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December 28, 2007
It May Be Winter, But We've Got a Spring in Our Step!
We are building such an exciting events calendar for the winter months, and we can't wait to tell you about what's coming! Our prediction for 2008? You'll want to make lots of notes on your own calendars; we'll be seeing a lot of each other. Are you ready?
We'll have authors!
On Thursday, February 28th, at 7 p.m, Michael Gates Gill, author of How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everybody Else will be here. We love his story and can't wait to meet the man!
Lee Siegel will be here on Thursday March 6th at 7 p.m. to discuss his new book, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. "Contrarian." "Acid-tongued." "Provocative." "Intellectually engaging." These are all words that have been used to describe the author. Sounds like fun to me!
Then, as we get closer still to the spring thaw, we're able to bring you a program focused on an always hot topic - Watergate. On Sunday, March 9th at 5:30 p.m, we'll welcome the author Ed Gray, who co-authored In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate with his father L. Patrick Gray III, who was the Acting Director of the FBI during the height of the Watergate scandal. This first-person account, an important and unique view into the scandal, includes revelatory tape transcripts, third-party accounts, and excerpts from previously secret documents. Shhh...tell everybody!!
And that's not all!
During the month of February, every Tuesday, at 3 p.m, we'll be hosting "Short Stories for a Short Month," Short Story discussions by the fire in the Magazine Room.
More good news: our Friday Film Series begins on February 8th at 7:30 p.m. and will run for 12 weeks!
And while it is still officially winter, we will begin our next Book Discussion Series. Led by our favorite leader, Jordon Pecile, the first discussion will take place on Sunday, March 16th at 2:30 p.m.
Keep checking back here for more details on these and other events here at the Library. We're just getting started!
Posted by BarbaraT at December 28, 2007 09:55 AM