Celebrate June at the Library!
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June 2019 Adult Programming at NMPL
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The library will begin Sunday closings on May 26th and resume Sunday hours in October.
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Sierra Club and NMPL present
Reinventing Power: America's Renewable Energy Boom
Tuesday, June 4th 5:30 PM
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"Reinventing Power: America's Renewable Energy Boom," focuses on people in eight states whose lives were changed by the renewable energy industry. It explores various aspects of clean, renewable energy and underscores the notion that jobs, economic growth, and innovation don't have to be sacrificed for a clean environment.
Arthur Helmus
will introduce the film and facilitate a Q&A following the show. Art is a lawyer and renewable energy professional who has led teams responsible for remediating hundreds of pollution sites across the country. He currently develops commercial, industrial, nonprofit and residential solar power projects in multiple states.
A light buffet will be served. This event is free of charge and open to the public.
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The Grotesque 10
Thursday, June 6th 6:30 PM
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Select American colleges and universities decorate their architecture with grotesque sculpture. Armed with a camera, a sense of irony as well as determination bordering on obsessive, photographer and author Mathew M. Duman has traveled to ten such campuses in search of their most compelling ornamentation. Not to be satisfied with merely having amassed a caché of many engaging photographs, Mathew has also undertaken the challenge of categorizing and organizing them into this volume. This is not only a collection of collegiate sculpture, but a chronicle of Collegiate Gothic architecture, a fascinating building style from America's academic history. This book features over 500 original black and white photographs. While some show examples of Collegiate Gothic architecture and its many interesting characteristics, most of the images in this book showcase the variety of grotesques you can find on a visit to these campuses. Included are photographs of sculpture from: Princeton University, Duke University, Yale University, The University of Chicago, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Bryn Mawr College, Northwestern University, The City College of New York, Washington University in Saint Louis and The University of Pennsylvania
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Movie: The Wife
Wednesday, June 12th 6:00 PM
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Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're about to meet her. Joan Castleman (
Glenn Close
): a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty - the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (
Jonathan Pryce
) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humour. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career.
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"Say Nothing" Book Discussion w/special guests
Monday, June 17th 6:30 PM
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The Military Book Club invites the public to join them in the discussion of "Say Nothing, A true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland." This book is an
account of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the bloody sectarian conflict between Catholics and Protestants that extended from the late 1960s to the Good Friday peace accord of 1998. The panoramic book, gathers together history, politics and biography. There will be two special guests: Dr. Patrick McEvoy, FRCGP, former Programme Director of Graduate training for family practice who has published books on medical education and chronic disease management and his wife, Dr. Hazel McEvoy, Dip, ASS, MA, Phd. She is a retired psychotherapist and lecturer in counseling who worked at Ulster University in Derry, N. Ireland and has taught special courses in bereavement and trauma counseling.
LOCATION: This program will be held at New Milford Senior Center
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Poetry Reading with Iris Arenson-Fuller
Thursday, June 27th 6:30 PM
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Join former New Milford resident, Iris Arenson-Fuller for a reading from her recently released book, Blooming Beyond Brooklyn, Poems of Roots, Sorrow and Lessons. This book is a memoir-poetry collection by a poet/life coach. The poems depict her life's struggles, joys, and growth as she has moved through various life stages and transitions, learned about the world and reinvented herself. The author shares her memories and perspective about family, love, motherhood, young widowhood, survival, healing, aging and many other topics..
LOCATION:
New Milford Senior Center
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Cookbook Club
Thursday, June 20th 6:30 PM
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If you like trying new recipes, tasting new things and discussing them with others, this is the perfect event for you.
What do you need to do? Peruse the copy of the cookbook of the month at our circulation desk and find your favorite recipe. Come to the program on that specific date with your prepared dish and come ready to discuss your experience and what others would expect if they made the same dish. Paper plates, utensils and drinks will be provided
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Questions 860 355 1191 x 2 or vfisher@biblio.org
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CT Crossroads is Back
Monday evenings or by appointment
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New Milford Public Library
24 Main Street
New Milford, Ct
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