adult events

Art Exhibition: Photographs by Wendy Johnson Costa

Photographs by Wendy Johnson Costa will be on display at the Norfolk Library for the month of September in an exhibition entitled “Fragile Beauty.” A resident of Goshen, Wendy uses digital infrared photography to bring attention to nature’s beauty and its fragile state. She presents...

13 - 19 Sep

All Day

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Literary Book Group with Mark Scarbrough

Cees Nooteboom, THE FOLLOWING STORY (1991) Thursday, September 17, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.  This is a hybrid session. If you are new to the Book Group and would like to participate via Zoom, please email Mark at markwrites@bruceandmark.com, and he will email you a...

17 Sep

10:30 am - 12:15 pm

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Find That Pause: Mindset Tools for a Healthy Life with Miranda Lee via Zoom

In this series, mindfulness practitioner Miranda Lee will teach participants how to live a more mindful life and equip them with the tools they need to help build resilience against the challenges of day-to-day life. The class has the same structure in each session: theory,...

19 Sep

9:15 am - 10:00 am

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September Lunch & Learn for Seniors

Join us at our monthly program for seniors with a light lunch and community connection. Each gathering features a speaker who will give a short informal talk followed by Q&A. For our September gathering, Schuyler Thomson will speak about the early history of the Central...

21 Sep

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

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September Poetry Café: Zuihitsu

Join us for our monthly Poetry Café in the Great Hall. For our September café, we will be sharing zuihitsu. The Poetry Café was on hiatus for the summer, and attendees spent the time writing zuihitsu. We will share portions from these long-form pieces. Come ready...

23 Sep

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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Find That Pause: Mindset Tools for a Healthy Life with Miranda Lee via Zoom

In this series, mindfulness practitioner Miranda Lee will teach participants how to live a more mindful life and equip them with the tools they need to help build resilience against the challenges of day-to-day life. The class has the same structure in each session: theory,...

26 Sep

9:15 am - 10:00 am

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Documentary Film: They Fight with Cameras

THEY FIGHT WITH CAMERAS, narrated by Liev Schreiber, is an hour-long documentary produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Nina Rosenblum and produced, co-directed and written by Daniel Allentuck. The film recounts the wartime experiences of highly decorated U.S. Army Signal Corps combat cameraman Walter Rosenblum...

26 Sep

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

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Art Exhibition: Photographs by Wendy Johnson Costa

Photographs by Wendy Johnson Costa will be on display at the Norfolk Library for the month of September in an exhibition entitled “Fragile Beauty.” A resident of Goshen, Wendy uses digital infrared photography to bring attention to nature’s beauty and its fragile state. She presents...

27 - 30 Sep

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The Brendan Gill Lecture – A Conversation with Belle Burden at Infinity Hall

Belle Burden, the author of Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage talks with Roxanne Coady, RJ Julia Bookseller. Please note that this event is taking place at Infinity Hall. Belle Burden holds a BA from Harvard College and a law degree from the New York University School...

02 Oct

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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Find That Pause: Mindset Tools for a Healthy Life with Miranda Lee via Zoom

In this series, mindfulness practitioner Miranda Lee will teach participants how to live a more mindful life and equip them with the tools they need to help build resilience against the challenges of day-to-day life. The class has the same structure in each session: theory,...

03 Oct

9:15 am - 10:00 am

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Haystack Book Talk: Across Borders and Belonging—Exile, Identity, and American Lives Abroad

David Mayers, author of Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years 1936-1941 in conversation with Nicholas Boggs, author of Baldwin: A Love Story.  David Mayers holds a joint appointment in the History and Political Science Departments at Boston University. His primary area of...

03 Oct

10:30 am - 11:30 am

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Haystack Book Talk: After the Wounds—War, Memory, and the Search for What Endures

David Nasaw, author of The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II in conversation with Elizabeth Samet, author of Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness.  David Nasaw is a historian, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and bestselling author...

03 Oct

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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