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SUMMARY:Closed for Easter
DESCRIPTION:Closed today for Easter. See you Monday!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/closed-today-11/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T193000
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” April is Wine Red!\n\nJoin us this month in discussing Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.\n\nAs usual\, masking and distancing required. \n\n\n After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom\, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place\, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband\, a handsome Englishman\, is a stranger\, and Noemí knows little about the region. \nNoemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante\, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart\, with an indomitable will\, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband\, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father\, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself\, which begins to invade Noemí’s dreams with visions of blood and doom. \nHer only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle\, he seems to want to help Noemí\, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes\, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness. \nAnd Noemí\, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place\, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind. (via Goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-5/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210426T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210426T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
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SUMMARY:Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The AFCL board will meet in the library at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters. \nMeetings are open to the public. Please wear a mask and practice social distancing.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/board-meeting-8/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210520T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210520T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” May is Orange!\n\n\nJoin us this month in discussing There There by Tommy Orange.\n\nAs usual\, masking and distancing required. \n\nTommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow\, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather\, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene\, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil\, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together\, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American–grappling with a complex and painful history\, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality\, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic\, There There is at once poignant and unflinching\, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-6/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210524T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210524T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210715T200957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210715T200957Z
UID:2563-1621881000-1621886400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The AFCL board will meet in the library at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters. \nMeetings are open to the public. Please wear a mask and practice social distancing.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/board-meeting-9/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210601
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210102T145637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210529T132106Z
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SUMMARY:Closed for Memorial Day
DESCRIPTION:Closed today for Memorial Day. See you tomorrow!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/closed-today-3/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210612T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210612T100000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210603T180131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210603T180657Z
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SUMMARY:AFCL Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Alexander Findley Community Library will be having our annual meeting at 9am on Saturday\, June 12th in the Community Center Gym. Masks and distancing are recommended. This meeting is free and open to the public.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/afcl-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:annual meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210617T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210617T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210522T150045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210522T150434Z
UID:2423-1623954600-1623958200@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” June is Yellow!\n\nJoin us this month in discussing Conversion by Katherine Howe.\n\nAs usual\, masking and distancing required. \n\n\n It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy\, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications\, the battle for valedictorian\, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all\, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t. \nFirst it’s the school’s queen bee\, Clara Rutherford\, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends\, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures\, hair loss\, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic. \nSoon the media descends on Danvers\, Massachusetts\, as everyone scrambles to find something\, or someone\, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has. Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school\, this is the mystery that raises the question\, what’s really happening to the girls at St. Joan’s? (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-7/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210705
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210706
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210102T145926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T224522Z
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SUMMARY:Closed for 4th of July
DESCRIPTION:Closed in observance of 4th of July. See you tomorrow!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/closed-today-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210707T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210707T110000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210715T211239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210715T211843Z
UID:2570-1625652000-1625655600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Collaborative Summer Reading Week 1: Bat Boxes
DESCRIPTION:This Wednesday kicked off our Summer Reading program\, and was our first time collaborating with Darlene at the Clymer-French Creek Free Library.  The bat box extravaganza was a huge success!  We had a great time learning about bats and bat boxes\, their role in our environment\, and how we can help bring them back from the brink of extinction. We listened to a story about bats playing baseball\, and then decorated many lovely new homes to keep our bat friends cozy and warm (thanks to a coat of black paint).\n\n\nMany thanks to Molly Brown from Cornell Cooperative Extension for constructing all 49 bat boxes and for teaching us so much! And thanks to the Community Support Group- Summer Recreation for making this event possible! (Special shout out to Emma for helping us paint all the boxes—someone better make you a Thank You cake! )
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/collaborative-summer-reading-week-1-bat-boxes/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Summer Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210714T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210714T110000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210715T212641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T221755Z
