Curiosity Forum: A Crease in the Landscape: Perspectives on the Slatebelt and Working Landscape of Western Vermont and Eastern New York with Dr. Paul Hancock (Local History Series) (01/29/2012)

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Poetry Night (02/23/2012)

  Bring a poem or two to share, your own or someone else’s.

• 5th/6th Grade Book Club Special Event: The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer (2/25/12)

  We’ll be discussing The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer (description below), and as a special treat, the author herself will be calling (or Skyping) us during our Tea Party to discuss the book! A full tea service will be provided, catered by Spoonful Catering.

• Fiction Book Club: A Discovery of Witches (3/1/2012)

  In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and the descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library.

• Sit & Knit (3/8/12)

  Bring crafts or something to fiddle with (if not knitting) and come enjoy the indoors as the outdoors are cooling down. Open to all, no RSVP required.

• Curiosity Forum: Author Event – Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman (3/9/12)

  As intelligent as they are moving, the stories in “Birds of a Lesser Paradise” are alive with emotion, wit, and insight into the impressive power that nature has over all of us. This extraordinary collection introduces a young writer of remarkable talent.

• Current Affairs Book Club: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (3/15/12)

  Join us for discussion of this eye-opening UK bestseller that shows how one single factor–the gap between its richest and poorest members–can determine the health and well-being of a society.

• Poetry Night (3/22/2012)

  Bring a poem or two to share, your own or someone else’s.

• Curiosity Forum: Memoirama with Marion Roach Smith (3/25/12)

  Write what you know in this rarely-offered one-day memoir writing workshop with Capital-region favorite, Marion Roach Smith, author of The Memoir Project.

• Curiosity Forum: Lake George Shipwrecks and Sunken History with Joseph W. Zarzynski (4/1/12)

  The presentation will examine some of the more notable shipwrecks in Lake George including the 1758 Land Tortoise radeau, the 1758 sunken bateaux, a 1960 research sub sunk in the lake, and others.