDENTS
Teens and Adults
This workshop is intended to answer that burning question: How the heck did Calder do that? Alexander Calder of course, was the great artist who invented the Mobile. In this fun and creative workshop we will explain and demonstrate the basic concepts behind creating a mobile, which it turns out, are fairly straight forward. You will create a small mobile, and this will give you the skills you need to make much larger mobiles at home. All you need to bring is your imagination and any sturdy paper objects (such as colored card stock or postcards) you would like to use. The basic tools, shapes, and wire will be provided.

THIRD THURSDAY BOOK GROUP: Educated by Tara Westover
2019-11-21 18:30 - 20:00 | MA
An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Free and open to all. Books available through the library.

Tilton Library CLOSED TODAY
2019-12-02 | MA

Tilton Library Board of Trustees Meeting: at Town Hall this month
2019-12-05 18:30 - 20:00 | MA
MEETING TO BE HELD AT TOWN HALL THIS MONTH. 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: Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
2019-12-05 18:30 - 20:00 | MA
First published serially between 1859 and 1860, “The Woman in White” is Wilkie Collins’s epistolary novel that tells the tale of Walter Hartright, who encounters a woman all dressed in white on a moonlit road in Hampstead. Hartright helps the woman to find her way back to London. The woman warns him against an unnamed baronet and after they part he discovers that she may have escaped from an insane asylum. Hartright travels to Cumberland where he takes up a position as the art tutor of Laura Fairlie and her devoted half-sister, Marian Halcombe, who are somehow entangled with this mysterious “woman in white”. Wilkie Collins’s fifth published novel, “The Woman in White” is considered one of the earliest examples of the mystery genre, an early work of detective fiction, and one of the finest examples of sensationalist literature. While the novel was a commercial success when first published it was harshly reviewed by critics of the age. Since that time it has come to be regarded as a groundbreaking work of the mystery genre, one of Collins’s best.

Table-top Game Sale
2019-12-07 10:00 - 17:00 | MA
