September 15 - October 15

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Read - Explore new titles by Hispanic and Latinx authors.

Listen - Tune in NPR Music's Alt.Latino as they share an "El Tiny" takeover of Tiny Desk concerts curated by the hosts. Or check out one of their recommended podcasts.

Watch - Add these films recommended by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to your watch list.

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Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop

September 22, 2:00-4:00 pm, led by Sally Van Doren

Registration Required

In this immersive writing experience, we will strive to expand and develop our poetic voices using in-class prompts and discussion. By writing new poems in this constructive setting, we will find out how others hear us and how we can best hear ourselves. Registration priority is given to those who have participated previously.

An artist and prize-winning poet, Sally Van Doren is the author of four collections of poetry including "Sibilance," forthcoming from LSU Press September 27, 2023. She has taught poetry at the 92^nd Street Y, Washington University, and the St. Louis Public Schools. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

An Evening With Local Author Tom Shachtman

Registration Required through Oblong Books

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Tom will read from and talk about his new novel Echoes, or The Insistence of Memory, and sign books at this event. The conversation will be led by Tom's friend and fellow author, Bruce McEver.

About the book: Ell, a millennial of European and Mexican heritage, has one humorous children’s book published, but her more serious writing projects are stalled, her boyfriend has dumped her, and she is deeply frightened by a recurring dream. To solve her problems, she delves into family mysteries—Civil War-era slaveholding, madness, and theft of artifacts. The key to all, previously unknown to Ell but remarkable, is a female Confederate warrior ancestor whose nightmare echoes her own.

About the Author: Tom Shachtman has written or co-authored forty books. His latest include the startlingly unconventional novel, The Memoir of the Minotaur (2020), and the third in his trilogy of histories about the Revolutionary Era, The Founding Fortunes (2020). The earlier books include How the French Saved America (2017) and Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries (2014). His best-known earlier books are Rumspringa (2006), Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold (1999), and three books with FBI chief profiler Robert K. Ressler, including the international bestseller Whoever Fights Monsters. His earlier novels include Beachmaster, Wavebender, and Driftwhistler (1981-1985). He has also written documentaries for ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and the BBC, and has taught at New York University and lectured at Harvard, Stanford, Georgia Tech, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian's National History Museum. Learn more.

Copies of ECHOES will be available for purchase from Oblong Books at the event.

Play Bridge @ SML

Every Wednesday in the Wardell Room, 2:00-4:00 PM

Learn to play with our resident Bridge guru, John Dippel!

A Note From The Friends Of Scoville Library

Thank you for your donations! In preparation for our Fall Festival Sale, we are NOT taking donations at this time.We will resume accepting donations October 16th.

Meditation with Kathy Voldstad

Sundays, 9:00 a.m.

Zoom link — password: "peace"

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