Library Highlights 5/29 Memorial Day-Closed, Memorial Day Movies, Older Americans Month, Merritt Parkway & Houses of Worship, Different Kind of Book Club-Humor

Library Highlights 5/29

Kanopy offers additional

War and Action choices

to commemorate

the weekend without

having to leave your home.

Cookie Dough Pudding Pops!

This past Monday's What's Cooking segment was all about vegan desserts with author and Fairfield's own Hannah Kaminsky. Make up a batch of this easy treat for your Memorial Day picnic or anytime!

VIRTUAL What's Cooking? Series - Hannah Kaminsky

Older Americans Month

Communities of Strength – May 2021

Every year in May, Older Americans Month recognizes the contributions of older adults across the nation. Join us as we celebrate this year's theme, "Communities of Strength," through a variety of online programs and resources for and about older Americans

that promote acceptance, inclusion, strength and wellness.

Library Resources:

Large Type books

Audio books and playaways

Digital audio books on hoopla and Libby/Overdrive

Weiss Ratings Medigap Report

Insurance Strategies and Estate Planning to Protect Your Family

*Infobase Learning Cloud

(*On-demand video training for more than 500 popular software applications.)

Legal Information Reference Cente r

(Popular legal topics: Long Term Care, Retirement and Wills)

Additional Resources:

FEATURE PROGRAM

VIRTUAL EVENT

Virtual Connecting Cultural History:

Historic Houses of Worship off the Merritt Parkway

Wednesday, June 9

6:30 p.m.

Fairfield County's houses of worship tell us much about how local communities were founded and grew.

Join the Merritt Parkway Conservancy for a virtual architectural tour of some of the most interesting examples connected by a scenic byway designed for "pleasant transit."

VIRTUAL EVENT

Virtual Book Club

The Exiles

Thursday, June 3

2:00 p.m.

The author of the #1New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women’s lives in

nineteenth-century Australia.

We will be discussing The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline.

Please sign up with your email address and you will get the Zoom link to join the meeting.

If you have any questions please email Claudia Silk at csilk@fplct.org. Looking forward to "seeing you".