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Week of Events
Art at Tilton – Deerfield Impressions by Adrienne Cremins
Artist's Statement: The Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts has beautiful scenery, as anyone who has visited will attest - mountains, rivers, lakes and ponds throughout many towns. I’ve been fortunate to live in Deerfield for over 25 years, within 10 minutes of some of the most beautiful landscapes in the valley. I have a BFA from Cooper Union, and when my children were grown, I started getting back to painting. I began with pastels, sitting in my car on the side of the road. However, when I began painting in oils, my practice became to visit a location, take photos, and use them as reference, together with my memory of the scene, for a painting done in the studio. Last year, I began working en plein air, painting outdoors on location in Deerfield and a whole new world opened up. Plein air is a completely different way of working. In one or two hours , before the light changes, you try to capture a scene. There is always so much more to see than there is time to get it on canvas! As you work, the light is constantly changing, emphasizing different colors, changing forms, so you need to make decisions on the fly about what to spend time on, what notes you need to make, how to articulate the scene. Sometimes everything comes together - and the result is a complete painting. More often, it’s a note, a sketch, or an experiment in articulating light and form. Painting an impression en plein air celebrates what is happening right in the moment. For me, it has also become a meditation - a way to focus on and appreciate a very beautiful part of the world, on canvas.
Monday, September 12, 2016
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September 12, 2016 -Friends of Tilton Monthly Meeting
Friends of Tilton Monthly Meeting
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.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
No events on this day.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
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September 14, 2016 -Preschool Story Time – Let’s Get Reading!
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September 14, 2016 -100th Anniversary Planning Meeting
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September 14, 2016 -Tilton Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Preschool Story Time – Let’s Get Reading!
No sign up needed – all children 0-5 (and their caregivers) are welcome.
Tilton Library Board of Trustees Meeting
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
Thursday, September 15, 2016
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September 15, 2016 -English Conversation Group
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September 15, 2016 -Third Thursday Book Discussion – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
English Conversation Group
Do you want to practice your English? Come to a conversation group at Tilton Library on Thursdays at 6:30. Facilitated by Michael Pollitt and organized by the Center for New Americans this drop-in program is free and open to all.
Third Thursday Book Discussion – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work"-- Provided by publisher Third Thursday is an informal group, open to all, no sign up necessary. Reserve your book at the adult circulation desk or online.
Friday, September 16, 2016
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Saturday, September 17, 2016
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Sunday, September 18, 2016
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