UID:2574-1626256800-1626260400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Collaborative Summer Reading Week 2: Kaylee & Luckee
DESCRIPTION:Week two of our collaborative Summer Reading program with the Clymer – French Creek Free Library may have been a bit more rainy than last week\, but we still had a great time hearing stories and learning about training and agility with Kaylee and her dog\, Luckee! We learned about commands\, different types of collars and leashes\, and what kinds of things judges expect when Luckee shows off his skills. Many thanks to Miss Darlene for reading some stories\, and to Kaylee (and her mom) and Luckee for a fun-filled morning!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/collaborative-summer-reading-week-2-kaylee-luckee-teach-us-about-dog-training/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Summer Reading
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210715T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210715T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” July is Blue!\n\nJoin us this month in discussing Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.\n\nAs usual\, masking and distancing required.  \n \nIn a remote Polish village\, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology\, translating the poetry of William Blake\, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor\, Big Foot\, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered\, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount\, Janina inserts herself into the investigation\, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind. \nA deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale\, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness\, justice and tradition\, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-8/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210721T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210721T110000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210715T214816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T190534Z
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SUMMARY:Collaborative Summer Reading Week 3: Farm Animals
DESCRIPTION:On a chilly\, drizzly Wednesday\, the intrepid Miss Darlene enlisted the help of her family to introduce some of the animals from their farm. We met:\n\n\n\n\n A mama goat and her two kids.\n Two anxious chickens\, one of whom made a daring escape but was soon recaptured.\n Two big\, very soft chinchilla rabbits\, one named Jose.\n\n\n\n We also heard two wonderful stories and a couple of us even checked out some books and got some prizes!\n\n\n\nMany thanks to Miss Darlene and her family for bringing the animals over for a visit!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/collaborative-summer-reading-week-3-farm-animals/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Summer Reading
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210726T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210726T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210715T201159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210715T201159Z
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SUMMARY:Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The AFCL board will meet in the library at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters. \nMeetings are open to the public. If you are not vaccinated\, wear a mask and practice social distancing.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/board-meeting-10/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210728T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210728T110000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210715T215414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210715T215414Z
UID:2580-1627466400-1627470000@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Collaborative Summer Reading Week 4: Worm Farms
DESCRIPTION:Miss Molly returns to teach us about worms\, vermicomposting\, and we will make worm farms! \nPictures forthcoming!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/collaborative-summer-reading-week-4-worm-farms/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Summer Reading
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210804T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210804T110000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210805T173029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T180213Z
UID:2626-1628071200-1628074800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Collaborative Summer Reading Week 5: Wool Friendship Bracelets
DESCRIPTION:Yesterday was our last Wednesday collaboration with Clymer – French Creek Free Library\, and our friend Molly came back to read to us again\, to show us a few different kinds of dyed wool\, and teach us how to make friendship bracelets. These bracelets require teamwork and lots of twisting\, so it’s best to grab a friend! \n\n\n\n\nMany thanks go to Molly Brown\, educator from Cornell Cooperative Extension\, for teaching us so many amazing things this summer! And even more thanks to Darlene from Clymer for joining forces with us for Summer Reading this year! We’ve learned a lot and had a blast\, so we can’t wait to see what happens next summer! \n\n\n\nRemember\, there are still lots of activities and crafts to come as we continue with Summer Reading through the end of August. Stay tuned here on Facebook to see what’s coming up. If you haven’t had a chance to come in and add your hours yet\, or get a prize\, or if you’ve just run out of books\, come to the library and we’ll help you out!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/collaborative-summer-reading-week-4-worm-farms-2/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Summer Reading
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210819T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210819T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210715T211013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210715T211013Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” August is Mimosa!\n\nJoin us this month in discussing The Cat Who Went Underground by Lilian Jackson Braun.\n\nIf you are not vaccinated\, please wear a mask and socially distance. \n  \nJim Qwilleran packs up his old kit bag and his two Siamese cats\, Koko and Yum Yum\, for a sun-and-fun summer at his log cabin in Moose County. Their vacation starts out ominously with the disappearance of a handyman hired to patch up Qwilleran’s cabin. But the felines really start throwing catfits when they come across a dead body or two…A serial killer may be right under Koko’s nose\, and now this ingenious Siamese must dig deeper to clear poor Qwilleran of suspicion—and dig up the motive for a catastrophic crime. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-9/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210823T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210823T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210821T154518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210821T154518Z
UID:2708-1629743400-1629748800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The AFCL board will meet in the Young at Heart Room at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters. \nMeetings are open to the public. If you are not vaccinated\, wear a mask and practice social distancing.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/board-meeting-11/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210906
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210816T130359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210816T130359Z
UID:2677-1630627200-1630886399@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Annual Book Sale at the Water Wheel Outlook!
