Friday, September 10, 2010
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Battenkill Books
Free

The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locallly Grown Food

Amy Cotler, veteran culinary professional and farm to table advocate will talk about her new book, a comprehensive how-to guide for seeking out and savoring local food all year round. Talk, reading, signing with questions and answers.

Ms. Cotler has developed close to 1000 recipes, founded Berkshire Grown, an early regional local farm advocacy group that has served as a national model and has worked extensively to bring farm fresh foods into our schools.

Curiosity Forum events are a partnership of Battenkill Books, Hubbard Hall, and Open Studios of Washington County. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday, September 14th
2:45 – 3:30 pm
Battenkill Books
FREE

For September, we are reading The Puzzle of the Paper Daughter (An American Girl “Julie” Mystery) by Kathryn Reiss.

When Julie discovers a mysterious note written in Chinese, she brings it to her friend Ivy to translate. The note promises great treasure, but it doesn’t quite make sense–and Julie suspects it may be written in a secret code. Soon after, the girls’ beloved dolls are stolen, and Julie can’t shake the feeling that there’s a connection between the stolen dolls and the mysterious note. Will Julie and Ivy find the treasure? And will they ever get their dolls back?

Friday, September 24th, 2010
7:30 – 9:00 pm
Battenkill Books
FREE

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

Sunday, September 28th
4:00 pm
Freight Depot, Hubbard Hall
FREE

Pauline Muth is president of the American Bonsai Society and has been studying and practicing Bonsai for more than 35 years. She owns and operates PFMBonsai (a bonsai teaching studio), travels nationally and internationally to speak to garden clubs and conferences, is a contributing writer to several bonsai journals, and is the recipient of local, regional and international Bonsai awards.

Curiosity Forum events are a partnership of Battenkill Books, Hubbard Hall, and Open Studios of Washington County. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, October 7th, 2010
6:30 – 8:00pm
Battenkill Books
Free

For October, we will be reading The Outlander by Gil Adamson.

In 1903 Mary Boulton flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, she has just become a widow–and her husband’s killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are in pursuit, determined to avenge their younger brother’s death. Responding to little more than the primitive instinct for survival at any cost, she retreats ever deeper into the wilderness–and into the wilds of her own mind.

Sunday, October 17th, 2010
4 pm
Freight Depot Theater, Hubbard Hall
FREE

The historic architecture of Cambridge and Salem has a longer history than meets the eye.  Many of our local buildings reflect styles that trace back centuries to Medieval England, Renaissance Italy and even ancient Greece and Rome.  Local author Marcia Reiss, who has written seven books on architecture and New York history, will unearth the European roots of our quintessential American homes and commercial buildings. The presentation will be illustrated with photos of buildings in and around the villages of Cambridge and Salem, from Colonial timber-frame homes to grand Victorians, Arts and Crafts bungalows, and Sears Catalog houses.

Marcia Reiss’ books are available at Battenkill Books.  Marcia and her husband, Charles, live in Eagleville.

Curiosity Forum events are a partnership of Battenkill Books, Hubbard Hall, and Open Studios of Washington County. Additional support for this event is provided by the Historic Salem Courthouse. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Sunday, October 24th, 4:00 pm
Freight Depot Theater, Hubbard Hall
FREE

The historical development of Cambridge formed around three nodes reflecting changing thechnologies over the last 200 years.

The role of the horse-drawn stage coach and inn, the coal fired railway, sation and hotel, the role of the pretroleum powered automobile, gas staion and motel will feature in new maps and plans showing the development of the town.

Finally the lecture will ask what is the future for small towns like Cambridge in urban America as the “end of oil” approaches?

Grahame Shane and his wife, Regina, have lived in Cambridge since 1976. Grahame is an architecture professor at Columbia University and Cooper Union New York, his book Recombinant Uranism is available at Battenkill Books.

Curiosity Forum events are a partnership of Battenkill Books, Hubbard Hall, and Open Studios of Washington County. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.