Engage with Diverse Library Events: From Book Talks to Turkish Coffee This January
The Bookcase: Toby's Book Discussion
Thursday, January 9, 7 p.m.
Join Bookcase leader Toby Zabinski for a discussion of Becoming Madame Secretary by Stephanie Dray. This discussion will be held on Zoom. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link.
Even before she became Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor and the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary, Frances Perkins was a tireless advocate for better industrial conditions, an end to child labor, and other social, progressive movements. She had an innate ability to see the humanity in everyone, from a struggling mother to a Tammany Hall politician. Bucking social conventions, she married late and kept her maiden name after her marriage to Paul Wilson. While her marriage had its ups and downs, she remained committed to Paul and supported him and their daughter when his illness rendered him unable to work. It was her professional relationship with FDR, however, that changed the nation. Starting with Frances' graduate work in a halfway house, Dray dramatizes the epic life of this pioneering woman.
Ban This Book Club: This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
Monday, January 13, 7:00 p.m.
This Book Is Gay has been on the American Library Association’s Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books list for the last three years. It is a New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Awards, Winner and was included in the Over the Rainbow Project Book List. Join us as we discuss this as a work of literature as well as an object of censorship.
Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. Registration is required. Click here to register.
Connected Cooking: Turkish Coffee Demonstration
Saturday, January 18, 2 p.m.
Enjoy a presentation on Turkish coffee including its historical journey, cultural significance, and brewing tips. Enjoy mingling and cultural conversation while tasting Turkish coffee, tea, and classical Turkish delights and snacks. Learn about the history and culture of the Anatolian peninsula from representatives of the Peace Islands Institute.
Connected Cooking is a series created by the Case Memorial Library to foster community connection and share diverse cultures through food.
This event is presented in collaboration with Peace Islands Institute, an international organization promoting cross-cultural conversation and friendship. Visit peaceislands.org for information about their organization.
Mystery Book Discussion: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Thursday, January 23, 2:00 p.m.
Join Mystery Discussion leader Donna DiMassa for a discussion of The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?
Registration is required. Click here to register.
Tyler City: A Town Created by a Railroad
Monday, January 27, 7 p.m.
Did you know that there was a whole city planned within Orange in the 1870s? Or that trains passed through Orange on their way to and from New Haven? Come hear about the history of Tyler City - the town that is only a memory - in this informative presentation by Ginny Reinhard, President of the Orange Historical Society.
Co-sponsored by the Orange Historical Society.
Click here to register for this program.
Coming in February!
Wondrous Strange: The Wyeths
Thursday, February 6, 7 p.m.
Art lecturer Bob Potter will present Wondrous Strange – The Wyeths: N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth and the legacy of three generations of this famous family of American artists through examples of their paintings, personal accounts of their lives, and videos of the artists explaining their work.
Beginning with the swashbuckling illustrations by N.C. Wyeth for Robert Lewis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Kidnapped and other classics, followed by his son Andrew Wyeth’s evocative paintings of the people and landscapes of rural Pennsylvania and the seacoast of Maine, and continuing with Jamie Wyeth whose portraits capture the wondrous strange of his father and grandfather’s works in his own unique vision and mastery of painting. Registration is required and is now open. Click here to register and to learn more.
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