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 (America/New_York) | 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

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

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

Friends of Tilton Library Board of Directors Meeting
2019-11-04 18:30 - 19:30, 2019-12-09 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.

Tilton Library Board of Trustees Meeting
2019-11-06 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: The Last Place You Look by Roxane Weary
2019-11-07 18:30 - 20:00
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
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
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
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

Tilton Library Board of Trustees Meeting: at Town Hall this month
2019-12-05 18:30 - 20:00
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
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

Terrarium Workshop: CURRENTLY FULL
2019-12-09 18:00 - 19:30
SIGN-UP REQUIRED, LIMITED TO 6 STUDENTS
UPDATE: Currently this class is full, check in closer to workshop date.
Come learn about terrarium ecosystems and make your own in a lovely jar. Be prepared to get a little messy and creative with living materials. All supplies provided.

ART @ TILTON: Short & Sweet, photographs by David Rothstein
2019-12-13 10:00 - 2020-01-24 20:00

Teens: What's For Supper?
2019-12-16 16:00 - 17:30

TILTON CLOSED TODAY - SNOW & ICE
2019-12-17 10:00 - 17:00
TILTON LIBRARY CLOSED TODAY DUE TO SNOW AND ICE CONDITIONS. BE SAFE EVERYONE!

THIRD THURSDAY BOOK GROUP: Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
2019-12-19 18:30 - 19:30
A charming novel of self-discovery and second chances from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.

Willa Drake has had three opportunities to start her life over: in 1967, as a schoolgirl whose mother has suddenly disappeared; in 1977, when considering a marriage proposal; and in 1997, as a young widow trying to hold her family together. So she is surprised when in 2017 she is given one last chance to change everything, after receiving a startling phone call from a stranger. Without fully understanding why, she flies across the country to Baltimore to help a young woman she’s never met. This impulsive decision, maybe the first one she’s consciously made in her life, will lead Willa into uncharted territory—surrounded by eccentric neighbors who treat each other like family, she finds solace and fulfillment in unexpected places. A bewitching novel of hope and transformation, Clock Dance gives us Anne Tyler at the height of her powers.
One of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, The Christian Science Monitor

Jack Frost Party
2019-12-21 14:00 - 16:00

TILTON CLOSED TODAY - ICY ROADS
2019-12-30 10:00 - 20:00
TILTON LIBRARY – ALONG WITH DEERFIELD TOWN HALL – CLOSED TODAY DUE TO ICY ROAD CONDITIONS. BE SAFE EVERYONE!