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/annual-book-sale-at-the-water-wheel-outlook/
LOCATION:Water Wheel Outlook\, Main Street\, Findley Lake\, NY\, 14736
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210907
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210102T150226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T224449Z
UID:2045-1630886400-1630972799@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Closed for Labor Day
DESCRIPTION:Closed for Labor Day. See you tomorrow!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/closed-today-5/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210916T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210916T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210821T161205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210821T161323Z
UID:2710-1631817000-1631820600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” September is Sand Dollar!\n\n\nJoin us this month in discussing The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.\n\nMasking and distancing recommended. \n\nMeet Harold Fry\, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife\, Maureen\, who seems irritated by almost everything he does\, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives\, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn’t seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. \nHarold pens a quick reply and\, leaving Maureen to her chores\, heads to the corner mailbox. But then\, as happens in the very best works of fiction\, Harold has a chance encounter\, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because\, he believes\, as long as he walks\, Queenie Hennessey will live. \nStill in his yachting shoes and light coat\, Harold embarks on his urgent quest across the countryside. Along the way he meets one character after another\, each of whom unlocks his long-dormant spirit and sense of promise. Memories of his first dance with Maureen\, his wedding day\, his joy in fatherhood\, come rushing back to him – allowing him to also reconcile the losses and the regrets. As for Maureen\, she finds herself missing Harold for the first time in years. \nAnd then there is the unfinished business with Queenie Hennessy. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-10/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210916T184738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T184844Z
UID:2783-1633372200-1633377600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The AFCL board will meet in the Young at Heart Room at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters. \nMeetings are open to the public. If you are not vaccinated\, wear a mask and practice social distancing.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/board-meeting-12/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211012
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210102T150318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T224440Z
UID:2047-1633910400-1633996799@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Closed for Columbus Day
DESCRIPTION:Closed for Columbus Day. See you tomorrow!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/closed-today-6/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211021T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211021T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210916T191128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T191128Z
UID:2785-1634841000-1634844600@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” October is Emerald! \n\n\nJoin us this month in discussing The House Girl by Tara Conklin.\n\nMasking and distancing recommended. \n\nA stunning debut novel of love\, family\, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York. \nVirginia\, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress\, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell. \nNew York City\, 2004. Lina Sparrow\, an ambitious first-year associate in an elite law firm\, is given a difficult\, highly sensitive assignment that could make her career: she must find the “perfect plaintiff” to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves. \nIt is through her father\, the renowned artist Oscar Sparrow\, that Lina discovers Josephine Bell and a controversy roiling the art world: are the iconic paintings long ascribed to Lu Anne Bell really the work of her house slave\, Josephine? A descendant of Josephine’s would be the perfect face for the reparations lawsuit – if Lina can find one. While following the runaway girl’s faint trail through old letters and plantation records\, Lina finds herself questioning her own family history and the secrets that her father has never revealed: How did Lina’s mother die? And why will he never speak about her? \nMoving between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York\, this searing\, suspenseful and heartbreaking tale of art and history\, love and secrets\, explores what it means to repair a wrong and asks whether truth is sometimes more important than justice. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-11/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211030T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211030T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20211004T174328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T174328Z
UID:2821-1635591600-1635598800@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Spooky Halloween Shindig!
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/spooky-halloween-shindig/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211106T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211106T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20211007T212254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T221342Z
UID:2827-1636192800-1636214400@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Fall Craft Show!
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/fall-craft-show/
CATEGORIES:Fundraiser
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211112
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20210102T150353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T221301Z
UID:2049-1636588800-1636675199@findleylibrary.org
SUMMARY:Closed for Veterans Day
DESCRIPTION:Closed today for Veterans Day. See you on Saturday!
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/closed-today-7/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
CREATED:20211025T172422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T172533Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” November is Violet!\nJoin us this month in discussing The Game by Laurie King.\nMasking and distancing recommended.  \nIt’s only the second day of 1924\, but Mary Russell and her husband\, Sherlock Holmes\, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft\, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to the world through Kipling’s famed Kim. Inexplicably\, O’Hara withdrew from the “Great Game” of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably disappeared. \nWhen Russell discovers Holmes’s own secret friendship with the spy\, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But Russell soon learns that in this faraway and exotic land\, it’s often impossible to tell friend from foe—and that some games aren’t played for fun but for the highest stakes of all…life and death. (via goodreads)
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/book-club-12/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211122T200000
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SUMMARY:Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The AFCL board will meet in the Young at Heart Room at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters. \nMeetings are open to the public. If you are not vaccinated\, wear a mask and practice social distancing.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/board-meeting-13/
LOCATION:Alexander Findley Community Library
CATEGORIES:board meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211126
DTSTAMP:20260429T160040
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SUMMARY:Closed for Thanksgiving
DESCRIPTION:Closed for Thanksgiving! Enjoy the day! We’ll see you on Saturday.
URL:https://findleylibrary.org/event/closed-today-8/
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