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A Special Opportunity
Tickets are still available!
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 A Conversation with Sam Waterston-To Benefit the NW CT Arts Council. Sunday, September 18th, 2016 at 4 pm at the home of Diane Meier and Frank Delaney. The acclaimed actor and our beloved NW CT neighbor talks about his life, times, and remarkable career to writer and broadcaster, Frank Delaney.
Cost: $100
Contact: (860) 618-0075
email: info@artsnwct.org
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Book Signing with Interior Designer Karen Davis
and Photographer Brandt Bolding
At Home in the American Barn
Saturday September 24th at 4pm
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At Home in the American Barn
embraces the dream to slow things down and return to basics and shares some success stories, as made plain by the buildings themselves. This richly illustrated volume focuses on the barn as home. Each of the structures featured has been adapted from its original utilitarian purpose to allow for comfortable, joyous living. Built at first as places for work, barns nevertheless often demonstrate fine craftsmanship and artistry. This volume emphasizes the rare beauty of these structures and shows throughout elegant solutions for living in these beautifully imagined homes.
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Author Signing with Rod Funston
Grandpa, Caution and Me
Sunday, September 25th at 2pm
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Grandpa, Caution and Me is a fun story of a day trip Samantha takes with her grandfather and his motorcycle, aka "Caution." With all good plans, however, there is sometimes a glitch here and there... A whimsical story filled with delightful illustrations by Jack Davis, this book is perfect for adventurous grandfathers and grandchildren of all ages.
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New Releases in
Hardcover and Paperback
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Monday, September 19th at 6:30pm,
The Hickory Stick Bookshop's Book Club will meet and discuss
Dead Wake by Erik Larson.
On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the "Lusitania" was one of the era's great transatlantic Greyhounds the fastest liner then in service and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack.
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Our book club is open to all and no registration is required, so please feel free to read the book and join in on the discussion!
Questions? Please call 860-868-0525.
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Friday, October 7th at 5pm, The Hickory Stick's Not-So--Secret Readers Society meets to discuss Candy Makers
by Wendy Mass. IIn the town of Spring Haven, four children have been selected to compete in the national candymaking contest of a lifetime. Who will make a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Yellow Lightning Chew?
Logan, the candymaker's son, who can detect the color of chocolate by feel alone? Miles, the boy allergic to rowboats and the color pink?
Daisy, the cheerful girl who can lift a fifty-pound lump of taffy as if it were a feather?
Philip, the suit-and-tie-wearing boy who's always scribbling in a secret notebook?
This sweet, charming, and cleverly crafted story, told from each contestant's perspective, is filled with mystery, friendship, and juicy revelations.
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Our book club is open to all (suggested age: 8-12) and no registration is required, so please feel free to read the book and join in on the discussion!
Questions? Please call 860-868-0525.
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The HIckory Stick Bookshop
Celebrates Diversity and Freedom to Read
Banned Books Week
September 21 - October 1
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CELEBRATE YOUR F
READOM at the Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot. Banned Books Week is September 25
th -October 1
st, 2016 and we are celebrating this important event with:
- A display of banned and/or challenged books - Imagine not being able to read whatever books you want!
- Take a mugshot photo of yourself reading a favorite banned book with our "CAUGHT READING BANNED BOOKS" sign.
- Have some fun and enjoy a challenge with themed crossword puzzles, word searches and coloring sheets. Complete one of these activities and be entered to win book related prizes.
- Vote for your favorite banned/challenged books from a list of the most frequently challenged books.
- Come to our banned books themed party to mingle with other rebellious readers and enjoy Catcher in the Rye Bread with Hummus, I Am the Cheese Plate, Tortilla Curtain chips and salsa, Arizona Kid Iced Tea/Lemonade to name a few. Prizes will be awarded at the party and Washington's favorite Banned Book will be announced.
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